I'm starting to save this stuff. Keep em coming!
Joanna
Andy F wrote:
> On 9/11/06, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Believe me, you're better equipped than someone burdened by a liberal
>> arts
>> background. It's been said that the liberal arts teach you how to enjoy
>> life without the high-paying job they prevent you from getting. But
>> I don't
>> think they're even successful at that anymore. Having spent many
>> frustrating years as a ghostwriter trying to give the crass, inchoate
>> effusions of corporate technocrats a veneer of logic and erudition, I am
>> sorry I didn't pay more attention in math class as a youth and become a
>> civil engineer.
>
>
> I came close to abandoning a physics degree for German due to a
> newfound love of linguistics and trouble with the physics. I
> eventually got fed up with the bread and butter of translating, at
> least Czech to English -- contracts and business plans. No doubt
> transitioning through technology (no stupidity and self loathing in
> working in pharma and insurance, no sir!) eventually back to science
> was much easier with a physics degree than it would have been with a
> German degree. Linguistics and languages work much better as a hobby.
>
> Joanna will like this: Henry Stommel, a huge figure in physical
> oceanography and mentor to some current leaders in the field, was
> never accepted into a PhD program, supposedly because he had written a
> popular treatment of his subject.
>
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