Journal IamBMETammy's Journal: Usability of College Majors 11
Why are there so many useless college majors available?
By useless I mean you graduate and then there's no one really looking for your degree. With teaching, computer science, architecture, or mechanical, civil, chemical or computer engineering degrees it's obvious what you'll be doing. But what about biology? English? Psychology?
Why did no one warn me that Microbiology, while a great subject and very interesting requires a masters or doctorate to be truly useful?
I'm glad I feel strongly about medicine because the idea of going to graduate school is not appealing at all.
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Just follow the money.
They don't tell you that because then nobody'd take the courses and they'd be out of a few teaching jobs ... smaller budgets, fewer grants, less matching funds, fewer alumni, smaller student body, less prestige ...
Some majors, you'd be better off prepping for the job market by doing keggers all semester. At least you'd get some "soft skills".
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Choosing a major because it's a hot field where there's lots of hiring is often a huge mistake. e.g. Someone majors in something they're not passionate about because there are jobs in that field and then when they graduate, the field's
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So with a Theatre Arts major, a Theology major, and a Philosophy minor what did you grow up to be?