The School/Uni Thread

[viewerfromnihil]

No Zeph, Dak's right, I meant slog it out in a high school as a teacher.

 

[Zephyrus]

Do you have a BA and a teaching certificate? In New England you need to be at least on your way to getting an MAT.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

No, I'm still long way off. I just finished my freshman year. If I have trouble getting accepted into grad school, I was planning on getting a teaching certificate and spending that year at a high school while also working to get accepted into a MA program.

 

[Zephyrus]

Good luck.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Thanks, I know it will be a difficult road to travel.

 

[Zephyrus]

Perhaps a good move. I was rejected when I applied to grad schools fresh out of undergrad (then again I was applying to Ivies/top-echelon schools) and was rejected by all. So I took a year of teaching/professional development and here I am now, on my way forward to an MA program at one of the best Classics programs in the country. Real-world experience goes a long way, my friend.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

CMU alumni relations called me today, soliciting donations. Told them to try again in about 10 years. Fuckers have enough money as it is.

 

[The Emptier]

Hopefully I can get "real-world" experience as an undergrad....doing music makes that a big easier just by playing a lot of gigs and getting myself out there, especially on breaks/summer. And for what i want to do, which is primarily musicology, I can get a lot of research done...hopefully going to start working on something to submit to the undergrad research convention this year.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Been writing a paper on Aristotle's Metaphysics for days. Almost done, but damn is this is a rough one.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Perhaps a good move. I was rejected when I applied to grad schools fresh out of undergrad (then again I was applying to Ivies/top-echelon schools) and was rejected by all. So I took a year of teaching/professional development and here I am now, on my way forward to an MA program at one of the best Classics programs in the country. Real-world experience goes a long way, my friend.

Watching my friend's experience made me rethink my approach. He's a music major and graduated summa cum laude, yet was rejected by every graduate program that he applied to. He ended up having to enroll in what was known as the A.S.S (Advanced special student, hilarious acronym right?) program at University of Maryland, which is essentially permission to enroll in one graduate program for a semester, and get a letter of recommendation from the music professor before they would accept him.

I have my hopes set for the top echelon schools as well, but I know that you need pull to get into their graduate programs. I'm going to try to get accepted into John Hopkins history program for my bachelor's - Their history program is superb from what I have read. - and perhaps that will allot me with sufficient pull. If that doesn't work out, I will still be applying to the "lesser" universities that I could fairly easily gain acceptance to, for my bachelor's at least.

I've noticed a key difference between the upper echelon schools and other universities, and that is that the upper echelon school offer nothing in the scholarship department for transfer students, at least not from what I can see on their websites. After spending a year now and what will be next year as well at a community college, I'm eager to learn from some of the upper echelon professors (Harvard, Princeton, and Yale excluded because of what I have read of the historical texts written by some of their professors. I have no interest in spending my last 2 years of my bachelor's bickering with professors about historical inaccuracies that are included in their texts). We had two great history professors at my community college (Now one, unfortunately the other was ready to throw in the towel.) and my experience with them was great. I could only imagine having numerous others of their like.

 

[Draehl]

Looking at masters shit lately. I probably won't do it for another 1-2 years, but never too early to weigh your options. I'm somewhat torn between doing a standard MBA with a concentration in information security in electives. Or a hybrid management/information technology degree, also with a concentration in information security. Or a specialized masters in science with Utica Online in Economic Crime Management. The latter definitely looks the most interesting, but has less broad application for overall hirability. It has the right mix of classes I'd be looking to take with the other two but with more of them and less filler. Devry would be the former two, I don't know how Utica stacks up overall.

Management Courses (9 credit hours)
ECM 601 Proseminar in Economic Crime Management 3
ECM 611 Organizational Theory, Structure, and Design 3
ECM 612 The Manager in a Global Environment 3

Economic Crime Courses (9 credit hours)
ECM 622 Legal Concepts of Criminal Fraud 3
ECM 626 Financial Investigations 3
ECM 627 Fraud Management: Risk and Compliance 3

Technology Courses (9 credit hours)
ECM 631 Fraud Management and Technology 3
ECM 632 Information and Communication Security 3
ECM 633 Networks and Internet Security 3

Analytical Skills (3 credit hours)
ECM 642 Advanced Fraud Analysis 3

Cumulative Experience (6 credit hours)
ECM 651 Professional Project I 3
ECM 652 Professional Project II 3

 

[The Emptier]

why did you decide to switch from music to history orifice?

 

[viewerfromnihil]

History was actually my original choice of major, but the friend who I mentioned in my above post exposed me to composition and 12 tone. I became so enthralled with it that I decided to pursue it, but recently decided that I did not want for music to be my career. I'm much more passionate about history. It is disappointing though because I know how it goes when you make music the "No. 2", and music will slowly become less and less of a part of my life as I get older. Whatever, I guess. At least I will still have my favorite 20th century composers to listen to.

 

[Zephyrus]

What area of history?

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Colonial America to the late 19th century United States is my favorite area of history. I also like to look at history from an economic perspective, given that monetary policy will often dictate social conditions.

 

[rms]

Anyone got a history degree and works in something other than teaching? Looking for other options..thinking diplomacy but who knows

 

[unknown]

my buddy was a History master's and was constantly getting job offers from the FBI and CIA. They're the two biggest employers of History majors

 

[rms]

Yeah looks like Federal is the other option, but that could be cool. Being in the military will help me if I choose that route

 

[HipnikDragomir]

University in San Fran is going to be hella expensive. I don't know how the hell I'm going to manage to afford it... I'll be majoring in some sort of art...

 

[The Emptier]

I'm a music major....but even to me that sounds like you're fucked.