{"id":647,"date":"2008-02-20T12:42:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T17:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=647"},"modified":"2008-02-28T17:14:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T22:14:41","slug":"quit-your-whining-and-pick-up-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"quit your whining and pick up a book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Uh, sorry to bug you like 10 minutes after I just submitted my first question(LOL) … but I just thought of another question. Needs answering, okay?!?!<\/span><\/em>Alright so is Humanities really a useless stream to pursue? =[ In particular,English? Apparently the only thing to be is a teacher\/professor … and thatdoesn’t sound appealing AT ALL.<\/em>Noone has told me anything that I could be if I major in English.. thatprobably means I’m screwed. Fabulous … it’s a shame because I love creativewriting but come on, writing for the rest of my life? Uhh…<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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Ugh shut up.? <\/span>Seriously ? English is such a valuable degree.? <\/span>The more you read, the more intelligent you become.? <\/span>The more intelligent you become, the better you are at acing interviews, being the witty conversationalist, and you?ll develop your own opinions much better than if you were, say ? an engineer.? <\/span>You?ll be able to develop a SOCIAL LIFE with this degree because you?ll actually have free time, and social skills are a *key* factor for interviews.? <\/span>Don?t listen to your high school teachers\/guidance counselors about ?the only careers available afterwards?.? <\/span>That?s lame, and they?re lame.? <\/span>I bet they?re saying this out of spite since they ended up in their career because:?<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

a) they decided they wanted a family when they met their second partner ever at 21<\/span><\/p>\n

b) liked drinking more than working at pursuing a good career (mine in high school literally spent lunch and third period at the pub down the street)<\/span><\/p>\n

c) are afraid of the real world<\/span><\/p>\n

d) believe that they?re the next inspirational teacher who will change that one special student?s life, and you?re not that one special student<\/span><\/p>\n

If you get your masters and wink at the right people, you could end up with a really killer job.? <\/span>How about journalism?? <\/span>And, with regards to your last sentence, I have two words for you:<\/span><\/p>\n

LEONARD COHEN.<\/span><\/p>\n

I, too, take offence to that statement.? <\/span>I?m getting paid to creatively write a response to your comment.? <\/span>It?s people like me with the Passion that find ways to utilize the ?pathless? degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n

?cheers?<\/span><\/p>\n

Askastudent <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Uh, sorry to bug you like 10 minutes after I just submitted my first question(LOL) … but I just thought of another question. Needs answering, okay?!?!Alright so is Humanities really a useless stream to pursue? =[ In particular,English? Apparently the only thing to be is a teacher\/professor … and thatdoesn’t sound appealing AT ALL.Noone has told me anything that I could be if I major in English.. thatprobably means I’m screwed. Fabulous … it’s a shame because I love creativewriting but come on, writing for the rest of my life? Uhh… ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-repeating-course"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t