<p>This is coming in a little late, but I dont think you will be disappointed in your choice. Art conservation is only offered at 4-5 schools I believe, which Im sure you know. The program at UDel, I've heard, is amazing. Im a current student here in the VisComm program, and my professors rave about the teachers in the art conservation dept. </p>
<p>So I think you made the right choice.</p>
<p>I have a BME from UD with a 3.225 GPA and I can't get a job anywhere! Noone will hire me. In every job I ever apply to, they always want 5-10 years experience doing exactly what the job entails. And I still have $31400 of student loan debt from my WORTHLESS degree!</p>
<p>I did everything society told me to do: I stayed in school, I said "no" to drugs, I didn't drink, I didn't smoke, I didn't gamble, I didn't have unmarried sex, I went to college, and I got my education. And now my only reward is to be treated like an EX-CON!</p>
<p>I would be better off making a living by selling drugs or robbing banks. Or maybe I should hire a team of mercenaries to take hostages and demand ransom, like Ed Harris did in that movie The Rock. At least that way I would be able to pay my bills!</p>
<p>DOWN WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE AND COLLEGE!</p>
<p>I really HATE the way our society glorifies college. All those homeworks, quizzes, lab reports, tests, exams, midterms, finals, chapter readings, sleepless nights, boring lectures, and tyrant professors - all for what? To end up working at a call center for $8/hour? My Senior Design Project was a TRIAL BY FIRE! All for what? To get an expensive looking wall decoration? My BME is not even worth the cardboard its printed on! None of my UD professors ever told me what a worthless degree I was getting! None of the UD officials ever told me I was going to be working at a call center making $8/hour!</p>
<p>All throughout the 80s society kept telling us the same thing over and over again:</p>
<p>A high school diploma is not enough to make it in this world - you need to have a college degree</p>
<p>High school graduates only end up batching fries</p>
<p>Your chances of becoming an pro-athlete are next to nothing, but your chances of getting a career with a college degree are good</p>
<p>The way out of the ghetto is with a book, not with a basketball</p>
<p>All the high school teachers kept telling us that we should be preparing to go to college.</p>
<p>All the TV shows of the 80s kept telling us how great college is, and how we can make it in this world with a college degree.</p>
<p>They kept telling us how college would open the door to a world of great opportunities.</p>
<p>The only opportunities Im going to have are Wendys or Taco Bell!</p>
<p>College is the biggest legal ripoff in the country!!!!!!!!!! :-(</p>
<p>It's just like Chris Farley said,</p>
<p>"You're gonna be living in a VAN down by the RIVER!"</p>
<p>It's just like that drug dealer said to the arresting officer in "21 Jump Street":</p>
<p>"You know what the biggest employer in the ghetto is? ROCK Man!" "They don't have career day down here in the Piedmont! Welcome to the real world, Mr. Pow-liceman!</p>
<p>I would have been better off selling drugs rather than going to UD and getting my worthless degree.</p>
<p>Back in the 80s, college graduates were rare, so they were considered valuable by employers. Back then a bachelor's degree practically guaranteed a professional job. But since then, more and more people went to college, so now college graduates are no longer rare. Everyone has a degree now, and college grads have become a dime a dozen. With so many college grads applying for the same job, employers chose their candidates based on experience. It has rendered our degrees worthless.</p>
<p>The irony is that college educations have become more expensive since the 80s, costing nearly $1000/week. Some people are graduating with as much as $120000 in debt from student loans. Our degrees have become less valuable and cost more.</p>
<p>Now college grads have to move back in with their parents because the only job they can get with their worthless degree is flipping burgers at McDonald's. Some lie on the resume in a desperate attempt to get a job.</p>
<p>Society is still muddling in the muck of the 80's with the "College opens the door to a world of opportunities" crap, failing to account for all the screwed-over college grads flipping burgers at McDonalds to pay their $30000 student loans.</p>
<p>Maybe Cho Seung-Hui did our society a favor. Just think: that's 33 people who won't end up flipping burgers to pay off their mountain of student loan debt. 33 people who aren't going stress through exams, lab reports, and homeworks - only to end up with worthless degrees.</p>
<p>How many more people are going to avoid college because of Cho? That's how many people who aren't going to get ripped off! They're not going to waste the time, money, and effort into getting a WORTHLESS DEGREE!</p>
<p>At some point they are going to have to start a charity fund for unemployed college graduates who can't get a job with their worthless degrees!</p>
<p>It really makes me sick when charities beg me for money when I have no job and a mountain of debt! It won't be long before I am begging alongside them!</p>
<p>Wow that's a stunning indictment of our educational system! Sure hope I don't end up like you!</p>
<p>Perfectsplit, maybe your attitude problem is what is preventing you from getting a job. Perhaps you ought to look in the mirror a little more, and watch a little less TV. Your comments about the Virginia Tech shooting are particularly disgusting.</p>
<p>Dan D</p>
<p>"Perfectsplit, maybe your attitude problem is what is preventing you from getting a job. Perhaps you ought to look in the mirror a little more"</p>
<p>'Maybe' my attitude problem is the cause of my consistent rejections? Well, that's nice bit of speculation on your part, considering that you weren't EVEN THERE! EVERY job interview I have, EVERY job opening I apply to - they ALWAYS want the 5-10 years experience in EXACTLY what the job entails! NOBODY cares about my degrees, NOBODY cares about my education, NOBODY cares about my clean legal record - EVERYBODY always asks for a ton of experience - that I can NEVER get!</p>
