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Subject:Re: BS and MS at same university From:Romay Jean Sitze <rositze -at- NMSU -dot- EDU> Date:Mon, 21 Nov 1994 10:34:34 -0700
On Wed, 16 Nov 1994, Race, Paul wrote:
> I guarantee that the perspective you get from actually working fulltime in a
> pressure-cooker REAL CORPORATION is a whole lot more realistic than you will
> get from any number of college programs.
True for sure. This, of course, is the rationale behind the internship
program which some schools now encourage as an alternative to the thesis
for MA students in technical writing programs.
