25 years old and deep in debt

[Camerus]

I assume more people would study STEM had they but the aptitude.  I don't think it's lack of promotion of STEM that's the problem. 

Maybe, but at the same time, people who are studying things like Classics or Philosophy could likely be put on more useful courses.

Probably, for the most part.  Society generally requires that only the Elect should have access to that kind of rarefied material (non-sarcastic).

[garbon]

I assume more people would study STEM had they but the aptitude.  I don't think it's lack of promotion of STEM that's the problem. 

Maybe, but at the same time, people who are studying things like Classics or Philosophy could likely be put on more useful courses.

Probably, for the most part.  Society generally requires that only the Elect should have access to that kind of rarefied material (non-sarcastic).

Well I think there is a difference between taking a few classes vs. making it one's major.

[Camerus]

I assume more people would study STEM had they but the aptitude.  I don't think it's lack of promotion of STEM that's the problem. 

Maybe, but at the same time, people who are studying things like Classics or Philosophy could likely be put on more useful courses.

Probably, for the most part.  Society generally requires that only the Elect should have access to that kind of rarefied material (non-sarcastic).

Well I think there is a difference between taking a few classes vs. making it one's major.

Yeah.  I would probably advise most young people nowadays to combine something like Classics with a double major in the more prosaic fields, like business.

Still, I think there is something to be said for the humanities' intellectual elite to focus in on areas like the Classics.  The problem is that too many humanities students erroneously believe themselves to be part of that elite.   

[Razgovory]

Leftist revolutionaries have come disproportionately from the ranks of shysterdom.

They get business degrees?

[MadImmortalMan]

Lenin went to Kazan University to study law. 

Yeah but he never finished and was kicked out. So he studied on his own and passed the bar anyway. 

Abe Lincoln did the same thing only never started college in the first place.

[Berkut]

I sent that article to my son and told him to read the entire thing...

[Phillip V]

I sent that article to my son and told him to read the entire thing...

What does your son want to study.

[Berkut]

I sent that article to my son and told him to read the entire thing...

What does your son want to study.

Given that last month he sent 36,240 text messages, not much at all, apparently.

[DGuller]

The world would be a much better place if all the psychology and drama majors went into actuarial science instead.

[DGuller]

I sent that article to my son and told him to read the entire thing...

What does your son want to study.

Given that last month he sent 36,240 text messages, not much at all, apparently.

You have unlimited texting, right?

[Eddie Teach]

Leftist revolutionaries have come disproportionately from the ranks of shysterdom.

They get business degrees?

Law.

[MadImmortalMan]

Given that last month he sent 36,240 text messages, not much at all, apparently.

I sincerely doubt I will have sent that many by the time I die.

[Ideologue]

I assume more people would study STEM had they but the aptitude.  I don't think it's lack of promotion of STEM that's the problem. 

Maybe, but at the same time, people who are studying things like Classics or Philosophy could likely be put on more useful courses.

Probably, for the most part.  Society generally requires that only the Elect should have access to that kind of rarefied material (non-sarcastic).

Well I think there is a difference between taking a few classes vs. making it one's major.

Yeah.  I would probably advise most young people nowadays to combine something like Classics with a double major in the more prosaic fields, like business.

Still, I think there is something to be said for the humanities' intellectual elite to focus in on areas like the Classics.  The problem is that too many humanities students erroneously believe themselves to be part of that elite.   

The classics are a hobby, not a career path.  At least majoring in, say, film, gives you technical skills that you may be able to bring to a real, extant industry.  It's an old joke, but how many classics firms are hiring?  In what fashion does being able to quote Aeschylus make you a more marketable person?  In a related vein, for what reason do you need to pay somebody to read Aeschylus, anyway?  These are reasonable questions but for the humanities-industrial complex (and a not inconsiderable cross-section of Languish) you'd think they were on par with asking why it's ill-considered to rape babies or something.

[Ideologue]

So, I don't agree that a double-major is some kind of good idea.  Sorry, I'm very tired so my thoughts are a little disorganized.

[CountDeMoney]

The classics are a hobby, not a career path.  At least majoring in, say, film, gives you technical skills that you may be able to bring to a real, extant industry.  It's an old joke, but how many classics firms are hiring?  In what fashion does being able to quote Aeschylus make you a more marketable person?  In a related vein, for what reason do you need to pay somebody to read Aeschylus, anyway?  These are reasonable questions but for the humanities-industrial complex (and a not inconsiderable cross-section of Languish) you'd think they were on par with asking why it's ill-considered to rape babies or something.

What academic career path prepares one for, say, inland marine insurance sales?