Comments on: Q2: Vincent http://genstuck.wbur.org/blog/vincent/1293/ Twelve 20-somethings chronicle their lives for WBUR. Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.3 By: Allan http://genstuck.wbur.org/blog/vincent/1293/#comment-259 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:29:00 +0000 http://genstuck.wbur.org/?p=1293#comment-259 I have done alot of hiring. Mostly in technology and customer service. Liberal Arts grads need to do internships, but they do emerge as the most independent and the strongest thinkers. DO NOT take up a degree you have non interest in. Don’t study chemistry just because you are good at math and you think you will make a lot of money. Liberal Arts produces the most well rounded grads. We have to slowest starts but some of the strongest finishes.

]]> By: Genevieve http://genstuck.wbur.org/blog/vincent/1293/#comment-127 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:29:00 +0000 http://genstuck.wbur.org/?p=1293#comment-127 “Not to mention the fact that students who receive a Bachelor’s degree enter into an over-saturated marketplace that devalues the higher education they just received, and has turned their Bachelor’s into the near-equivalent of a high-school diploma………….I do not regret studying history, but, if I were to go back, I would study history independently while moving through a science track that would allow me to make a very sizable salary within a few years of leaving college. This upsets me as a historian, because it’s depressing that in the United States today one cannot comfortably follow their passions and academic interests as we were told to believe in elementary school… It’s evident that the liberal arts are being pushed aside and devalued in America. Once the cornerstone of higher education, liberal art degrees today are barely worth the money spent to attain them.”

Thank you Vincent for eloquently expressing how I feel and how so many liberal arts graduates feel.

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