I’m mostly settled into my groove with my summer workload (now that I’ve only got about a month left of it). Here’s what I’ve been up to, belletristically, over the past couple of weeks:
- I wrote an op-ed for WiredAcademic.com—a website I’m working for that covers online education—engaging with the recent arguments that higher education is a “bubble” in the economic sense. Here’s a quick excerpt:
“A degree’s value consists not only in the slip of paper itself, but more importantly in the work that went into earning it. All of those late nights spent reading dense philosophy and writing 15-page papers of literary criticism—they build diligence and character, and these things carry over to the workplace. In fact, they’re the very things that a degree is supposed to signify.”
Read the full thing here.
- I did a couple of profiles of up-and-coming bands for CMJ. One is an instrumental group from the UK called Gallops, and the other’s of a Canadian trio called Oh No! Yoko. I felt pretty good about how they turned out. Check ‘em out here and here.
