Certification would be appropriate for fields in which one is actually studying what they'll be using in the workplace, but that doesn't cut it for liberal arts.
I have a B.A. in philosophy. I did quite well in my classes, but I don't think that they particularly prepared me for my office job.
Now, maybe college is effective as a transition from High School to the working world, but surely there is a cheaper and more effective way of doing that than spending thousands of dollars and studying liberal arts. I could easily have done the job I'm doing right now straight after High School.
I'm about 15K in debt (my parents helped) after college with a completely useless degree. That said, I have a fairly high paying job that I would never have been able to get without being able to say that I graduated college.
Even though I don't use a single bit of what I learned, having graduated college makes companies actually consider me.
Unless companies start hiring people based on actual knowledge, not just looking at certification, then college still seems like a profitable formality.
There weren't that many more people downtown Chicago as I walked to work (just a few more policemen), but with a million people expected to be in town by the time I get off, all I'm really hoping for is a way to get back home this election day.
Question -- I never really understood this. I'm not a scientist but I thought that the only thing that could have a temperature is matter, and that space is the absence of matter. How can a vacuum have a temperature?
I'm surprised more people aren't commenting about the loss of the album experience. If song-by-song releases become the norm, it seems less likely that people will even try to create an 'album' rather than a collections of songs. There are current alt bands that do it well (I have Modest Mouse in mind) but even the style pop artists can be seen by their albums.
I'm just afraid that if this becomes a trend it will be more difficult for the average artist to convey an over-arching meaning or theme.
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"It won't bankrupt me; I've been out of college nearly thirty years. My student loans were paid off long ago."
College has gotten a bit more expensive in those past 30 years....
Certification would be appropriate for fields in which one is actually studying what they'll be using in the workplace, but that doesn't cut it for liberal arts.
I have a B.A. in philosophy. I did quite well in my classes, but I don't think that they particularly prepared me for my office job.
Now, maybe college is effective as a transition from High School to the working world, but surely there is a cheaper and more effective way of doing that than spending thousands of dollars and studying liberal arts. I could easily have done the job I'm doing right now straight after High School.
I'm about 15K in debt (my parents helped) after college with a completely useless degree. That said, I have a fairly high paying job that I would never have been able to get without being able to say that I graduated college.
Even though I don't use a single bit of what I learned, having graduated college makes companies actually consider me.
Unless companies start hiring people based on actual knowledge, not just looking at certification, then college still seems like a profitable formality.
There weren't that many more people downtown Chicago as I walked to work (just a few more policemen), but with a million people expected to be in town by the time I get off, all I'm really hoping for is a way to get back home this election day.
Question -- I never really understood this. I'm not a scientist but I thought that the only thing that could have a temperature is matter, and that space is the absence of matter. How can a vacuum have a temperature?
http://xkcd.com/285/
I'm surprised more people aren't commenting about the loss of the album experience. If song-by-song releases become the norm, it seems less likely that people will even try to create an 'album' rather than a collections of songs. There are current alt bands that do it well (I have Modest Mouse in mind) but even the style pop artists can be seen by their albums.
I'm just afraid that if this becomes a trend it will be more difficult for the average artist to convey an over-arching meaning or theme.
Obligatory: /. if nobody pointed this out.
The world rotates around its axis, and revolves around the sun. It wouldn't be
Either A: this is very stupid, or B: I'm missing something completely, and I'm very stupid.
If its B, can somebody explain why this should interest me? Even when I'm idle?
Didn't Tesla do this a couple hundred years ago in a much safer way?
i think i've finally got a first post!
didn't expect to see the problem of evil come up here.
Do we have free will in heaven?
if yes, then a perfect society can exist with free will.
if no, then free will is not nessisary for a perfect world and (G) could/should have created us without it.
all-power and all-good cannot coincide.