he could have studied … library science

I had a great time at the cottage, as always.  Kramer is just so welcoming, and so are her family and friends.   I met a new nephew this weekend - he hadn’t been at the cottage for three years, and before that we had never been up on the same weekends. 

He’s going into his fourth year at college, and it looks like he’ll have to go a fifth year. This isn’t so unusual, really, so I’m not sure why he was justifying it.  But he was and he justified like this: ”Well, my major is Political Science and it’s hard to fit all of those classes in.  If I wanted to finish in four years, I could have taken something like … like Library Science or something.”

Me, having a master’s degree in Library Science, and a few glasses of wine in me, took umbrage at this.  As if I slipped by.  So I explained how library science isn’t an undergrad kind of thing in the US, and really, does he think Political Science is a *demanding* degree anyway?  All you have to do is read a few books and have some political discussions in class and voila you have a degree …  blah blah blah … Too bad he picked a this librarian to pick on.

Although I have to admit (and did admit to the PolySci major across the table), it’s not like Library School was hard.  Frankly, it’s just initiation into the professional culture.  There are smart librarians, but it’s not like this is a degree that separates the smart from the non-smart (in my personal opinion, of course).

Posted by Marie on May 29th, 2007 under Uncategorized

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