<p>Social conditions in recent decades have changed people’s attitudes so much. When I chose to major in English in 1980, and people of my parents’ generation asked, “What’re you going to do with that?”, I answered with a straight face, “I think I’ll go to grad school and live like a Bohemian till I’m 30.” I think the most negative responses I got were “Oh” and “Well, it’s your life.” Today, I think a student who says that would more likely hear, “Are you out of your mind???”</p>