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Liberal Arts is a cop out, plain and simple.
Teachers don't make much money for the amount of work they put in. 60,000 isn't that much, IMO, for putting in insane work hours every week. You don't leave work at work if you're a teacher. Then you factor in it being work and meh.That may be the stupidest thing in this thread, to be honest.
And it's all perspective. I pick passion over money. It's not about the material things to me. I have an okay apartment, a nice car and can buy clothes and little things here and there when I need them with the money I make. And to say teachers don't make that much is really a myth. Teachers, after several years (granted that can be hard to get to) can make up to 60 something a year. While the education system can be debated, there's way more involved in "babysitting" 30 kids for 12 hours. Do you know any teachers? And compared to someone with a theology degree, philosophy degree, or even psychology that can be up to double their salary.
Liberal Arts is a cop out, plain and simple.
This. Ignoring obvious gender roles makes the opinion invalid. Girls can basically do anything they want as long as they stay in shape
Common sense? If I was a fry c...er...art teacher making pennies i'm guessing my long-term prospects would be pretty bleak. I grew up in Miami though and it's pretty superficial there. Maybe if i lived elsewhere i could cook my way into a girl's heart
Not to mention, 60k in San Antonio is a of a lot more than 60k in most large American cities.
Of course I don't value their opinions. And I bite my tongue most of the time. But this was just oo much. And I agree with your second statement. Majoring in art at SAC is not going to get you anywhere. But hey, I do know the director of modern art at a museum in LA got his masters in art at UTSA so they have to have a good program. Plus he's a rockstar.
One thing that annoys me is when people say "I'm not good at Math" or "I'm not a Math person". In every math course I had after Calc 1, almost everyone struggled. There were maybe like 1 or 2 people in those courses who seemed to get it "easily". So when I here those phrases as some justification of going a different path then all I hear is that you're not willing to work at something to get better at it and you want the easy road.
Or he is good at networking. But I know absolutely noting about UTSA's art program (or any other art program for that matter) so they might be good.
I have recurring dreams of not having a high school diploma because I didn't take Pre-Cal. In the dream I am wandering around my high school trying to find the right classroom to finish the class. I was so bad at math it wasn't even an option. I took Spanish 4 AP instead and tested out of 4 semester of Spanish. It ended up helping in the end.
He did something at the Witte or McNay before so he must have been a good at networking. Nonetheless he's a super talented dude.
and if I get a semi-decent job
Poli sci major
I think people's brains are wired differently. I remember taking microecon and literally everything seemed like just common sense but tons of my classmates called it their hardest course of the quarter. Then when I took Spanish 2 I had to completely bust my ass and study for hours on end, watch Spanish TV, try to speak the language to Spanish speaking students outside of class, etc to get a lousy B+ in a course literally everyone else in class said was their blow-off for the quarter.
rofl that's weird, one of my friends in my major was the same way. Did pretty well in the Diff Eq, Linear Algebrah, engineering courses and got petrified everytime he had to take a Spanish class.
I think each one of Spanish 1, 2, and 3 he had to take twice either through dropping or failing
My counselor told me to take German (that the romance languages were way harder), but I told him I wanted to be able to negotiate with strippers in their native language. Still ended up getting charged $250 for a handjob tbh.
Yup tbh. The gap in wages between Australia and the US is insane.
Who complains about that?
I took Spanish at community college. I could get a C in it without working too hard and it wouldn't count towards my GPA. One of the best decisions I made for my education.
LOL, never heard that complaint here either.
Studied for a week, scored 80% on vocabulary, 90% on essay which is all that mattered for mass media degrees.
Not very difficult.
As to going to a school that doesn't require taking it, those degrees are typically used to wipe the asses of those holding degrees from schools that did.
As to the political science jokes, the better question is "why is freedom", since it's an inferential fragment and open ended, you'll get a ton of great responses.
In my mass comm/media comm courses, I always throw a "you can never not communicate: True/False?" Question on the first exam for extra credit just to see students heads explode.
BTW, nobody wants a physical therapist that smells like cat piss.
Additionally, while six figured is true, that same numerical figure is true of incurred dept.
I have two friends who spent 5 years in Yuma, AZ treating decrepit, -stained oldies to save money to merely pay down their student loan debt. Now they are in Denver and loving life, but it's a huge hit financially.
And lastly, you need to talk to people in the degree. The GRE is a weeding out tool to keep out unqualified, uncommitted types from watering down graduation rates and prestige.
Typically you don't just take the GRE once, but several times. You get a pedestrian score on your only attempt, they'll reject you real quick.
good thing foreign language requirement was never an issue. ucla accepts armenian as one and i placed out of it no problem
At age 23, I'll make 65k this year + whatever my bonus is.
Your poly sci degree is never gonna sniff that
This.
I've rather famously defended a liberal arts education around here, but including "I'm not good at math" in that defense is just making the other side's argument.
UTSA"s Social work program required a GRE yet USC, a top 10 program, at the time, rated just below UT's did not. That's not a degree to wipe your ass with.
When was this?
Not really sure why the GRE is needed for that degree anyways.
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