Education Questions: Values - Arts vs Sciences vs Math

In this post I shall address a question about education/the education system in the states from Amrith. 

For my disclaimer and the last post I've made about about school in the states please see 

http://thelifeandtimesofan.blogspot.com/2012/02/high-school-my-experience.html

He asks "Does your country value and respect those who study say Anthropology or Archaeology? Is each subject treated equally or is one valued over the other, etc. Where do such people end up? Are they just professors at University or do they do anything else?"

Yes, Amrith, I think it is safe to say that all titles gained through higher education are respected in the United States. Some, however, are more valued over others if one looks at the situation economically. For instances, the top three job titles that come to my mind which make the most money (besides company CEO's and Division Presidents) are Doctors, Lawyers, and Engineers. This is because of the rigorous training and education these people with these titles must endure. This does not mean that any other education title is not valued. It may not be equally valued economically speaking, but all degrees are respected. It is also true that the higher degree a person holds the more money the person will make in their specific field. Anthropology and Archaeology degrees aren't the most common degrees earned, but they are definitely  respected. A person who decides to earn such a degree will not be looked down upon. This is probably because the American society is tailored to the individual and that individual's rights. My mindset about it is "If that person decides to get a degree in archaeology then that is his/her business. Good for him/her." It will be harder for that person to get a job though. And, it's rather untelling where they would wind up. If that person wanted to teach at the college level, he/she would first have to earn a doctoral degree then try to find a college with that teaching position open. If he/she wanted to go out into the general workforce then he/she could wind up anywhere in the world really. It's up to that individual to apply for a job and the employers of the world to decide to hire a person with that degree and that sort of thing. 

Introducing FAME - Friday Awesome Music and Entertainment

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Ok. If you follow Simon and Martina from www.eatyourkimchi.com then you will know that this (FAME) sounds eerily similar to their K-pop Music Mondays, WANK (Wonderful Adventure Now Korea - the replacement to WTF [Wonderful Treasure Find] which is/was held on Wednesdays), and many other of their glorious productions. That's because I am a huge fan of their work and was inspired by them to create this weekly segment.

You would like to know more about FAME? Great! I'll tell you. Actually, I don't really know what this will develop into, but, for right now, it will be a weekly segment (hopefully I'll have the time) in which Dillon and/or I shall review music or other forms of entertainment. For right now, the reviews will only be through written blog form. Eventually, however, I would like to make it more into a video segment sort of thing. I thought about making a video to introduce this new idea, but I've been feeling a bit under the weather lately. * EXPLAIN UNDER THE WEATHER * Last week I had laryngitis off and on, and I still don't really sound like myself. So that's why I decided not to do a video intro to the new FAME series. In any case, I (we) will always be sure to include a link to the media that is reviewed when at all possible. If a link isn't available (though I highly doubt that predicament will ever arise) then the media title and all necessary production details will be listed in the review. ... Dillon and I probably have enough material to do reviews over for weeks on end - just from where we collect and keep up with so much music - on a global level. (In fact, I predict that most of the music we review shall be foreign music, and, by foreign, I mean foreign to us citizens of the USA.) However, we would love to hear your suggestions. If you ever think of a song that you would like us to review then go ahead and make a request on our Facebook page entitled "The Life and Times of a(n) ..." (http://www.facebook.com/groups/185000498269406/), on twitter @V_sLifeandTimes, or on our Youtube page "TheLifeandTimesofan".

For this Friday's Episode, I'm just going to include the two videos I uploaded that is some of my musical experiences in Korea. Some of you may have already seen them, but I wanted to include them in the blog since all of the other episodes of Snippets from the Past are already available in the blog. Now I present to you episodes 4 and 5 from my Snippets from the Past series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UhXYNoKzFk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky-dUkKEg3E

A New Author!

Hi Everybody!
I decided I didn't want to manage a blog all by myself, so I've asked a very dear friend of mine to help co-author from time to time. Yay! Some of you may already know him since he was a World School International Forum 2009 graduate, but his name is Dillon. He will also be adding his "two cents" occasionally (he probably won't post as often as I do since he's in college doing pre-med and minor in Spanish (and possibly Russian)). Some posts we may work on together and some posts may be just him or just me. We're not really sure how it is going to work out yet. We'd also like to start a series that would be released once a week over a certain topic like music or something, but we're still in the early brainstorming days with that idea. If you have questions you would specifically like him to answer then let us know. He will have his own email, but will not be keeping up with the twitter account (he hates twitter haha ... to be honest, I'm not sure what I think of it yet either). I'll let him give his own personal introduction so he can decide what all basic information you, as readers, should know about him - whenever he gets around to it. For now though, I think this is enough to suffice.

This is a picture of us from way back in the day ... Actually, it was just taken two years ago, but we've both changed a lot. Anyways, here's us as a Senior and Junior in high school.