Posted by fallsfall on June 11, 2005, at 14:31:10 [reposted on June 15, 2005, at 21:50:12 | original URL]
In reply to Re: To school or not to school » fallsfall, posted by Dinah on June 11, 2005, at 14:15:25
I find that if I go into something with the idea that I was "trying it out", that it is easier to change things later than if I commit to begin with.
Instead of starting on a degree, can you just take a class? Then your commitment is just to that class. When it is done, you can decide to do another (or not). You only would have to commit to the degree process after you have tried out the classes enough to know what you are enjoying and what you can handle.
This is a problem at the Library school I've been looking at. You can only take a class if you are enrolled in a degree program. I want to just take a class. I think most schools are more flexible than the one near me... I hope so!
And I think that for the first (and even second) class that you take, that it doesn't really matter if it will be the "right" class to take for whatever degree you might eventually go for. Make the first class a class that you are interested in - and think of the purpose of the class as being to experience what taking a class is like.
I'm glad that you want to do stuff in the real world.
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