<p>“However, it is a perfectly feasible approach to major in humanities and seek marketable skills elsewhere. As I said, this can be through internships, secondary skills acquired through minors or other coursework, or even extracurriculars at schools like Harvard that have often very legit extracurriculars, such as managing a magazine with readership in over 100 countries.”</p>
<p>This is what it’s all about for the Ivy liberal arts folks who don’t go to graduate school. My closest friend from college graduated from Penn with a psychology BA (same major I had). She spent most of her time at Penn focused on the Daily Pennsylvanian newspaper. Her first job out of college was a research job at a big-3 network news department. She got it because a DP alum at the network reached out to DP seniors to apply. 13+ years later, she’s still working in broadcast journalism, rising to become a senior producer on the network’s flagship news program and then moving into public radio. There are hundreds of different versions of this story.</p>