I wanted to get a degree in anthropology, but I was afraid I wouldn't make any money. I then wanted a degree in history, but was afraid I wouldn't make any money. I ended up with a business degree. I now make money. But--

I wish I had the history degree, just for my own sake of education. I still wish I had the antro degree for the same reason. I am a slave to the business world, which I loathe.

I believe that history and art degrees are most certainly worthwhile. Where would we get our curators? How could we learn from archeological discoveries? How could we authenticate art, treasures, important documents?

How could we preserve art and documents? How can we understand different cultures...even our own...if we are viewing them in a time vacuum?

My God, I've thrown my life and love away for the goddamned money. That's a true and sad statement. I didn't have the courage to follow my dreams and now I sit in this office and yearn every day.

Any idiot who doesn't understand the value of art and history is a wart on this earth.

Amen, Paul.

When I went to seminary, classmates would ask me during our first summer why I would want to pursue a Master of Divinity degree when my undergraduate degree was a B.S. in mechanical engineering. My response was that the first degree gave me a perspective on matters scientific and concrete; the second would give me a perspective on matters philosophical and abstract. It was all part of my secret plan to become a renaissance man. ;)

As I sit in my cubicle, day after day, doing the drudging work of a middle-aged cube dweller whose actual work bears little resemblance to what I studied in engineering school, I am grateful for having filled my soul with something more than Mohr's circles and kinematic analysis.

Everyone's an elitist in their own tiny, little universe. On behalf of educated Republicans across the land, your correspondent was a moron.

A degree is a degree, no matter what it's for. The type doesn't matter. I did my degree for me, not for anyone else. (I have a BS in Computer Information Science, Interdisciplinary.)

The degree is only useless if you are unhappy about having earned it.

I've got a BS and an MBA, but I don't neccesarily look down my nose at BA-types. Some of the smartest people I know have BA's; and I most certainly would not consider myself any better than they. Talk about a shitty way to evaluate someone else.

And for what it's worth: I haven't done a statistical analysis or anything, but BA's tend to make better lovers. You know, just from the empirical evidence I've collected.

Hell, I don't have any degree but I've pulled a baby out of a uterus and screwed together pieces of a smashed patella. It's not about titles, it's about doing what you want to do.