Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!akgub!usl!sigma From: sigma@usl.UUCP (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Grad school and humanities Message-ID: <576@usl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 13:46:52 EDT Article-I.D.: usl.576 Posted: Wed Jun 26 13:46:52 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 08:11:39 EDT References: <273@cmu-cs-g.ARPA> <841@ccice5.UUCP> <2222@topaz.ARPA> <1625@reed.UUCP> <492@rtech.UUCP> <817@oddjob.UUCP> <2620@ihuxf.UUCP> Reply-To: sigma@usl.UUCP (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) Organization: USL Computer Science Dept. Lines: 26 Summary: 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