tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post2344000626287087620..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Fiddlebright Sends In This Trump Link.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-57589894207153183702016-05-25T03:06:06.083-04:002016-05-25T03:06:06.083-04:00Amen, brother (or sister, as the case may be)! Tha...Amen, brother (or sister, as the case may be)! That's it exactly. A person has to earn a living, of course, but the "liberated" mind is equipped to do it in more than one narrow way.Pennsylvania Pennynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-62811506220407716382016-05-24T07:00:33.918-04:002016-05-24T07:00:33.918-04:00You and I both got "liberal" arts degree...You and I both got "liberal" arts degrees. Liberal in the sense that our minds were "liberated" and free to survive this harsh world.Professor Dumashttps://www.reddit.com/user/professordumasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-86402631024340761532016-05-23T14:25:06.894-04:002016-05-23T14:25:06.894-04:00Worrying about Trump's education policies is a...Worrying about Trump's education policies is a bit like worrying about how the iceberg influenced the deck chairs on the Titanic.Rosencrantz Andor Guildensternhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05095512139776536635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-9091062239844373902016-05-23T12:05:20.253-04:002016-05-23T12:05:20.253-04:00That's just it—I didn't really have a plan...That's just it—I didn't really have a plan, except to take advantage of the opportunity to study as many languages as I could, just because I loved it. The moral of the story is that the subsequent twists and turns of my life, which I couldn't possibly have foreseen as a college student, turned out to be remarkably well served by my "impractical" undergraduate career.<br /><Pennsylvania Pennynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-79348312020941814682016-05-23T09:31:18.684-04:002016-05-23T09:31:18.684-04:00Sounds like you had learned the skills somewhere (...Sounds like you had learned the skills somewhere (college perhaps) to USE those years of language education.<br /><br />You had a plan. Many folk who "go to college" to "get a degree" so they can "get a job" think that each of these things guarantees the next in the list. THAT was their plan, and it was a shitty one because they had no skills to apply their Professor Dumashttps://www.reddit.com/user/professordumasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-36067048289202612302016-05-23T03:54:48.705-04:002016-05-23T03:54:48.705-04:00Liberal arts?
You mean the three years of German ...Liberal arts?<br /><br />You mean the three years of German that got me a job in a town where there were few jobs to be had?<br /><br />The twelve years of French that sustained my family and me when my husband's peripatetic career took us to Montreal for six years?<br /><br />The linguistics course that indirectly showed me how to improve my French accent?<br /><br />The year of intensive Pennsylvania Pennynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-47245401196427149902016-05-22T17:50:46.646-04:002016-05-22T17:50:46.646-04:00I prefer Clovis Sangrail.
But at the very least, t...I prefer Clovis Sangrail.<br />But at the very least, thoughts of a President Trump do provide something of an unrest cure.EC1https://www.blogger.com/profile/13414931249618049097noreply@blogger.com