Oh my God, I am totally gonna go far

[fellmama]

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I went to Whitman College, and all I got was this lousy ego.

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[parksdh.livejournal.com]

Majors at UO I look down on:

Communications (I don't know if we actually have this)
Journalism
Business administration
x Studies, x = Women's, Ethnic, Oppression, etc
Pre Med/Physiology (not really the program, just most of the students)

I also look down on students for a variety of behaviors which are well correlated with the above fields, including but not limited to:

Not stapling homework sets
Stumbling down the street on weekends, screaming about how drunk they are
Referring to varsity football victories as if they personally played a part
Thinking they will be doctors, or will be hired as a physical therapist for a professional sports team immediately after graduation

[colvincd.livejournal.com]

Personally, I like this one, because it's slightly more relevant to my own life:


marriedtothesea.com

Millihelens

[(Anonymous)]

But Bernie is 2 PhDs smarter than we are!

Also, I don't like your "hungry" lemon. It looks angry and vampirey!

-Jane

[superquail.livejournal.com]

At Whitman I thought the lamest major (by far) was Art History, though Sociology and Psychology were pretty weak.

[aspend.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Those were the bottom of the barrel in my opinion as well, meerly because we didn't have a business major. :-)

[superquail.livejournal.com]

We also didn't have Communications majors (thank the Deity!)

Now, I know I am going to get stoned for saying this, but I thought that the Theater major at Whitman was not so much an academic exploration of the subject as it was an all-encompassing obsession for those who dared to venture within the crushing grasp of Harper Joy.

But that's just my opinion.

[colvincd.livejournal.com]

After about 3 three semesters of lashing at every time I stepped in HJ, or related classrooms, I gave up on the idea of being a theater major, part of my failing was the idea that I should take what I'm doing seriously. People liked what I did mostly, but good ideas aren't what get you far. Parke Thomas would later ask me why I gave up; I didn't have the heart to tell him why.

Ironically, if I had to do over again, I would have taken a closer look at sociology and art history.

[superquail.livejournal.com]

I wonder how many students drop out of the theater program? I get the feeling they generally have a high retention rate.

[colvincd.livejournal.com]

I never was a Theatre major so technically I never dropped out, however, Deborah Holmes was my first adviser, and considering who else was assigned to her, with me someone was strongly convinced that theatre was what I was going to do.

[superquail.livejournal.com]

That someone was wrong.