/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12383141]

what is the most /lit/ college major other than english

[Anonymous No.12383148]

philosophy

[Anonymous No.12383790]

Philosophy and classics

[Anonymous No.12383799]

Honorable mention to theology

[Anonymous No.12383804]

Computer Science.

[Anonymous No.12383809]

>>12383141
Art History

[Anonymous No.12383828]

>needing a college major to be /lit/

Do STEM and don't fuck yourself out of a job. If you're too much of a brainlet to be /lit/ of your own accord, your opinion was worthless to begin with

[Anonymous No.12383829]

>>12383804
Finish the damn books Knuth

[Anonymous No.12383842]

>>12383828
It's so easy to spot the posters who never went to college

[Anonymous No.12383851]

>>12383842
Keep projecting

[Anonymous No.12383902]

>>12383141
They had something called American Studies back at my school that was a hybrid of American History and American literature. I didn’t bother with it because it sounded even more meme than my English degree

[Anonymous No.12383907]

>>12383851
Projecting what?

[Anonymous No.12383946]

>>12383828
Even STEM undergrad degrees now are worthless. You need to go to graduate school to make college worth it unless you're rich/well connection to begin with.

[Anonymous No.12383962]

>>12383907
Do I have to spell it out for you, brainlet?
>>12383946
STEM isn't useless unless you do something stupid like a pure science

[Anonymous No.12384004]

>>12383962
Why the fuck would I make fun of your post for betraying your lack of a degree if I didn't have one myself?

[Anonymous No.12384018]

>>12384004
I have a degree, faggot. And I question the validity of yours, considering the level of intelligence present in your shitposts

[Anonymous No.12384029]

>>12383141
Classics or mathematics. Philosophy in college is mostly a meme.

t. philosophy major whose college doesn't have a classics department.

[lactiferousducKs No.12384041]

>>12384029

classics also seems to kind of shite

i am sure mathematics is just fine

[Anonymous No.12384073]

>>12383946
>ke college worth it unless you're rich/well connection to begin with.

About to graduate with engineering.. no it's not useless. Where I live I would have been stuck making 30k-40k a year for the rest of my life tops. I have entry level 55-60k with my STEM. 96% job placement from my uni too.

[Anonymous No.12384087]

>>12384073
On a side note, to anyone looking for a major, After experiencing 4 years of Engineering I can still recommend it. You will see how worthless degrees like business, english, philosophy, and etc. are through your peers. You can learn what they learn from /lit/ and actually reading a few books instead of looking at sparknotes to cram for that quiz.

It sucks because a lot of times when your friends might be going out you are forced in to study or etc., but you are learning a genuine skill and toolset to interact with the world through engineering. 99% of us are going to be wageslaves, anyway, if it was up to me I'd be a touring musician or author but I see nothing wrong with getting my solid STEM degree so that I can live the rest of my life's hobbies out well among family and friends, and hopefully raise a few kids too.

[Anonymous No.12384092]

>>12384073
>96% job placement
96% job placement of flipping burgers.
55k entry level as as the best figure you can quote is absolute shit. You're better off going for a trade.

[lactiferousducKs No.12384112]

>>12384087

What do you read tho?

[Anonymous No.12384113]

>>12384092
t. brainlet who couldn't get into engineering

[lactiferousducKs No.12384129]

>>12384113

What do you read?

[Anonymous No.12384134]

>>12384129
The Greeks

[Anonymous No.12384154]

>>12384092
Nope, sorry! It's a very reputable program actually! Implying I have an incentive to lie? lol.

[lactiferousducKs No.12384158]

>>12384134

& you are twenty-two? i think you overestimate your level of erudition

philosophy & classics graduates even in the weakened state of their departments - at least a third of them will know more than you & anyone who is actually bothered to regularly discuss philosophy seriously even on the net is going to be part of that portion

You really think you are going to fulfill yourself intellectually as an engineer reading some entry-level translations of some stuff i doubt you even fully understand after a tired day of work?

embrace poverty mayn

[Anonymous No.12384171]

>>12384129
I have been working my way though the classics. Dostoev books, Paradise Lost, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Quinn, Kerouac, Sartre Wheel of Time series, lots of music biography, many one of classic books, and now getting into poetry. Starting with Whitman.

[Anonymous No.12384177]

>>12384158
Wasn't me. See above :-)

[Anonymous No.12384191]

Is accounting /lit/? Need to get a good job after college if i want to live with any shred of dignity in my city.

