As we had our
last couple of general classes, I was eager to see how things would be when we
split off into rotations. (I was ill. Yay me.) I’m looking forward to learning
about Audacity! I already use it for my voice lessons and Musicianship classes
for recording assignments and exercises, but my knowledge is very basic.
Going back a
little further, I’m very excited to be starting out on my story idea of the
possibility of charging students for the Lilly/Blackstock renovations in the
future. When we were thinking of how we’d start off our videos earlier this
week, I’ve got an idea that’s yet to abdicate to something better—not about to
give it away in case it does change,
but I’m liking what I’ve got if it turns out I can find the resources to make
it happen.
Ah, for this
week’s reading. Obviously, the “It Takes A B.A. To Find a Job As a File Clerk”
caught my attention. I definitely wouldn’t have found out about it without the New York Times since this type of story
doesn’t seem to be the Internet’s type. What pissed me off was the assumption
of college graduates being harder or better workers than non-graduates. Adam
Slipakoff in particular said something I shook my fist at: “College graduates
are just more career-oriented. Going to college means they are making a real
commitment to their futures. They’re not just looking for a paycheck.” Okay,
first of all, yes, many of them are “just looking for a paycheck” thanks to
today’s economy, so that right there is bullshit. Second of all, saying that
college graduates are more career-oriented is an outrageous stereotype. Some
people go to college and party all four years. Some people don’t go to college
because they can’t afford it and get pushed into a corner with menial labor by
high-reaching employers. This isn’t to discredit all of the kids who go to
college who are ambitious, but saying that every single kid is ambitious, and,
further, more ambitious than every single kid who didn’t go to college or
didn’t graduate, is just ludicrous. Several of the hardest working people I
know didn’t go to college. Furthermore, if “degree inflation” continues,
colleges in this country are going to have to become much more affordable.
Much. Mitt’s asinine suggestion of borrowing money from parents isn’t going to
work. Not all parents have that money. It’s unfair to place the financial bar
for attendance so high and then make all of these assumptions about how people
who go to college are better in the workplace.
*Deep breath.
Okay. Rant over. Signing out for tonight before I decide that I haven’t milked
my bad mood for long enough a time.
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