<p>Bravo Brave Ulysses. The facts speak for themselves.</p>
<p>GraveNewWorld, you have an interesting posting history, to say the least. You were singing a different tune a while back about your college degree and career.</p>
<p>“Get your kid to major in mathematics now!
My background: I was a major in chemistry and mathematics that went on to work in the pharmaceutical industry as a chemist. I was subsequently laid off, but man o man am I sure happy now that I majored in mathematics. It has proven to be the very durable and quite useful. Right after being laid off, I was able to work as a substitute math teacher to make ends meet while applying for new jobs. I was able to find a 1 and half year temp job with at a bank doing financial analysis because of my strong background in mathematics. I was thinking about going to pharmacy school, even took the PCAT (aced it because of my math degree again), but reconsidered because of the fact that there are now way too many pharmacists. Thus I decided to go back to grad school to ride out this terrible economy (and also because I like research), and will now be working on my PhD in biomedical engineering. All of this would not have been possible without my degree in mathematics. I have been able to jump in and out of several, quite different, industries very easily.”</p>
<p>From the same thread:
"15 Years in aerospace? Good job Mrscollege. There’s no way in heck I could have gone from chemistry/pharmaceuticals to BME without my math degree. SOOOOOOOOOOO glad I have that piece of paper up on my wall right now. "
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/862196-get-your-kid-major-mathematics-now.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/862196-get-your-kid-major-mathematics-now.html</a></p>
<p>You also seem to be turned off to higher education in general. Have you been posting your bitter observations on the Ivy forums as well?</p>
<p>"What do people think about Harvard and Columbia now after Inside Job?
Has anyone seen this film? My god what has happened to our “academic” institutions? They appear to be as corrupt as Wall Street. "
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1098711-what-do-people-think-about-harvard-columbia-now-after-inside-job.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1098711-what-do-people-think-about-harvard-columbia-now-after-inside-job.html</a></p>
<p>I could go on and on, but suffice it to say that you obviously have an Agenda. No one puts this much time into negative posting unless there is an overriding purpose. I’m sure most people reading this forum know to take any of the opinions posted here with a grain of salt.</p>