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Originally Posted by ModusOperandi
It's a piece of paper that doesn't, in any way or form, represent skill/level or knowledge as far as I'm concerned. It just gives you a leg up because you somehow sat through the edumacations.
That piece of paper, or even your transcript for that matter, doesn't measure what you can/cannot do. Some people are gifted in theory, some are gifted in practically. Some just meander through college, some sweat their butts off.
I'll be walking the podium and receiving that paper by the end of this semester; and, walking with me, will be some of the most stupidest people I've ever known alongside some of the smartest people I've had the opportunity of meeting.
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My degree is currently....stuffed in a box somewhere in my wardrobe. At the back. Because no one wants to see it.
They want to know when, what and where I studied. Sometimes they want to know what grade I got. That's about it. Everything else I have ever been asked, EVER, concerning getting a job, has been about completely different stuff- past jobs, work experience, who I have worked with, personality, concrete skills like lists of equipment they could leave me with and find us both intact at the end of the day etc. 80% of which is all answerable by things I have done outside of my degree.
I walked to the podium and got a bit of A4 paper to say I'd studied Japanese and Psychology. It was a 2:1, just barely, with hons.
I understood, and still understand Japanese far better than my colleague who just missed out on a first. Because he did Understanding Manga and Japanese film while I did Business Japanese and Understanding Academic Japanese in Contemporary Texts. And a dissertational research project. Not all 2:1's are anywhere near equal, even in the same course.
I don't know; if I'd been to Harvard and got a 1st or something, maybe i'd be ringing the bells and nailing that sucker to the forehead of everyone who even looked my general direction and basking in it's Mida's glow. But I'm just josephine average; my degree does bugger all to differentiate me from the hordes- it just moves me from one class of horde to another.