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The Wax

March 15, 2004

You Can Learn While You Earn.

David Hume The great divide between one's collegiate career and their post graduate vocation has been getting greater and greater, at least among the people I know.

The most obvious example is myself, a graduate of a private degree-granting institution, set forth into the real world with a B.A. in Anthropology (or as one jaded Anthro major once called it: Preunemployment) only to find myself an executive assistant for an editorial website.

Years later, as a slave to the web, doing one thing or another without any relation to my "training", I am finding more and more people just like me.

I didn't think of college as a trade school, and besides your engineering, bio and/or law folks, no one else I knew did/does either. So why aren't those leaving high school through those in college reminded of that simple fact: College is not a vocational school. (Real Player Required)

Billy GatesI'm curious how many of you are in the field you studied, assuming you chose to go to college. Many of the programmers I know didn't go, either that or they didn't graduate. They are some of the best skilled, most well read, witty people I know. With or without a degree, you can't tell the difference in any work. I'm sure this applies outside the programming world.

Since college was not the be-all end-all our guidance counselors had made it out to be, we can thusly conclude that the future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.

Q.E.D.



"Cheshire-Puss," she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. "Come, it's pleased so far," thought Alice, and she went on. "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.

"I don't much care where-" said Alice.

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.

"-so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation.

"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."




Comments Section

Timbuk 3 met in college, so it's good for something.

Posted by: Stephen McKenna at March 15, 2004 03:28 PM

I was 39 days old when that picture of Bill Gates was taken.

Posted by: Stephen McKenna at March 16, 2004 10:27 AM

What an amazing coincidence...I was 39 days old when that picture of Hume was taken.

Posted by: davidissimo at March 16, 2004 10:39 AM

Wanna See The Rest? Go Way Back


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