to student or not to student...

[danaeris]

I'm sitting in a nifty cafe at church and wellesley called lettieri stealing wifi from someone nearby. Anyway, the mature students tour at Ryerson was interesting and informative, but I'm still at a loss.

Do I want to go back to school, spend ~10K CAD to get a second bachelors degree?

I spoke with someone in the Magazine stream. Based on my background and what I said I'm looking for, he suggested that I take a course in their continuing education department on freelancing, and if I still feel like I'm missing something, go to this program.

Problem is, I've already started my application for this september, and will probably have to say yes or no to them (if I get accepted) before the next session of night classes begins. Meanwhile, the current session is four sessions into 14 session classes. I don't know that they'd let me in at this point. Besides, they cost nearly $500 each.

Bah. Being an adult is hard.

Comments

[vokzal.livejournal.com]

Dunno about there, but here being a full-time student has financial advantages. And 10k isn't /that/ much.

Govm't paying my loan interest? Cool!

[fyfer.livejournal.com]

I'm totally jumping into this in the middle, since I can't remember what you'd be going for school in. But, everything I've heard is that there's almost never a point in getting a second bachelor's degree after you're done with college, even if it seems like a total career switch. You can almost always find a master's program that will teach you the same material without having to duplicate the general education stuff, for less money, less time, and greater impact.

[danaeris.livejournal.com]

Normally that would be true, but this is a 2 year bachelors program designed for people who already have a bachelors degree. Eventually it will be phased out in favor of a masters program of similar length but revised structure, but they've just started designing that program, so it won't be offered for a while yet.

[sunspiral.livejournal.com]

Not sure if Canada is really much different from the U.S. on this, but I think that once you have the basic piece of paper to open doors with, adding on another piece of paper at the same level is not a big win unless the job you want really requires exactly that degree. Taking specific courses to gain specific knowlege seems to me to be a much better approach.