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If your ears are strained from trying to distinguish your life’s calling amid all the noise, maybe it would be best to start by listening to your childhood self.
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Art was something that called to me. I have always been passionate about it. Why should I listen to her and not chase my dreams?
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I didn’t necessarily need to have a crystal clear career path or for my major to give me skills that directly apply to a certain field.
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There is an unspoken tension between the number-crunchers and networkers, and the arts and humanities majors in that the former look at the latter with disparaging disrespect.
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I’m tired of the humanities being viewed as more feminine and therefore less valued than STEM fields. I’m tired of being told I should drop my major in English to a minor so I can focus on CS, when in reality, I am more committed to my English degree.
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Many freshmen arrive at UC Berkeley and are faced with difficult choices — with numerous open roads and routes to pursue in college, all encompassed by the feeling steeped in the word “undeclared.” I was not one of those students.
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Among all the MCB, EECS and pre-Haas-or-maybe-econ majors, it can be easy to forget that there are dozens of different majors available to choose from.
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The very soul of UC Berkeley — the humanities — is more and more caught in a crisis of identity.
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Breadth courses have an active role in every UC Berkeley student’s life. Whether you’re one of the chosen few who only have a five-course requirement or a mere mortal who engages with the other plebeians in the seven-course quest, nearly every semester each and everyone of us is given the chance to
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The friction between science and the humanities traces back to the inception of Western academia. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics is often discussed with awe, while jokes are told sardonically in bars and student lounges about the flimsy humanities degree. People engage in friendly and not-so-friendly debates over notions of
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