It is quite a cushy course and quite enjoyable next to all the abysmal sounding degrees people get for proper big boy jobs but in summer after coming back Orlando and playing pokemon into the early hours of the morning it seems a bit boring.
Reading that back the pokemon bit doesn't sound like I'm living the most exciting life in the world, but its atleast a bit more exciting than shorthand.
My girlfriend [hey Aile] went to a thing about postgrads the other night and it got me thinking about courses that I'd actually love to go to, rather than just accept and half enjoy.
Heres my thinking
BA MEMEOLOGY
Memes- they're a big deal now. What started as passing fads on 4chan that only geek-types knew about has turned into something everyone and their gran recognises.
With memes growing in popularity and many more people making them, its led to some truly horrible attempts at humour.
Misused memes. Misused memes everywhere.
This for example.
Just awful
Theres an increasing number of horrible memes appearing on facebook groups like 'Aberdeen Uni memes' and similar 'meme' groups. Its clear that not everyone should be allowed to make memes.
Hence- a degree in memeology should be required. There'd be classes on humour and how to use memes correctly. Workshops on looking at the days current events and making memes out of them. Marks would be given for how viral a students meme went and how many thumbs up they have on memebase.
Bsc POKEMON IDENTIFICATIONN
In the late nineties there were 150 pokemon. Now there are six hundred and forty nine. I apologise for writing the number, my six and nine keys are still sadly broken.
In ten years i expect there to be at least over 1000 and who knows after that. Someones going to lose track eventually. I mean who's going to remember poor Lotad when Pokemon Mauve and Cyan come out
Lotad realising the sad fact he will be forgotten one day
Theres the pokedex but surely it must have limited memory. People need to start taking note of all these pokemon so they can exist forever. A world without pokemon is sure to be a sad depressing place.
It'll also be handy when Japan finally manage to create real pokemon somehow. People will be educated and therefore not feel frightened when they see a pack of Bidoof in their back garden.
Bsc THEME PARK TRAVEL
You can learn a lot from visiting theme parks.
It'd be a degree that teaches you a little bit of everything. The engineering side of how rollercoasters manage to go so fast without killing anyone. Business studies and how a well placed snacks stand can charge literally anything for a churro.
$8.50? Best take 2. And a $5 icee
You'd move about theme park to theme park across the world learning different country's cultures as you went. You'd learn childcare as you were faced with 100s of e-numbered up children and customer service when having to deal with their parents. It'd be a priceless learning experience. And you'd get to ride rides on your days off as well.
All quite reasonable degrees I think. Graduation would come round and you'd be sad the courses had to end. Sure the jobs they'd get you would be limited, but the jobs you would get with them would be awesome.
