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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter recently graduated from a top-rated college and prepared by that institution for exactly bupkus, despite straight A's.  She did her major learning in high school, thank heavens, because college was pretty much a waste of time an money from my vantage point.  She had classes two or three days a week for a few hours, watched a lot of TV, and took classes with names like "gender roles in Sci Fi" or "crisis in the classroom", "art and activism".  Or am I just grumpy?  I took Physics, Calculus, Economics, Sociology, World History, Literature, and highly demanding subject area courses, and little time for drinking and zero time for TV-watching. [/quote]

She choose poorly. (I did the same thing and ended up in law school. I hate it.)

No way will my kid only take those classes.[b] They better get at least one marketable skill out of college. [/b]

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This is a key consideration.  If I'm helping my kid pay for college, he/she needs to come out with a degree that WILL get him/her a job.  Accounting/pre-med/whatever.  No BS classes like 'art and activism'.  He/she can take those later, on his own dime.  [/quote]

Your kid can do both, that's what electives are for. My dad was a brilliant aerospace engineer, and the science fiction and creative writing courses he took at his Ivy helped him in his eventual livelihood every bit as much as his formal engineering education.[/quote]

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