Heart Broken Mom

Cardinal_Fang
Sun, 10 May 2009 16:38:19 +0000

I don’t understand what is so superior about International Affairs/International Relations, compared to another major the daughter might have picked. IA/IR is not some huge moneymaking field, where the daughter would be guaranteed a solid career. It’s not as if the parents said, “Darling, we’ll send you to Brown for the six year med program because it’ll be worth all the expense, but we’re not sending you to Brown to study Art.” IA/IR is just another liberal arts degree.

I’m not criticizing IA/IR, or liberal arts degrees in general-- my son will be getting a degree in some field in humanities, perhaps even International Relations-- but this is not a lucrative pre-professional major.