I've just been to a lecture about doing Honours

[maharetr]

And am feeling quite enthused about it, mainly the bit about how getting a "first" in Honours is pretty much the only way to get a scholarship for doing post-grad work. I'd love to do honours... but I also want to be a librarian.

See, I've been bludging of the parents for the last three years of my BA. My BA in this case stands for "Utterly Unemployable, but the Best Three Years of My Life So Far". So, no job means I'm going to keep bludging and I figure I need to be doing something productive uni wise (read: getting professionally qualified, read: library studies). I've worked out that I can do a Masters (by coursework) of Information Management which is three semesters and gets you qualified as a professional librarian and a records manager (archivist/glorified filing -- which is actually fine cos I like that sort of thing). But a scholarship to do that with sounds mighty-damn-fine.

Honours sounds mighty-damn-fine too, minus the fact that I don't have a topic (yet). However, the parents, of course, will only be tolerant for so long about me living under the same roof, hell, I will only be tolerant for so long, and Honours, I believe, will lessen their tolerance. Plus the whole non-topic-yet thing.

I've managed to talk myself around in a circle, and bore the hell out of my flist (look! learning the terms! :)). Meh, thank you for reading, if you got this far.

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[zebra363.livejournal.com]

Hello, Kris here bringing her friends list up to date.

I did a BComm, which stands for "Very Employable, but otherwise a poor use of university time". I admire people who do "real" university subjects like arts & sciences. Good luck with the decision!