Ok I am asked this, and I need fancy ass answers, it braodens my horizons and ****.
Help me. Ideas!
who's asking?
forget broadens your horizens it helps allow you to explore learing that you would never be able to do on your own, it increases your chances to follow the career you want...
ok i'm going to ask...what person actually questions you on going to UNI?????
Ok before giving me a ref. for an MA, my lecturer wants a statement outlining the benefits of (a) a university degree and (b) a history degree specifically.
Help guys!
I want to say "it'll help me get a decent job"-but thats a sh*t answer.
the answer that I firmly believe in after several years of experience in the industry and academia is that a university helps instill basic levels of professionalism and at University, "you learn how to learn"... to me, it is these individual characteristics that help differentiate between a community college grad and a Univ. grad.
Now coming to your specific question about history majors, I've only taken 2 history courses in my life, but see the potential value of a background in history in three main areas:
- Critical analysis skills,
- Research skills,
- Interdisciplinary thinking.
Hope that helps.
ohh and as always, check out:
http://www.utexas.edu/student/careercenter/careers/history.pdf
Bro, that link doesnt work. (least not in my browser)
hmmm... it works fine for me... its a PDF file though - do you have Acrobat installed?
I found the html version. :)
It lists potential jobs, but not what skills I have (supposedly) picked up?
All I've learnt is to sleep in class. :)
u don't need any collage degree if u born rich
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HA HA HA
Ask me baby, my job doesnt require more than a high school certificate but Im still on this job. My degree is trash in this regard or a piece of paper I can look at daily and admire myself for wasting my time on it.
Can ne of you slap up a small personal statement outlining that?
I'll fill in the gaps. :D
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HA HA HA
Ask me baby, my job doesnt require more than a high school certificate but Im still on this job. My degree is trash in this regard or a piece of paper I can look at daily and admire myself for wasting my time on it.
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if you are on the same job that require only high school then you are not using your potential. dont blame degree, blame yourself and get yourself moving.
Sorry bud, can’t write one for you… but here’s an example from my own personal statement - if this might help you get cues.
My Own Statement of Purpose (sorry - its in PDF)
word doc. dude!
:D
Thanks.
^^ learn this principle as soon as you can... "try to stay away from proprietary technologies when submitting CVs, Statements etc." - you can't assume everyone uses word :)
Besides documents render better as PDFs anyways.
Apna computer theek karaaow! :)
Your welcome.
As Umar stated so eloquently, University Education (not necessarily a degree) prepares one to ask the ‘right’ questions. University is like a kiln (an oven) where raw molded clay is put to harden that into a nice pot. How one uses that pot is upto him/her.
Hey!
Ok updated adobe to 7.0...works now.
Umar, your a PhD, or still doing it?
Thats waaaaay to comprehensive a statement of purpose then I need to produce. Some nice ideas though, thanks.
Did you complete secondary school here (UK), as I have not come across American students with A LEVELS before?
Thanks again.
^^ I've one more semester to be done with my residency - close to writing my Doctoral Comprehensive exams...
Well, I did my O- and A-Levels through the British Council while I was in the Emirates and Pakistan.