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Date: 26 April 2008 10:03:16
Heark back if you will to January 2006. I put to the blogosphere the prospect of my going back to do a couple of years of part-time study in order to upgrade my Adv Dip in Christian Ministry to a Bachelor of Theology. Today marked the end of that particular journey. Man, 2 years never went so fast...
I'm pretty satisfied with my results, 2 credits, 4 distinctions and 2 high distinctions with an average of 80%, and I'm really pleased to have achieved the work required and say I've done my degree but I have to confess I thought I'd be more excited...
Maybe I'm just too egalitarian to think that a degree puts one person ahead of another... Maybe I'm less interested in the outcome than the process of learning... and maybe my ambivalence is making you wonder why I bothered in the first place.
I bothered at all because a) because I could, b) because if I didn't I would have gone out of my tree LONG ago out of sheer boredom, c) because having now got a degree I'm eligible to pass on some that knowledge to others as a tutor and d) because I can go on to further study in some other areas I'm interested in, and maybe even at such exalted palaces as The University of Sydney rather than a Divinity College.
I'm under a bit of pressure from PIA to do my Masters. I scoff at the prospect most of the time but I'm actually not opposed to the idea... however, should I actually decide to do it... I won't be doing Theological Study - I've given God enough grief...
...and I don't want to push him over the edge to a heart attack...