Treatise Against the liberal arts

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<p>I would argue that the non-direct career nature of liberal arts majors can be an advantage just as much as a disadvantage. The skills learned are perhaps less tangible, but also broader in application.</p>

<p>My degree is in journalism, which is sort of a strange hybrid of professional and liberal arts. With that degree, I’m pursuing a career as a park ranger along with graduate studies in natural resources. How? Journalism teaches effective, concise explanatory writing and develops interpersonal communications skills - you have to be comfortable talking with people! Those skills are directly applicable to what park ranger-interpreters do on a daily basis.</p>

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<p>BRB guys, gonna go tell my boss at my international marketing internship and the administrator of my IR research program that I’m a lost cause…</p>

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<p>After engineers, Philosophy majors score highest on the LSAT and the GRE…</p>

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<p>Nope.</p>

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<p>1 Physics/Math 158.9
2 Philosophy/ Religion 157.4
3 Economics 156.6
4 Government/Service 155.5
5 Engineering 155.4
6 Anthropology/Geography 155.2
7 International Relations 155.1
8 History 155
9 Computer Science 154.8
10 Chemistry 154.5</p>

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<p>Yep .</p>

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<p>So did the OP get into MIT?</p>

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<p>Law and foreign policy, two prominent and useful fields I am looking into, are both connected to the humanities, even though they are more related to social sciences.</p>

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<p>completely agree with OP.</p>

<p>in fact, we shouldn’t teach children how to write until they have something reasonable to say.</p>

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<p>The Liberal Arts are easy? HAH. Come back to me after you’ve written your 30 page paper from a 1500 page textbook.
You people need to get off your condescending high horse. Next, you’re gonna try to “outlaw” mint-flavored toothpaste because you think they’re not as effective as the plain kind.</p>

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<p>“If your plan is to go to law, then majoring in Jurisprudence or Political Science will help, but Classics and English Lit are not closely related to Law. Though you can major in anything to go into law school, even math or science.”
Kid, do you realize how much WRITING is required of law school and lawyers? The point of English Lit and the Classics is to learn how to critically think and WRITE. My god.</p>

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<p>My God, I had forgotten how hilarious this thread was. I’m just in hysterics.</p>