I can walk on the grass! (Arts vs Sciences)

Member Name: magpie

Product:	Arts vs Sciences
Date:	27/03/01 (38 review reads)
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Arts degrees, not worth the paper they are written on? What alot of tosh. You see - there are arts degrees and arts degrees...

Let me tell you about my weekend - I have just graduated with my master of arts.

A hard earned degree,
I think you will agree,
when I tell you my tale
of how an MA can't fail...

Nearly seven years ago, I turned up at Kings College, Cambridge, a wee young thing, impressionable, and niave. We were shown around college, and shown the beautiful lawns. However, being mere human beings, we were not allowed to walk on the grass. Only Senior Members were allowed on the grass.

Sprint forward to 1997, when I graduated, with a 2.1 BA in Natural Sciences. You see, Cambridge, being an antiquated institution, gives BA degrees to everyone (well, not to them that fail, obviously!) - but you get a BA in Maths, Computer Science, Engineering, and all the other sciences. An example of a Very Useful arts degree! Now, I was so horribly hung over when I graduated (free wine from college the night before!), that I remembered very little of the ceremony.

Sprint forward again, to last weekend. Now you may not be aware that Cambridge gives out MAs three years after your BA, if you manage to stay out of prison (obviously a trial for some!). This time I was sober...

MY GOD. What an antequated place Cambridge really is. You see - the whole ceremony is in latin. Really. You go forward (dressed in the daftest gown ever), hold someones finger while they say sommat in latin, kneel down in front of some other bloke - he holds your hand and say sommat else, and then you leave, a Master of Arts. But more importantly...you become a Senior Member of college. This is incredibly important, as it means (cue drumroll...) that you can WALK ON THE GRASS!!!

So as you see - even the most useless of Cambridge Degrees (MAs are preetty useless if you ask me!) has some function.

And thi
s is the moral of this opinion - everything is worth something to someone. While arts may not be as functional, or even as vocationally relevant, they still have value.

I dread the day when we only read, learn about, or are interested in things which are functional. And afterall...someone has to work in McDonalds!!!

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