<p>"Your comments about the Virginia Tech shooting are particularly disgusting."</p>
<p>You want to know what's disgusting - the way I'm going to end up sleeping in cardboard boxes and eating out of dumpsters because my GODDAMM college degrees are so WORTHLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's what disgusting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>ddibiase - "Perfectsplit, maybe your attitude problem is what is preventing you from getting a job."</p>
<p>Attitude? What attitude is that? Is it the attitude that my degrees should be able to get me a job - so I can pay my bills - and keep a roof over my head - and put food on the table - and pay off the enormous student loan that I acquired while getting my degrees in the first place?</p>
<p>Or should I just be happy to have such a nice-looking wall decoration - while starving to death?</p>
<p>Perfectsplit: Reading your posts has really made me feel for your situation, but what I feel most is that you probably need some counseling to help you deal with all your anger about it, before you can be in the position of doing well on an interview. What did you study in school? Was it some major which doesn't make you a good fit for any particular entry level job? It can't be possible that all job openings are looking for someone who has 5-10 years experience, or they wouldn't be offering an interview to a new college graduate. Maybe you need to pursue working with a career counselor of some sort to help you get on the right track. But as I said at the beginning of the post, you probably need to deal with the anger first. By the way, I agree your post about the Virginia Tech Shooting is VERY DISTURBING!! Get help now!!!</p>
<p>"What did you study in school? Was it some major which doesn't make you a good fit for any particular entry level job?"</p>
<p>I have a Bachelor's Degree of Mechanical Engineering from UD and a Master's Degree of Mechanical Engineering from UT-Austin. I got a 3.225 GPA for my BME and a 3.5 GPA for my MSME.</p>
<p>I have been unemployed since January and things are going nowhere for me. My life is completely hopeless and full of despair. I have had 6 phone screens and 2 on-site interviews. They have all said the same thing: "You aren't a good fit", "We want someone with more experience". Every time. No exceptions.</p>
<p>I didn't get a philosophy or liberal arts degree; I studied a discipline which our society deems prestigious. ME was rated the most in-demand major (on paper). So if my degrees in the most-in-demand major cannot get me any jobs within the time span of 8 months, what does that say about ANY college degree? What does that say about the society which keeps telling people to go to college?</p>
<p>"what I feel most is that you probably need some counseling to help you deal with all your anger about it"</p>
<p>Counseling cannot get me a job. Nor can it make my worthless degrees worth anything.</p>
<p>"you probably need to deal with the anger first"</p>
<p>I wouldn't have my anger if our society wasn't so DYSFUNCTIONAL! Telling me to go to college and then treating me like an EX-CON - that's what society's done to me!</p>
<p>"It can't be possible that all job openings are looking for someone who has 5-10 years experience, or they wouldn't be offering an interview to a new college graduate."</p>
<p>No, not ALL job openings - only ALL the job openings that require a college degree AND are not hidden from me.</p>
<p>I can't get job interviews for new college grads because I no longer live in Austin, TX; so I cannot use the university job placement services. Even if I did still live there, I might not be eligible for it anymore.</p>
<p>"By the way, I agree your post about the Virginia Tech Shooting is VERY DISTURBING!!"</p>
<p>That's right, it is disturbing. I am a disturbed product of our DYSFUNCTIONAL society - which keeps treating me like an ex-con - after I did everything I was told to do.</p>
<p>Im sorry that you're having a hard time finding a job, and I do wish you luck.</p>
<p>However, YOU are the one that CHOSE to go to college. You have no one to blame for your situation besides yourself. Stop trying to play the blame game. No one made you go to college and no one made you chose the major you did.</p>
<p>Society might have this whole "go to college, graduate at 22, get good job, get married, have kids" whatever lifestyle promoted, but that doesn't mean you have to follow it. Im 24 years old and a sophmore at UD. I chose to spend time a community college figuring out what I wanted to do before I spent the money at a university. I also worked for two years and saved up around $15,000, while going full time, and taking care of my Mom who was ill with cancer. Trust me, I know about ****ty situations. Now Im an independent student, I dont have to put my Dads info on the FAFSA (and he never helped me) and I get aid and Im going to graduate without any debt. I had to sacrifice not having the experience with my peers, but Im perfectly content with my decision. Ive also spent that time creating my own business and slowly funneling money into that just in case I didn't end up with a job right after graduation, because I accept the responsibility that only I am in charge of my success.</p>
<p>If you are desperate for a job, and are having trouble finding one in MEEG, then try something else. You need basically no experience to be a mail carrier, and they make around $50,000 a year plus its a federal so you get some really great perks. I know cause thats what my Dad did after he couldn't find a pilot job after retiring from the air force. And then maybe you can do MEEG internships in the meantime to gain experience.</p>
<p>Yea, it sucks that you might have to do that, but seriously, suck it up. Stop spending your time *****ing and moaning, and DO something about it!</p>