College Degrees
A 50-word critique... Signed, a disenfranchised college graduate.
The most expensive piece of paper one may ever own. Signed off and sealed, making the empty promises that higher education brings extra official. Garnered after many nights of justified tears and many words written on topics one can't even remember. C's get degrees, but good jobs are never promised.
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Ashley Lima
I think about writing more than I write, but call myself a writer as opposed to a thinker.
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degree is just piece of paper its your talent that matter
Well said! I saw too many college graduates become cashiers at the grocery store and struggle to pay off student loans.
great critique
Congrats on your leaderboard placement Ashley! 😊🎉🎉
How true, but I liked going to school and earning my degrees and advanced degrees, and now I am reviewing books and textbooks and using what I learned.
Congratulations on Top Story!!! 💕❤️❤️
Awesome and Congratulations on your Top Story🎉✨💖👍
Very well done. You speak to a truth here. Congrats on Top Story
Ahhh, those promises that no one can keep! Glad you got this one in on time. Love the tone of it. Congrats on your top story!
Hey, congrats on your top story Ashley!! 😊👍
🤣🤣🤣 creative, unique, and dead-pan funny. Congratulations on the top story.
Great read and well thought!
C’s get degrees! That got us through the pressure of uni too!!! Brilliant and deserved Top Story!
I totally agreed with you. Two degrees and I have no job.
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As a drop out I love this
Too much truth here. Glad it is a TS (what else could it be)... ;)
As a college professor, I feel as if we've failed you. I do hope that one day something will come up where your degree will be proven valuable.
Love this! Couldn’t agree more!
Brilliantly crafted & so so true! I just gave you a standing ovation (although my knees almost went out! LOL 😂) for this one! Go gurl! This was fantastic! I hope that this critique places because it is creative and outstanding!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
It’s a unspoken promise.
A very valid and interesting critique
One of the more thoughy provoking critiques. I share some of the disappointments here although not so much the financial aspect. Being in Ireland allows for far cheaper Third Level education than the States. Don't know how you all deal with the burden. But the disappointment in the atmosphere of university life. From students and educators. It was grim. I think I built up this idea of a glorious battle ground of passion and ideas, but when I arrived it was a flat fart in the wind. Nobody gave a fuck about anything. I was gutted. That being said, having the degree opened up opportunity to garner further options in education which could only be presented if I held a degree in the first place. I think the difference in experience those who get a liberal arts degree (myself) to those who went into more career focused degrees, is significant. Everytime I got really low about my degree and was trying to justify it's worth I would listen to David Foster Wallace's commencement speech, "This Is Water." If you haven't, I recommend. Sorry about this dumpster fire comment. I never write them this long 🤓👈
Congratulations on Top Story! Personally, I hope your efforts pay off and I believe they will. As a writer without a degree, I see jobs that I want going to those who have one. In fact, I see more freelance gigs posted requiring it, recently. I do understand your outlook and don't necessarily disagree, but the fact is, there's a huge workforce to draw from and the struggle is real, but I still believe you're better equipped for it. Just my opinion and my hope for your sucess.
Congrats on the TS!