<p>mflevity, your advice is just perfect and ought to be passed on to every Carl. As a prof, I’d say it’s even more important to visit the office hours of profs you’re not particularly fond of. Sometimes a connection can be made one-on-one that’s hard to forge in class. Pootie, you’re certainly right that it’s harder to get a job in art, history, or religion, but a) at an institution of Carleton’s caliber, even these graduates do very well and many <em>are</em> employed in their fields, even more so after graduate study, as you suggest, and b) lots of them are employed outside of their majors, but this is in no way a failure. If you major in, say, American Studies and then become a lawyer, teacher, organizer, writer, advertising executive, etc. this isn’t an undesirable outcome of your American Studies degree.</p>