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look out! Ninjas!:
Best thing about my degree is that, because graduate employment is so competitive and especially so now because we are the third law school to set up in our cosy little state, people who give a shit really give a shit. Even if they're not especially academically adept they are still trying to get work experience or participate in competitions or something to give them some sort of edge.
allison:
On the other side of the coin are people who are annoyed that you judge their choices without considering the reasons that they might not be SUPER SUPER EXCITED about learning, like you are!
calenlass:
I would imagine that those are mostly people getting a degree because they need one to make more money/get hired. I would also imagine that many of those people do not much care which degree they get, because their future employers don't care either.
catch-22
look out! Ninjas!:
I guess because it is a law degree it is something you need to have a fairly decent level of academic achievement to even begin, so that cuts out a decent proportion of people who don't give a shit.
tania:
--- Quote from: allison on 30 Mar 2011, 16:12 ---On the other side of the coin are people who are annoyed that you judge their choices without considering the reasons that they might not be SUPER SUPER EXCITED about learning, like you are!
--- End quote ---
to be fair i really don't think katie was trying to be judgmental at all here, just commenting that it's frustrating when you're a determined person who wants to find like-minded people who enjoy learning as much as you do and apparently university is becoming less and less of a practical venue for that. yeah, of course people go to university for all kinds of reasons, but then where do you go when you want an intellectual challenge and an encouraging environment, if not university? i don't know what other options are available, that's really what university's supposed to be. her experience is/was pretty much my entire undergrad university experience as well and it really can leave you feeling pretty lonely and discouraged, sometimes overwhelmingly so. it's really expensive! also really hard and really time consuming! i mean, it really is such a substantial part of your life you're putting into it.
on the plus side: grad school still rules! the challenge and pressure are totally worth the fact that i'm almost literally killing myself with work. really! it is!
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