Dec 23 2008
Reasons To Go Back To School
K, so I have been all over the blogsphere today because hubby read this article about b5media in the Toronto Star this morning - yes, it was printed on Monday, but he just got to it today, the slacker.
Anyway …that had me hopping around looking at b5media and from there I got to thinking about how I really should at least try to get adsense up and running on my personal blog and from there I got to looking at other back to school type stuff in Google (was checking where this and flitting show up in search results - that reminds me, got to get back to that!) and saw some articles like this one about 7 Reasons to Go Back To School and thought hmmm… good topic for a blog post.
Yes, I am living up to my screen name today as a matter of fact 
ANYWAY… I could do up a list of MY reasons to go back to school …. and/or of some of the reasons other people have talked about …. and/or what I think …
but why should I do all the work?
It’s almost Christmas and my husband’s exwife (yeah, I know; weird, but we are weird like that) is on her way over to pick me up to go out and do some last minute Christmas shopping and anyway bunches of my visitors here are people who did go back to school or are doing it now or who are thinking about it, or who are so glad that I’m doing it for them so they don’t have to…
So come on, speak up and participate why don’t you? Pretty please with whipped cream and a candy cane on top
What triggered your return to school (or thinking about it? or not doing it?)
Too much work for too little pay. I have mouths to feed. Besides, I’m an engineering physicist by accident. If I went back to school, there’s no telling what I’d end up doing. It’s a little scary
Deadend jobs are all that is available here where I live for someone without an education. I want to help people so I chose the field of psychology.
yay …comments
Thank you, Stephanie, Patricia and curveyqueenbee
I would really like to get back to university.. I miss the classes, the (realtively) well-designed syllabi, and the gratification of scoring well on quizzes, tests, etc. But that was undergrad life.. I hear grad school is much different… can I survive it?? I don’t know… and (thankfully?) my situation is such right now that I am in limbo, so it’s no use applying for grad school yet… if I were to get moving on that, I would probably look into an MFA in Creative Writing,,, you know, that totally complements my BSc in Chemistry!
I’m definitely finding grad school different… in workload, and also in the fact that in undergrad it was easy to be a star… in grad school, everyone was a star…and now the playing field is levelled and a lot tougher.
I looked at a MFA program as well … none near here that appealed though, and didn’t get into the correspondence one I tried applying to.
None of my diplomas/degrees build all that well on each other… although now at the grad school level, I’m starting to be able to pull them all together to create a space for me that, because they DON’T fit together and are NOT logical, there’s very little competition for
ah, now if those aren’t excellent reasons for doing it, I don’t know what is.
Money and opportunity are my two main motivating factors for considering law school this year. I am married to a lawyer that has their own office and if in order for them to become a stay at home parent (their dream), I have to get my law degree and take over for awhile. I can’t support our family on my current income, but I could if I became a lawyer and took over the practice.