http://littleredsuit.com/2007/07/31/grad-school-101-the-truth-about-the-top-six-grad-school-myths/ Making it in a New Media World, Generation Y Style | by Tiffany Monhollon Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:01:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://littleredsuit.com/2007/07/31/grad-school-101-the-truth-about-the-top-six-grad-school-myths/#comment-7640 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:43:54 +0000 http://littleredsuit.com/2007/07/31/grad-school-101-the-truth-about-the-top-six-grad-school-myths/#comment-7640 HR confused a masters degree with being smart, I was a mainframe operator at 18, some college (4.0 GPA), just enough to win the next role in a internship, associate manager at 25 doing applications, deployment, and services (both infrastructure operating system and functional application roles). Never spoke to HR directly until I had already worked for PHILIPS in fifteen roles and Sun Microsystems in two roles that 3 in 30,000 could do.

]]> http://littleredsuit.com/2007/07/31/grad-school-101-the-truth-about-the-top-six-grad-school-myths/#comment-3511 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:04:48 +0000 http://littleredsuit.com/2007/07/31/grad-school-101-the-truth-about-the-top-six-grad-school-myths/#comment-3511 Very informative. I am currently pursuing a BS in Mathematics, minor in Environmental science, with goal of applying it to a mechanical/environmental engineering grad school – I’m probably going to have to take extra engineering classes before my formal admission into one of these schools – based on the fact that my current school does not offer engineering classes, but does require a senior research project applying my learned math. My other choice would be to continue my education in a MS in MAthematics program and apply my research there to mechanical engineering mathematics. I’m wondering, based on my goal to be a M.E. (hopefully specializing in geothermal and other alternative energy)would this route be viable? It seems to me like it would be, and it also seems that “what you put into it is what you get” idea really seems to shine with this approach. Would grad school in Math really allow me to apply my research in this way? and would employers hire me based on my MS certificate, or more based on what I did during the process of acquiring it? To me it seems that the big part of grad school is the experience of gaining knowledge necessary to specialize in a given field, am I wrong? I mean, who goes to grad school just to get the certificate (unlike a 4 year, where students seem like they just want that “piece of paper” so they can get out)? I think that work experience is everything – but after working as a commercial fisherman for 6 years, gaining an enormous amount of knowledge on how things work, how to fix them, general problem solving and a number of other things related to on-the-water experience that can be applied to any job (and most of my employers have recognized this), I was discouraged when I tried to apply to a local refinery as an operator – passed all of their tests with high marks (they test mostly for stress handling, intermediate math, general problem solving, multitasking)- they didn’t end up hiring me, I think mostly because I only had some college experience and no four-year degree. What can you make of this – and do you think that my head is in the right place? thanks so much

]]> http://littleredsuit.com/2007/07/31/grad-school-101-the-truth-about-the-top-six-grad-school-myths/#comment-3467 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:29:13 +0000 http://littleredsuit.com/2007/07/31/grad-school-101-the-truth-about-the-top-six-grad-school-myths/#comment-3467 Finally someone is saying the things that nobody wants to hear and most people want to ignore. Two things affect the graduate experience. One, the reason you are there and two, “you get out what you put in”. Number one is a strong correlate to number two.

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