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Anyone can get into a college program (and anyone does); one has to self-select into the "rigorous" fields of study to attempt to signal intelligence. What used

• Animats 3y ago
  > Humanities are now just a dumping ground for morons when they used to be the smartest people on the campus. It's hard. An old friend of mine was a music major. Masters in music from Harvard, majoring in early music. Read and wrote Latin and Greek. Read and wrote early music notations. Could play a wide range early instruments. Never got a job that used those skills. Died recently, forgotten, in a Maryland suburb, her most visible lifetime accomplishment a book on needlework. Another, younger friend also got a music degree from an Ivy League school. But she went to work for an app toolkit startup which was acquired by Microsoft. She's done very well.
  • hotpotamus 3y ago
    All of us will be forgotten sooner or later, and sooner for the vast majority. While it wouldn't be for me, I can see a lifetime spent studying music would be more meaningful to some than building an app toolkit. I'm not naive enough to say that money isn't important, but it's not everything either.