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to balance working a part time
job, attending class, completing

makes me less employable than my

Hey UNBC, in order to guarantee myself a job upon
completion?

hese last few weeks, I’ve been
contemplating the value of my degree

at UNBC. After spending thousands of

I think it depends on whom you ask. I
knew, when I began my degree, that it

s Publisher. Suln is in charge of running the

business. She is also tasked with the role of
representing Over the Edge at public events around
town. Aside from our student newspaper, she also

in 2013 for the UNBC debate club, and remains an
active member of the UNBC community.

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dollars, procrastinating on assignments
until the stress made me sick, trying

readings, and somewhere, in all of it,
building meaningful post-secondary
relationships, how much value do I
take from my degree? The fact that I
obtained a degree in the arts certainly

scientific colleagues, but would I have
been better off taking a degree that I hated,

organized the Northern Academic Debate Challenge

the Edge, you can email Suln at ote-publisher@unbc.ca.

would be considered a waste of time to
many. I never begrudged people who
asked me, “What are you going to do
with that when you're done?” I smiled
politely, and explained that I had some
ideas, but that I wasn’t really sure. I
went into the arts because I loved them,
not because of the target at the end.

I'll be the last to say I obtained my full-
time job as a direct result of my degree.
However, I will say that having a degree
has allowed me to explore a career path
and career options that I would not
have had available to me otherwise. This
would probably be true in any degree I
take. Having an arts degree from a small

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university has certainly granted me with
practical knowledge about my subject;
more importantly, it has given me an
experiential understanding of the world
around me, and has taught me to think
critically. Certainly, throughout my time
at UNBC, I questioned the purpose of
higher education and the overall system
of which I was a part, but I also learned
about the consequences that each one
of our decisions makes to the world.
Hopefully, you take similar lessons away
from your own degrees, and get some good
stories out of the experience as well.

Cheers!

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