AFTER graduating from college, if you are hurrying up to cultivate the family farm and supervise workers from Mexico and Chile, then you can always study online and acquire an agronomy course. Or if your family business is a ranch, then you can always take a bachelor’s degree in animal science. Online education may not involve laboratory drills and actual trips to a farm but you can already apply what you have learned in your own family farm. However, in online colleges, you are still required to have an internship.

Choose a reputable online school. Anyway, the tuition is not that much because you don’t need to pay for laboratory fees and other miscellaneous expenses. And there are lots of advantages as well. You don’t need to be away from home and stay in a dormitory where utility expenses can be expensive. And it’s not just the money that I’m talking about. In the farm, your whole family can monitor your whereabouts but in a boarding college, you may be influenced by fraternities who are up to no good at all. At least, if you get a girl pregnant in the farm, then the situation doesn’t get out of control because all you’ll do is commit to the girl and to your yet-to-be-born baby.

The expenses in a boarding college border to that of being hellish. Aside from the rent and the usual expenses such as food, transportation going to the school campus, more extra food, electricity, water, cable television and Internet bills, you will most likely acquire on such gadgets as a Wii. That can entail lots of money whereas in the farm, you will only eat what’s on the refrigerator and you already have your own appliances.

Now let’s go back to the internship. It’s not just taking a degree in agronomy which leads to an internship. It’s encompassing in all fields of education actually. For example, if you’re enrolled in a Swiss hotel school and you live in New Jersey, you are most likely directed to a semester of internship at a casino in Atlantic City. If you are enrolled at the online extension of Johns Hopkins for a degree in medicine and if you live near a Mayo Clinic, you may be enticed to have your internship there. If you are enrolled in a degree in international relations, you may have your internship at Foggy Bottom. If you are enrolled in an online course in teaching, you may end up having your internship at one of the Montessori or Waldorf schools in your area or even in a public school system.

Another advantage of online education is it doesn’t take up your entire time yet you can still achieve the same number of units. All you need to do is log online but if you catch the professor being online too as well as the other students in the same course, then take time in a video conference with them. In this way, you can learn more.