Liberal Arts degrees

[Shemrat]

I needed a science requirement, like everyone else. I have no use for that knowledge. It's not that astronomy is useless. Having a good base of knowledge, a little bit of everything for the first two years is a good start, but beyond that I would want to learn something more concrete.

I understand what you mean about "learning something more concrete," or, in other words, obtaining a specialty to market yourself... but I don't quite see eye-to-eye with your argument against the general education that fills the gaps. You can fulfill those "useless" requirements with subjects that interest you or maybe subjects that don't interest you but which will ultimately improve yourself in some way, shape, or form. At the very least you will be more proficient at a game of Jeopardy.

I would rather make lemonade out of my lemons than deem them as "useless." I like to find the usefullness out of all of my educational and occupational exploits and assets resulting from the energy that I had spent on obtaining them... even if it means recalling some seemingly unimportant bit of trivia from the Astronomy exam. In all honestly, the education that I have received from my Biology course, Public Speaking, the General Anthropology DSST, and everything else - every little bit - has popped up from time to time to be proven useful. "If I combine this material and this material this will happen... learned that in Bio!" Education is life-long and for me, is not restricted solely to my major.