Early congrats on the master’s.

Another advantage of a degree is that it shows hiring authorities commitment to a goal. Maybe that’s a little touchy-feely, but there are also hiring authorities who look for athletes because they know the dedication that even high school athletics requires.

Kristen (who’s just 2 weeks away from her Master’s, FINALLY, and is SO over the school thing, holy crap)

I absolutely love reading these letters. They are the highlight in my day

…Bruce Lee actually struck me as potentially trying to be nice. At least, that would be a possibility if he were sadly misinformed about what “skills” are, or if he were one of those writers stuck in one writing style and entirely ignorant that he’s the one who don’t quite know what he’s talking about.

There are different mediums of writing that require different “skills”. Okay, so your blog writing obviously wouldn’t do in a formal setting, but this isn’t a formal setting. Your writing style in this blog also isn’t indicative of your writing style elsewhere.

I wonder how Meatman72 explains all these unique websites for all our comments. —Oh, I forgot. Children his age tend not to handle logic very well. (Hm… That looks like a RuneScape username.)

Sometimes, I think some kids just feel upset so they go diss someone else who looks happy and wealthy so they feel better. …And I think that vocabulary choice in the previous sentence just showed my age.

Anyway, degrees don’t matter. Skills do.

But some people insist that a degree’s needed to have the skills. Thus my current technical writing major.

Well, my opinion is this:

It’s not the degree that matters, but what one does.

“Fair use” allows others to use the work for a number of reasons, one of which is for the purpose of commentary on the work. Parodies also fall under the protections of “fair use.” I believe Deb’s “We Get Letters” posts would qualify as commentary, and maybe even parody when she is making fun of people like meatman72.

Deb

No, wait, wrong account…. NoooOOOOooOOOOoo

Am I the only one who thinks that it’s not the degree in and of itself that matters, but what one does to attain that degree? Just a couple of opportunities that I had at college that I couldn’t have had elswhere: doing field work, writing a thesis, working collaboratively in seminar classes on issues for organizations, an internship at a wonderful organizationm doing research that on a topic I loved, working in small groups on position papers that nonprofits actually used, and getting feedback and counsel from extremely dedicated people who are professionals in their fields.

Of course, many people will have these opportunities throughout the course of their careers and professional work, but those who don’t go to school most likely simply can’t do this all before their 22nd birthday.