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By Gordon Hlrsch
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If you have graduated, the clwice between graduate school and a job
can be a difficult one. The solution is simple. If there aren't any jobs
available rinht now. or if vou ran't ffinrf thot
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acquired qualifications, go back to school. Not many lifestyles compare
to college life.
Look at the realities of campus existence. At the beginning of each
semester you sit down and plan what you will do each day, what time
and where it will take place. You control your work load. You monitor
the difficulty or ease of the upcoming semester through your choice of
courses. You choose whether the next three months will be a period of
enjoyment or hell. Then God and the computer willing you submit your
schedule and hope for the best. If you goofed in judging your productivity,
or if the computer gave you an 8 a.m. class, you can always drop
a class.
Not many jobs in today's market offer the flexibility of campus life.
Work, to the average college student, is a dtrtv wnrrf *??ir
completed between dates and parties. The social scene doesn't allow for
time-consuming term papers and lab practice Is. The phrase, "Not
tonight, I ha e to study" is swiftly being replaced by "Why not, 111 get it
done tomorrow."
Procrastination is an art that any self-respecting student has
mastered by the end of his freshman year. The challenge of academic
achievement is now measured not only by grades, but also by who can
do the best in the least nmnimf nf tim* *w*a ^ u?4
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made an "A" in a course you never attended or made the Dean's List
after a semester of drunken nights and days in bed is today's measure of
scholastic achievement.
There's no life like college life. If a businessman conducted his
business the way the average student handles his school work, he would
starve to death. Of course, if you have no desire to pursue a serious
career someday, or if you just can't seem to decide on one now, the life
of the professional student is not an unpleasant one.
Presumably the professional is working toward a set goal, but
changing goals in mid-game is acceptable. The rules of the game are
few and made to be broken. The professional labors comfortably under
the respectable label of "student" and counts his tax breaks in private.
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^...K?wvo loot ud-uming country ciuos of the state.
Considering the condition of our economy, the job market and the cost of
living, it's amazing students ever want to graduate and leave school at
all.
Where besides a state university can a person live for nine or even 12
months a year for less than $5,000 a year, room, board, tuition, books,
athletic facilities, recreation, social functions and beer included? It
sounds more like a resort all the time.
The toughest decision a student should have to make is not what to do
when he or shp ffrurfnatoc Hut ? ?* 1 *?1 * ? -
0 v.w, nuvuia uk uul iic snouia graduate at all.
Can you really do better than you're doing right now?
The only way to find out is to hold your nose and jump off the
university pier. After all, if you don't do well you can always go back to
school.
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To the editor:
I read your Gamecock article by
John West on the USC budget. It
appears that South Carolina is a
poor state, and I wonder why it is a
state at all. Why not a territory like
Puerto Rico, Guam and the Canal
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only 2.5 million, about the same as
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