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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I majored in Russian at Princeton in the mid-90s, at the nadir of Russian influence. We had four people in my class in the department, which had eight tenured professors. I had never taken Russian before I went to Princeton, and I did nothing with it after school. Became a sports journalist and then a lawyer. [/quote]

Someone does not know what 'nadir' means.[/quote]
It seems more the case that you would benefit from studying the history of this period, particularly that of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.[/quote]

[b]The collapse of the Soviet Union and rise of Russian emigrants indeed created a deep need for Russian speakers.  How could you possibly not know this?[/quote][/b]

That’s not a well paying field and a stupid reason for investing $90k in a major from which it is very difficult to get a good paying job in a career with a future. Even if fortunate to get into the CIA, you are stuck in a bureaucracy at a government wage the rest of your life.[/quote]

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