Friday, March 17, 2006

My Degree Will Be Lopsided

I'm doing a double major - Political Science and Communications (with a minor in history!) This leads to a certain amount of... schizophrenia in one's academic life.

For example, a sentence I heard on Monday in one of my PoliSci classes, representative of the general level of conversation:

"Yeah, but is that in nominal GDP or purchasing-power-parity? Are we talking GDP, or GDP per capita?"

In contrast, a sentence I heard in my Communications class last night:

"Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is an excellent example of ethnic media."

Well. At least half of my degree will be useful.

2 comments:

Flocons said...

Which half are you referring to?

john said...

Not sure, exactly. Maybe one will be 1/3 useful, the other will be 1/5 useful. Or something.