Walking into a job interview with a “B.A. Pass” felt like bringing a plastic spork to a knife fight.
Why? Because society told me that the Honours kids were the ones who changed the world. The Pass kids? We were the backups. The general admission. The substitute teachers of the professional world. b.a. pass -2012-
Let’s set the stage. The world was supposed to end in December (thanks, Mayan calendar). Facebook was still blue and relatively innocent. The iPhone 5 had just dropped. We were two years past the recession but still feeling the hangover. Jobs were scarce, and rent was due. Walking into a job interview with a “B
Students who enrolled in a B.A. Pass course around 2009-2010 and completed it in 2012 studied a curriculum slightly different from today’s. Key features included: Because society told me that the Honours kids
Honours students go deep. They become experts in one tiny slice of history or literature. That is valuable.