Wednesday, April 16, 2008

M.H. Abrams and Academic Majors

What's your major? If you haven't decided, or even if you have, you could do worse than to listen to the thoughts of the great literary critic M.H. Abrams from an article by Jeffrey Williams. He went into English because, he says, "there weren't jobs in any other profession, so I thought I might as well enjoy starving, instead of starving while doing something I didn't enjoy."There's a lot to be said for going into what you enjoy.

No comments: