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basemetal

2010-09-09 09:17:29 AM

Yeah, well welcome to the real world. *slap*

EvilEgg

2010-09-09 09:20:27 AM

But it was a hell of a party while it lasted, wasn't it?

/Oh, gender studies, you were too uptight to have any fun. That sucks.

Gulper Eel

2010-09-09 09:30:15 AM

Wouldja freshen this up for me, toots? That's a good broad.

Barakku

2010-09-09 09:39:43 AM

Someone on my floor is taking a gender studies class. Sort of wanted to strangle her.

Recoil Therapy

2010-09-09 10:15:40 AM

I had a friend who went to a just under Ivy League level school (big $ with very little in aid other than loans) & got a degree in 'Nonviolent Conflict Resolution'. She spent five years scuttling around campus being very earnest about silly things & driving (well riding, she didn't own a car) all over the eastern seaboard to get to any demonstration she could (on the plus side she had great connections for good quality pot). Fast forward 10+ years & the last I heard was that she was working for just over minimum wage as a librarian in a private elementary school and planning on moving back in with her mother as she just couldn't afford to live on her own any longer (as a spectacular ironic bonus she was also working out some trouble with the law after bashing her boyfriend in the face with a frying pan during a fight).

If you really want to learn things like that, figure out a way to do it cheaply. Just yesterday I found links to podcasts or YouTube links of hundreds of lectures/classes from places such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc in the area of history (what I was looking for at the time). No it doesn't have the same impact as being in the classroom with the give & take interaction with the teacher and other students. However it also costs nothing but a bit of time and a tiny bit of electric current. Educating yourself doesn't always require an expensive degree, but if you're going to get one at least make it of a marketable subject. Save the somewhat goofy things for coffee house discussions or audit for fun classes when you have the time.

Infamous Dr. X

2010-09-09 10:20:07 AM

OH MY GOD. QUIT FARKING WHINING.

Christ, you took journalism classes as well as majored in something that forced you to critically analyze quantitative and qualitative data, draw conclusions from that analysis, and process that into some kind of meaningful written form in order to convince your professors that you could 1) conduct research 2) perform analysis and 3) cogently report on that analysis.

The only difference between doing that in college and doing that in the real world is that your research, analysis, and conclusions have dollar amounts riding on them and you generally have less time to produce your work product.

Quit whining and do what all writing-heavy lib arts majors can and should do - get a freaking entry level office job. You have a skill set MANY people in business sorely lack.* People who can write, and do it well, can find themselves reasonably successful reasonably quickly.

*providing of course that you actually CAN write well.

slayer199

2010-09-09 10:20:33 AM

"But I could have benefited from more politics, history and literature classes-to learn more about the world in general, rather than one tiny little sliver of the world. There's a difference between what I thought was "cool" to learn about at the time and what has actually proved useful in life."

Duh. Why universities offer these BS (as in bullshiat) degrees is beyond me...oh wait...$40k a year? Now I get it.

Garm

2010-09-09 10:22:07 AM

I was always under the impression that classes like that were there to round out legit degrees. Sure you can major in it, but it is indicative that in however many years you were working on that degree, you learned nothing...

PainInTheASP

2010-09-09 10:23:52 AM

My high school guidance counsellor told me to pick my career with my heart and not my head.

I am really glad I didn't listen to her.

SphericalTime

2010-09-09 10:28:52 AM

Recoil Therapy: Just yesterday I found links to podcasts or YouTube links of hundreds of lectures/classes from places such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc in the area of history (what I was looking for at the time).

Yeah, some of the Yale podcasts are really interesting. I'm doing a series on Religion currently.

Teknowaffle

2010-09-09 10:34:07 AM

I gave up my astrophysics studies for history because the history course would allow me to study overseas much more easily due to the competitiveness and requirements of the astrophysics department.

Now I have my degree in history, and still work in an astronomy related field. But I now have plans to go back and get another undergrad degree in the sciences, which is where my true interest lies, and proceed from there.

Rapmaster2000

2010-09-09 10:35:11 AM

You don't need to pay someone to teach you to hate men. I can teach you to hate men for free.

66dude

2010-09-09 10:36:43 AM

Awww... you poor widdle baby. Now, spread your legs, and spread 'em wide. Big Daddy's coming!

EvilEgg

2010-09-09 10:36:49 AM

Rapmaster2000: You don't need to pay someone to teach you to hate men. I can teach you to hate men for free.

Why do I have the feeling you've taught that particular lesson to a few unsuspecting women?

Savoir-Faire

2010-09-09 10:37:15 AM

and here...we....GO!

Rapmaster2000

2010-09-09 10:37:35 AM

EvilEgg: Rapmaster2000: You don't need to pay someone to teach you to hate men. I can teach you to hate men for free.

Why do I have the feeling you've taught that particular lesson to a few unsuspecting women?

I've got plenty of references.

Milamber1a

2010-09-09 10:37:43 AM

I couldn't read the article... a HUGE add on the site with a nice rack appeared with the caption "My boobs are real! Feel them!"

