Kepler
Si certus es dubita
Re: The Power of the SCOTUS VIII - I am certiorari we'll be arguing until Thanksgivin
So much wrong with this.
First and most importantly, the guys in Animals House would have been rock ribbed conservatives. It was 1964 and Faber was in western Pennsylvania (right next door to Kefauver High School in Dacron, OH), and it was based on the real life college adventures of a bunch of Dartmouth a-holes like P.J. O'Rourke who went on to recruit the Reagan Youth. Hoover had a confederate flag and Otter played Sinatra make out music and became a gynecologist in Beverly Hills. The only guy in that crowd who would obviously become a liberal is Pinto. Bonus points if you know why his name was Pinto. (Hint: (belch) "Why not?!" is not the correct answer)
Secondly, the liberal arts and social science identification with the woolly-headed set is a nonsense cliche. Most of the leading figures in second half 20th C American arts and social science were first gen college students with blue collar families who only got to college on the G.I. Bill. The Trust Fund d-bags at Cornell went in for Business and Law -- they weren't interested in an MFA.
Thirdly, the credential of a degree gets you in the front door for jobs other than the professional degreed professions, and it gets you in the door for the grad programs for those.
Fourthly, as many have pointed out here, school is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. I guarantee I put more work into my pansy liberal arts degree (with Comp Sci and Math double minor just so you won't look down on me from your Very Serious Perch) than 80% of my classmates did in their lucrative job launch majors.
Fifthly, each of my parents were the first to go to college in their families.
The "Trust Fund Slur" is inane, but worse than that, it's just false. You are capable of better.
Kep I'm sorry but you sound like a trust fund baby which I don't believe you are. I would have liked to have achieved enlightenment while I was commuting to school for the first couple of years while washing dishes on nights and weekends, but somehow I couldn't find the time.The accomplishment of busting your butt and getting that degree and job (which go hand and hand - getting a degree and then going back home and living off of mom and dad for another 20 years isn't success in my book) is what expands your mind as that tends to take effort for most of us. Its not the 60's anymore where people go to school to smoke dope, avoid the draft, and "find themselves" for 12 years. I loved Animal House as well, but I didn't have the option of going the Bluto Blutarski route (and for the record he did become a US Senator
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So much wrong with this.
First and most importantly, the guys in Animals House would have been rock ribbed conservatives. It was 1964 and Faber was in western Pennsylvania (right next door to Kefauver High School in Dacron, OH), and it was based on the real life college adventures of a bunch of Dartmouth a-holes like P.J. O'Rourke who went on to recruit the Reagan Youth. Hoover had a confederate flag and Otter played Sinatra make out music and became a gynecologist in Beverly Hills. The only guy in that crowd who would obviously become a liberal is Pinto. Bonus points if you know why his name was Pinto. (Hint: (belch) "Why not?!" is not the correct answer)
Secondly, the liberal arts and social science identification with the woolly-headed set is a nonsense cliche. Most of the leading figures in second half 20th C American arts and social science were first gen college students with blue collar families who only got to college on the G.I. Bill. The Trust Fund d-bags at Cornell went in for Business and Law -- they weren't interested in an MFA.
Thirdly, the credential of a degree gets you in the front door for jobs other than the professional degreed professions, and it gets you in the door for the grad programs for those.
Fourthly, as many have pointed out here, school is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. I guarantee I put more work into my pansy liberal arts degree (with Comp Sci and Math double minor just so you won't look down on me from your Very Serious Perch) than 80% of my classmates did in their lucrative job launch majors.
Fifthly, each of my parents were the first to go to college in their families.
The "Trust Fund Slur" is inane, but worse than that, it's just false. You are capable of better.
