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What am I doing in business school?
Right. I'm learning practical skills. Like how to construct profit tax shields using innocuous and well-intentioned accounting principles. And measuring output through complicated performance metrics. And the cost of extending a line of hydrocortisone cream. Valuable stuff that I'm sure will pop up every single day in my future non-profit career.
Well, here's what I say: Fuck practical skills. I want to go back to bullshitting about pomo theory and dead white men. Or, more honestly, I want to go back to sitting on my ass and reading craigslist. Learning practical stuff blows.
Edit: Okay. I kinda take it back. I don't like this. That's true. But I am learning a lot, and it's hard because it's all new material, and while I do miss free time, I can also see the usefulness in most of what I'm learning. I know it's stuff that will really help me someday in ways that I just can't see yet. Also, I'm really grateful to be here and to have the opportunity to do this. I know I bitch about it constantly, but it's pretty incredible and I'm going to have a masters degree on the other side. I just am frustrated and tired. Finals are coming up and I feel overwhelmed and it seems like it's never, ever going to end.
Enough.
Right. I'm learning practical skills. Like how to construct profit tax shields using innocuous and well-intentioned accounting principles. And measuring output through complicated performance metrics. And the cost of extending a line of hydrocortisone cream. Valuable stuff that I'm sure will pop up every single day in my future non-profit career.
Well, here's what I say: Fuck practical skills. I want to go back to bullshitting about pomo theory and dead white men. Or, more honestly, I want to go back to sitting on my ass and reading craigslist. Learning practical stuff blows.
Edit: Okay. I kinda take it back. I don't like this. That's true. But I am learning a lot, and it's hard because it's all new material, and while I do miss free time, I can also see the usefulness in most of what I'm learning. I know it's stuff that will really help me someday in ways that I just can't see yet. Also, I'm really grateful to be here and to have the opportunity to do this. I know I bitch about it constantly, but it's pretty incredible and I'm going to have a masters degree on the other side. I just am frustrated and tired. Finals are coming up and I feel overwhelmed and it seems like it's never, ever going to end.
Enough.