I GRADUATED !!!

[Trotskilicious]

an MBA is not a BA john, it's a Masters of Business Administration

and yeah earning it on the weekend is still a joke, but it's not a Bachelors of Arts...

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Sarcastic Smile

Are you making fun of me or do you really think engineering degrees are like that?

uh engineering is a good field...

[bahnzah]

what discipline in engineering did you major in SS

[Sarcastic Smile]

Originally Posted by Luke de Spa

i got 2/3 through an economics degree before dropping out when i realised i didn't want to be an economist. but i'm really glad i studied it. it really was appalling how little i knew beforehand, even basic microeconomics stuff. definitely worth finding some free courses online if you can. maybe try itunes u?

earlier i got through 2/3 of a music degree before quitting that, too. but i'm doing okay, thanks

Who is paying for that? I don't know how that works over there, is it the same as Australia (assuming it's not scholarships).

Between all those classes does it not add up to another degree? Oh wait that's different too, they don't make you go the long, unfocused route with random base classes like they do here, do they? =\

[bahnzah]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

an MBA is not a BA john, it's a Masters of Business Administration

and yeah earning it on the weekend is still a joke, but it's not a Bachelors of Arts...

I know it's not a BA. But it's technically grad school for a liberal art. And if you can get the damn thing in one weekend a month, the degree itself is kind of a joke.

I mean, my mom when she was in her late 40s, got her MBA from University of Phoenix (i know, i know) and even she admits the degree itself is essentially meaningless. But she already had a well paying executive position at the time and understands the value lies more in what she learned that the piece of paper she got from a for-profit diploma mill.

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by bahnzah

I know it's not a BA. But it's technically grad school for a liberal art. And if you can get the damn thing in one weekend a month, the degree itself is kind of a joke.

I mean, my mom when she was in her late 40s, got her MBA from University of Phoenix (i know, i know) and even she admits the degree itself is essentially meaningless. But she already had a well paying executive position at the time and understands the value lies more in what she learned that the piece of paper she got from a for-profit diploma mill.

It would depend on how many weekends it takes. A full time student can get an MBA in one year, so if it's a lot of hours on those weekends it's not really that crazy of an idea. But MBA classes are (in my limited experience) considered to be total jokes. Even by the people getting them. And I don't think business administration is considered the liberal arts.

As far as liberal arts degrees go, they're usable if you can make good connections or go somewhere that helps you stand out. or do something else that differentiates yourself. But on their own, yeah, they're probably not good at setting anyone apart from anyone else.

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by bahnzah

I know it's not a BA. But it's technically grad school for a liberal art.

business is not a liberal art is it?

[Luke de Spa]

Originally Posted by Sarcastic Smile

Who is paying for that? I don't know how that works over there, is it the same as Australia (assuming it's not scholarships).

Between all those classes does it not add up to another degree? Oh wait that's different too, they don't make you go the long, unfocused route with random base classes like they do here, do they? =\

tuition is partly subsidised by the government here. i got a student loan to pay for the rest.

between my two attempts i have enough points for an undergrad degree, but i don't have the third-year papers required for a major of any kind. i don't want to work as a public servant (which is what the economics + politics degree would've set me up for), and music degrees are only really useful for sound engineering or classical performance – neither of which are my thing – so there's not much incentive for me to ever go back and graduate. it's a sunk cost

[Trotskilicious]

don't forget music instruction!

[Luke de Spa]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

business is not a liberal art is it?

well hey it's all bullllllllllshiiiiiiiiiiiii

[Luke de Spa]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

don't forget music instruction!

i would have to also complete an education minor or do a postgraduate diploma in education

also i don't want to teach. kids are jerks and the pay is dreadful

[ilikeplanets]

Originally Posted by Luke de Spa

also i don't want to teach. kids are jerks and the pay is dreadful

8th graders Only for 14 weeks, though

[reprise85]

bets that ilp will cry within a week of class?

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by Luke de Spa

i would have to also complete an education minor or do a postgraduate diploma in education

also i don't want to teach. kids are jerks and the pay is dreadful

well i dunno if it's the same there as here, or if austin has more of this sort of thing but my buddy has a degree in guitar, basically, and he does a lot of freelance instruction. the pay is fairly dreadful though, it's supplemental easy income for him, but he's excellent with young people.

