What to do with a College Degree?

I have done the unthinkable.  I have decided to be a full-time student this semester so I can finally "get that degree".

I had a meeting with a professor this week.  He happen to be younger than me, which made the meeting that more titillating, and he asks, "So why get a degree now.  Probably won't help you career wise".  His statement made me stop and think; do I slap the shit out of him now, straddle him in his chair like Showtime skin flick, or simple agree with him.  I straddled him and got put on academic probation.  No, I didn't but wouldn't that have been funny.

So I have been thinking long and hard, not about him, but about what he said.  So I came up with a couple of ideas
of what to do with my new college degree:

1. Frame it in my office.

2. Hang it at my local dry cleaners along side Victoria Principal and  David Caruso.

3. Sell it on eBay with a "Your Name Here" space on it.

4. Turn it into origami.

5. Turn it into an optical illusion work of art that if you focus hard enough on it you will see the real picture of my degree shine through.

6. Use it as blackmail.

Any other ideas?  Please share...

Comments

[paisley]

if it will make you feel better about you,,, get it fuck him,....what does he know anyway... you don't have any aspirations of being a college councilor do you?????

[Yankee Doodle]

You know, normally I come in here and clown around, but the words of this guy really get my goat.

Yes, I have teased you about being "seasoned" :) but this guy is an idiot!

You might get a degree in... whatever, and then decide to stay with the academic world. You might then go back and get another degree in whatever else. You might find a cure for cancer, you might develop a cheap and easy-to-make renewable fuel source, there's any number of things you might do.

You're smart. You demonstrate that with your wit, but beyond that, your humor gives you a particular and very distinct advantage over all those jerks who have their degrees, but can't connect with anything and are full of themselves, living in their own little world, where they are smart and no one else could possibly compare. Unlike them, you think outside the box, you connect with the real world, because you live here, and there are no limits to what you can do, Kali.

You are intruding on this guy's little world, and showing him just how little he is worth, and that is what scares the hell out of all these guys.

And on top of all that, you're a mom, too! And, I'll bet you're a great one!

You go! Kick some ass! Bring me back a piece of this guy's ego!

[Kali]

I really appreciate your words. In all honesty. It means a lot because sometimes
I automatically place a person at the top of the food chain b/c (s)he has already achieved
what I have yet to achieve. I think we all may do that in some case or another.
And you know what? I may just remain a student for quite sometime-you can't beat the low cost of health insurance :)

[julian]

Kali :: ...Yeahhhh, rage against dah ManCheen... i say yoo do want yer heart guides yoo to, get the Degree, then reinact Cook, Thief Wife and her Lover and wad it (w/yer awesome recycle skillz) plus a ream of other paper into ballz and forcefeed down his throat (Using a knife as plunger, as from Movie, is optional).
Yoo Rawwwwwk Kali, keep it rock'n harder! ~julian

[I eat snowman poop]

I have mine framed over my desk but origami is good too

[meleah rebeccah]

That guy is am ASSHOLE. Period.

Good luck with back to school I hope he isnt a TEACHER? Ugh.

[MeleVision]

Double ASSHAT.

Get your degree and hang that bad boy PROUDLY

[Kali]

Thanks, Mel. I will :)

[Laura]

I am a stay at home mom now... at 24 I am working on masters...my undergrad was in legal studies... which make me someone's secretary... I always thought that my education was on the onething I truly owned... It doesnt diefine us... But on rough days I know I did it... I finsihed what I set out to do.

[Bryan]

Hi Kali!

Hey, just posted an article about your Blog! Hey, by the way, I am serious about you reviewing my book for me! lol!

Bryan

[Edward]

I'm much older, failed college first time around, at least in part because of undiagnosed ADD, and I still want to go back and get my degree.

When you complete your degree, tell him this one's for the old timers, then kick him in the balls.

[Viajero Pugilist]

Helllooo? Umm, at 30 you are neither seasoned or late to the game, you're still a kid. What is this, the 1970's?!

You can go back to school and improve your career chances when you're 60 these days (thank God). Life keeps getting better and better in that way.

The dude was just trying to get a rise out of ya. He probably had his eye his chances with you, not your chances with school. If that's the worst opposition you experience, you'll live a charmed life.

Fine way for a "professor" to be talking. Screw the asshat by ignoring him, be my advice.