The School/Uni Thread

I'm actually really curious about what you just said. How does one get into the publishing industry? What part of the publishing industry?

Where I am, the norm seems to be to get an undergraduate degree in something like English, Communication Studies, but the major is less important than just having a degree. From there you could work your way in if you have some great networking skills and connections or by taking on unpaid internships or by taking a postgrad program.

Since I do not have a great base network to break in to the industry I am taking a publishing program to help establish that (with peers, instructors and various guest speakers, and industry events that we get to attend) as well as receive an official education in all the different facets of the industry: editorial, marketing, sales, production, and design.

Most people want to get into the editorial side of the industry, so naturally this is the most competitive, but there are other, lesser known streams: sales, marketing, production, and design being the main ones.

I speak from the perspective of a student, not a professional though. Hopefully this time next year it will be a different story.
 
Then what happened?

I worked for a year in customer service following my BA. That was last year. This year I am I back in school trying to break into the Publishing industry here in Toronto.

I'm in an X-Ray tech program. If I had thought about this while working on my BA I could have double majored and I'd be employed by now instead of on student loans. Oh well... :Spin:
 
So now I'm leaning towards not taking a year off and just taking some language courses at my community college. I have very average grades, and being "biracial" isn't so much of a boost really. I'd rather just increase my performance and then transfer to a better college. I looked at the course book and asked my mom if I cold just spend a semester or two studying Arabic, Korean, and other things I can't remember right now. She wants me to go abroad, though. My mother wants me to be in the country if I am going to learn its language. Arabic is out of the question since my mother won't let me go to any Arab or African country that happens to speak Arabic. There's always the possibility of staying in Korea or something, as well as this program I was invited to in Nepal, but I kind of want to stay at home.

I'm also frustrated that my community college does not offer Latin, Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, or any other old languages. Sanskrit is not as practical for me as Greek and Latin, but it is kind of a letdown to not get credit for the joy of understanding the ancestors of the modern languages I speak.
 
It might be a little different since my local community college is in the top five rated in the country. I frequently hear the phrase "it's not the fifth year of high school."
 
dont go to community college, it's a joke educational system set up for 45 year old men hoping to find a new career

that's an interesting albeit false comment. I'm in a community college now and the degree/certification I'm getting here is going to get me into the medical field whereas the degree I got at a university got me a retail job at minimum wage.
It all depends on WHAT it is you are studying. You can spend 100,000 on the most presitigous school in the country and only end up with debt. It all depends upon which field you are going into. Furthermore there is nothing wrong with getting you basic GE out of the way for cheap while you focus on your major at a university later.
 
lol, you dont even have a job with that career yet you'll see what happens, if everyone can go to school for 2 years and get a well paying job better than a 4 year degree, don't you think more people would do it? Seriously it was worse than a '5th year' of high school I never felt like more a joke in my life, paying for that kind of education
 
I wouldn't be too surprised if the quality of community colleges in America varied as much in quality as universities in this country do in general.
 
I'm telling you man don't do it, go live in a dorm meet people and go to class and enjoy life.

yeah you know what? you're right. if you have money go for it. but if money is tight then go to a JC take some basic shit for cheap and when you know what you want to do then go into debt.
 
also, just fyi the majority of community college professors are more well paid than lecturers and other faculty at 4 year institutions, so you may be getting better faculty at a JC, but you'll be surrounded by the weirdest lot of people
 
That's not even close to being true rms. A majority of the faculty at the CC I attend are adjunct teachers from IU and Purdue and most of the degrees offered at my school are all transfer degrees to the aforementioned universities, based on the same exact curriculum that the major universities teach. The best part is the tuition is 1/3 the cost and the books are about 1/2 the cost (I buy books online anyways so that doesn't matter much).
 
That's not even close to being true rms. A majority of the faculty at the CC I attend are adjunct teachers from IU and Purdue and most of the degrees offered at my school are all transfer degrees to the aforementioned universities, based on the same exact curriculum that the major universities teach. The best part is the tuition is 1/3 the cost and the books are about 1/2 the cost (I buy books online anyways so that doesn't matter much).

Thank you Richard.
 
‎12 hours of writing and the paper is done. Now it is time to see if it sucks... god I hope it doesn't suck. I would love for this paper to get an A... (this one alone is worth 40% of my grade)

There is this awful feeling of inadequacy that sets itself in my ribs when I realize I am turning a paper into a Doctor who is literally one of the most intelligent people I have come across.

Did I have as firm a grasp of the material as I thought I did? Did I really do a good job getting my point across? Is the language I used going to be a problem?

And I hate the fact that if I blow the final, I fail the class. It's not even about percentage points, it just the principle of the matter - if you fail the final, you fail the class. Granted, he has applied a generous curve... but... test anxiety.... jesus christ hell that freaks me out.
 
‎Did I have as firm a grasp of the material as I thought I did? Did I really do a good job getting my point across? Is the language I used going to be a problem?

I had this same feeling in kindergarten. Will this teacher think I'm retarded? Does she like goldfish as much as I do? Will she tell my mom how horrible of a colorer I am? Should I just kill myself now and get it over with? Man, kindergarten was a rough time in my life. :(
 
‎12 hours of writing and the paper is done. Now it is time to see if it sucks... god I hope it doesn't suck. I would love for this paper to get an A... (this one alone is worth 40% of my grade)

There is this awful feeling of inadequacy that sets itself in my ribs when I realize I am turning a paper into a Doctor who is literally one of the most intelligent people I have come across.

Did I have as firm a grasp of the material as I thought I did? Did I really do a good job getting my point across? Is the language I used going to be a problem?

And I hate the fact that if I blow the final, I fail the class. It's not even about percentage points, it just the principle of the matter - if you fail the final, you fail the class. Granted, he has applied a generous curve... but... test anxiety.... jesus christ hell that freaks me out.

I felt the same way when I turned in my final paper a couple weeks ago. Fortunately I managed to get an A, but now I have to prepare for the 2 hour written exam next week which will have 3-5 essays :erk: And there's no curve.
 
My uni gets kinda hard and annoying. The semester is closing and I'm like, beginning to get nervous.