<p>Keilexandra: Wherever you had decided to go to college, you would have known how to spell hermeneutics (and to use it in a sentence) by Christmas of your freshman year. That would not be true, necessarily, of engineering students, etc., in general, but it would have been true of you. It’s nice that Swarthmore offers a minor in it, but that’s a little bit of flash, not a real difference between Swarthmore and anywhere else people study humanities seriously.</p>
<p>EDIT: Man, I wish I knew how to get those accents on when I show off my French, too. It’s sooooo annoying to have to leave them off and look dumb.</p>