Dominican University offers two special options for students who wish to go through their college career with a little more, well, work. These, of course, would be receiving a degree with distinction.
Oh, well, distinction sounds nice! And yes, maybe it is. But it is also a heck of a lot of work with a questionable outcome. To receive a degree with distinction, students are required to complete a project in their field of study. This project is intended to be BIG. It can be anything from a research paper to a series of photographs, depending on your major. A proposal is due by the end of your first semester junior year.
The intention, then, is that you would spend the remainder of that year, your summer, and all of senior year conquering this project. Besides nearly two years of planning and headaches, what does this little asterisk next to your name really mean? It provides the student with more experience in their field, but you have the rest of your life to do that.
As a student struggling on whether or not to take on this challenge, are there any suggestions of why one would put themselves through this?
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Um, yeah, no.
I think people can prove much more about themselves and their capabilities through real-world action/internships/performance, rather than an extra word tacked to the end of your degree. A bachelor's degree basically says you made it through 4+ years of education and school, but whether you can apply what you learned into your career field is the real question.
When applying for jobs, will they actually care if you are distinctive? I think someone who has a degree is just as capable of getting a job than someone who is distinctive. I personally think it is just a bunch of extra work that is unnecessary.
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