To The Editor:
Growing up, rarely did people around me speak of big dreams of doing GE’s taxes or managing finances. I believe that Ms. Cota (Business Students Get the Jobs, Liberal Arts Students Get the Education 1/25/07), although somewhat blunt, is just alluding to the fact that for the most part, business majors are not in it for the passion or love of the subject, but rather for job and financial security.
Liberal arts students tend to forego this security to pursue a life that they were naturally drawn to. This tends to land them countless hours of reading and numerous papers to write, followed by generally low paying jobs.
Although a desired lifestyle by those who choose it, it can get rather frustrating when the International Studies capstone is a 45-page extensive research project that eats up 95 percent of your time while your business major housemate is in a five person group working on a 20-page paper for their capstone, and landing A’s on a one-page take home bullet point midterm. This isn’t to say certain business courses are not difficult and strenuous and that many business majors are not outrageously bright students, but that a general trend has presented itself at Fairfield, which is that liberal arts majors for the most part take the more difficult path and often end up at the short end of things all in the name of passion for their chosen study.
Sincerely,
Evan Berard ’07
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