It's a pretty big leap though to take someone's academic interests as an indicator about their ability to do work. If that guy sees that I took two semesters of

It's a pretty big leap though to take someone's academic interests as an indicator about their ability to do work. If that guy sees that I took two semesters of medieval history, is he going to be afraid that I'll turn the workplace into a Renaissance fair? Having to hide your interests to look more bland might be the saddest thing I read today. I Just imagine that those recruiters have some sort of list of subversive activities. 1. Was an active member of the Red Army Faction OR 2. Read a book about Erlang or Lisp, is now too dangerous to be reintroduced into the general developer population