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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I understand that college is expensive and that everyone wants to make a lot of money. And, I’m not suggesting that everyone should major in anthropology or philosophy. Instead, I am suggesting that students could double major or minor in such a subject or at least take classes in them. To the contrary, what I’m seeing is a kid with an elective opting for yoga, nutrition, etc. based on the perception that it’s easy (which it is) and it fits their schedule (nothing in the morning or on Friday), when they could have chosen a serious class in the humanities or liberal arts. I’d like to see a pre-med, business, or computer science major talk to me about how their Buddhism class influenced their thinking about life or their future profession. Or, how different philosophical viewpoints on love impacted their thinking about relationships. [/quote]

STEM major from a long time ago back again.  Once again, you described what I did along with many others I knew.  One semester we found something physical that was similar to a PE/self defense class.  We took it because it was easy and fun and self defense ended up being useful info to know.

My classes were hard as hell.  I didn’t want to use an elective taking an extra philosophy class, which I would have hated.  [/quote]

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