| | I watched a reality TV show today, and it quickly became my favorite television entertainment. It's not like it was up against much; my knowledge of television is pretty much Friends and the first season of Alias. Usually, I don't watch much.
Anyway, it was this show called Project Runway, where they get together a bunch of small-time designers and eliminate them show by show. Eventually there's one left. The final designer basically gets an automatic ticket to to the fashion design world.
This is different than my normal posts, I know, but wouldn't it be funny if there were an academic reality show? It would have challenges like you have to write an eight page research paper in two hours, or you would have ten assignments to complete but only had enough time for one and you had to choose the right one.
I was just thinking, how is it fair that these small-time designers get to skip all of the stuff in the middle, when to get into the academic community you have years and years and years of school? If I want to become accomplished in my area, I have at least eight more years left of studying. I'll be over thirty before I have a doctorate. That's only if I don't take any breaks.
It's ironic how something that takes so long to complete is so unfashionable.
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| | Posted 7/12/2006 11:56 PM - 27 Views - 6 eProps - 3 comments
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