"... which is a major tip that Harvard gives..."

blossom
Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:54:07 +0000

Gotta pushback. NOBODY can successfully complete a philosophy major at Harvard without loving it. It is not the cakewalk that the “you have to major in CS or be premed because everything else is a gut course” crowd thinks it is.

What one does afterwards- that’s on the kid, not the college.

I was a Classics major and now have had a 35+ year career in corporate America. That doesn’t diminish the quality of the Classics department in any way; it reflects the reality that what you THINK you want to do with your life at age 17 may not be what still interests you at 25 (or 35 or 45, etc.)

I had the stack of applications to PhD programs sitting on my desk… and they got moved every time I moved in my 20’s (which was frequent) until one day- poof. I dumped them in the trash- completed essays and all- and never looked back.