2 43 Things and The New Year

Looks like going back to school is a top priority these days. Or at least for the people who participate on 43Things.com are making school a priority. Not surprising given the current economic climate. I remember hearing somewhere that the people having that hardest time are those who do not have a college education, and are largely coming from the manufacturing or service industries. {Can I cite this? No, not readily, but you dear readers are welcome to Google it and get back to me.}

So anyway, I am wondering why you have gone back to school

Here's why I have gone back to get a second M.A.:

1. I'm interested in educational technology (my program is called Digital Media and Global Education)
2. I want to diversify my professional skill set (My first M.A. was in US History)
   
3. I think it is important to communicate in a variety of ways (blogging, video, twitter, images, web design...)
   
4. and of course, last but not least, I want to earn more (cha-ching)

So please, leave a comment telling why you have gone back to school.

3 Finally, after who knows how long...

So I have been harping on a colleague of mine for being a compulsive account creator. I nagged, and complained, and whined in the carpool today about how he created all of these random accounts without fully thinking through how he would use them. "You keep going to the hardware store to get tools and you don't even know what you're building yet," I bitched

Soooooooo, when in one of my online classes I was charged with setting up a blog, I decided to try blogger.com. I already have a couple of other blogs on WordPress and WordPress MU. I figured I'd try a
new platform. So far so good, right?

Well, I type in blogger.com into my address bar and up comes my MtnHistory blog. What!? I have a MtnHistory blog? Turns out I do. So here is my first post on my new/old blog.

Now I know why I was so upset this morning; I was projecting ;-P

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/demibrooke/ / CC BY 2.0