Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxf!features From: features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Grad school and humanities Message-ID: <2620@ihuxf.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 13:47:44 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxf.2620 Posted: Mon Jun 24 13:47:44 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 05:55:30 EDT References: <273@cmu-cs-g.ARPA> <841@ccice5.UUCP> <2222@topaz.ARPA> <1625@reed.UUCP> <492@rtech.UUCP> <817@oddjob.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 15 > (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