Wednesday, November 04, 2009
In the Altogether
NYTimes.com: "The rule with our children during their college years has always been this: You have to work. Tuition is ruinously high, we have told them. We can’t pay your pocket expenses, too. Besides, a college admissions officer told me a couple years back that working 10 to 15 hours a week forces students to structure their days and budget their time, helping them adjust to their new campus lives."
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i really think that making your children get jobs during college is a really great idea in terms of teaching them time management, a sense of financial responsibility (esp in times of economic crisis such as these) and discipline, personally i always feel the more work i have the more it forces me to structure and plan my life, i agree with his son's mentality that you go to college to do different things and its great that his parents are supportive of him
I think the most important thing about college is learning to take care of yourself and manage your own life when you still have your parents to help you if you screw up. I think having a job during college can be a great thing to teach students to time manage, but honestly its not at all practical for some majors. If you're in a conservatory, you learn well enough how to time manage and you might as well be doing work already.At the same time I do completely agree with needing your own pocket money. This is the time to learn to manage our own money before we have to take care of everything in the real world.
Since the two commenters above me have commented on the importance of getting jobs during college, I'll comment on the content of the article: Sam's job as a model for figure drawing. This year being the first time I have ever participated in a figure drawing class, I was slightly uncomfortable during the first class with a nude model, and I can only imagine how uncomfortable it must be for a model to be with a new group for the first time as well. After a few minutes, though, the body turns into the abstract and you're no longer thinking about the social norms you're breaking. I do often wonder, like Sam found out, how the renderings of the artists affect the model's self-image... I guess the models we have in SOD have done so many sessions that they don't even care about that anymore.
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