I remember one year the engineering students had t-shirts that read friends don t let friends take arts. Now I work for an engineering firm, teaching technical managers how to communicate with one another. Do a B.A. because you want to expand your mind, nothing else. The technical skills you ll pick up along the way. I think English Lit. is different from many other faculties in that instead of telling you what you need to know, it teaches you how to think and how to question.
Language is such a powerful tool and it s so easily manipulated, for good and bad.
Because all that cheesy stuff they say is true, it really is like a big family. I spent a year at another undergraduate university, intending to transfer, and came back the next year in a real hurry. Be sure to take advantage of that while you re there, take courses from lots of different profs, you ll learn so much more. When I first graduated, I thought I was a pretty big hot shot with my degree. I thought I was so much smarter than those who hadn t gone to university.