Media Studies? Vital or wasteful?

[Santino]

So everyone who does English becomes a writer then? By your logic, English is wasteful and not worth bothering with in 98% of cases.

I'm going to play Devil's Advocate and say, yeah, 98% of English graduates have wasted their three years.

(colours nailed to mast: English A Level, BA Philosophy, MA Film Studies)

 

[LJo]

I think if you enjoy your degree, it's not wasted, no matter how odd it might seem to others.

I studied Arabic and Persian which I have never used in my working life, but it was bloody brilliant and I loved every minute of it.

 

[pk]

I think if you enjoy your degree, it's not wasted, no matter how odd it might seem to others.

That's very true. Lots of cheap booze and adolescant high jinks combined with non-commital games of hide-the-sausage. Student life is good.

I was never a proper student, having left school at 15, but luckily I latched on to the life in a northern city with a bit of money in my pocket, so had all the advantages and none of the pressure.

In other words - don't expect to leave uni with a media degree and be any higher up the ladder than Tony the Teaboy.

Don't be surprised if you end up working for him either!

Have fun at uni though and don't take anything too seriously.

 

[Santino]

I've got nothing against people spending three years getting laid and shit-faced, but I don't think that spending those years obtaining a degree is necessarily any more valuable than doing the same thing on a beach in Goa.

 

[Orang Utan]

Lying on a beach doesn't make you better at arguing on the internet