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Custis, Hunt-Days not eligible for ’14 football season
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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 48214" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>Just one more thing:</p><p></p><p>One of the problems with young people is that they have no idea how to approach the rest of their life. (I would guess most people here can remember that.) Consequently, they have a hard time seeing the value of an education of whatever kind. There's a lot of emphasis today on "practical skills" and "real world experience", but students are usually (and rightly) disappointed. </p><p></p><p>That's to be expected. As I tell my students, nobody in his right mind would hire someone with an undergrad degree to do anything that requires the abstract skills and techniques you learn in college. You only see the relevance in that when you are two steps up the ladder; suddenly, all that theoretical stuff and esoteric technique becomes absolutely essential for your career. </p><p></p><p>This is even more the case at a place that busts your privates to get through, like Tech. The frustrations this creates for students that often didn't have to do squat in high school and never learned to plan anything about their life past next week is a cross that often looks too heavy to bear to them. The result is occasional recruiting and retention trouble. <em>But …</em> The payoff is considerable and everyone who's been through it and seen what happens next is a living witness to the process. This isn't something to whine about; it's something to talk up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 48214, member: 265"] Just one more thing: One of the problems with young people is that they have no idea how to approach the rest of their life. (I would guess most people here can remember that.) Consequently, they have a hard time seeing the value of an education of whatever kind. There's a lot of emphasis today on "practical skills" and "real world experience", but students are usually (and rightly) disappointed. That's to be expected. As I tell my students, nobody in his right mind would hire someone with an undergrad degree to do anything that requires the abstract skills and techniques you learn in college. You only see the relevance in that when you are two steps up the ladder; suddenly, all that theoretical stuff and esoteric technique becomes absolutely essential for your career. This is even more the case at a place that busts your privates to get through, like Tech. The frustrations this creates for students that often didn't have to do squat in high school and never learned to plan anything about their life past next week is a cross that often looks too heavy to bear to them. The result is occasional recruiting and retention trouble. [I]But …[/I] The payoff is considerable and everyone who's been through it and seen what happens next is a living witness to the process. This isn't something to whine about; it's something to talk up. [/QUOTE]
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