{"id":476,"date":"2014-01-29T21:52:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T21:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytirkkonen.fi\/?p=476"},"modified":"2014-02-02T18:48:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T18:48:34","slug":"candidate-of-philosophy-life-university-and-everything-around-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jennytirkkonen.fi\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Bachelor of Arts: a light at the end of the academic tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being somewhat occupied with my university studies of the major of folklore at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.helsinki.fi\/university\/\" target=\"_blank\">Helsinki University<\/a><\/strong> the whole autumn, completing my degree is quite near. I am worn out\u00a0 all the way to my bones, but have a vibrant sensation of happiness about it: Being a Bachelor of Arts is only one half written final thesis away. With the current progress rate, it strongly looks like the thesis will be out this spring.<\/p>\n<p>After the degree is complete, giving it a lot of thought, I have decided not to pursue the university studies any further. As much as I value and respect the academic world, I have come to understood my own nature is more of an artisan\u00b4s; there just isn\u00b4t a greater joy than making things from a scratch. Therefore, after this thesis, I feel it\u00b4s time for me to pursue being the best damn 3D professional I can be, day and night, no excuses.<\/p>\n<p>Running two higher education degrees simultaneously is no light task and I do not recommend anyone trying it (ironically, that is exactly what was told to me.)\u00a0 My other degree,Bachelor of Media (from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metropolia.fi\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolia<\/a><\/strong>), was completed spring 2012, consisting of 240 credits. Bachelor of Arts from Helsinki University will consist of 180 credits. With both of these chapters in my life rightfully cleared, I feel really good about seeking permanent migration to working life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being somewhat occupied with my university studies of the major of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jennytirkkonen.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jennytirkkonen.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jennytirkkonen.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jennytirkkonen.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jennytirkkonen.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/jennytirkkonen.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"http:\/\/jennytirkkonen.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jennytirkkonen.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jennytirkkonen.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jennytirkkonen.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}