“You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.”
That quote, of course, from the movie Good Will Hunting. And it’s accurate for the most part. I never felt I was paying for the material as much as the method and the instructors. I was the one who really didn’t like it when a GTA showed up to teach a class.
College students who didn’t pay for their education usually love a student teacher. The teacher is just as busy with a social college life as the students are and tend to be a bit more lax on grading. Usually, a graduate student is teaching as a means to help pay for their education, but that doesn’t mean they have any teaching ability at all.
(more…)
posted by jtmitchum at 21:59
Who here watches The Daily Show?
You aren’t unwise if you don’t. There are plenty of ways to make up for it. Read at least 2 newspapers a day, or 1 paper plus about 20 news television shows and maybe a sitcom here or there. The point is, this show wraps up a mix of pop-culture, governmental news and international debate in less than 30 minutes.
Typically, I enjoy this show for it’s frank ridicule of television news. Journalists, a profession to which I’ve earned a degree in, have suffered the onslaught of public ridicule and governmental disdain to a peak beyond any I’ve seen in my lifetime. ‘What do they know?’ and ‘they never check their facts’ have been the general phrases I hear at Thanksgiving dinners or bar side conversations. The attempt for truth has been observed as an obvious clammer for audience with the method of hype as a primary advertising technique.
(more…)
posted by jtmitchum at 21:13
The quick run of all things is that I’ve been very busy.
I just returned from a weekend in Chicago which I hope to do a wonderful couple of posts on in the near future. I’m waiting for the pictures to develop and for a few moments of free time to really do a good solid story about it.
When I got home, I had an interview with a local hospital to help start up a new sleep lab they are opening in a nearby town. I’m being obscure for now as there has been a bit of a stirring up over companies finding out about personal employees blogs and getting pissed when they find their company secrets all over them.
I’d say sleep medicine isn’t that sensitive, but, damned if you wouldn’t know it, my former sleep employer, somniTech, Inc. sued me when I left them for another company. So far, I’ve won that case, but it is still technically open, they just haven’t done anything about it for almost a year now.
(more…)
posted by jtmitchum at 23:16