I have a humanities type degree and graduate degree, and I found you don't get the real interesting people and conversations until grad school. Then it's awesom

I have a humanities type degree and graduate degree, and I found you don't get the real interesting people and conversations until grad school. Then it's awesome. Is my degree "useful"....eh, maybe. But was my time in grad school enormously influential on me and how I view the world, and can I see the difference it has made on me when I have conversations with people who didn't take the same route? Yes. > I will say that in the STEM degrees people were far more curious than in the humanities. In my experience, this was not really the case. A lot of STEM people I met were very interested in some topics, but were either a) only superficially interested in things like ethics; b) only interested in a very specific view of ethics (some form of ultra techno-utilitarianism/utopianism for instance); or, c) immediately dismissive of whole conversations or areas of research without actually bothering to engage in any of the discussions. The more galling thing is they often thought that they could simply comment on those topics without any of the research. So just as there are journalists calling for people to learn ethics without learning to code, there are people who work on code who comment on art, or history, or philosophy, with little to no understanding of the long debates and research in those fields. It really goes both ways. TBH, I don't think it's really about the whole STEM v. Humanities thing that people make it all about. It's really about the cost of higher education across the board.