<p>Blossom, as the mother of an English major, I thank you for that post.</p>
<p>Eastcoast- tell your kid to learn to write like a demon. Quick, terse, well written essays will be his/her friend when it’s time to find a job!</p>
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<p>My daughter has not one but two useless majors from this list.</p>
<p>Fresh out of Air Elbonia into U of Louisiana in '82 I attended the new student social. So I’m sitting next to a father and son pair that looked straight out of Central Casting - bolo ties, pressed jeans, cowboy shirts, and (as I found out, very expensive exotic skin) boots. So I ask the kid what’s his major and he replies proudly, ‘Hey-Storey’ (simulated Cajun drawl). I was flabbergasted, the kid can get into engineering for the asking (open admissions to anyone with a pulse) and he chooses hey-storey?</p>
<p>Before I could rain down on his parade his dad mentioned “Junior will be working with me in my oil company”… OK, Dad, we get it.</p>
<p>Bottom line. STEM is not the answer in itself; there’s seven STEM degrees hanging in our trophy wall between the Mrs. and me (3 + 4) and while we live well enough, the country does not care for STEM nowdays. In the 80’s maybe. </p>
<p>A country that gave away its engineering and technical expertise to the LOWEST bidder has no chance…</p>
<p>My doctor has an an UG degree in English–is that still useless?</p>
<p>I’m a dual degree (BS Anthro, BA humanities/arts), both of which are on the list. </p>
<p>I already have full time jobs waiting for me at three different places (two guarenteed, one a probably), if I want them. One with the state, one with a shelter, and one with a small company- all places I work for now and have worked at for a bit of time. None of them pay great but all of them are things I enjoy and would all land me larger starting salaries than what my parents made for a large part of my life. I have a good friend in computer science/engineering at a CC top ranked public (judging by where I live, you can guess where that is) who is graduating with nothing lined up. </p>
<p>I’m another in the camp of it’s more what you DO in college than what you study.</p>
<p>Oh and fwiw, I plan on going to grad school for disaster management because it’s something I discovered I enjoyed later in my academic career due to my “useless” anthropology degree.</p>
<p>“never understood why anyone has to major in art or music”</p>
<p>What about an artist or a musician? They DO EXIST. My D is a musician (makes a damn good living at it) and I live with and work with REAL LIVE ARTISTS. Gee , they can paint and everything… (oh brother)</p>
<p>David----where DO you think art and music come from?</p>
<p>though I can understand why an engineering major might want to discourage a student from majoring in music:</p>
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<p>History and English (literature) mainly induce the student to practice critical thinking on the qualitative and humanistic side, not on the quantitative and logical side. A well rounded critical thinker would have both. Philosophy would probably come closest to inducing the student to practice both sides of critical thinking, although any major with appropriate breadth courses that induce practice in the other side would be fine, if the student actually takes the breadth courses seriously.</p>
<p>musica, that made me laugh. Hard. Especially since my computer genius ex and I broke up and I quickly fell in love with a singer/musician ;).</p>
<p>Do you go to college for the experience, or to learn skills to get a job ? Most people who have jobs these days under 30 are NOT working in their area of study ,so why not go to college to absorb what you can to be ready to work at what ever job you land at ?</p>
<p>in honor of this useless list and seeing that it is Friday…</p>
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<p>Even if I really, really want to.</p>
<p>Oh, come on stradmom. I assume you must love the violin. You have to play. The liberal arts people have to stick together. ;)</p>
<p>poetgirl, next you’ll be offering me “candy” out of the back of that windowless van and I’ll be jumping right in because all the cool kids are doing it and you really, really need to find that lost puppy… :)</p>
<p>Bach. Beethoven’s 9th.</p>
<p>Just sayin’</p>
<p>“Bach. Beethoven’s 9th.”</p>
<p>Oh, really…what did Bach and Beethoven major in when they got their BAs? ;)</p>
<p>Both Bach and Beethoven had their issues.
But they both were able to support themselves (and in Bach’s case a boatload of kids) on a music career.
Our world would be the worse without their contribution.</p>
<p>(Note to self: you’re NOT getting involved with this thread…)</p>