/fap

Balchinian

2010-09-09 10:38:05 AM

PainInTheASP:

How do you think high school guidance counsellors get to be high school guidance counsellors?

artifex

2010-09-09 10:38:46 AM

Gender Studies?

All I needed to know I learned in kindergarten.

TheBlackrose

2010-09-09 10:39:48 AM

Forty grand for a Gender Studies degree? I hope there was a lot of "studying" involved.

tlchwi02

2010-09-09 10:39:52 AM

Garm: I was always under the impression that classes like that were there to round out legit degrees. Sure you can major in it, but it is indicative that in however many years you were working on that degree, you learned nothing...

athletes need to graduate too. Otherwise people start asking questions about the D-1 system and how a decent middle linebacker can graduate without actually knowing how to read....

BigNumber12

2010-09-09 10:40:02 AM

An intro-level math class makes your list of greatest regrets?

Welcome to retard America, everyone. Get used to hearing "I was duped by the big scary corporation when they started talking math to me!"

WickerNipple

2010-09-09 10:41:01 AM

You don't go to college to learn, that's a lifelong process.

You go to college to learn how to learn - and yes from that article it sounds like she wasted her dough.

PacManDreaming

2010-09-09 10:41:27 AM

I should've done what I originally wanted to do...keep my pizza delivery job and smoke weed every waking hour that I wasn't working. It probably would've been more fun than working in the corporate environment that I ended up in. The money definitely wasn't worth the headaches.

Satanic_Hamster

2010-09-09 10:41:57 AM

She's cute but has poor tastes in music and educational paths. Still, I wouldn't mind studying her gender.

/em rimshot

Your Favorite Token Black Chick

2010-09-09 10:41:58 AM

I have no sympathy for those people. THey are either too stupid to learn how to market what they got, or too stupid to not have picked that major in the first place.

/bio major
/education master
/Phd pending

TheBlackrose

2010-09-09 10:42:05 AM

And now that I went to RTFA, somehow I should have expected that it would come from the hyper-feminist rag known as The Frisky.

/I'd make another sexual pun but I'm about put out

Rapmaster2000

2010-09-09 10:42:23 AM

Recoil Therapy:

If you really want to learn things like that, figure out a way to do it cheaply. Just yesterday I found links to podcasts or YouTube links of hundreds of lectures/classes from places such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc in the area of history (what I was looking for at the time). No it doesn't have the same impact as being in the classroom with the give & take interaction with the teacher and other students. However it also costs nothing but a bit of time and a tiny bit of electric current. Educating yourself doesn't always require an expensive degree, but if you're going to get one at least make it of a marketable subject. Save the somewhat goofy things for coffee house discussions or audit for fun classes when you have the time.

And then I said "how do you like them apples!?"

/actually agrees with you
//i like philosophy, but i wasn't about to major in it

PainInTheASP

2010-09-09 10:42:53 AM

Balchinian: PainInTheASP:

How do you think high school guidance counsellors get to be high school guidance counsellors?

Huffing?

GORDON

2010-09-09 10:43:11 AM

My heart grows a little bigger when I hear a liberal arts major bemoan their life choices.... it means they are gaining wisdom, finally!

Karma Curmudgeon

2010-09-09 10:43:26 AM

She'd be better off with a degree in Home Ec and a minor in sammiches.

Balchinian

2010-09-09 10:43:49 AM

nelsonal

2010-09-09 10:44:09 AM

Well, she learned a lot about sex work, and that's probably how she'll pay off her student loans. Problem solved.

The Crepes of Wrath

2010-09-09 10:44:40 AM

Well, color me surprised. Good thing that the world needs bloggers, too.

/ok, not really

doubled99

2010-09-09 10:44:47 AM

Rapmaster2000 2010-09-09 10:42:23 AM

Recoil Therapy:

If you really want to learn things like that, figure out a way to do it cheaply. Just yesterday I found links to podcasts or YouTube links of hundreds of lectures/classes from places such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc in the area of history (what I was looking for at the time). No it doesn't have the same impact as being in the classroom with the give & take interaction with the teacher and other students. However it also costs nothing but a bit of time and a tiny bit of electric current. Educating yourself doesn't always require an expensive degree, but if you're going to get one at least make it of a marketable subject. Save the somewhat goofy things for coffee house discussions or audit for fun classes when you have the time.

And then I said "how do you like them apples!?"

I was totally going to say that.

/not really
//but funny!

Velveeta_Poindexter

2010-09-09 10:45:09 AM

If you are dumb enough to major in some ridiculous area like "Gender Studies", you deserve to be underpaid the rest of your life.

Think of it as a milder form of Social Darwinism.

Leeds

2010-09-09 10:45:13 AM

Snowflake realizes that spending $40k a year on gender studies was a mistake

Wow. At $500 a pop that's like 80 trips to the strip club each year.

