Why would non-one percent families let their kids major in the humanities?

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Humanities are important for critical thinking !!!

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Anonymous wrote:Pondering "social mobility" as the goal. Sounds weird to me, sounds like the entire plan is about leaving your roots in the dust--your family, people you grew up with. Assuming you grew up in comfortable surroundings with loving parents and friends and neighbors who were good to you, what's wrong with wanting to plant yourself in a similar life?

Sounds like you grew up in a wealthy family in a desirable metro area. Why would you assume the bolded?

NP. I grew up as the child of a blue collar worker and a nurse and I would describe my upbringing as comfortable surroundings. We moved a couple of times for various reasons and had the same quality of life everywhere we moved because there skillsets were (and still are) in demand basically everywhere people drive cars or have babies. Their expectation for me was to attend college like they did but no expectation for or desire for social striving; our lives were pretty comfortable.

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Anonymous wrote:Pondering "social mobility" as the goal. Sounds weird to me, sounds like the entire plan is about leaving your roots in the dust--your family, people you grew up with. Assuming you grew up in comfortable surroundings with loving parents and friends and neighbors who were good to you, what's wrong with wanting to plant yourself in a similar life?

Sounds like you grew up in a wealthy family in a desirable metro area. Why would you assume the bolded?

DP. Do you think that only the wealthy in desirable areas are comfortable?!?!? Gah.

Pp is ridiculous.

I grew up with a humanities teacher dad and mom in health care in a middle sized city and we were absolutely comfortable.

So, number 1: most kids these days don’t grow up in comfortable surroundings — 50% of American children are in free/reduced lunch. And number 2, teachers are treated horribly nowadays:

https://time.com/magazine/us/5394910/september-24th-2018-vol-192-no-12-u-s/

I don’t know why, but for some reason, this website has been giving really bad, out of date advice for the past few months. From things like “high achieving kids don’t have internships during COVID!” to “you can major in the humanities from a middle class background and still make it!” the people posting here are mainly out of touch boomers.

Sorry, someone isn’t doomed to poverty because they didn’t have an internship or majored in humanities. If you graduate (most kids don’t graduate at all) with little or no debt and a good gpa, you’re already way ahead.

+1

I know plenty of people who are below or near the poverty line and it's not because they picked a humanities major in college. For those who HAVE gone to college, it's getting student loans + dropping out that is the killer. Even just dropping out is recoverable.

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Anonymous wrote:Pondering "social mobility" as the goal. Sounds weird to me, sounds like the entire plan is about leaving your roots in the dust--your family, people you grew up with. Assuming you grew up in comfortable surroundings with loving parents and friends and neighbors who were good to you, what's wrong with wanting to plant yourself in a similar life?

Sounds like you grew up in a wealthy family in a desirable metro area. Why would you assume the bolded?

DP. Do you think that only the wealthy in desirable areas are comfortable?!?!? Gah.

Pp is ridiculous.

I grew up with a humanities teacher dad and mom in health care in a middle sized city and we were absolutely comfortable.

So, number 1: most kids these days don’t grow up in comfortable surroundings — 50% of American children are in free/reduced lunch. And number 2, teachers are treated horribly nowadays:

https://time.com/magazine/us/5394910/september-24th-2018-vol-192-no-12-u-s/

I don’t know why, but for some reason, this website has been giving really bad, out of date advice for the past few months. From things like “high achieving kids don’t have internships during COVID!” to “you can major in the humanities from a middle class background and still make it!” the people posting here are mainly out of touch boomers.

Sorry, someone isn’t doomed to poverty because they didn’t have an internship or majored in humanities. If you graduate (most kids don’t graduate at all) with little or no debt and a good gpa, you’re already way ahead.

+1

I know plenty of people who are below or near the poverty line and it's not because they picked a humanities major in college. For those who HAVE gone to college, it's getting student loans + dropping out that is the killer. Even just dropping out is recoverable.

Really? All the college grads I know who are poor picked useless majors.

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My kid just graduated with a humanities degree. Next week we're moving him to start at a Top 6 law school where he got a full scholarship.

Why don't you just mind your own business and let people do what they think is right for them?

