it comes in pints?

That's not true. The last refuge of the mathematically challenged is sociology. At least the arts are broadly entertaining and serve a purpose.

I knew that would wake you up.

I'm waiting for John to appear...

"I like art." -- Eugene Victor Tooms.

Emily...a guy I know teaches graduate sociology. He says that a lot of the undergrad soc majors think it is all about political posturing...then they get into the grad program and are confronted with regression analysis, etc.

Don't know how common this is, though..

The last refuge of the untalented, illogical, and mathematically challeged is academic literary and arts criticism. I know of mold cultures that are of more use to the human race than most of those people.

I know of mold cultures that are of more use to the human race than most of those people.

Classic!

Well yeah. Mold gives us antibiotics.

David,
I only took a handful of undergrad sociology classes, all of which were general ed requirements. The intro courses, usually taught by professors engaged in blatant political posturing, really made a lot of the field of study look like nothing but a bunch of morons re-stating common sense with big words and then having the nerve to demand intellectual copyright.

"The species known as homo sapiens sapiens are innately prone to moments of lachrymose penitence and self-reproach when confronted with socio-companionable interferences or disruptions to their paradigmatic subsitence which often manifests itself in the form of water eminating from the optical region of the physical constitution."

Meaning, when people are sad, they sometimes cry.

I've done a lot of reading over the last few years on the sociological studies of cults, and some of it is quite interesting and enlightening and is based on models that have more to do with statistics and psychological influences, etc, that is quite impressive. As an objective study, it's not entirely useless, but a lot of the people engaged in it are producing work that is.

Wouldn't the most mathmatically challenged be in like English depts or something? Or History majors. We're not known for our abundance of math skillz. Soc usually employs some sort of statistics, which means you have have a pretty decent grasp of at least that area of math... right? OR was that just my soc prof? (he was a complete fucking loon. called himself a socialist anarchist. and said bloody all the time because swearing made him laugh. and was proof that class at 4pm on friday was just evil)