"You have to understand what a Liberal Arts major is. For a very select few people, it's a stepping stone to being a professor, or research, or something else at the top of the field. For the vast majority however, a liberal arts degree is an opportunity to do some partying, find a mate, and prove that you're able to show up on time. So yeah, you can get a 4.0 liberal arts degree much easier than you can get an engineering degree, but you won't be able to be an engineer with one!"

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Ah, fancy-pants liberal arts colleges. Always thinking creatively. Probably all of the group hugs, women's studies majors and Division - III sports. Spawn of Cap'n Fun and his bride of course attended one of the fancier of the fancy-pants fine liberal arts colleges, where each student is treated like the special, unique flower that they are, Wisconsin's own Beloit College.

Beloit has compiled a MINDSET LIST®, whatever that is, about the class of 2011, those special little flowers that weren't even germinated until after the cold war ended.

To synopsize, basically the damn kids these days don't have any idea what the Berlin Wall was (#1), never watched Carson (#61), and won't stoop to sully themselves with tap water (#7). These are the memes that shape the bright young liberal artsy minds of tomorrow apparently.

"But Chris," you say, "didn't you attend some fancy-pants college too?"

Oh no, my friend. My Alma Mater didn't have no group hugs and underwater basket weaving. No sir. We done had Agricultural Mechanization (or Ag-Mech to those in the know) and Poultry Science. You can't even graduate if you don't know how to sex a chicken. Cum Laude if you do it in the biblical sense.