Today, colleges offer garbage like this:
20 Completely Ridiculous College Courses Being Offered At U.S. Universities
Today, colleges offer garbage like this:
20 Completely Ridiculous College Courses Being Offered At U.S. Universities
These courses are perfect for those who have no brain but have parents who can afford to send their offspring to college.
Well, given society today, that “Zombies in Cultural Media” course could be very useful if it delved into the art of Zombie-killing.
Some degree’s are not worth having.
Last summer I had a door-knocker from NYPIRG babbling on about how bad fracking was. It was rather amusing. After taking him apart on fracking, I informed him that a few years earlier that I had some pretty 20-nothing from NYPIRG babbling on about mercury from burning coal.
When cornered about the energy inputs on solar panels ( i.e. the energy to mine, and refine rare earths to usable purity to make those solar panels work) he babbled on how he didn’t have a science degree. I asked him what he did have a degree in. He responded with “BA in Near Eastern Studies” form NYU. I asked him what sort of work he thought he could find with such a credential. He lamented that he could not find anything beyond waiter/barista.
I then queried what possessed him to want to enter a degree program where there was no meaningful opportunities for employment after graduation? He responded that his parents told him he could be anything he wanted to be. To which I replied, yes that is true but in order to live he needed to provide some value to his fellow citizens that they would in fact be willing to PAY for.
He complained of the high debt that he had, and I told him that he should have gone into engineering, mathematics, computer science, or accounting where he could provide value to someone that they would actually be willing to him pay for.
I said to him Near Eastern Studies was a nice hobby, not a career.
I enjoy particle physics, and spent several years working in that field at Cornell University. The problem with it was that it didn’t pay very well and left it for a major corporation which used what I learned to develop products that people would actually pay for and remunerate me appropriately.
I told him he needed to take the coexist bumper sticker off his car, and get with the program. Being a liberal is the life of a loser and he should head for the military to learn how to be an adult with meaningful skills.
“Far Side Entomology” - Now THAT looks like a fun course.
Were you attempting to become a chemical or mechanical engineer then?
You must have taken at least one course in Physical Chemistry (”P-Chem”) too? Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, Quantum Chemistry, etc etc. Not sure there ever was a big demand for P-Chemists in the private sector. One of my favorite bumper stickers of all time was “Honk if you passed P-Chem!”