The value of education lies in what you make of it. My time at UIC may not have prepared me for the job market, but it certainly laid the groundwork for the skills I am developing now. My first year of my masters program at ASU has come to a conclusion but there are many things I have taken away from it so far.
For starters, I was never a big fan of television news programs. I didn’t mind CNN too much. Since beginning this program and discussing the problems associated with reporting and newscast, I can’t watch television news programs anymore. They actually make my annoyed because they are so terrible. One, you get 30 seconds of a story, essentially only the inverted pyramid. The more communication classes I take, the more media literate I become and that means the MORE I need to know. Plus, there is no way to put on a seamless, perfect news program.
Second, I’ve been acquired some skill in webpage design and photoshop. Not only are these programs fun to play with, but they are great in this modern media world as skills.
In addition to what I’ve been learned in classes, my snobbery in extracirricular reading material has led to many interesting insights. For example, I’ve been trying to get through “A People’s History of the United States” for the last two months. Currently I’m reading the chapter on WWII. There are some things you just never think about until the point is raised. For example, according to the book, the United States stated two reasons for becoming involved in WWII. First, the attack on Pearl Harbor. Second, of course, Hitler. But was what Hitler was doing to the Jews so different then what we had been doing to African Americans for hundred of years? Ho do we justify that? Interesting thoughts to say the least.
plain and simple. i love you.