Grad school anyone?

Hettie · Sep 22, 2011

To go BACK to school or not???? That is the question!!!

If you would go back, what would you do with the degree?

IF you have no desire, why not???

heyjude · Sep 22, 2011

I've thought about it. But life is so full of other stuff, right now, it wouldn't make sense.

You're thinking about it, Hettie? What would you go back for?

Chris1981 · Sep 22, 2011

I don't have any desire to go back to school right now. If I pursued an MFA, it would be in creative writing, but that's sort of pointless unless I manage to find a program that's *very* genre-fiction friendly. Nonfiction's cool too, sure, but I don't think I like it enough to spend two or three years absorbed in it--not right now, anyway.

Hettie · Sep 22, 2011

Jude- Yes, I am back.... I am on a research team that is using technology to

A) help students with disabilities and
B) Help teachers work with those students

The school is paying for it, so hey- Why not? Well, I guess the why not would be.... that the classes are really really hard. The stats class is the easiest one if that tells you anything!

Hettie · Sep 22, 2011

Sarah- I worked for 7 years, and stayed home for 5 before I went back to get my master's. To do what I want to do eventually (be a presenter, developer, trainer) I need to get the NEXT degree... most teachers have their master's degree.... not many have a PHD...

No, you certainly do not need ANOTHER degree to write. Not unless your focus/needs change.

Moon Daughter · Sep 22, 2011

I'd go to grad school if it would advance me towards the career I want (probation officer/novelist

)

So either I'd get my MA in criminal justice or social work if I ever decide to go back.

Maryn · Sep 22, 2011

I'd love to return to school, just to explore further the subjects which interest me. No big career plans at this late date, just a love of knowledge.

Maryn, who considers this seriously every now and then

heyjude · Sep 22, 2011

Hettie said:
Jude- Yes, I am back....

The stats class is the easiest one if that tells you anything!

Smish · Sep 22, 2011

I'd love to get an MFA in children's writing, just for fun.

And I've toyed with the idea of working on a Ph.D. in social psychology. But I probably won't. I already have an advanced degree and I really should just work already.

Parametric · Sep 22, 2011

I went straight from undergraduate law to a postgraduate degree in publishing. Great course, tons of fun. I'm applying for publishing jobs now as I wait for my results.

Hettie · Sep 22, 2011

Moon Daughter and Maryn- I think that is why I am doing this... first to further my career and second, because I am really interested in making things better for students with disabilities.

Smish, I work part-time in a school and am pretty disenchanted with the system as a whole, with apathetic parents, and with children that do not know their worth (because no one has bothered to tell them they have it!),

Jude- I KNOW!!!! double

Parametric- Wow- congrats! Truly a dream job! GOOD LUCK!

Maryn · Sep 22, 2011

Hettie, there are so many students with disabilities of every type being mainstreamed that a lot more effort is needed to be sure we're serving them all as well as anyone can. Armed with new knowledge, I hope you can find a placement where the parents care, the kids are motivated, and they think what you can do with the disabled kids approaches magic.

(Seriously, seek a top-notch school district when the time comes, even if it means moving.)

Maryn, who moved here for the school district

Kim Fierce · Sep 22, 2011

I would just like to finish four years of college. I never did, and I majored in all the wrong things. (Psychology, then journalism.) My dream would be to focus on creative writing and/or English. But. I have also learned that this is not absolutely necessary for success and have been trying to sort of self-teach. I'm taking a course through Long Ridge Writer's Group and am almost finished. That is the most education I've received after high school!

Hettie · Sep 22, 2011

Kim- One of the main things one of my professors is saying that we learn to write by reading others' work and by writing ourselves.... SO TRUE...

Maryn- I work for what is supposed to be a fantastic district... However not every school, teacher, parent is on board the Hettie Train (AKA Children First).

Wesley Kang · Sep 22, 2011

There is no way in HELL anyone could pay me enough money to go back to school.

Silent Rob · Sep 23, 2011

If I'm ever lucky enough to make money out of writing, I'll definitely go and get me a PhD.

Every year I toy with the idea of going full out to get onto a postgrad medical programme, but the 'toying' part really tells me that I shouldn't do that.

Research is the way for me!

Best of luck with the course, Hettie.

Hettie · Sep 23, 2011

Wesley... You don't seem very vehement about that. Are you sure?

Thanks Rob! Medical? That means science... EEK....

Phaeal · Sep 23, 2011

When I was in grad school, all I wanted to do was write fiction, and not the kind that the university approved of. So, no.

If I had enough money to go to grad school, BTW, I'd spend it hiring professors to give me exactly the research info I need. Win for me, win for the professors.

Gatita · Sep 23, 2011

I'd go back for an MFA in a minute if I could afford it! Unfortunately our state colleges' tuition keeps going up while my salary does not...

Wesley Kang · Sep 23, 2011

Hettie said:
Wesley... You don't seem very vehement about that. Are you sure?

Well, I did just break one of those universal laws... of the universe.

Never say never.

Grad school anyone?

Hettie

Once and future Queen......

heyjude

Making my own sunshine

Chris1981

Just Another Transman

Hettie

Once and future Queen......

Hettie

Once and future Queen......

Moon Daughter

Maryn

At Sea

heyjude

Making my own sunshine

Smish

Reads more than she writes.

Parametric

Hettie

Once and future Queen......

Maryn

At Sea

Kim Fierce

Attack me with everything you have.

Hettie

Once and future Queen......

Wesley Kang

the Light of Dawn

Silent Rob

Riff-Raff

Hettie

Once and future Queen......

Phaeal

Whatever I did, I didn't do it.

Gatita

Girl reporter

Wesley Kang

the Light of Dawn