Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Back to school?



I just started a new program in school. I'm two whole weeks into my second bachelor's degree. Bachelor of Science in Human Services Management. Already having a BA in English and a MAED in Curriculum Instruction with a focus on Language Arts, I'm feeling pretty ahead of the game. Is it possible to just coast through a program so that I can learn just what I'm interested in and defer my student loans at the same time? Is this wrong?

Looking above, I sound so over-qualified! Ha! I anticipate being a life-long learner for the sake of just being a life-long learner. After the BSHS/M, maybe I'll go get a psych degree- you know- one of those ones that college kids get because they want to know what's wrong with them? I believe that a degree in psychology would get me nowhere, just as the English and the education have. So, I'm sure you're all (all one of you) asking yourself: "why is she bothering with human services? what the hell is human services?"

The most logical thing to answer first is "what the hell is human services?" Human services is the field that things like case management, hospice, and counseling fall under.

Then, the why? The reason I'm going into human services is, simply put, because there is a problem with our current system, and maybe with some "insider knowledge" I can do something about it.

I've found the most trying part of the program is letting other people be new students... It's mean, but I'm terribly frustrated by the other students not having the slightest clue what they're doing. In the MAED, I certainly created outlines and formatted papers which were to be team assignments, but I never had to walk someone through where to find their syllabus, and how to know when something is due... JEEZ!

Here's a picture that's totally unrelated to what I'm talking about.

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