MKK I hope you enjoy being the 99%

lol

that's true mince, there usually are jobs if you're willing to travel and live in a foreign country. I am, but there are also a bunch of  possible downsides (move forward in life, get foot in door, find wife)

lol wats the buttkiller route?

suicide

I almost got exactly what I wanted from my undergrad degree but found the semester of postgrad I did before ceasing awful. The advice in this thread about branching out is good advice. It's my opinion that if you're not studying what you're doing in your spare time, you might want to switch and study that instead. I didn't switch though because I Really Like Computers. I still use all my general education stuff pretty regularly. What frustrated me about postgraduate study is that everyone is trying to recruit you as a worker bee for their personal agenda. If you don't have lecturers that do stuff you're interested in, you can end up knowing a lot of pointless stuff about their recent research projects. 'Course, sometimes that stuff is cool and fun to know in itself and broadens your horizons. Sometimes it doesn't. The cool thing about university education is that it can give you the skills to keep learning in your field after you've left.

suicide

Wait, did buttkiller kill himself???

Wait, did buttkiller kill himself???

? ? ? explain...

also Fuck U earl, just enlist to the army/work towards that goal and groan SURVIVE. do all ya can, livin on a prayer... you should realize by now, the good guys have to fight for survival... and who knows, you'll might have a cure to the molting lava brain bacteria problem in the future (or ? ? ? even now but i haven't spotted such yet). i refuse to believe that a man with such an amazing name as yours gives up, also it's propable that it's more about your body inducing the depression than your real will/conscious realizations.

It's because he got bitten by a tick.

no I don't think so! but he talked about it and did stab himself

nah bonz I don't need a cure, I have a little extra working against me but most of it can be treated like normal. a cure would be nice and would probably help out with my other ailments but that stuff is kinda the least of my worries now

no I don't think so! but he talked about it and did stab himself

nah bonz I don't need a cure, I have a little extra working against me but most of it can be treated like normal. a cure would be nice and would probably help out with my other ailments but that stuff is kinda the least of my worries now

*bruenor slams earls back, earl coughs and regis smiles* that's the spiritt!!! drop me a pm whenever you wanna ease up your mind. i honestly haven't heard of an easy cure to that tick (dick...) disease but hmm i wouldn't wonder if there is a way. I haven't read chris kresners (sp?) site if he knows any way to deal with that. i do know two ways i think that might help but i can't be sure yet...

I'm getting a minor in Chinese studies because I love China (Chinafag here not japfag) but I'm majoring in Archaeology so I hope to eventually do archaeology work in China that's my goal.

Where are you studying? You should probably grab a spot on an excavation every single summer. If you're not going somewhere with a professor who excavates in China, find one quick, grab your field school there, and impress them--be curious & helpful and make yourself the best candidate for a minimum-wage excavation assistantship. Not sure about the laws there, but at least in Greece foreigners are only allowed to oversee/screen/paperwork/lab + survey; countries really highly prefer to hire/train nationals. At the very least, you will have to be very competent with the language(s).

The only field school listed by the AIA & Shovelbums is at a Neolithic site in Xi'an (http://archaeological.org/fieldwork/afob/7107), but that doesn't mean it's the only one. (Also, their maps are fucked up.) Just look around. Mongolia seems more active--I know the Smithsonian & Simon Fraser have been doing work there--so if China doesn't work out, that might be a good alternative.

I missed you, Doktor Martini

Where are you studying? You should probably grab a spot on an excavation every single summer. If you're not going somewhere with a professor who excavates in China, find one quick, grab your field school there, and impress them--be curious & helpful and make yourself the best candidate for a minimum-wage excavation assistantship. Not sure about the laws there, but at least in Greece foreigners are only allowed to oversee/screen/paperwork/lab + survey; countries really highly prefer to hire/train nationals. At the very least, you will have to be very competent with the language(s).

The only field school listed by the AIA & Shovelbums is at a Neolithic site in Xi'an (http://archaeological.org/fieldwork/afob/7107), but that doesn't mean it's the only one. (Also, their maps are fucked up.) Just look around. Mongolia seems more active--I know the Smithsonian & Simon Fraser have been doing work there--so if China doesn't work out, that might be a good alternative.

Northern Illinois University.  Our school has a field school in Sicily I'm doing it next summer

think long and hard about what you really want to be doing when you graduate from school. and how employable you want to be.

i know that liberal arts degree is appealing and everything but honestly the job markets really bad right now. so if you are doing undergrad hoping to come out of school with a real chance at a good, paying job seriously consider the sciences if you have any interest in them at all.

i bet someone has already said the above but im not reading through the thread to find out.

otherwise enjoy your first two years because it gets a lot harder. make friends in the dorms or whatever because those are the people youll probably be hanging out with for the next few years of your life.

i am graduating next year with degrees in international affairs and economics and i am beginning to believe they're useless

so i'll be doing what all other stupid unemployed liberal arts grads do

studying for the LSAT while juggling restaurant jobs. Boom goes the dynamite.