#47 Arts Degrees
February 1, 2008 by clander
When white people go away to college, they tend to study what are knowns as the Arts. This includes actual Art, English, History, Classics, and Philosophy. These can of course be broken down further into Film, Womyn’s Studies (yes the spelling is correct), Communications, Gender Studies, and so forth. It is important to note that a high percentage of white people also get degrees in Political Science, which is pretty much like arts, and only seems to have the word “science” in it to make white people feel better about themselves.
These degrees enable white people to spend four yeas of their lives reading books, writing papers and feeling great about themselves. It is a known fact that Arts students firmly believe that they are doing you/society a favor by not getting a job and reading Proust. They use this to protest for reduced tuition, more money for the arts, and special reduced student rates on things like bus passes.
But what about the white people who study Science, Engineering or Business? Unless they become doctors, they essentially lose white person status (and can only be regained by working at a non-profit).
So why would white people spend all that time studying and working to get into college if they are just going to read books that they might have read in their free time? Because white people have it made. They can take that degree and easily parlay it into a non profit job, an art gallery job, or work in publishing. If the pay is low, no problem, their parents will happily help out with rent until they magically start making six figures or non-magically turn 40.
White people can also take that degree and go to graduate school (future post) and eventually become a professor or adjunct professor where they will still require parental support.
If they are REALLY ambitious and need to make money, they can take that degree and go to Law School.
But the real reason white people need these degrees is so that they can sound smart at parties. Of course it trickles down to making connections, getting hired, knowing rich people, and so forth. But ultimately it all begins by saying “reading Henry James was the most rewarding part of undergrad.”
Using this to your advantage can be very difficult as attempts to talk about the books they skimmed while hungover can expose you. It is best to say that you were a first generation college student and your parents demanded that you study math, chemistry, economics or computer science. You had to read Joyce on your own.
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I’m pursuing a PhD at McGill (in the very building pictured in the entry). And I have an MA from there. Yes, both in English, specializing in Middle English literature and medieval medicine. Also, Latin. That white enough for you?
Gee – I got a degree in Painting, got a job in drafting, got into programming and engineering – guess I must be at least beige by now?
I studied English Lit.
I thought I was white.
Then I got my diploma and no one wanted to give me a job.
Being white sucked.
Thankfully, the parking lot at Home Depot was next door.
I didn’t tell anyone I had a diploma.
I told them I was Mexican and they took me to do gardening at their homes.
They probably didn’t hire you because you told them you had a ‘diploma’ in English. They probably wanted someone with an English degree. I’m just saying…
Oh I’ve been reading this and laughing, but this made me really laugh.
I have a BS in Geology I worked my butt off for and graduated magna cum laude (I am a white girl, so I guess I’ve lost many white points there).
But even though my degree is in something actually, I don’t know, useful and productive to society since I do stuff like test for and remove environmental damage (usually created by a white guy), all the white boys who drank their way through their English degrees with C averages magically got jobs at consulting companies through their parents with starting salaries of $50K.
They further got OTJ training (so why were they worth so much money?), and I was expected to hit the ground running, knowing what I needed to know in my field.
Funny how that works.
damn man, you are bent out of shape. stop being racist and applying one bad thing to a big group of people
I have a degree in environmental geology and used to be everyone’s “hippy friend” and now I do contract work for the Army and other various govt projects. I lost major white people status.
No, you just sold out.
I’ll have two degrees in science (field of education) and 5 different areas of certification after I graduate in June.
And after reviewing number 31′s post…I’m going to have to assume that (according to him) he is chinese.
This is laughably ham-fisted and childish.
I think it’s interesting SWPL will scathingly critique anything except it’s own approach. :O
When I went away to school, I majored in y and x. I saw a lot of black kids on my campus every day. I never saw any in the classes that I took, so I thought that psych and ed were unpopular major choices for blacks. I switched my major to z after a year and found no blacks in those classes either. Then I asked a grad assist. who told me to look for them the first day(s) of the semester in class. I always did after that. They were there, but just weren’t showing up for the rest of the classes.
ah yes, this makes so much sense. No wonder all my technical classes are full of blacks.
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