Gone for awhile

I'm studying primarily 3D modeling & animation ['Softimage XSI' for those
interested] in college, and the last half of my all-important Senior Project
runs from January until graduation in late April, so I'm dropping out of
this newsgroup until sometime after then... can't afford even now that small
amount of time to look in, especially since I occasionally get caught up in
the discussions or pose new ones.

I'm also having to take a class or two that has absolutely nothing
whatsoever to do with my career, so am fighting them tooth and nail. This is
not the first time for doing so since I already have two degrees from three
previous colleges, and thus know from decades of experience that such
classes haven't added one dime to my salaries. In my career --technical &
medical illustration & graphic design-- I've worked everywhere from a
four-person light industrial advertising agency to impossibly large Boeing,
yet none of my employers have ever shown one iota of interest in those
classes... in fact never even asked about my grades.

So why pay for and take classes which I have no interest in, have no
demonstrable practical/professional value for me, and that the time spent on
them could be much better spent on classes in my chosen field? To be "well
rounded"; to be "educated"? Well, by anyone's standards I'm highly educated.
I've also been without work and medical insurance for two years now. From
that sense, except that after April I'll be able to casually mention I have
three degrees [puffs up chest and struts around] "education" has no
practical value.

Rant, rant, rave, rave.

PS: I didn't go to a technical college because none have that particular
program nor the instructors... and the State/Fed's paying my tuition, as
they are for the 40,000 other employees Boeing [conveniently] hemorrhaged
out after 911.