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<p>No, I didn’t miss your point. I just thought it was so blatantly obvious that I need not bother with it. But for your sake, let me address it now. Of course, work experience matters. So do other factors such as general intelligence and basic writing skills. My argument has always been that you don’t need to to go to an undergraduate journalism school to acquire journalistic work experience. You could say that at Medill, the journalistic work experience is part of the “academic” curriculum. Well, that is precisely what makes it vocational training. I personally do not believe that vocational training has any place in undergraduate education, but apparently Northwestern does. Which is why I asked the OP the following questions: “Do you want to go to college to learn how to think for yourself? To learn new and exciting ideas which can be applicable to all fields? Or, do you want to be taught a (limited and obsolete) vocational trade?”</p>
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<p>My 3 year old nephew says this a lot. Generally, this is because toddlers at their stage of cognitive development, have trouble expressing themselves in an articulate and logical manner.</p>