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Anonymous wrote:Pondering "social mobility" as the goal. Sounds weird to me, sounds like the entire plan is about leaving your roots in the dust--your family, people you grew up with. Assuming you grew up in comfortable surroundings with loving parents and friends and neighbors who were good to you, what's wrong with wanting to plant yourself in a similar life?

Sounds like you grew up in a wealthy family in a desirable metro area. Why would you assume the bolded?

DP. Do you think that only the wealthy in desirable areas are comfortable?!?!? Gah.

Pp is ridiculous.

I grew up with a humanities teacher dad and mom in health care in a middle sized city and we were absolutely comfortable.

So, number 1: most kids these days don’t grow up in comfortable surroundings — 50% of American children are in free/reduced lunch. And number 2, teachers are treated horribly nowadays:

https://time.com/magazine/us/5394910/september-24th-2018-vol-192-no-12-u-s/

I don’t know why, but for some reason, this website has been giving really bad, out of date advice for the past few months. From things like “high achieving kids don’t have internships during COVID!” to “you can major in the humanities from a middle class background and still make it!” the people posting here are mainly out of touch boomers.

Sorry, someone isn’t doomed to poverty because they didn’t have an internship or majored in humanities. If you graduate (most kids don’t graduate at all) with little or no debt and a good gpa, you’re already way ahead.

+1

I know plenty of people who are below or near the poverty line and it's not because they picked a humanities major in college. For those who HAVE gone to college, it's getting student loans + dropping out that is the killer. Even just dropping out is recoverable.

Really? All the college grads I know who are poor picked useless majors.

I don't know any college grads that are poor or else they borrowed a lot of money to go to college.

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Anonymous wrote:Pondering "social mobility" as the goal. Sounds weird to me, sounds like the entire plan is about leaving your roots in the dust--your family, people you grew up with. Assuming you grew up in comfortable surroundings with loving parents and friends and neighbors who were good to you, what's wrong with wanting to plant yourself in a similar life?

Sounds like you grew up in a wealthy family in a desirable metro area. Why would you assume the bolded?

DP. Do you think that only the wealthy in desirable areas are comfortable?!?!? Gah.

Pp is ridiculous.

I grew up with a humanities teacher dad and mom in health care in a middle sized city and we were absolutely comfortable.

So, number 1: most kids these days don’t grow up in comfortable surroundings — 50% of American children are in free/reduced lunch. And number 2, teachers are treated horribly nowadays:

https://time.com/magazine/us/5394910/september-24th-2018-vol-192-no-12-u-s/

I don’t know why, but for some reason, this website has been giving really bad, out of date advice for the past few months. From things like “high achieving kids don’t have internships during COVID!” to “you can major in the humanities from a middle class background and still make it!” the people posting here are mainly out of touch boomers.

Sorry, someone isn’t doomed to poverty because they didn’t have an internship or majored in humanities. If you graduate (most kids don’t graduate at all) with little or no debt and a good gpa, you’re already way ahead.

+1

I know plenty of people who are below or near the poverty line and it's not because they picked a humanities major in college. For those who HAVE gone to college, it's getting student loans + dropping out that is the killer. Even just dropping out is recoverable.

Really? All the college grads I know who are poor picked useless majors.

I don't know any college grads that are poor or else they borrowed a lot of money to go to college.

I don’t know any poor college grads either. Maybe they were ‘poor’ in their 20s, in that they lived with roommates in entry level jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:Pondering "social mobility" as the goal. Sounds weird to me, sounds like the entire plan is about leaving your roots in the dust--your family, people you grew up with. Assuming you grew up in comfortable surroundings with loving parents and friends and neighbors who were good to you, what's wrong with wanting to plant yourself in a similar life?

Sounds like you grew up in a wealthy family in a desirable metro area. Why would you assume the bolded?

DP. Do you think that only the wealthy in desirable areas are comfortable?!?!? Gah.

Pp is ridiculous.

I grew up with a humanities teacher dad and mom in health care in a middle sized city and we were absolutely comfortable.

So, number 1: most kids these days don’t grow up in comfortable surroundings — 50% of American children are in free/reduced lunch. And number 2, teachers are treated horribly nowadays:

https://time.com/magazine/us/5394910/september-24th-2018-vol-192-no-12-u-s/

I don’t know why, but for some reason, this website has been giving really bad, out of date advice for the past few months. From things like “high achieving kids don’t have internships during COVID!” to “you can major in the humanities from a middle class background and still make it!” the people posting here are mainly out of touch boomers.

