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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The liberal arts crowd sure is worked up! So many of these anecdotal stories are pretty much meaningless. My college dropout neighbor makes over 500k in pharma sales. You should just get a GED and make big bucks in pharma sales!

When people goof on liberal arts degrees, they aren't talking about someone who uses their liberal arts degree to get into law school. They are talking about someone who majors in something useless like sociology.

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Sociology isn’t useless. I work as an attorney for a federal agency and most days use my sociology degree more than my English degree or even my law degree. [/quote]

You make decent money because you have a law degree and work as a lawyer. Majors like psychology or sociology are a joke, especially now that college can easily cost well over 100k. The classes are pretty much all the same. You have some nutty professor rambling on about stuff that is borderline insane and has no relevance to the real world.[/quote]

DP here.  You seem to have disdain for the inherent value of education and how it [b]prepares one for varied success.[/b]  You not only express that disdain, you demonstrate it.[/quote]

That depends on your chosen career. A college degree absolutely makes you more marketable and will likely create opportunities that don't exist without a degree. But most majors don't even come close to giving you the skills you need to do a particular job. I probably learned more from working crappy jobs than I did reading books and writing papers. You are literally doing the exact same thing over and over again for four years. What a bore.

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Your anti-intellectual position is consistent.  But what you learned in college may not be the same as what others learn.  And this is me responding kindly.[/quote]

I'm anti-intellectual because I'm a realist and decided to study in a field with a relatively high starting salary?

What you learned doesn't matter because it doesn't mean that you have a marketable skill. And trust me, the market has determined that a 4 year degree in sociology or psychology is one step above burger flipper at McDonalds. :lol: [/quote]

No, you are anti-intellectual because you literally disdain the benefit of “reading books and writing papers”.[/quote]

Many liberal arts majors choose such majors since those majors have many courses that do not have any tests and the final grades are dependent on papers and essays that can be purchased on line. These papers are customized to ordering customers and are relatively inexpensive. These students can graduate without taking any tests or actually writing any of the required papers themselves. Such is not possible for STEM courses or majors. [/quote]

A good number of the paper-buyers are likely STEM majors (which include the liberal arts majors in sciences or mathematics) who buy them for their non-STEM courses.  Business majors are the ones who are supposedly most likely to buy papers.  Majors in the humanities or social sciences get into increasingly specialized courses where it is difficult to buy a paper, as you have to write development pieces throughout the semester, meet with the professor about your ideas, use the research databases or datasets they suggest etc.   The papers work for the 101 style classes.[/quote]

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