Professor just told a story about the deli owner he went to while he was in college noticed his copy of Dante's Inferno and started reciting the story from memory.
My professor was surprised and wanted to know where he learned that and he said he studied medieval history in Italy (forgot the town) and specialized in literature including the Dante's Inferno.
Managed to put his kids through college and he's still making sandwiches to this day. Thinking about going to visit his deli actually.
Anyway, point is, don't worry humanities majors. One day you might find a delicatessen owner to talk about humanities with and you might even own a deli one day! Or teach!
Kevin Campbell
>Tfw took stem shit through calc 2 (yes I passed it) before switching to history Never been happier. I feel like a human again.
Luke Phillips
Of course you can have a university where history or whatever essays require tonnes of research and hours of error free work and interpretation. But if I told you to go and learn Mongolian for 4 years and write a novel and 10 poems and a newspaper in the language then that would require all those qualities as well. Now the same but replace Mongolian with Hentai porn.
Some people claim that humanities students have a monopoly on rigour or critical thinking. Rigour is simply the absence of fallacies. Critical thinking is simply rigour along with using existing ideas. Maybe my definitions are wrong but I hope you agree that only a deluded consumer whore student could think that you need a degree to obtain these qualities.
My problem with humanities degrees is that the framework needed to create quality work is arbitrary and inconsistent. In practice, being a renowned person in these fields relies on subjective perceptions related to self promotion.
I'm on my phone so I can't be bothered to write what I fully think but my opinion is that if the degree isn't teaching you general, widely applicable, theoretical ideas, it's a worthless waste of time. My engineering degree was worthless and the only worthwhile degrees are maths, physics, and parts of computer science
Julian Gonzalez
>you might even own a deli But my humanities education taught me that owning things is capitalism
Caleb Davis
>I've heard many complain they didn't take calculus in HS Where the fuck are people not taking at the very least precalc in HS?
Cooper Young
Whats your point?
Lots of burnt out lawyers go into politics, MBA grads might start small businesses, engineers might start small tech shops.
A degree isnt a life-sentence dummy.
Jackson Powell
And capitalism is good!
Charles Anderson
Humanities don't make you money, they get you cultured.
Not everything in life needs to be valued by the dollar. Past a certain point where you have enough to live comfortably things like culture and philosophy start to matter.
It's literally Maslow' Hierarchy of needs. If you are broke don't study humanities, you need food and housing first.
Dominic Perry
I think that was his point, dummy
Gabriel Nguyen
But my humanities education taught me that it's destroying the planet :(