Sorry, someone isn’t doomed to poverty because they didn’t have an internship or majored in humanities. If you graduate (most kids don’t graduate at all) with little or no debt and a good gpa, you’re already way ahead.

+1

I know plenty of people who are below or near the poverty line and it's not because they picked a humanities major in college. For those who HAVE gone to college, it's getting student loans + dropping out that is the killer. Even just dropping out is recoverable.

Really? All the college grads I know who are poor picked useless majors.

I don't know any college grads that are poor or else they borrowed a lot of money to go to college.

Same. Don’t know any poor college grads. I live in diverse socio-economic area. Those who struggle are not college grads.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid just graduated with a humanities degree. Next week we're moving him to start at a Top 6 law school where he got a full scholarship.

Why don't you just mind your own business and let people do what they think is right for them?

Just wondering, how did he get a scholarship to a T6 law school? Nearly all the lawyers we know are drowning in student debt.

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Anonymous wrote:Pondering "social mobility" as the goal. Sounds weird to me, sounds like the entire plan is about leaving your roots in the dust--your family, people you grew up with. Assuming you grew up in comfortable surroundings with loving parents and friends and neighbors who were good to you, what's wrong with wanting to plant yourself in a similar life?

Sounds like you grew up in a wealthy family in a desirable metro area. Why would you assume the bolded?

DP. Do you think that only the wealthy in desirable areas are comfortable?!?!? Gah.

Pp is ridiculous.

I grew up with a humanities teacher dad and mom in health care in a middle sized city and we were absolutely comfortable.

So, number 1: most kids these days don’t grow up in comfortable surroundings — 50% of American children are in free/reduced lunch. And number 2, teachers are treated horribly nowadays:

https://time.com/magazine/us/5394910/september-24th-2018-vol-192-no-12-u-s/

I don’t know why, but for some reason, this website has been giving really bad, out of date advice for the past few months. From things like “high achieving kids don’t have internships during COVID!” to “you can major in the humanities from a middle class background and still make it!” the people posting here are mainly out of touch boomers.

Sorry, someone isn’t doomed to poverty because they didn’t have an internship or majored in humanities. If you graduate (most kids don’t graduate at all) with little or no debt and a good gpa, you’re already way ahead.

+1

I know plenty of people who are below or near the poverty line and it's not because they picked a humanities major in college. For those who HAVE gone to college, it's getting student loans + dropping out that is the killer. Even just dropping out is recoverable.

Really? All the college grads I know who are poor picked useless majors.

I don't know any college grads that are poor or else they borrowed a lot of money to go to college.

I don’t know any poor college grads either. Maybe they were ‘poor’ in their 20s, in that they lived with roommates in entry level jobs.

I glance at some YouTube channels where the YouTuber discusses their student loans. A lot of them have $100k+ student loans, but went to schools like Wake Forest and UT Austin and mention only at the end of the video that their salaries are $70k+. And they’re only 20-25 years old.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid just graduated with a humanities degree. Next week we're moving him to start at a Top 6 law school where he got a full scholarship.

Why don't you just mind your own business and let people do what they think is right for them?

Just wondering, how did he get a scholarship to a T6 law school? Nearly all the lawyers we know are drowning in student debt.

I know someone who got a full ride to Penn Law for class of 2024.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid just graduated with a humanities degree. Next week we're moving him to start at a Top 6 law school where he got a full scholarship.

Why don't you just mind your own business and let people do what they think is right for them?

Just wondering, how did he get a scholarship to a T6 law school? Nearly all the lawyers we know are drowning in student debt.

To the subject of this thread, he had great grades and recommendations because he majored in a subject he loved and ended up doing interesting stuff as an undergrad that added up to an interesting application. But he also aced the LSAT which I’m sure played a big part and is not necessarily attributable to any major, humanities or not (though he said it helped with the reading comp section)

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Anonymous wrote:My kid just graduated with a humanities degree. Next week we're moving him to start at a Top 6 law school where he got a full scholarship.

Why don't you just mind your own business and let people do what they think is right for them?

Just wondering, how did he get a scholarship to a T6 law school? Nearly all the lawyers we know are drowning in student debt.

