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Re: College - xLeviathan - 2010-10-02
Swerve Wrote:Research mixers. Attend them. Now. You. Attend them. Now. Look for professors and brush up on information relevant to their studies. Approach with a shotgun and aim for at least 6-7 every two weeks and see if you can get any to hit. Laboratory work may seem mundane but it will be the best exposure, especially for you as a freshman.
Leviathan. Those are the easiest course requirements to accomplish. The hard part is balancing five or six other courses, studying for an MCAT, doing research, pumping out your resume, and jumping through hoops like it's nobody's business and learning how to lie and apply to a system that is likely skewed against you.
Exactly. Why should we have to balance all these crappy classes that don't matter? :o
Too be honest, balancing all that isn't very hard. The only tough part is trying to 20+ hour a job and 15+ hour research. Yeahhh. I find time for my job, plenty of volunteer and more extracurriculars than I probably need, as well as ace-ing all my tests and classes in general. Research...eh, will start that next year. Have been told it's the least important thing next to the other things listed, but have already started looking into some medical research on campus.
Re: College - 2147483647 - 2010-10-03
Swerve Wrote:Research mixers. Attend them. Now. You. Attend them. Now. Look for professors and brush up on information relevant to their studies. Approach with a shotgun and aim for at least 6-7 every two weeks and see if you can get any to hit. Laboratory work may seem mundane but it will be the best exposure, especially for you as a freshman.
I'm not going to find any research opportunities until next year. I've never had real lab training, so I'm going to brush up on it this year. Also, I'm a physics major, not a chemistry major, so the lab setting isn't going to be exactly the same (no bottle washing). Anyways, I must point out a loophole within your question: your question is solely based on 9-5 fixed pay work. How else can you hypothetically make the same income in a capitalist market? If all investment jobs are ruled out, then what about the investment jobs (real estate, concert musician, business owner, etc.)?
Re: College - larmie - 2010-10-05
Swerve Wrote:Thread Question: If you found out you were going to make the same amount of income with a high school diploma as you would with an advanced degree, would you still bother to pursue an advanced degree keeping in mind the years and tuition required?
Addendum: Would be interesting to include your current level of education and the final degree of education that you would be satisfied with achieving at the moment.
Yes, because you'd have a better chance at getting a promotion and be better off if you get laid off. You'd end up making more money in your lifetime than a high school grad.
Also you get to mooch off your parents for four years.
Also you get to sleep with co-eds for four years straight
Re: College - Eos - 2010-10-05
larmie Wrote:Also you get to mooch off your parents for four years.
Also you get to sleep with co-eds for four years straight
Some of us don't have parents and don't want to sleep with co-eds.
Re: College - Milelke - 2010-10-05
Firstly, Southperry is going to have a biased answer, just because of what we are based off.
Secondly, No, I wouldn't if such a scenario even existed.
In reality, not getting a college degree for most jobs (excluding retail, manual labor, artisans, writers, business management, low-level computer programming and other things that require little skill, or can be self-taught easily) is not the best path. Especially in America, where, in most jobs, someone with a college degree will probably get highered over one without, be paid more, advance faster, and be less likely to be laid-off. Not that that is fair, but its true. Did you know, you can't even think of staying in Japan without a college degree?
It really depends on what you want to be, but, 70% of the time, going to college would be better, since it looks 'shiner'. Also, you might actually learn something. (Dependent on where you go)