Comments on: 500-level Practical Creativity http://breanneboland.com/blog/2010/02/08/500-level-practical-creativity/ Stories told, pictograms created. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:30:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://breanneboland.com/blog/2010/02/08/500-level-practical-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-95 admin Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:07:40 +0000 http://breanneboland.com/blog/?p=139#comment-95 It's true - and I did think of that, that where the professors are may, by its nature, inhibit the kind of practical advice they can give. A lot of my college's professors were part time, using their job there to help them get along with their real-world work; maybe they could've been more useful, I don't know. Internships are a good point - I never did one myself, although my first real job out of college kind of functioned that way. I was the office manager/everything/whatever person for a wee newspaper in Florida. It was like a terrarium of publishing issues, and a good primer on how to deal with people and balance what you must do with what you want. It’s true – and I did think of that, that where the professors are may, by its nature, inhibit the kind of practical advice they can give. A lot of my college’s professors were part time, using their job there to help them get along with their real-world work; maybe they could’ve been more useful, I don’t know.

Internships are a good point – I never did one myself, although my first real job out of college kind of functioned that way. I was the office manager/everything/whatever person for a wee newspaper in Florida. It was like a terrarium of publishing issues, and a good primer on how to deal with people and balance what you must do with what you want.

]]> By: John Platt http://breanneboland.com/blog/2010/02/08/500-level-practical-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-93 John Platt Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:01:07 +0000 http://breanneboland.com/blog/?p=139#comment-93 Academia teach us how to live our lives outside of academia? But that would assume that they actually know the answers! Too much of academic life is designed to perpetuate the academic life and nothing else. Take a person out of a university and into the corporate world and they'll fail nine times out of ten. But.... there's a great tool within the academic system. Internships! Mine definitely helped to put me on the right track -- much more so than any class I ever took. Academia teach us how to live our lives outside of academia? But that would assume that they actually know the answers! Too much of academic life is designed to perpetuate the academic life and nothing else. Take a person out of a university and into the corporate world and they’ll fail nine times out of ten.

But…. there’s a great tool within the academic system. Internships! Mine definitely helped to put me on the right track — much more so than any class I ever took.

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