Liberal Arts? What the fuck are they good for?

[DFW]

44. My university chided me, telling me "we are not running a school for tour guides"

Meanwhile, they tout their business school (Wharton) and churn out Wall Street types, lawyers and doctors.

Well, I agree we need the doctors, but the Wharton kids were mostly robots, even back then (going back 40 years now). Only ONE professor there had a personality. He had long hair and introduced himself saying, "my name is Bill Whitney. I am your professor. That is my job, not my name. My name is Bill, not Professor, so please call me Bill, and not Professor." The rest of them were suit-and-tie Republicans. As our course requirements included 3 semesters of social sciences, I took one semester in Economics, and was lucky enough to get Bill. I also saw enough of Wharton to keep my distance for the rest of my college days.

Now, I'm sure plenty of the Wharton kids went on to become zillionaires, but I'll bet plenty of them burned out, checked out, or just plain tuned out, too.

They keep hitting on me for alumni contributions. I keep telling them to hit on their Wharton grads. Me, I'm just a tour guide with a BA in the liberal arts (well, OK, I'm not a tour guide, but since that was their expectation for me, I contribute accordingly, i.e. not at all).