To the subject of this thread, he had great grades and recommendations because he majored in a subject he loved and ended up doing interesting stuff as an undergrad that added up to an interesting application. But he also aced the LSAT which I’m sure played a big part and is not necessarily attributable to any major, humanities or not (though he said it helped with the reading comp section)

What were his ECs like?

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Anonymous wrote:Pondering "social mobility" as the goal. Sounds weird to me, sounds like the entire plan is about leaving your roots in the dust--your family, people you grew up with. Assuming you grew up in comfortable surroundings with loving parents and friends and neighbors who were good to you, what's wrong with wanting to plant yourself in a similar life?

Sounds like you grew up in a wealthy family in a desirable metro area. Why would you assume the bolded?

DP. Do you think that only the wealthy in desirable areas are comfortable?!?!? Gah.

Pp is ridiculous.

I grew up with a humanities teacher dad and mom in health care in a middle sized city and we were absolutely comfortable.

So, number 1: most kids these days don’t grow up in comfortable surroundings — 50% of American children are in free/reduced lunch. And number 2, teachers are treated horribly nowadays:

https://time.com/magazine/us/5394910/september-24th-2018-vol-192-no-12-u-s/

I don’t know why, but for some reason, this website has been giving really bad, out of date advice for the past few months. From things like “high achieving kids don’t have internships during COVID!” to “you can major in the humanities from a middle class background and still make it!” the people posting here are mainly out of touch boomers.

Sorry, someone isn’t doomed to poverty because they didn’t have an internship or majored in humanities. If you graduate (most kids don’t graduate at all) with little or no debt and a good gpa, you’re already way ahead.

+1

I know plenty of people who are below or near the poverty line and it's not because they picked a humanities major in college. For those who HAVE gone to college, it's getting student loans + dropping out that is the killer. Even just dropping out is recoverable.

Really? All the college grads I know who are poor picked useless majors.

I don't know any college grads that are poor or else they borrowed a lot of money to go to college.

I don’t know any poor college grads either. Maybe they were ‘poor’ in their 20s, in that they lived with roommates in entry level jobs.

I glance at some YouTube channels where the YouTuber discusses their student loans. A lot of them have $100k+ student loans, but went to schools like Wake Forest and UT Austin and mention only at the end of the video that their salaries are $70k+. And they’re only 20-25 years old.

That has less to do with major and more with taking out too many loans.

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Anonymous wrote:Pondering "social mobility" as the goal. Sounds weird to me, sounds like the entire plan is about leaving your roots in the dust--your family, people you grew up with. Assuming you grew up in comfortable surroundings with loving parents and friends and neighbors who were good to you, what's wrong with wanting to plant yourself in a similar life?

Sounds like you grew up in a wealthy family in a desirable metro area. Why would you assume the bolded?

DP. Do you think that only the wealthy in desirable areas are comfortable?!?!? Gah.

Pp is ridiculous.

I grew up with a humanities teacher dad and mom in health care in a middle sized city and we were absolutely comfortable.

So, number 1: most kids these days don’t grow up in comfortable surroundings — 50% of American children are in free/reduced lunch. And number 2, teachers are treated horribly nowadays:

https://time.com/magazine/us/5394910/september-24th-2018-vol-192-no-12-u-s/

I don’t know why, but for some reason, this website has been giving really bad, out of date advice for the past few months. From things like “high achieving kids don’t have internships during COVID!” to “you can major in the humanities from a middle class background and still make it!” the people posting here are mainly out of touch boomers.

Sorry, someone isn’t doomed to poverty because they didn’t have an internship or majored in humanities. If you graduate (most kids don’t graduate at all) with little or no debt and a good gpa, you’re already way ahead.

+1

I know plenty of people who are below or near the poverty line and it's not because they picked a humanities major in college. For those who HAVE gone to college, it's getting student loans + dropping out that is the killer. Even just dropping out is recoverable.

Really? All the college grads I know who are poor picked useless majors.

I don't know any college grads that are poor or else they borrowed a lot of money to go to college.

Depends on what you mean by poor. I know many college grads who have to commute hr plus to afford a house or live in apartments because that’s all they can afford. They aren’t “poor” but the typical middle class American dream is out of reach, even into their 30s and 40s.
I don’t know any poor college grads either. Maybe they were ‘poor’ in their 20s, in that they lived with roommates in entry level jobs.