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February 04, 2007
Introduction: Student : Jared as PhD Student in Art History and Museum Studies
I’ve been a student at Case almost as long as I have worked there. I came to Case as an undergraduate right out of high school. Back then I had some big ideas – I was a double major in Physics and Electrical Engineering. That lasted about a year and a half and when I burned out of Physics I did what every ex-Physics major does: I changed majors to Psychology. That’s actually not meant to be as funny as its written - there are a lot of ex-Physics majors in Psychology as many of the early Psychologists came from Physics in the first place.
In my Junior year I dropped out of Case and went to work instead. It became a running gag on whether I would ever go back to school. Funnily enough, while I was working at Case and could have gone to school for free I also owed Case some back tuition that prevented me from registering. This was solved when my former boss resigned and records indicated that he hadn’t reviewed me in over 5 years. 5 years of accrued back raises paid off my debt to Case and I re-registered to finish my BA. I had very few requirements left as I had finished my core in Psychology and only needed one more Music course for my minor. I had become friends with Tim Shuckerow, Director of Art Education/Art Studio, and ended up taking a lot of Art Studio classes (which I ended up also getting a minor in) and miraculously graduated college 2 weeks before my 30th birthday.
It was during this time that I started to realize how much I enjoyed being both an artist and a teacher (I had been teaching workshops for my job) and after some long talks with Tim I enrolled in the Non Licensure (Plan I) Art Education Masters Program from which I graduated in 2004.
Being the glutton that I am, I decided to go back to school one more time to get a terminal degree – a PhD. The problem was in choosing the right field. To help decide I took: Sensation and Perception in Psychology and Introduction to Museum Studies in Art History. Art History proved a better fit for my interests (plus I had started working for the museum) and I enrolled as a PhD student in Art History and Museum Studies.
I’m third generation Case – my father went to Western Reserve and my grandfather to Adelbert and it feels good to get my third degree from the institution.
Posted by jeb2 at February 4, 2007 11:20 PM
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