<p>Found this pretty interesting</p>
<p>Don't worry kids! Those 6 figure loans will force you to take out even MORE loans so you can go to law school-the only people who will over look your stupid major, and have some small hope of getting Biglaw. If you can do that you might not end up homeless, but if you do bad there.........it is pretty much over for you. Done.</p>
<p>My list would have Women's studies at number one.</p>
<p>"My list would have Women's studies at number one."</p>
<p>That's not misogynistic at all...</p>
<p>HOWEVER! That list was absolutely hilarious!</p>
<p>Beautiful! </p>
<p>I double majored in college: Latin (#3 on the list) and Film Studies (#2).</p>
<p>But it all worked out. ;)</p>
<p>It isn't the point of a liberal arts major to be employable and, despite this, liberal arts majors are still just as employable as say, a business major.</p>
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<p>Since the Bible was originally written in Hebrew and Greek, with a smattering of Aramaic, Latin isn't going help you much with this. Perhaps the folks who wrote this should have majored in Religion. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>^^^ Yes, they also said the Illiad was written in latin I think . Truly amusing.</p>
<p>Booklady, perhaps they were referring to the Vulgate, and not the Torah and the Septuagint.</p>
<p>Also, as someone who has studied Latin for four years, and plans to look into Art History, Philosophy, and Film Studies, I wouldn't place too much heart into a site called "holy taco."</p>
<p>My Harvard interviewer, '07, majored in Black Studies and Religion, and he's managing hedge funds for god's sake.</p>
<p>Silly. The purpose of a liberal arts education is to broaden your intellectual horizons, expand your intellectual and conceptual toolkit, sharpen your critical and analytical faculties, expose you to great and challenging ideas, and build a broad knowledge base. It's not a trade school. So what if you end up in law school, med school, or an MBA program along with everyone else? You'll be a better person, a better citizen, and a better whatever-you-do-professionally for it.</p>
<p>You can only goto the very top of the top schools, major in these useless majors and still get a great job, but even then it requires great presentation skills and some good luck or maybe some connections. These are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, maybe MIT and Caltech. </p>
<p>My family had very low income, if I chose to major in philosophy, or classics, I'd felt like I was wasting money. Only the rich can "broaden their horizon" for 4 years.</p>
<p>don't waste your parents' money on "finding yourself." if you want to do that, just go to the woods... and stay there.</p>
<p>Like Henry David Thoreau?</p>
<p>"Thoreau studied at Harvard University between 1833 and 1837. He lived in Hollis Hall and took courses in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathematics, and science."</p>
<p>"Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism...Thoreaus philosophy of nonviolent resistance influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr."</p>
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<p>Perhaps, but no one doing a good translation would want to use the Vulgate as a starting point. (And surely you mean the New Testament? The Septuagint is itself a translation from the Hebrew.)</p>
<p>But we digress. :) As for the substance of this thread, you can get a job as an i-banker or go to law or medical school with a "useless" degree if you so desire. Employers and grad schools are looking for people who can write, speak, and reason well. 99% of specific job skills are learned on the job, not in college.</p>
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<p>I wouldn't describe my family as very low income but with 6 kids to get through college and just an ordinary middle-class income they were by no means wealthy. I had to rely on financial aid, summer jobs, term-time employment, etc., plus the few dollars Mom & Dad could scrape together. But I sure didn't feel like I was wasting their money or my time when I studied philosophy as an undergrad at Michigan, my state flagship public university. I'll be forever grateful. It got me into a top grad school and later a top professional school, and just as importantly I look back at those undergraduate years as some of the happiest, most fulfilling, most challenging, and most productive of my life, years that laid the foundation for all the intellectual and professional rewards that followed. Don't sell yourself short. If you make college a quick path to a fast buck that's all it will ever be. But it can be so much more.</p>
<p>oddly enough, I also went to Michigan, as an OOS student with extremely generous financial aid from UM. I'm sure it worked out for you, but I needed the assurance that upon graduation, I could easily get a 50K job, as well as having the option of grad school. My point is that exploring the world, and broadening your horizon isn't something unique to the BS(!) majors, you do that just by going to college and living on your own for 4 years.</p>
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<p>I agree that just going to college and living on your own is broadening, but IMO that's not enough. Not for me anyway, and I suspect not for darling D. It's also about intellectual challenges, which you can get in many fields to be sure. By the way, there's nothing "BS" about philosophy at a place like Michigan. It's a hard-nosed, analytically rigorous, intellectually demanding discipline, outstanding intellectual preparation for a field like law, for example. But your rhetoric suggests a certain measure of anti-intellectualism, so I can see how these humanities disciplines wouldn't be your cup of tea.</p>
<p>Keefer, I was the third of eight kids. I went to the local branch of the state U and never even considered any other school because there was absolutely no way I or my family could have afforded anything else. Yet my parents never told me that I should study one thing or another. They let me follow my interests, and in doing so I learned a lot. It made me better.</p>
<p>Now it took a professional school to launch me in my career, but that's true for many people irrespective of their college major. To suggest that liberal arts majors should only be the province of the dilettante rich at the most elite schools is utter nonsense. I am sure there are hundreds of thousands of people like me who would prove the point.</p>
<p>my parents never pressured me, or suggested anything even, or would they even know what to suggest. the truth is if you graduate with a science/math/economics/engineering degree, you have accomplished something, because grading is a precise process, where you are tested on very detailed knowledge and analytic methods that take forever studying for in the library. But I can't say the same about liberal arts, where you can easily cram and do well on exams and papers. I've taken classes in pretty much every major, and getting an A is far easier in the liberal arts classes. (i didn't double major, so I explored all the classes I wanted to learn about)</p>
<p>Of course everyone's different, but the fact is a quantitative college major is far more marketable in today's job market than the classics/psych majors, and by graduation time, you'll see significant gaps in the starting salaries, at all schools. </p>
<p>I'm not saying one career is better than another, but with my engineering degree, I could have pursued pretty much anything after graduation, and I'm not sure those majors listed in the OP can say the same.</p>
<p>You can definitely get a job in music therapy with a music therapy degree. You had just better hope you don't have any loans to pay off - music therapy jobs generally do not pay well.</p>