I look
into the dark face
of my degree

haunting me owning me taking me raping me

the world does not see
me
the world sees
my degree
made of money
taken from me

Slavery
this is me
slavery
forced on me
slavery

my degree
whips me
beats me
forces me onto the bed
i cry
i wish i was dead

my degree
40,000 degrees
burning me
alive
no, i'm dead

thanks, degree

I began my college career in a different time. It was the late '90s ... Now, here I sit, two years after graduating

Over 10 years for college? At $600 per semester he could have had that degree for about $5k almost a decade ago. If the dude is looking for someone to blame for the student loans he should really look in the mirror.

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I transferred to the University of Minnesota after meeting the Minnesota woman of my dreams and studied history and Latin for three years. I did well enough at the U to gain entry to the University of Chicago's Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences.

Please can we get a "No shiat" tag?

/a "Sherlock" tag would also suffice

Dude shelled out $40-80k for his poetry degree, and complains that the educational system failed him. Sounds about right.

I had $40-80k of college debt, too (I've been out for a while, so it is slowing going down). The difference is I went after degrees that would pay off down the road(accounting, computer science, and MBA). My debt-to-salary ratio is now quite manageable..

Was Accounting my first choice all those years ago? F*ck, no! I wanted to be a historian or an English teacher. But after taking stock of where I wanted to be and what I wanted in life, my wife told me to get a degree that would buy her a house.

Life decisions. Live with them.

Majors and their unemployment rate:
1. Actuarial Science-0 percent
2. Astronomy and Astrophysics-0 percent
3. Educational Administration and Supervision-0 percent
4. Geological and Geophysical Engineering-0 percent
5. Pharmacology-0 percent
6. School Student Counseling-0 percent
7. Agricultural Economics-1.3 percent
8. Medical Technologies Technicians-1.4 percent
9.Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology-1.6 percent
10. Environmental Engineering, Nursing, and Nuclear Industrial Radiology and Biological Technologies-2.2 percent

Also...

The Wall Street Journal compiled a list of college majors with the highest and lowest unemployment rates based on data from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. The 10 majors with unemployment rates greater than 10 percent are:

1. Clinical Psychology; 19.5%
2. Miscellaneous Fine Arts; 16.2%
3. United States History; 15.1%
4. Library Science; 15%
5. Educational Psychology; 10.9%
6. Military Technologies; 10.9%
7. Architecture; 10.6%
8. Industrialized and Organizational Psychology; 10.4%
9. Miscellaneous Psychology; 10.3%
10. Linguistics and Comparative Language and Literature; 10.2%

/HuffPo and Yahoo news

Pocket Ninja: haunting me owning me taking me raping me

This came to mind from that:

I'm starting to think that people write these "disgruntled snowflake" articles just to troll the ITGs here on Fark.

Pocket Ninja: awesomeness

Bravo, sir. That's why you show up in a pretty green color.

Colleges and universities want your money. They shroud their avarice in flowing gowns and ivory towers, but they are not cradling knowledge so much as they are selling sheepskin.

Look at you and your fancy sentences. Except "ivory towers" is not original, and diplomas are now made out of paper.

Go to school for what you love, not what will pay the highest.

Highschool was it for me. Higher education would have been a waste of my time, and my folks money.

Now, I own a small business in a tourist town. Open 5 months out of the year.. 6 months "off" where I then travel around the country taking photographs.

I'm happy as a clam.

blogger/poet

I read that as "blogger/patriot". I've spent too long in the Politics tab.