Grad School

[genocidal]

Rule #1 of College/Grad work:

Have a backup plan.

[Galleleo]

Fit, you obviously don't know what the work entails.

And Squeez, the point I was trying to make is that it isn't an easy A. I like the country France, but I cannot stand the fucking language.

[Cops]

Fit, you obviously don't know what the work entails.

And Squeez, the point I was trying to make is that it isn't an easy A. I like the country France, but I cannot stand the fucking language.

If you hate their language come to Canada and visit Quebec. French-Canadians sound like they took an already 'questionable' language and decided to butcher it.

[phata$$]

I changed my major for the first time last week. I'm no longer a film major, but instead a Creative Writing major with a minor in Journalism. Woo me.

Why did you change majors btw? I'm currently in a junior college because I had no clue what I wanted to do and I finally decided to be a film major. Is it like very difficult for you? or did you just lose interest?

[Squeezer]

Why did you change majors btw? I'm currently in a junior college because I had no clue what I wanted to do and I finally decided to be a film major. Is it like very difficult for you? or did you just lose interest?

I thought it was for me and to a certain extent I did like it a lot. But, when it really came down to it I was more inclined toward writing.

Just a personal choice. I would recommend that anyone interested in Film Studies definitely pursue it. In my mind it beats being a business major.

[phata$$]

Cool. What school are you in now? I'm thinking of transferring to San Francisco State because they have a pretty good television program which I can use to segway into films. It seems like you probably have the same interest as me, in that we both want to get into screenwriting and shit.

[Eric is God]

Ryserson is a University in Canada, they're known as one of the top notch schools for journalism. The thing is that they don't really do much work with the cameras or editing programs, at least not until their final years. Next year I'll be running two weekly shows (magazine show, as well as a newscast). I'll take on the roles of a producer, anchor, vtr-roller, editor, writer, as well as many other jobs. I think journalism is something that can be 'honed' in College or University, we just have a lot better time relating practical skills to practical jobs. Once you've heard 'a journalist is a storyteller' a hundred times or 'our duty is those who can't defend themselves' you'll want to amputate your own balls.

My cousin graduated from Ryerson for journalism 3-4 years ago. She used to work as a production assistant for the show Kenny vs Spenny and currently works on a couple of shows on the Spice channel whatever that is...

Journalism grads very rarely end up as journalists it seems.

[Eric is God]

This is just a bunch of bullshit buzzwords thrown together in what looks like a paragraph. Problem solving, economy, technical, specialists, integrate... get over it. Your job will be negotiating contracts with clients for whatever company you work for, telling your employees what their current tasks are, and making sure your employees have adequate money, computers, or other materials that they need to do their job.

It's hard to say what knowledge/skills from a degree will transfer into your career. I graduated with a degree in economics and finance and my work at RIM is 25% DIA (Data Integrity Assurance) 50% Financial Reporting (of non-financial metrics like subscribers and device sales) and 25% analysis (eg: what impact has the iPhone had on our business?). Other than the econometric courses I took in university, almost none of what I learned is being used and to be honest no program anywhere could prepare someone to do my role.

[Cops]

My cousin graduated from Ryerson for journalism 3-4 years ago. She used to work as a production assistant for the show Kenny vs Spenny and currently works on a couple of shows on the Spice channel whatever that is...

Journalism grads very rarely end up as journalists it seems.

P.A's are entry level positions that University and College grags all get, it's not like only University Grads get those jobs. It's pretty awesome to work for Kenny vs Spenny, my teacher works for The Hour and showed ushis awesome bio he did of them.

I think that the sad realization this year for me at least was that this idea of a 'journalist' doesn't exist, on some level we're all pushing tin. There's only one Peter Mansbridge for a reason.

[DankNuggets]

One thing that I always hear from conferences I have attended in my field is that people are better off with the undergraduate degree and then getting a job with the firm/company they have interest in. Then have the firm send them for continuing education and the Masters Degree.

The only reason I make note of this, is that I have friends as well as workers that have been turned down by other firms due to being over qualified with no experience. Hence the degree calls for a higher salary, so why hire someone with a masters in this or that when I can hire someone for 1/2 - 1/3 the cost and then send them to school with the company paying for it.

I would definately hire and undergrad over a grad student in the Architectural field. Especially if they hold no working experience and only hold a degree from a University.

I guess it boils down to the subject matter of what the degree is for and the job applications you'll use it for in the end run.

QFT, at least from a civil eng. perspective