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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I have two kids who are doing very well using their Russian Studies majors in exactly that way.  Maybe you should move along if you don't even know what you're talking about?[/quote]

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