Comments on: Pep Talk

By: Nico

Nico — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:56:50 +0000

a) Because education is always a smart choice. b) Once you have it you won’t regret it. c) Because it’s in a feministic spirit to be a well-educated woman ;)

By: Dustin

Dustin — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:41:30 +0000

A) Because if you don’t finish college, you can’t go on to grad school. And if you don’t go on to grad school, you can’t get an MA. And if you don’t get an MA, you can’t go on for a PhD. And if you don’t go on for a PhD, you’ll never have the experience of watching your student loans pile up, foreclosing any possibility of a stable future and forcing you into the mid-PhD crisis where you wonder why the hell you didn’t go to law school instead. And if you don’t weather that crisis, you won’t have the experience of adjuncting for peanuts at a community college or backwater state U while wondering how you’ll ever pay off those student loans. And if you don’t have that experience, then who will I point to and say “at least I’m not doing *that* anymore?”

2) College grads have better sex, more often. It’s a proven fact.

By: tas

tas — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 05:17:34 +0000

You need a college education to avoid living with your parents and working on a shipyard when you’re 25, and having a conversation with a man named Victor that goes along the lines of, “What the fuck are you doing here? If my son told me he wanted to work here, I’d tell him fuck no.”

By: dr. b.

dr. b. — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 04:27:39 +0000

Perhaps it is because you are a bright young woman with a lot to offer. You recognize that there is a lot wrong in the world and higher education gives you a better vantage point to affect change. Hmmmmm…. at least that’s what I tell myself everyday.

By: Linnaeus

Linnaeus — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:29:33 +0000

Well, to each one’s own, Lauren. But you’re welcome to stop by the shop, even if you don’t want a taco.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:14:05 +0000

Sorry, Linnaeus, but fish make me puke. Don’t think that would go over in a restaurant.

By: norbizness

norbizness — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:01:17 +0000

Because I don't want to have to read a bunch of weblog posts on "where have all the female college graduates gone?" Plus, according to Fred Stoller in his guest appearance on Dr. Katz, you want to be able to say that you're college graduate. Without actually graduating, it will come out sounding like "I'm a college ga-gaj-u-wit."

By: Linnaeus

Linnaeus — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:48:59 +0000

My friend and I are probably going to leave grad school to open up a Wahoo’s Fish Tacos in Santa Cruz, California. We could use some help, so if you give up on the school thing….

By: Monjo

Monjo — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:07:25 +0000

It should be a priority if its what you want to do. If you find a better route through life, take the leap.

By: Blue

Blue — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:38:53 +0000

having a college education will open doors for you that will remain closed forever if you do not get the diploma. Plus you will add to your income.