[lactiferousducKs No.12384192]

>>12384177

milton isn't exactly a walk in the park & i often see people mentioning him without really knowing what they are talking about

I don't know mayn you've already graduated & are only @ this level?

i don't mean to be rude but you are denigrating literature as a serious field of study so it has to be pointed out

[Anonymous No.12384236]

>>12384192
I took my time through milton and I think I got a lot out of it.

1 semester from graduation. Yep I guess I am just dumb! I just read for my personal knowledge and leisure. I don't have a dick measuring contest complex about this lol.

Literature IS a serious field of study. Is it a practical field of study for a perspective college attendee? No. I think you can receive a BA level of knowledge with self education. I also think this of my Engineering degree but I think it is a lot harder to teach yourself Thermodynamics or Calc II than what seems to be taught (at least at my school) in the BA curriculum(s).

[Anonymous No.12384261]

>>12384191
I think finance and accounting is a good option!

[Anonymous No.12384285]

>>12384236
>>12384192
You can sense the butthurt in these post. Probably americans.

[Anonymous No.12384319]

>>12384261
Thanks, encouragement is appreciated. I can stomach Accounting, but I don't have a passion for it. I just know that if I graduated with a degree in literature or philosophy I wouldn't be making enough money for everything I want to do in life + very high cost of living in my city.

[Anonymous No.12384324]

Really, no mention to history? I think that's much closer than Classics. History is so holistic, it's essentially learning to write convincing arguments. Sure, you have fuddy duddy professors in the medieval history department that care about names and dates. Walk into any modern history seminar and you are discussing motives, meanings, morals, and values. You can even get history courses like "History of radicalism in Russian literature" or "Foucault for Historians", things that operate on abstract levels. I've taken both of those courses, my first history course in university was even "Intellectual origins of the contemporary west" where we reviewed people like Plato, St. Augustine, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche. I've taken "History of French Culture" wherein we read Camus, Zola, and Hugo. I think I've read more assigned literature than history in my history undergrad.

[Anonymous No.12384420]

>>12384319
Protip: don't conflate your passion with your career. Probably the biggest con that's been run on generations born since the 1960s is this idea that whatever you do for a living should be something that fulfills you emotionally or spiritually, and that there's nothing wrong with taking on massive amounts of debt if you're chasing a "dream." If you have something that you're passionate about that pays decent money then by all means go for it, but I'm guessing for most /lit/ types that's not the case.

I work in IT, I'm not particularly passionate about it, but I like it well enough, I'm good at it, and it pays well. That's what ultimately matters in a career. When I first started school I wanted to write novels and was going for a History/English major/minor, then I decided to switch to Computer Information Systems. Probably the best choice I ever made. A lot of times trying to do something you're passionate about kills your enthusiasm for it, especially if you're not successful.

[Anonymous No.12384459]

>>12384420
Very wise. “Do what you love” is stupid advice, did the farmers of olden days love farming? No, they did what they had to to survive. Modern man is too far removed from the soil, he lives in a castle in the air without foundations, and when the wind howls and the floods rise it comes crashing down.

[Anonymous No.12384484]

>>12384420
Thanks Anon, I appreciate the advice. Hopefully accounting will leave me with enough time for hobbies too.

[Anonymous No.12384490]

>>12383790
Hey those are my majors

[Anonymous No.12384628]

>>12384420
Thanks Anon you're so smart I wanna s*ck your c*ck>>12384484>>12384459
>>12384420
Protip: don't take advice from people your age, and don't take advice from people that work at computers all day doing what they hate. The mixture of youth and pragmatism leads to unfulfillment later in life. That's why people pursue their dreams, by the way. Fulfillment, not financial security

[Anonymous No.12384704]

>>12384628
Obviously you shouldn’t sacrifice your life on the altar of work, but neither can you follow your dreams into zero income and massive debt. You have to find something in the intersection of enjoyable and valuable to the economy.

[Anonymous No.12384726]

I got a CS degree and I hate it. I wish I did humanities. I'm never going to work a job in it because anyone who does is horrible.

[Anonymous No.12384738]

>>12384726
>I got a CS degree and I hate it. I wish I did humanities. I'm never going to work a job in it because anyone who does is horrible.

[Anonymous No.12384743]

>>12383141
>>12383148
>>12383790
>>12383799
>>12383809
>>12383902
>>12384324
>>12384490
>Spending thousands on a degree you could've gotten for free at the library

[Anonymous No.12384758]

>>12384743

[Anonymous No.12384779]

>>12384758
How ya like them apples

[Anonymous No.12384788]

>>12384628
Alright but I think "following your passion" is the wrong attitude altogether. If you can bring it with you wherever you go then your free to have financial security too

btw this is the internet you can spell out "suck your cock" without mom knowing