25 years old and deep in debt

[CountDeMoney]

If it were still possible to get a job in non-humanities fields with a humanities education, it wouldn't be a problem. Instead, we've got public colleges subsidizing our businesses' training costs and calling it education.

Somebody's gotta do it.  Businesses certainly aren't.

[alfred russel]

If it were still possible to get a job in non-humanities fields with a humanities education, it wouldn't be a problem. Instead, we've got public colleges subsidizing our businesses' training costs and calling it education.

I've said this before, but a major problem is that a college degree in the humanities is no guarantee that someone has actually received a humanities education.

[merithyn]

People seem to tend to visit one part of Ohio and conclude the whole state is like the part they visited

I've spent time in Akron, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Youngstown.

I repeat: I have no desire to move to Ohio. Ever.

[merithyn]

If it were still possible to get a job in non-humanities fields with a humanities education, it wouldn't be a problem. Instead, we've got public colleges subsidizing our businesses' training costs and calling it education.

That's essentially what I said after the article. Non-humanities degrees are just higher end trade schools.

[Ed Anger]

People seem to tend to visit one part of Ohio and conclude the whole state is like the part they visited

I've spent time in Akron, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Youngstown.

I repeat: I have no desire to move to Ohio. Ever.

We don't want you.

[Savonarola]

I've spent time in Akron, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Youngstown.

[Savonarola]

  

I don't actually hate Ohio, except on 2 or 3 Saturdays in the Fall.

[Eddie Teach]

I've spent time in Akron, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Youngstown.

I repeat: I have no desire to move to Ohio. Ever.

Too much like Illinois, right.

[merithyn]

I've spent time in Akron, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Youngstown.

I repeat: I have no desire to move to Ohio. Ever.

Too much like Illinois, right.

Actually, Ohio is superior to Illinois in most ways. The exception is Chicago, though it wouldn't be too far of a trip from Toledo.

But that's not much of a stretch, is it? I mean, we're talking about Illinois here.

[garbon]

I've spent time in Akron, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Youngstown.

I repeat: I have no desire to move to Ohio. Ever.

Too much like Illinois, right.

Actually, Ohio is superior to Illinois in most ways. The exception is Chicago, though it wouldn't be too far of a trip from Toledo.

But that's not much of a stretch, is it? I mean, we're talking about Illinois here.

There are places in Illinois outside of Chicago?

[merithyn]

There are places in Illinois outside of Chicago?

FEEL MY PAIN??

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

There are places in Illinois outside of Chicago?

Indeed.  There are places in New York outside of New York City, too.  Westchester doesn't count.

[Ideologue]

The argument that everything has gone to hell in the modern university and the solution is to refocus on the humanities as they were taught in the recent past is interesting.  It's largely the same argument as Alan Bloom makes in "The Closing of the American Mind" and Robert Hutchins makes in the "The Great Conversation" in 1987 and 1952 respectively.

And I'm sure pecuniary interest and confirmation bias has nothing to do with the recommendations of an elite professor and a mega-elite school administrator, respectively.

[garbon]

There are places in Illinois outside of Chicago?

Indeed.  There are places in New York outside of New York City, too.  Westchester doesn't count.

I've been to Buffalo. That ain't a place.

I think outside of the Isle of Manhattan, it's all 'here be dragons.'

[Malthus]

It is never wrong to know all there is to know about the Bar Kokhba revolt. 

It would be interesting to work with a couple of Languishites such as yourself. Having discussions shift toward topics like the Bar Kokhba revolt every once in a while would blow people's minds.

"This litigation strategy you have proposed is clever and audatious, but doomed to eventual defeat. It will give the client hope, and when your unexpected preliminary motions hit you will be seen as a saviour; your request for interlocutory injunctions may well succeed; but in the end the other side will win and get their costs on an indemnity scale.

It's the Bar Kokhba revolt of litigation".