@Owlright said:
Yup, finally rekindling my secondary education this fall as an archaeology major, having dropped out of college pursuing a religious studies major a few years ago. Hoping to one day make it to grad school and focus on mortuary archaeology. Of course, the school I'm attending did decide to pull a shit ton of funding to the department right after I enrolled, so that's...fun :|
Story of my life as a Japanese major at a science-heavy public university. The school administrators always try to tell us students that they have trouble finding funding despite consistently having a few billion to throw around in its budget every year and tend not to pay attention when people complain about the budget disparity between the liberal arts versus the science schools heavily favoring the latter. I always figured not having so many Nobel Physics laureates on staff as an ego boost and football coaches that ask for $500k salaries for a team that hasn't won anything major in decades would be a good start, as well as the endless construction, but apparently I'm not the one running the school for a reason. The Japanese studies department itself does okay enough and I've gotten a good education out of it, but we have pretty serious teaching shortages for the lower level language classes and then, of course, they stick a lot of our classes in the oldest and likely least maintained buildings on campus. It's always fun political times at my school. Let me be clear that I'm by no means bitter towards any of the actual science students and professors, though; it just happens that their departments tend to end up in fun political clashes with ones like mine a lot.
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