Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:30
Subject: 2024 grads- job placement
Who are you people who treat college as merely a vocational school? There is something to be said for learning for the sake of learning. Being curious and well-rounded. Critically-thinking and arguing.
Lots of you on here are examples of why those things are needed. Greatly needed.
Lots of you on here are examples of why those things are needed. Greatly needed.
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:29
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Twins
DS1: Swarthmore, Art History Major, 4.0w/ all the awards, going into investment banking with a firm he interned for junior year
DS2: UVA, CS Major, 3.9w/all the awards, currently no job and applying like mad, past internship with Tesla
You can imagine my shock
How does art history lead to investment banking? This is not a snark comment. I'm genuinely curious as that would not be my expectation (though I know little about either as a career and college major).
Search for an old post on here about anthropology at Dartmouth as a very popular “gateway” major to investment banking and Wall Street.
Yet. Lots of Dartmouth anthro majors making bank.
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:27
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Amherst alum here. Just looked through the alumni directory, only to find that no such person exists. Nice try, though!Anonymous wrote:DD graduate from Amherst, 3.8, Gender Studies/Art history, unemployed and still looking…
Of course they don't, just some guy with a weird agenda to take down the invisible gender studies majors.
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:25
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DD graduate from Amherst, 3.8, Gender Studies/Art history, unemployed and still looking…
LOL ! Did you expect any different result ?
It's the Amherst troll.
We have an Amherst troll ?
If that is what you got from the post you referenced, then you need to concentrate a bit more as you totally missed the point. But, yeah, shame on Amherst College for allowing an assumed bright student spending the money of a good family for this. I hope & pray that the family has significant wealth.
A massive one who spends all their time purposely trying to make Amherst look terrible, because they're bitter. It's stupid.
Again, you miss the point. Not making fun of Amherst College, but am disgusted by the waste of a young mind at such an otherwise outstanding school. I'll bet the first thing this student does when meeting others is to announce her pronouns. Do you realize how silly it is to waste one's intelligence and a golden opportunity to study at one of the country's best colleges on gender studies/art history ? These are hobbies that can be done while sitting on the toilet. No need to pay $90,000 a year for four years to become a barista. Wasted time, wasted mind.
This is why we need legal immigration into this country. Bring in folks from other areas of the world who have enough common sense & work ethic to help our economy.
If it was such a waste of a degree, Amherst wouldn't offer it.
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:21
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DD graduate from Amherst, 3.8, Gender Studies/Art history, unemployed and still looking…
LOL ! Did you expect any different result ?
It's the Amherst troll.
We have an Amherst troll ?
If that is what you got from the post you referenced, then you need to concentrate a bit more as you totally missed the point. But, yeah, shame on Amherst College for allowing an assumed bright student spending the money of a good family for this. I hope & pray that the family has significant wealth.
A massive one who spends all their time purposely trying to make Amherst look terrible, because they're bitter. It's stupid.
Again, you miss the point. Not making fun of Amherst College, but am disgusted by the waste of a young mind at such an otherwise outstanding school. I'll bet the first thing this student does when meeting others is to announce her pronouns. Do you realize how silly it is to waste one's intelligence and a golden opportunity to study at one of the country's best colleges on gender studies/art history ? These are hobbies that can be done while sitting on the toilet. No need to pay $90,000 a year for four years to become a barista. Wasted time, wasted mind.
This is why we need legal immigration into this country. Bring in folks from other areas of the world who have enough common sense & work ethic to help our economy.
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:18
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Amherst alum here. Just looked through the alumni directory, only to find that no such person exists. Nice try, though!Anonymous wrote:DD graduate from Amherst, 3.8, Gender Studies/Art history, unemployed and still looking…
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:17
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:DS Art History/Political Economy Major at a t10. Going into Art conservation at a major museum in New York!
Congratulations! DC has similar goals and is going to a t10 class of 2028
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:15
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DS at Uchicago, Physics and CS major, 3.9, Phi beta kappa, department awards, going into Satellite engineering at Raytheon! We're so proud of him!
Isn’t phi beta kappa for the non science majors?
No. I was phi beta kappa as a chem major premed 25 yrs ago. It is topv%age of the graduating class based on GPA, usually, though there are some nuances to how universities can select each cohort.
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:14
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DD graduate from Amherst, 3.8, Gender Studies/Art history, unemployed and still looking…
LOL ! Did you expect any different result ?
It's the Amherst troll.
We have an Amherst troll ?
If that is what you got from the post you referenced, then you need to concentrate a bit more as you totally missed the point. But, yeah, shame on Amherst College for allowing an assumed bright student spending the money of a good family for this. I hope & pray that the family has significant wealth.
A massive one who spends all their time purposely trying to make Amherst look terrible, because they're bitter. It's stupid.
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:14
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DD graduate from Amherst, 3.8, Gender Studies/Art history, unemployed and still looking…
I do not want to be impolite, but this combination of majors screams barista.
Above I asked: What did you expect ? More importantly, what did your daughter expect ?
This is a prime example of how silly higher education in America has become. Go into any room full of employers or other businesspersons and announce that you have just received a job application from a recent graduate with degrees in gender studies/art history. When the laughter subsides, ask what types of jobs should this recent college graduate be seeking. Barista, college admissions rep at Smith College, volunteer campaign worker for a Democrat, dog walker, retail....
That person was trolling. You are heavily invested in speaking nonsense though.
Your post does not even merit a response, but here I go anyway. Sorry, but I cannot stop laughing. Fools and their money....
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:12
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DD graduate from Amherst, 3.8, Gender Studies/Art history, unemployed and still looking…
LOL ! Did you expect any different result ?
It's the Amherst troll.
We have an Amherst troll ?
If that is what you got from the post you referenced, then you need to concentrate a bit more as you totally missed the point. But, yeah, shame on Amherst College for allowing an assumed bright student spending the money of a good family for this. I hope & pray that the family has significant wealth.
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:11
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
DS Art History/Political Economy Major at a t10. Going into Art conservation at a major museum in New York!
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:10
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:DS at Uchicago, Physics and CS major, 3.9, Phi beta kappa, department awards, going into Satellite engineering at Raytheon! We're so proud of him!
Isn’t phi beta kappa for the non science majors?
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:09
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DD graduate from Amherst, 3.8, Gender Studies/Art history, unemployed and still looking…
I do not want to be impolite, but this combination of majors screams barista.
Above I asked: What did you expect ? More importantly, what did your daughter expect ?
This is a prime example of how silly higher education in America has become. Go into any room full of employers or other businesspersons and announce that you have just received a job application from a recent graduate with degrees in gender studies/art history. When the laughter subsides, ask what types of jobs should this recent college graduate be seeking. Barista, college admissions rep at Smith College, volunteer campaign worker for a Democrat, dog walker, retail....
That person was trolling. You are heavily invested in speaking nonsense though.
Anonymous
08/16/2024 10:08
Subject: Re:2024 grads- job placement
Anonymous wrote:DD graduate from Amherst, 3.8, Gender Studies/Art history, unemployed and still looking…
I do not want to be impolite, but this combination of majors screams barista.
Above I asked: What did you expect ? More importantly, what did your daughter expect ?
This is a prime example of how silly higher education in America has become. Go into any room full of employers or other businesspersons and announce that you have just received a job application from a recent graduate with degrees in gender studies/art history. When the laughter subsides, ask what types of jobs should this recent college graduate be seeking. Barista, college admissions rep at Smith College, volunteer campaign worker for a Democrat, dog walker, retail....