In the three years that I spent at Columbia, borrowing more than sixty thousand dollars to get my degree, I was told repeatedly — by fellow-students, faculty, administrators, and professional writers whose careers I wished to emulate — not to think about the loans.
When youngsters ask me: 'Shall I join the police service?' I say: 'Do you really want to in your heart of hearts?' If they yes, I say: 'Go for it.' If they say they have got a degree already, I tell them 'Don't waste it.' If they go into private industry, they will be recognised.
This year I went for something slightly more believable and many degrees less flattering: I told my entire network that I'd adopted two more cats.
When I was asked what qualifications I had, and I told them about my degree, Btecs, A-levels, AS-levels and GCSEs, they responded with "Are you sure?
"I have a degree, you know," I tell the semi-circle of moustachioed men around me, but they don't seem too bothered.
"I have a degree, you know," I tell the semicircle of mustachioed men around me, but they don't seem too bothered.
"That's his like baby and I just totally insulted his baby and to that degree I am apologetic," he told KHOU, "but otherwise I don't regret saying what I said".
His degree, I'm pleased to tell you, is in political science.
Bet she got a lousy degree, I think as she tells me her philosophy: "I'm not interested in placing it in some kind of art discourse: I'm interested in a relationship to information and to ownership.
"I'm going to school to get a degree," he told The Tab. "I'm not here to recruit or spread my ideology.
One of the old Mayfair hands, Jersey Jim Pasko, a bodybuilder with a math degree, told me, "I'm spoiled.
