I start my masters tomorrow.

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I start my masters tomorrow.

January 17, 2011, 08:45:07 PM

So tomorrow I start going to school for my masters degree. I'm getting a MLIS, which is a Masters in Library Information Science. Yes I will be a librarian and I'll get paid well:D. I should be done by May of 2012 if all goes well.

I start my masters tomorrow.

Reply #1 – January 17, 2011, 09:09:24 PM

Nice, you'll be done when I am!! Although I'm still working on my bachelor's...

I start my masters tomorrow.

Reply #2 – January 17, 2011, 09:09:45 PM

right on! good luck. Im second semester in on a 2 year diploma for Auto Service Technology. they struck a deal with the local apprentice board and it works out a 4 year journeyman's ticket in 2 years of full time school.

I start my masters tomorrow.

Reply #3 – January 18, 2011, 11:48:07 AM

School is kind of a pain but the way I look at it is when you're done you're able to (hopefully) get a nice return on your investment.

I start my masters tomorrow.

Reply #4 – January 19, 2011, 11:23:03 PM

Quote from: thunderjet302;350057

School is kind of a pain but the way I look at it is when you're done you're able to (hopefully) get a nice return on your investment.

thats what all the career students expect, then the real world shows them another thing.
I think in the time spent from the Associate to BA is a waste of time for a young person. An Associate will get you in the door cheap, then you spend the next 4 or so years getting experience.

With a BA or more, you get out of school after 400 years and the companies still get you cheap,, but you lost 10 years of your life in college.

Its just a odd thing I see all the time. We interview all the time for good "all around talent" (web site below) and we just cant find people who "really" can go the distance and work hard. The college grads cant be had for less than 60k/year to start and honestly I wont do it. Thats too much money for someone who doesnt know the job, just my opinon.

The other problem here is that I totally understand. 60k/year really isnt all that much money here in the US. If you are fully burdened with family home cars and all the normal stuff, your just getting by.

I make 74/year and to tell you the truth, I cant figure out where to get the money for my oldest to go to college. shiznit just costs so much,, and so does school.

I wish college was 75% tax funded for students who make striaght A's and B's. The navy paid 75% of mine if I maintained a C average. End GPa was 3.82 on a 4.0 scale at my college ECPI. however, the school systems must start teaching again and not "giving it away" like I see in the public school system.

sorry to but in,, i just see it all the time, people deciding to stay in school because the econoimic situation out there is bad.

Good luck though, im sure all this isnt applicable to you all, ignore the babble.

I start my masters tomorrow.

Reply #5 – January 20, 2011, 08:22:58 AM

Quote from: jcassity;350247

thats what all the career students expect, then the real world shows them another thing.
I think in the time spent from the Associate to BA is a waste of time for a young person. An Associate will get you in the door cheap, then you spend the next 4 or so years getting experience.

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I'd almost think the opposite. My "associates" really wouldn't have taught me shiznit that I need to know. They made us take a bunch of "general education" classes that really have no bearing on my major whatsoever. Anthropology, survey of jazz, English Comp 2, etc...I'm an accounting major, and that's what I was forced to take. If anything, universities should just let you take the classes you actually NEED for your major. Although they won't do that because it makes us more "well rounded", but in reality, Gen Eds just get them the money they need..

I'm just over halfway through my junior year and I feel as if in the past semester alone I've learned more than I learned my first two YEARS. But hey, to each his own...

I start my masters tomorrow.

Reply #6 – January 20, 2011, 04:11:58 PM

Well I'll have only lost 5 years of my life to higher education when I'm done including both my BA and MA

. The MLIS I'm getting makes sense for me as to advance in the field I'm in I need that degree. The advantage I have is that I've worked in the library field for 9 years and know it inside and out. It's odd but I know almost all of what I'll be covering in school already. When I finish I have actual experience as well as a degree so I can, you know, find a job right away :). Almost half of the people I'm in school with have no experience in the library field at all. I have no clue how they're going to find a job when they graduate...