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From: sigma@usl.UUCP (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Grad school and humanities
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Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 13:46:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 26 13:46:52 1985
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Reply-To: sigma@usl.UUCP (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)
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In article <2620@ihuxf.UUCP> features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko) writes:
>> (apparently in the humanities,
>> graduate school is something you do for fun, and to prove that your parents
>> can afford it or something--I don't know.) 
>>                                      Cheryl
>Cheryl,
>	Just a doggone minute!  That isn't necessarily the case.
>With the twit you mentioned (edited out for brevity) it may have
>been true.  It is *not* true of the English, history, philosophy,
>etc. majors *I* knew that went on to grad school.  They went on
>for the same reasons anyone in CS or EE or any other discipline
>would...often because they need the advanced degree for a job, 
>and they have fallen into the inconvenient habit of eating daily.
>-- 
>
>aMAZon @ AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL; ihnp4!ihuxf!features

Hm... I would have to disagree. Seems that people who go to 
undergraduate humanities are as described (rich parents, etc.),
and then they flock to computer science for a quickie masters
for the buck. Doctorates are another story. I mean, how can
you become a yuppie with an MA in history? And then there was
a classmate in Anthropology who loaded/unloaded Bud Light trucks
40 hours/week to get a BA in general studies (:-? :-? :-?)

Spiros ut-sally!usl!sigma but not for long, heading for ST@GMR