Master's degrees

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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins

MA in Lit.

I've taught college for the last seven years. At various points I strongly considered going back to get my Ph.D.

Last fall I finally realized that my reticence came from my dissatisfaction with the evolution of college from a place of higher education and the pursuit of knowledge to a business concerned primarily with churning students through and jacking up administrative pay.

Consequently, while I'm still teaching, I'm also attending school full time, getting my pre-reqs knocked out so I can start a program that will eventually lead to be becoming a Nuclear Pharmacist.

I still love teaching, but I hate all the other bullshit along with it. My plan is to adjunct somewhere for a course a term once as an addition to my daily job. A labor of love instead of working in a job whose purpose I feel is eroding.

One of the professors who wrote me letters of rec refused to help if I was applying to an English or law program.