Girls just wanna have fun.
Boys just wanna be sourpusses.

Sigh...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130437287&sc=fb&cc=fp

Mid-article, the writer poses the problem:

These days journalism schools around the country are often challenged to justify a mission that trains students at such a high cost for a collapsing industry that doesn't even require a degree. 

After all, many newspaper companies have been forced to seek bankruptcy protection, including the owner of the nearby Los Angeles Times. ABC News just let go a quarter of its entire staff. AndNewsweek and BusinessWeek magazines were in such tough shape their longtime owners sold them for $1 a piece.

Towards the end of the article is what we are told in j-school ad nauseam:

"If you look around the world, whether it's a developed country or a developing country ... if that country has a free and independent press it's much more likely they're going to be a democracy," he says. "And I think those of us in [the] journalism education field have an obligation to help train people to provide information in the public interest."

And stuff like this:

"I am concerned, as a dean, at the costs and debt burdens these students take on," Wilson said. "But I'm also concerned about training the next generation of people who are going to provide the backbone of democracy."

Yeah... we are all skeptical... but trying to deal and learn to love our choice.

So hard to watch...

but so funny... at least the most embarrassing ones are on Fox News...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-6rdjGvj28

I hate forums and comments

There are so many online forums or comment opportunities (such as on youtube) that I find so annoying that it makes me regret reading them... mostly when they are dominated by teenagers who seem to be missing half a brain (as in literally, their brains are still too crap at processing information and that's why they say such stupid things).

This made me LOL at 2:52am, Sunday night

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2010-10-06/most-unnecessarily-dramatic-quote-in-new-york-times-history/

(I'd actually read that NYT article a few days ago but didn't make it to the last paragraph I guess... hahaha)

The best thing anyone can do to me is doubt me, beat me, get me really mad.
Something a professor said to me a few days ago lit fires in my eyes.
Something a professor did today put daggers in my eyes.

Not wronged, but all I can think about is revenge, revenge, revenge. Revenge of the ego.

They'll see.

And that's me. Soft until I have something to prove.