5/23/2012 7:30 PM EDT
liberal arts, puhleeez. Liberal arts is good if you want to study one of the traditionally liberal arts majors like history or political science, and even at that, if you want a decent curriculum and undergraduate experience, a 4 year degree with honors concentration is the way to go. A 3 year liberal arts degree is something you would go for to satisfy entry requirements for professional school, like law or medicine (still, there is no hurt in consuming an extra undergraduate year to undergo a complete scholarly immersion in the chosen major). Point: A 3 year degree is basically useless these days. Try coming out with a basic 3 year major in history or political science and see where that goes! Even pencil pushing jobs looking for workers would hire a science grad over a liberal arts major anytime because the science background ensures possession of superior logic and arithmetic skills.
The best majors to get into these days, with respect to the immediate usefulness of the skills you learn are engineering, science, finance, management, and other less well known professional programmes like nursing and social work. All of them are 3 or 4 year concentrations and will prepare you better for the demands of the emerging worker profile than a liberal arts degree.
“Even pencil pushing jobs looking for workers would hire a science grad over a liberal arts major anytime because the science background ensures possession of superior logic and arithmetic skills. “
Just because someone goes to a liberal arts college, it does not mean that their logic and arithmetic skills are inferior. Those with a liberal arts education are certainly more well rounded than “science grads” and their wide range of skills comes in handy in the long-term.
“The best majors to get into these days, with respect to the immediate usefulness of the skills you learn are engineering, science, finance, management, and other less well known professional programmes like nursing and social work.”
Those who have a real desire to learn and explore the possibilities in life would find a liberal arts education more rewarding. When you consider the long-term consequences, a liberal arts education would prepare you for the new things that life throws at you. They are the people who will create new jobs and opportunities whereas students who focus on a specific field right away don’t have that flexibility because they skills that they learn are too geared toward doing one thing. While those practical skills might be immediately useful, they might not be as useful in the future because things change. Those who know for sure that that’s what they want to do can by all means jump right into that field, but if not, you can always go to a liberal arts undergrad school and then go to grad school for a pre-professional degree such as engineering, finance, etc. It might not be feasible for students of low-income families who struggle to pay for a college that offers little aid, but it’s the best of both worlds- both the theoretical and practical.
This is just to give you another perspective, a look into the other side of the coin. I think that both preprofessional majors and liberal arts majors have their merits, so you should not be so quick to dismiss liberal arts colleges.
I’ve been too busy sleeping to update my social media.
Yes, I feel slightly guilty about it.
Let’s just say once school is over I’ll have all the time in the world.
THIS IS SO ADORABLE.
Marriage Proposal of the Day: The planning! The dorkiness! The tears!
So imperfect it’s perfect.
[thanks, rob!]
Oh man. I’m not gonna lie. I cried at the end. This is amazing.
I freaking hate this song and I hate Bruno Mars and I hate cheesy proposals with a passion that is unmatched… but this had me in sobbing tears. So cute. Because I’m imagining all of those people were important people in their lives and it’s so thoughtful to plan that kind of thing and so great to have all those people there. And I could go on an on. HOW AWESOME.
absolutely crying my eyes out like a damn fool
This would be incredibly entertaining to watch go down your street.
Like just look out your window and see this?? Good for him though for throwing all that choreography together.
ughghhjkhvjhvk,
(via creatingaquietmind)
I’m really in awe of my future classmates. So many things in common and yet so different! They do everything.
Big Gay Ice Cream Shop (Taken with instagram)
Bo revealed that China’s Gini coefficient—a statistic that measures the gap between rich and poor—had entered into worrying territory. He described the number, which hasn’t been made public in over a decade, as over .46. Anything higher than .4 is considered dangerously high and capable of fueling unrest.
It’s a point that many other officials seem to have missed, mindful perhaps of Deng Xiaoping‘s declaration that “Some will get rich first,” but forgetting the coda that their prosperity would then spread to all. China’s growth in recent decades has been astonishing and surveys such as the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project have found high levels of satisfaction and optimism in China. But there is more to those numbers. A deeper examination of Chinese citizens’ levels of satisfaction indicates that while the country’s richest are increasingly content, the poor are growing more and more unhappy.
” —http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2012/05/15/for-china-economic-growth-doesnt-always-equal-happiness/#ixzz1v0aYkakKThe thought of never having to take a class that I don’t want to take makes me go :)