"Gender Studies" indeed.

xaldin

2010-09-09 10:45:30 AM

Gender studies... the best way to identify the frigid girls.

halfof33

2010-09-09 10:45:33 AM

That's 40k A YEAR, pork chop.

Phaid

2010-09-09 10:46:13 AM

Gender and sexuality studies classes ostensibly teach you to analyze the world with a critical lens, focusing on how one's gender or sexuality impacts their life.

Ostensibly, but what they really do is try to teach you to view everything through the lens of victimhood. Everything men do is penetrative and violent, and all analysis begins from that perspective.

In other news, college is supposed to teach you about the world, and to prepare you to move on to the next step in your career. Navel-gazing bullshiat like gender studies does neither. This girl reminds me of Hulga Hopewell after her leg was stolen: I guess $40K a year in student loans is an expensive lesson in humility, but hey, at least you got something out of it.

Summer Glau's Love Slave

2010-09-09 10:47:11 AM

What's Gender Studies?

/Seriously
//I know it has something to do with sensitivity and broads

Infamous Dr. X

2010-09-09 10:47:15 AM

Your Favorite Token Black Chick: THey are either too stupid to learn how to market what they got

Yes. This, more than anything. I know a number of people who majored in what the average Fark Expert™ would call an "utterly retarded degree" who all went off and got perfectly decent jobs.

Of course this was in the late 90s and early/mid-2000s, when there were jobs to be had.

Taku

2010-09-09 10:47:15 AM

Rapmaster2000: EvilEgg: Rapmaster2000: You don't need to pay someone to teach you to hate men. I can teach you to hate men for free.

Why do I have the feeling you've taught that particular lesson to a few unsuspecting women?

I've got plenty of references.

Though none can actually name you.

sonarbison

2010-09-09 10:47:28 AM

Ridiculing liberals arts majors sure is popular on here. I know quite a few examples of liberal arts majors who went on to have well-paying, satisfying careers, as many of them were pre-law, pre-med or pre-something. Also, sometimes having a degree is just to check a box, and relevant work experience is all that really matters. For example, I know a guy who got a degree in sociology, but now runs a construction company.

As for spending big bucks on a college education, it just doesn't make sense to me. Is it really that much better than going to a state school?

Lanny Budd

2010-09-09 10:47:35 AM

Recoil Therapy: I had a friend who went to a just under Ivy League level school (big $ with very little in aid other than loans) & got a degree in 'Nonviolent Conflict Resolution'.

See the sad thing about a girl like that, is in about 50 years she's gonna start doin' some thinkin' on her own and she's gonna come up with the fact that she dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a farkin' education she coulda' got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library.

Ponzholio

2010-09-09 10:48:29 AM

Karma Curmudgeon: She'd be better off with a degree in Home Ec and a minor in sammiches.

$40,000 can build quite a nice kitchen...

MBooda

2010-09-09 10:48:31 AM

Hey, I hung out at Sigma Xi Delta a lot in college. Can I count that as an audit of "History of Prostitution"?

hyperflame

2010-09-09 10:48:47 AM

Damn you Subby for making me click on a Frisky link. Don't give them any more clicks than you absolutely have to!

On a jobs-related matter, I found this article the other day, and I'm fortunate enough to be majoring in one of the fastest-growing fields. (new window)

/Predicting this thread will be full of people dumping on lib arts majors.
//With a healthy dose of misogyny as well.
///Not that I'm against that, though, so /popcorn!

Rapmaster2000

2010-09-09 10:49:56 AM

xaldin: Gender studies... the best way to identify the frigid girls.

You're living in the pre do-me feminism era. I dated a gender studies major and she was pretty fun. A friend of mine took a gender politics course specifically to pick up chicks, and it worked.

Draneor

2010-09-09 10:50:13 AM

"I regret that I wasted time, money, and precious sanity on a required math class that gave me the anxiety attacks of your worst nightmares."

Based upon this line, I guess she still doesn't entirely get it. But math is hard and useless, right? Absolutely

Infamous Dr. X: OH MY GOD. QUIT FARKING WHINING.

Christ, you took journalism classes as well as majored in something that forced you to critically analyze quantitative and qualitative data, draw conclusions from that analysis, and process that into some kind of meaningful written form in order to convince your professors that you could 1) conduct research 2) perform analysis and 3) cogently report on that analysis.

The only difference between doing that in college and doing that in the real world is that your research, analysis, and conclusions have dollar amounts riding on them and you generally have less time to produce your work product.

Quit whining and do what all writing-heavy lib arts majors can and should do - get a freaking entry level office job. You have a skill set MANY people in business sorely lack.* People who can write, and do it well, can find themselves reasonably successful reasonably quickly.

This. My first degree was in English and the skills I learned have been invaluable for my career. I suppose it also helps if you also bring other skill sets to the table (basic accounting, math, science, how to use computer programs, etc). In my experience, even knowing how to write simple to moderate formulas in Excel (or knowing how to Google it) can be a rare trait in an office.

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