Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Poorly chosen fields

According to Stephen Colbert (just 73 seconds ago) the lowest tier of marketability among college majors includes "classics, comparative literature [and] linguistics."

There's a perverse honour in being mocked so satirically. Buffy is slightly more honored than I am because two of her areas were the object of his derision.

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6 comments:

  1. Mrs. H in Costa Rica 202302 August, 2007 02:56

    Ouch...does doing Spanish Linguistics make me more marketable???

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  2. Daniel02 August, 2007 08:36

    I can't really speak for you, but it would seem to me that this alleviates the burden of having to market yourself, which is the opposite of why you entered the field, and all of academia for that matter.

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  3. David02 August, 2007 11:06

    Yes! After earning a master's in linguistcs, I am on my way to get a Ph.D. in classics. I suck and am completely unmarketable! At least I can rely financially on my wife, who majored in classics and has a master's in comparative literature. Shit.

    To be honest, if I had it to all over again, I would have done math/cs and read Greek as a hobby.

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  4. M LO02 August, 2007 11:52

    As said wife with classics and comp. lit. degrees, I'd cry if I weren't laughing so hard.

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  5. Buffy Turner02 August, 2007 18:23

    David's comment killed me. Hilarious.

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  6. Casey04 August, 2007 20:11

    "Marketable" is a stupid adjective. Or at least, not one I'd like to have applied in my direction...

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