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[ameretrifle]

Well, since they've finally sent me my diploma, I can now announce without hesitation that I totally have a bachelor's degree. In humanities. This and a dollar should get me a small fry at McDonald's. (Hmm? Job search? Yes, I have been looking for openings commensurate with my total lack of experience, and those are far harder to find than I seem

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[ameretrifle]

Yeah-- I've always intended to get a later degree in something marginally more practical, so I got to indulge myself a bit with my bachelor's. Actually, I floundered around for several years trying to pick something to major in, because almost none of the careers I was interested in cared at all what you had a BA in as long as you got one. Which, given my indecisive nature and the way they start hounding you to choose a major the second you enter college (and I started in community college, where I was actually getting a couple years' leeway on that decision), was a lot of fun. Would've preferred to just lock myself in the library for a couple of years, but no one consulted me.

You know, even though I majored in Women's Studies, they offered it as a "concentration" in Humanities, so that's what's on my degree. No problem with Humanities, but it says something about the priority the department's given. Well, that and everything else about the department. Like their old offices on the second floor of the Interior Design building, past the boarded-up elevator shaft. That made an impression on me.

I suppose even a list that was trying to, say, be a fairly comprehensive list of the best books in history would have its oddities; it's inherently arbitrary, and I don't think these lists are even trying to be that. They're really only good as discussion-starters, which is pretty much what memes seem to be about. Well, also it helps remind you of all the books you always meant to read at some point but have somehow never quite gotten to. That's good. Sort of. ;)