The School/Uni Thread

[The Ozzman]

That's the type of education, not the degree itself.

You can actually get a degree in liberal arts where I went to school.

What is your major?

 

[skeptik]

Yeah, of course, because I have no frame of reference for this after talking to guidance counselors and friends and family members who have actually been in the situation. I'm totally in the dark.

Besides, like I said, I will most likely get a job at a publishing company or something, IE A JOB RELATED TO MY FIELD.

 

[Zephyrus]

Fuck You Die In A Fire In Real Life? Nice.

A couple years ago someone on another forum's wife or something actually did die in a fire, so the entire forum stopped using DIAF and instead used DIAKSA.


....which means Die In A Killer Squid Attack. So far that hasn't happened in real life...unless you're a sperm whale.

 

[cookiecutter]

Ozzman, did you not see the examples posted? My dad majored in History and is the marketing director at a famous University Press. His boss majored in classics. Necuratul is right, especially in the field he wants to pursue.

 

[The Ozzman]

What experience did your Dad have before he got hired on as Marketing director?

 

[cookiecutter]

He worked his way through the company starting as a sales rep. All this with a History degree

 

[The Ozzman]

You can be a sales rep without a college degree. Once you're there a while, you can work your way up. He didn't even need a degree to do that.

 

[Zephyrus]

Well I was given a week to read Homer's Iliad and this book fucking rocks. I'm definitely going for a Classics certification to tack onto my Latin teaching career. I'm 300 pages in btw.

 

[skeptik]

I actually started to read that right before school started up, but now I have no time. Actually I have to read about the first third of Oliver Twist for Monday, among a few other reading assignments...this is going to be an intense semester as far as sheer amount of reading goes.

 

[unknown]

I learned not to take more than one literature course at a time.

I have to read Aristophanes's Lysistrata...fun fun

 

[Zephyrus]

I actually started to read that right before school started up, but now I have no time. Actually I have to read about the first third of Oliver Twist for Monday, among a few other reading assignments...this is going to be an intense semester as far as sheer amount of reading goes.

Yeah, my semester curriculum for this honors course is undoubtedly gargantuan:

Homer's Iliad
The Books of Genesis and Exodus
Fragments of Sappho
Plato's Republic
Plato's Symposium
Dao De Jing: The Book of the Way
The Basic Works of Aristotle
Virgil's Aeneid

All in one semester. I'm in heaven...

 

[DigToChina]

That's a lot of reading, I'm glad I'm not taking any literature courses :/

 

[The Ozzman]

Plato's Republic isn't bad after you read it a few times.

 

[Ender Rises]

All I have to read so far is Antigone. I'm not taking a Lit class though.

 

[Zephyrus]

All I have to read so far is Antigone. I'm not taking a Lit class though.

Oedipus Rex is great.

 

[Ender Rises]

After I read Antigone I'm gonna read the other 2 in the trilogy.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

Oedipus Rex is great.

T-REX is even better!!!

ROOOOOOAAAARRRRR!!!!!!

 

[The Ozzman]

Antigone is pretty good.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

T-REX is even better!!!

ROOOOOOAAAARRRRR!!!!!!

This broken link represents pretty well how amusing your comment was.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

This broken link represents pretty well how amusing your comment was.

Well it's showing up for me, fuckface.