To college students: Your degree sucks

[Just Crouton]

I read these interesting articles on a site called Busy Street. This site is known by Spoony fanboys for it's dislike of said reviewer.

One of the contributors made a series of articles related to college, mainly college degrees. [url="http://thebusystreet.com/2010/09/16/your-degree-sucks-education/"]The guy who writes these has a teaching degree, giving him credibility in the most recent of these articles.[/url]

I thought these were interesting, myself pursuing both a graphic design and interactive design degree at the same time. I previously went for an [url="http://thebusystreet.com/2010/01/04/art/"]art degree[/url] until my father suggested the graphic design one. Let's face it. He was right to do so. Why? Two reasons. One, He's paying my tuition. Two, what art-related job can I get with an art degree? Even with my two associates, and a bachelor's from the next college I attend, I'll at least become a bureaucrat in a cubicle, though I hope to work for a government contractor or something.

Oh, this one was funny. A guy from Geek Squad posted a complaint under this [url="http://thebusystreet.com/2010/07/10/computerscienc/"]article.[/url]

[url="http://thebusystreet.com/your-degree-sucks/"]http://thebusystreet.com/your-degree-sucks/[/url]

[CrabHelmet]

To specify about the guy being an Education major - even if that were true (and the fact that he can't seem to type in correct English throws his ability to get any college degree into severe question), he is by his own admission more specifically a specialist in [i]elementary[/i] education. And while I could be misremembering, I don't recall very many of my fourth-grade classmates getting undergraduate degrees.

Which, of course, means he's pretty much making stuff up whenever he writes about pretty much any degree. For example, for psychology, his research appears to consist of the following: 1) If you ask a random non-psychology student in the street to name a psychologist, they'll probably say Sigmund Freud; and 2) I once heard some psychology students discuss [i]Heroes[/i]. Of course, even someone who took a single intro-level psychology class in college - not even for the purposes of majoring, just to fulfill a general requirement or a side interest or something - would know that, while Freud is important historically, his ideas are generally discredited; if you were to ask a psychology student to name a psychologist, you'd be more likely to get a response of B.F.Skinner. The same is true with pretty much all of his rants.

But hey, if you want to get your educational advice from some blogger who makes fun of people on a site he doesn't like (but still watches obsessively) for - gasp! - suggesting that a spambot posting porn links should be banned (how unreasonable!), then by all means be my guest.

[Just Crouton]

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To specify about the guy being an Education major - even if that were true (and the fact that he can't seem to type in correct English throws his ability to get any college degree into severe question), he is by his own admission more specifically a specialist in [i]elementary[/i] education. And while I could be misremembering, [b]I don't recall very many of my fourth-grade classmates[/b] getting undergraduate degrees.

Which, of course, means he's pretty much making stuff up whenever he writes about pretty much any degree. For example, for psychology, his research appears to consist of the following: 1) If you ask a random non-psychology student in the street to name a psychologist, they'll probably say Sigmund Freud; and 2) I once heard some psychology students discuss [i]Heroes[/i]. Of course, even someone who took a single intro-level psychology class in college - not even for the purposes of majoring, just to fulfill a general requirement or a side interest or something - would know that, while Freud is important historically, his ideas are generally discredited; if you were to ask a psychology student to name a psychologist, you'd be more likely to get a response of B.F.Skinner. The same is true with pretty much all of his rants.
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But hey, if you want to get your educational advice from some blogger who makes fun of people on a site he doesn't like (but still watches obsessively) for - gasp! - suggesting that a spambot posting porn links should be banned (how unreasonable!), then by all means be my guest.[/b]
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You're a teacher?

I get my advice from my counselor. I liked the argument he made about the Astronomy degree, that no one cares about the names of a planet's rings. It reminded of a conversation with my law-school brother where he told me that my failed-out-of-college brother boasted that he was going to impress women with his knowledge of planetary cores, and that law-school told him that normal people don't care about planetary cores. I don't know. I thought it was funny.

[CrabHelmet]

No, I'm not a teacher - though I may become one eventually. However, I, like most people, was once if fourth grade.

The astronomy degree one is another nice example of the idiot just making stuff up. He has a bizarre obsession with the idea that the main thing astronomers learn about is constellations, which makes it clear that he can't even tell the difference between astronomy and astrology (which is analogous to being unable to tell the difference between chemistry and alchemy). Meanwhile, as far as he's concerned, getting an astronomy degree teaches you nothing more useful than "something called a black hole is a very bad thing – DEGREE COMPLETE" - and yet somehow I don't think NASA and Boeing (yes, they want people with astronomy degrees, not that this idiot would know that) hire people based on the number of SciFi conventions they've attended.

But hey, the average random person on the street doesn't know much about astronomy (and this blogger knows even less), so an astronomy degree obviously doesn't involve learning anything, since you only go to school to learn things random people on the street already know, right? Actually, this seems to be a fallacy the idiot blogger applies to pretty much every degree: as far as he's concerned, every degree only teaches him things he already knows (and is therefore worthless) or things he doesn't care about (and is therefore worthless).