{"id":144350,"date":"2014-02-19T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=144350"},"modified":"2014-02-14T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T17:31:53","slug":"college-graduates-regret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/article-of-the-day\/02\/19\/college-graduates-regret\/","title":{"rendered":"What College Graduates Regret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/college-regret.jpg\" alt=\"College Regret\" width=\"570\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-144353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/college-regret.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/college-regret-200x122.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Article:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2014\/02\/what-college-graduates-regret\/283808\/\"> What College Graduates Regret<\/a> by Eleanor Barkhorn in The Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Text:<\/strong> What&#8217;s the most important thing a college student can do to ensure she&#8217;ll have a job after graduation? The most common answer to that question lately: Pick the right major. Major in science or engineering, you&#8217;ll have no trouble finding work. Study the humanities, and you&#8217;re doomed. A recent BuzzFeed video takes this idea to its comic extreme. A bunch of underemployed liberal-arts graduates try to talk a group of college kids out of repeating their mistakes, &#8220;Scared Straight&#8221;-style.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NWWCpuqV4c0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A recent Pew study complicates this picture a little bit. It found that, yes, a third of college graduates who majored in social science, liberal arts or<br \/>\neducation regretted their decision. (In comparison, 24 percent of people with science and engineering degrees wish they&#8217;d studied something else.) But overall, when asked what they wish they&#8217;d done differently in college, &#8220;choosing a different major&#8221; wasn&#8217;t the top answer. The most popular answer, given by half of all respondents, was &#8220;gaining more work experience.&#8221; Choosing a different major was the fourth most popular response, after &#8220;studying harder&#8221; and &#8220;looking for work sooner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pew.png\" alt=\"Pew\" width=\"358\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-144352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pew.png 358w, https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/pew-200x189.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A possible lesson here: Picking a major with a real-world application might be overrated, at least as college graduates themselves see it. What students really need is experience putting their knowledge to practical use while they&#8217;re still in school.<\/p>\n<p>(For more on this Pew study, check out my colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2014\/02\/indisputable-evidence-that-millennials-have-it-worse-than-any-generation-in-50-years\/283752\/\">Jordan Weissmann&#8217;s post<\/a> from earlier this week.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Article: What College Graduates Regret by Eleanor Barkhorn in The Atlantic. The Text: What&#8217;s the most important thing a college student can do to ensure she&#8217;ll have a job after graduation? The most common answer to that question lately: Pick the right major. Major in science or engineering, you&#8217;ll have no trouble finding work. 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