Yes there’s a point. The point is you spend more money, put yourself in more debt, more stress about paying it off, more years of school, but at least you get to write Dr. in front of your name. 

For some reason everyone takes a Dr. more seriously in everything they say, even if what they’re saying is “I don’t know, but it must be aliens.” (History Channel reference.) 

For some professions getting your PhD is like stuffing your pants with a tube sock, for other’s it’s a requirement. When someone says they’re going to school for psychology and they have no plans for graduate school I’m lost, as a journalism major getting a PhD in journalism is that metaphorical sock in my pants (or maybe tissues in my bra). 

I don’t know why I’m considering graduate school again, I thought I had snuffed that flame out a long time ago with my backup plan and my back up plan’s back up plan but again, today I’ve started to reassess my previous decision to remove myself from the academic world once I walked across that stage to get my BA. 

God only knows but maybe this has something to do with my earlier dream of being a college professor, or maybe it’s fear driving back into the arms of academia; either way I’m running out of time to make my decisions. 

Some schools aren’t up on the site, so maybe I’ll send you some n00dz if you can’t find your school (just kidding). But if your school is up there this site is pretty sweet. Instead of other professor rating related sites this site has more to offer than just an overall scoring of your professors, instead they show you the grading statistics of the professors by how many of each grade they give out.

When you click on your professor’s name you are brought to their page where it shows their other classes and the grades in those as well, it will even show you W’s as well as P/F. You have your basic reviews that include a pro and con section and evaluations that answer questions from how many hours a week spent studying all the way to the attendance policy. There is also a tab so that you can find your textbooks.

The site itself offers some cool features. I went to the bookstore at my university and picked out my books for my classes and searched the ISBN numbers on MyEdu and found all my books for under $25, whereas it was $75+ at the university. You can read comments left by past students and collaborate with students in your class, you can even ask the community (anyone at the university with an account) who you should take for what classes.

A timeline feature is available where you can add in classes you’ve already taken and it tells you where you are and how close you are to graduating, it also tells you what classes are going to have a heavy work load and which ones are going to be less trouble.

Using the degree feature you are able to pick which degrees you’re interested in, compare them, get in-depth information on them, learn the average salary in each state, and once you choose a degree it can help you plan your schedule for each semester.

You can even find private student loans if you need more money and they have a GPA calculator.

Once I’m done filling out all the classes I’ve taken and so on this site will help me be able to visualize the end of my college career-a bittersweet realization.

Happy Holidays, enjoy!

Alarm went off at 9:30, 9:35, and 9:40. Tried to eat cereal but ran out of time and had to throw it all down the drain. ACC’s website was down so I couldn’t see my classes so I had to skim through syllabuses on blackboard to find out where I was going. Went to speech and then math, and then started wondering if I had the prerequisites for math. Went to get my transcript and in the process cleaned everything up for my financial aid. Came home, ate lunch, sat around, hung out with my cat, got ready for work, and now I’m waiting for 3:45 to roll around so I can start heading out to work. 

Hopefully everything gets set up with ACC so I can find out where I’m suppose to go tomorrow.