<p>I wonder what he thinks about the $$ spent (wasted?) on the neighbor’s new breasts?</p>
<p>My wife sometimes wonders what LAC grads do for a living. Other than obvious things like grad school. teaching, sales, etc.</p>
<p>At RPI, a STEM school there is a director of the First Year Experience “probably a liberal arts grad” I whispered. Theres a new person in disability support “psych grad”. And so on and so forth. </p>
<p>Of course college admin is on our minds a lot the last couple of years. Its not the only field where jobs that are obviously filled by humanities/softsocialsci grads are right in peoples faces, yet they never seem to see it.</p>
<p>Well Steve Jobs didn’t graduate, but he seems to be doing all right.</p>
<p>Sounds to me like this guy is frightened by the L in LAC.</p>
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<p>He probably regards that as wise investment in expanding her human potential.</p>
<p>I wonder what he thinks about the $$ spent (wasted?) on the neighbor’s new breasts?<<</p>
<p>Sounds like an all around classy guy. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I also wouldn’t call him upper middle class- he might be able to take out a large loan for housing, but he sounds like he lives under a rock.</p>
<p>Are you sure he is not posting on CC? If not, maybe he should, probably would make him feel better. I feel much better.</p>
<p>Coureur, LOL!</p>
<p>Poster 12, if I had $200k to spend on my D’s college (and I don’t) and she was passionate, for example, about 19th Century German Romantic poetry, I’d whip out the checkbook - and do it gladly, because it would be evidence she’d learned a very important lesson, that life is about so much more than money. </p>
<p>I don’t have $200k, but giving her what I do have does not depend on what she plans to study. </p>
<p>Oh, and you don’t study medicine until grad school. Many premeds major in non-STEM subjects. </p>
<p>OP, was the rant perhaps powered by Jack Daniels? </p>
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<p>Give me a break. Look around you. The nation has millions of employed individuals–many of them making substantial amounts of money–who are not in STEM fields.</p>
<p>Not to mention the fact that going to a LAC does not preclude one from studying a STEM field.</p>
<p>Sometimes I really wonder…</p>
<p>I can think of other reasons to consider larger schools over a small LAC - there’s something to be said for being in a department with a wide variety of courses offered each term, including at the graduate level, to avoid duplicating work done in high school and to ensure that there will always be an adequate challenge. Ultimately, that’s part of the reason I went to a school with a graduate program instead of some of the LACs I was considering, but it had nothing to do with job prospects (and one of my majors, the one I’m leaning towards pursuing, is in the humanities).</p>
<p>I can empathize with anyone who has strong opinions for or against a field or type of education. I can also feel someone’s pain if their child is trying to get them to fund something they don’t care for. However, why would anyone be against someone else spending their money in the kind of education they feel is good? As a bonus, when the rest go elsewhere, there’ll be less competition in the area favored by the neighbor in school and in the workplace afterwards if the neighbor’s opinions are well-founded.</p>
<p>I always thought tata meant bye-bye or referred to a family with a history of a huge industrial empire.</p>
<p>tata - DadOf3, me too - you and I are obviously way out of touch. </p>
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<p>The husband of the OP’s friend is a poster child for The American Idiot. </p>
<p>Consider gifting him that album when the holidays roll around. :D</p>
<p>If your level of preparation in HS is such that you will begin at such an advanced level in your major that you’ll run out of courses at an LAC, then a university with a grad program is probably a good idea. I am going to speculate, however, that this applies to very few students. </p>
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<p>Also, if you run out of interesting or want a graduate-level course, you can always ask to do a private reading with a Prof if you are able to convey your interest and academic seriousness to him/her.</p>
<p>One fewer applicant - no big deal.</p>
<p>^^Definitely true. I could have made a small LAC work with some independent reading courses, which is why I applied to several. There is something to be said for being in a classroom with one’s peers for such classes, though, especially in the humanities.</p>
<p>I want to know how many adult beverages he had under his belt before he went on his tirade.</p>
<p>I go back to my theory that this guy was yelling and carrying on about LACs because he felt defensive about this topic. Maybe you were hearing the tail end of the conversation, maybe between husband and wife, about where their son should apply. Unfortunately, he may be the type that gets louder when he starts getting into a discussion, especially one that drew out great emotions for him.</p>
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