Thursday, June 18, 2009

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Do you ever get these e-mails offering "cheap and easy ways" to earn your degree? Are you ever tempted to check them out? Of course, one click and you're more likely to get a computer virus then a degree, or become the victim of a "diploma mill" (institutions offering fraudulent and/or worthless degrees for a fee). But it is tempting to think there are ways you can bypass all the usual college malarkey and earn any degree you want with very little effort.

Then again, do we really want to earn our degrees in the fastest and easiest way possible? One mistake I made as a high school graduating senior was not being willing to spend FOUR MORE years in school. Instead, I went to a trade school for a "quick" medical secretary certificate. The experience was worthwhile - any education is - but what I discovered was how little this abbreviated training prepared me for working in the real world. The lessons just didn't dig deep enough. In the end, the certificate meant nothing; the real education came from on-the-job training.

If there is one thing the experience taught me was that anything worthwhile takes time and hard work. So, when I finally do get my degree ... I'll know it's the result of a time well spent.

1 comment:

Jason said...

Hey Carol, great observation. I'd like to direct your attention to one of my favorite writers: Rainer Maria Rilke.
He once wrote:

"Most people have (with the help of conventions) turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it."