<p>Shoes does ruin lives.</p>
<p>Debt and unemployment, however, do.</p>
<p>I, personally, think you are a ■■■■■. But, on the off chance that you are not, what you said and continue to say are incredibly rude. You have no business expressing an opinion out loud on someone else’s choices when it is not solicited. Normally, I wouldn’t express one on your behavior, but, you asked. Next time, keep those thoughts in your head.</p>
<p>Would telling someone who does cocaine that their addiction is wrong be rude? O.o</p>
<p>That’s what her majors are; cocaine for her quality of life to shrivel into something irrelevant. Sort of like Dance majors. At least she didn’t major in THAT. Am I right? :)</p>
<p>^ No. You’re not right. Not even close.</p>
<p>This anthro major is going in to public health. Clearly useless :rolleyes:</p>
<p>This is a response to two trolls in one thread. One more obvious than the other.</p>
<p>You call anthro majors useless and you’re a psychic? HAHAHAAHHAHA</p>
<p>Was I wrong when claiming college is an investment and you need to make the right decisions, because there are wrong ones?</p>
<p>Bad trolling job Mr. Bacon :(</p>
<p>It is very presumptuous to tell someone what you think without them asking. You don’t know what they’re capable of. My dad makes six figures without a college education and even with a “practical major” such as mine (Applied Mathematics & Statistics with a concentration in Physics) it’s not a for sure deal I’m going to out earn my dad. Even if I became a top notch lawyer. Your degree doesn’t indicate how successful you’re going to be. I know someone who graduated summa cum laude in math and physics from a top 25 university and is living out of his van. </p>
<p>College is an investment of money, but it is also an investment of time and hard work. Some people just aren’t math or science people and if you lack passion in a hard science you aren’t going to survive the crawl to your degree. I would say that is true for all majors. </p>
<p>I’ll say one thing, you’re in no position to provide financial advice to a stranger.</p>
<p>“Majoring in something useless” doesn’t mean you’ll end up in a job that is considered, by you at least, to be “useless.” I know plenty of theatre and English majors that are now lawyers or working for accounting firms, etc. Likewise, I know a number of accounting/finance majors that are now working in shopping mall kiosks. Your degree is what you make of it. And from your arrogance I would highly suggest that you will probably end up in a mall. :)</p>
<p>Agreed. I know two former theatre majors. One is currently in law school, the other teaches high-school theatre. Both of them are very happy with their decisions/the way things worked out.</p>
<p>I also know two former Anthro majors. One is a contract archaeologist, and the other is in medical school. Just because she is majoring in those subjects doesn’t mean she’s going nowhere in life.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure you’re a ■■■■■, so I’ll skedaddle now. But I couldn’t resist.</p>
<p>LOL. This thread makes me laugh. To OP: With all seriousness, if someone tells you that your major is useless… how would you react?</p>
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Yes.</p>
<p>Why he chose his major is up to him .</p>
<p>I’m a theatre major and I know plenty of people who have majored theatre and found success.</p>
<p>Theatre is all-encompassing. For all you know, she could be a techie (wanting to do lights, sound, behind-the-scenes stuff). If that’s the case, there’s a lot of opportunity out there for her.</p>
<p>Or perhaps she wants to be a lawyer? In that case, she should study whatever she enjoys as an undergraduate because it really doesn’t matter when applying to law school.</p>
<p>Or maybe she wants to teach?</p>
<p>The point is, it is extremely rude and judgmental.</p>
<p>This is so humorous. Numerous people are having complexes reading Bacon’s story. What he said wasnt even that bad. Sure, Bacob, you out your foot in your mouth, but at least you know you did!</p>
<p>Yes, you were out of line, it’s none of your business. If she were your very best friend in the whole wide world you could have a very delicate conversation and give her your opinion gently but you didn’t even know this person!</p>
<p>It’s not your place to tell somebody else their major is useless. Let the job market tell them.</p>
<p>Plus, some people go to college merely for the love of learning, rather than for a job. I respect that, provided the learner isn’t naive about it.</p>
<p>But no matter how useless the major, whether it’s queer studies, leisure studies, Harry Potter studies or whatever they’ll come up with next, I don’t think you should tell a person to their face that their major is useless. For one thing, you are not an expert, and you may be wrong about what’s useless. For another, it’s just rude. It’s like going up to a fat person and saying “wow, you eat too much food.” It’s absolutely true that that fat person eats too much food, but do you see how it’s rude to say it to their face like that?</p>
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<p>You weren’t being blunt, you were being a jerk. Just because you were right doesn’t make you any less of a jerk.</p>
<p>Why couldn’t the first thoughts in his head had been, “That’s an interesting combination.”</p>
<p>Who says a theater major must be attractive? There are plenty of roles for those who are not super attractive. There are also plenty of off-stage jobs for theater majors. No, there are not loads of jobs available for any of the 3 majors, but there are jobs - some of them very good jobs. If she in fact named the majors in that order, she is probably primarily an Anthropology major (you do know there are 4 subfields, don’t you?) and maybe had enough AP credit to have space in her schedule to do more than just minor in the other 2 fields - perhaps the majors even overlap to some degree (it wouldn’t surprise me to see Cultural Anthropology and Queer Studies overlap).</p>
<p>Those majors are perhaps useless to you, but to many people ANY Liberal Arts major is useless. The purpose of any program at an LAC is to learn to think critically - they are not like engineering majors, which are more vocational.</p>
<p>Don’t expect to have everyone here validate your opinion. You were rude, and immature.</p>