http://smiley.vox.com/library/posts/tags/why+god+why/page/1/ Sad Songs on a Broken Ukelele en Vox Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:41:56 +0900 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss why god why http://smiley.vox.com/library/post/perpetual-student.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(Smiley) http://smiley.vox.com/library/post/perpetual-student.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://smiley.vox.com/library/post/perpetual-student.html?_c=feed-rss-full Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:41:56 +0900 <p>It&#39;s come to me recently that, could I go back and do university again, I would do a business degree.&#160; On the other hand, could I go back and study anything I wanted, I&#39;d like to study linguistics.</p><p>At the moment, I study Japanese and <a href="http://coffeebreakspanish.com">Spanish</a> and I dabble in Italian.&#160; And I just signed up for an <a href="http://www.oneminutelanguages.com/">introductory, tourist level course in Russian</a>.&#160; I don&#39;t really have many reasons for doing so.&#160; At least not for anything other than Japanese.&#160; But I enjoy it, so I do it.</p><p>Everyone needs hobbies, right?</p><p>So now I&#39;m thinking of going back for my masters.&#160; And here&#39;s the question:&#160; Getting my masters will not immediately benefit my family or my career.&#160; In truth, it would probably detract from them in that I&#39;m spending my time and money on myself only.&#160; And, frankly, it&#39;s a lot of work.&#160; But it just sounds...interesting.</p><p>Any thoughts?</p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://smiley.vox.com/library/post/perpetual-student.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251e70a18e1d00e398da26550003?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> wtf linguistics languages study masters why god why