Episode 209
Morning 6-Pack - College Shenanigans: The Firsts We All Knew!
Morning 6-Pack - College in a Flash! Get ready to laugh as we dive into the new trend of three-year bachelor degrees! Yep, you heard that right—college just got a turbo boost. We’re spillin’ the tea on how students can save time and cash by skipping a whole year of those party-filled lectures. Plus, we’re counting down the top six wild things we all experienced for the first time in college, from awkward kisses to regrettable tattoos (yikes!). So grab your coffee, kick back, and let’s relive those hilarious moments together—’cause who doesn’t love a good college story?
Takeaways:
- College is getting a makeover with three-year degrees, saving students time and dough!
- We all remember that one regretful decision: getting a tattoo during spring break, right?
- Selling plasma for some extra cash is a rite of passage for broke college students everywhere!
- Classes on Taylor Swift? Yup, we blew our parents' cash on that too!
- First college experience: kissing and flipping off the camera during a game—classic combo!
- And hey, working at Starbucks? A must-do for art majors post-college!
Transcript
It's haystack.
Speaker A:And the idea of spending four years in college is really old.
Speaker A:I mean dates back hundreds of years.
Speaker A:Although technology has of course made it more efficient to learn in between getting drunk.
Speaker A:There's a report in the LA Times that shows that dozens of colleges are adopting three year bachelor degrees.
Speaker A:It's pretty easy to see it catching on even more.
Speaker A:I mean, students save time, they save money graduating a year earlier.
Speaker A:Colleges use these fast tracks to attract more applicants and they should be able to, you know, move more students through their system and make more money when it's just three years.
Speaker A:Accelerated degrees have been available before, but that was mostly jamming all the usual classes into fewer semesters.
Speaker A:These new tracks actually require fewer overall credits, but they're all more focused on your major so you strip out some of the added elective courses.
Speaker A:Of course it doesn't work for everything, but there are shortened degrees for tech and engineering and some social fields positions that are able to hire directly out of school and get graduates some experience right away.
Speaker A:Now if you want to be a rocket scientist or a doctor, you're still going to need four years plus specialized study afterwards.
Speaker A:And at least for now, these degrees are being distinguished from four year degrees by being called applied or career focused degrees.
Speaker A:No one knows yet really whether whether the employers will consider them less than when it comes to comparing them to four year degrees.
Speaker A:But whether you're stuck in school for three years or eight years or, you know, like most of us in radio, just make sure you fill your stay in college with those important experiences that all of us had.
Speaker B:Well, gather round folks.
Speaker B:It's the time of day when we laugh and smile in a light hearted way.
Speaker B:Tune in for giggles and let's kick back.
Speaker B:Here comes the fun.
Speaker B:It's the morning six pack.
Speaker C:We are looking at the top six things that we all experienced for the first time in college.
Speaker C:Oh no.
Speaker C:Number six, kiss a girl and a.
Speaker A:Boy at the same time.
Speaker C:Number five, blowing our parents hard earned.
Speaker A:Money on a class that studies Taylor Swift.
Speaker A:Or for me it was beginning golf.
Speaker C:Number four, flip off a nationwide TV.
Speaker A:Audience during a football game.
Speaker C:Number three, get a regrettable spring break.
Speaker A:Tattoo of a unicorn on the small of our back.
Speaker A:Not, not guilty on that one.
Speaker C:Let's see here.
Speaker C:Number two, sell plasma for weed money.
Speaker C:And the number one experience that we all had the first time in college was of course working at Starbucks.
Speaker A:Oh wait, sorry, that's what you do for the first time after college if you have an art degree.
