[thulldud]

Gone are the days where an English major could settle into middle management and work his way up. No, you’re working at Starbuck’s or something now while you figure out that you could have gone into property management or some other field that doesn’t require a college degree AND that you forewent all that extra income you could have had!

This comment must be at least partially autobiographical. Who but an old-line (pre-deconstructionist) English major would know how to say "forgo" in the past tense?

And who but a refugee-from-the-liberal-arts-turned-computer-geek would then dare to point out that you misspelled it?

[Skywalk]

LOL!

It is only partially autobiographical. I was an Asian Studies/PoliSci major (regional studies, not that ethnic studies garbage) and while I have never worked in Starbuck’s, I do sometimes rue the time I misspent and the money I forewent ;)

I was never an English major but always a voracious reader and though some grammatical rules still elude me, I consider myself an adherent of the ‘grammar and spelling matters’ cause. Nothing worse than inelegant and inarticulately expressed ideas and unfortunately, I find myself being guilty of such more often than in the past. :(

I have a cousin who was set on going to Yale. He’s still some time off from having to seriously start applying but I told him that unless he gets a minority scholarship (I come from a mixed family, he’s black and I’m mixed myself) that he should NOT go to Yale but go to a quality state school. He should figure out what he ‘wants to do’ and not taken on onerous debt to do so. Once he has done that, he can either attempt to transfer or just get ready for the GRE or GMAT or MCAT and do well on that. If you have the grades and the scores, there’s no sense in accumulating 15-50K in debt (or more, I suppose) for an undegrad degree that has BECOME what a high school diploma was worth 50 years ago.