Questionable Education....

Ally Edge and myself attended a Public Relations conference about a week ago called RealWorld PR. It's primarily for students and recent graduates, so we just went to check it out. Well, little did I know that I would find out that my education pales in comparison to that of people from other schools. Let me tell you why....

First of all, I had my resume critiqued during the day. We took a class in college titled HTML, which is listed on my resume under "skills". The guy reviewing my resume labeled HTML as "completely irrelevant". That's awesome. I had to take this class to graduate, and to the PR world in Atlanta it is deemed as completely irrelevant.

Second, there were several sessions during the conference loosely titled "Social Networking". Things like twitter, linked in, and blogging were mentioned several times. Ally and I sat with girls from Clemson that had entire courses dealing with Social Media. WHAT!?!? No one EVER taught me that in school. I had never even heard of some of these things, much less know the importance of them. People make careers out of blogging....? Who knew?

Lastly, on-line portfolios. This tool was mentioned once in our sophomore year, and then never mentioned again. In the year 2009, when such a vast majority of our world functions via Internet and phone, why was I not taught the importance of on-line portfolios?

Thank you, Valdosta State, for such a relevant and competitive education!