by John Galt » Tue Mar 15, 2016 10:10 am
it is strange, edarmoc. strange because up until college that's what you study, jack of all trades. and it seems like the classic college experience, that those chaps who had rich fathers experienced, back when college was by the elite for the elite, is the liberal arts experience.
i think what people shit on is majoring in liberal arts, because you major without a focus. i didn't major in liberal arts, but i went to a liberal arts school. this just meant i had to complete a core curriculum that included classes from just about every department (i skipped the peace studies though, goddamn hippies) but i still ended up squeezing in a double major. and yeah i've taken psycho 101, i've taken accounting 101, i've taken history of china 101, i've taken the gospels 101 (this was a catholic school, had to take a couple theology classes) etc, but i think my of the natural history of terrestrial vertebrates, which was like bio 355, or my political theory class etc were far more deep and interesting. i'm not saying a little bit of this and that isn't valuable, but i'm saying that majoring in nothing isn't
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