[SuckSuckStyle]

Originally Posted by reprise85

bets that ilp will cry within a week of class?

what if she loves it and totally rocks at it?


if anything all the 8th grade boys will want to bone her.

[Luke de Spa]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

well i dunno if it's the same there as here, or if austin has more of this sort of thing but my buddy has a degree in guitar, basically, and he does a lot of freelance instruction. the pay is fairly dreadful though, it's supplemental easy income for him, but he's excellent with young people.

oh, i have friends who do that. they seem to enjoy it but yeah, they're always dirt poor

pretty happy doing what i'm doing right now (interaction/UX design) and i'm comfortable enough. but relatively speaking i've been pretty fucking lucky with my "career" so far

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by SuckSuckStyle

if anything all the 8th grade boys will want to bone her.

uh i doubt it

are you flirting with her or something

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

uh i doubt it

are you flirting with her or something

also, i had a very hot, very nice, very young teacher in 7th grade. a lot of the 7th and 8th grade boys were terrible to her despite them all wanting to bone her.

she cried regularly and quit after one year. i felt really bad for her. but last i heard, she was teaching like k-2nd grade or something, which is what she wanted to do anyway, so i guess it worked out in the end.

junior high boys are probably the worst people to try to teach. especially if one has no training and no desire to teach.

[Trotskilicious]

yes well there's no way ilp can teach in the state of texas without a teaching certification which is another few years of school

i dunno if she knows that

[Eulogy]

i sort of wanted to go into teaching but i only wanted to teach english to juniors and seniors in high school. and only the smart ones.

so that wasn't gonna work out.

[28if]

same

[yo soy el mejor]

you're all a bunch of jerks.

[Trotskilicious]

and yeah 5th grade thru middle school is more like trying to keep a bunch of hormone fueled young people from reinacting lord of the flies

i did a substitute gig where i was in the ISS with middle schoolers and there was this kid that was just giving me all kinds of ridiculous problems, total fucking nitwit, and i could tell he was high and i was like "do you think I don't know that you're high right now" which prompted the class to laugh at me for some reason and i couldn't say "Bitches I've smoked more weed than any of yawl PUT TOGETHER."

They automatically assume if you're in a position of authority that you're some kind of loser, because they are nitwits. The asst. principal was like "HEY WE NEED YOU TO STAY WOULD YOU LIKE TO!?" and i just told her, "Heck no, I kind of felt like I was being punished."

I did enjoy myself with a group of learning disabled kids one time because they started asking me about music and they're all like "Mr. Mr. (suppresed laugh) you ever heard of Tupac???!??!" and they were getting a huge kick out of me going "Dude, everyone knows who Tupac is, it's not a secret."

MR MR HAVE YOU HEARD OF...LINKIN PARK???
yeah they're terrible, dude. You ever hear of...The Pixies???
LOL NO U R OLD

[SuckSuckStyle]

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious

uh i doubt it

are you flirting with her or something

nah just trying to lighten the mood.

i thought the "BA's are shit so are MBA's unless youre good at something and make it work for you/it really depends on the person/why bother getting a loser liberal arts degree youre stupid if you think its going to change your life/ IMH you shouldnt do x because of y blah blah blah" horse had been beat to death.

[Trotskilicious]

i dunno do you have a degree at all brody

[Eulogy]

Originally Posted by SuckSuckStyle

nah just trying to lighten the mood.

i thought the "BA's are shit so are MBA's unless youre good at something and make it work for you/it really depends on the person/why bother getting a loser liberal arts degree youre stupid if you think its going to change your life/ IMH you shouldnt do x because of y blah blah blah" horse had been beat to death.

we should all just continue to tell everyone that they can do whatever they want if they just put their minds to it because it has worked so well for us over the last 25 years.

more participation ribbons, plz

[SuckSuckStyle]

me?

[SuckSuckStyle]

Originally Posted by Eulogy

we should all just continue to tell everyone that they can do whatever they want if they just put their minds to it because it has worked so well for us over the last 25 years.

more participation ribbons, plz

no just continue to tell people how to live their lives and make them feel like shit for not sharing your opinions and deciding to do something you wouldn't do.

[Trotskilicious]

you don't know what you're talking about though

[SuckSuckStyle]

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