I keep having this horrible feeling that there’s something I’m forgetting to do. But I’ve checked my to-do list thrice, and I don’t think there is. I think I’m becoming too dependent on pen and paper. What happened to those good ol’ days before post-it notes and organisers? I hate this feeling.
I don’t mean to cause mass hysteria, but I can’t believe there’s only three weeks left to the end of this my second-to-last semester. Three weeks!!! And in those three weeks, I have so much to do like you wouldn’t believe.
Hail the joys of being an arts student. My semester officially ends at the end of swot vac.
Wail the downfalls of being an arts student. While everyone is just starting to worry about their impending exams, I’m already freaking out about my assignments.
This is when arts students usually go underground for seven weeks or so. They spend the first three to four weeks feverishly working on assignment after assignment after assignment, and the following four weeks hiding from the wrath of jealous, suffering examinees. Unfortunately this means we have precious few people to join us in our joy and revelry, but it’s a small price to pay, don’t you think?
I’ve been thinking about it, and I think an arts degree is one of the best educations around. I would say “the best” but then you just can’t compete with those doctors and dentists and lawyers. And it’s not just because I’m an arts student and feel a dire need to defend my AUD15,500 per annum degree either. I say it, because it’s true. And don’t snicker. Let me tell you why.
Arts degrees don’t give you much useful head knowledge, I cede that much. I mean, who’s going to give you a job because you know postmodern theory, postcolonial theory, or the entire historical development of homosexuality? (Unless you want to be a tutor or lecturer maybe, which actually pays pretty darn well). But then there’s always the useful – and really interesting – stuff like semiotics, audience reception, and a whole lot of general knowledge, which I think is really important. The best part though, is it teaches you how to think, analyse and question critically, a trait desperately lacking in Asians as a whole.
So maybe other degrees will earn you more money, but an arts degree will equip you with skills for life. And don’t even get me started on all that stuff you memorise for exams but know you will never use again in your life. An arts degree with never give you that problem. Simply because we (usually) don’t have exams.
I don’t think I’ve ever been so glad for my arts education before.
