By the time he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Superhero Studies (and it took him six years to get it), Pottsy Boyle’s brain had shrunken to the size of a raisin.
But that’s what college does to you.
But it’s not just Superhero Studies, although they’re quite a big offender. There’s also Gender Studies, Feminist Intersectional Albino Studies, Critical Race Theory–hey, you’re lucky to get out of there with a brain the size of an orange.
The good news is, once you stop college, it only takes some twenty years for some of the brain to grow back.
Believe it or not, the English Department where I used to teach has now added a new specialty: “Fashion Studies.” I am not making this up. They just hired someone to teach the courses. Yes, in the English Department. 🙄😖 The retiring chair of the department said this in her farewell letter to the emeriti faculty: “[W]e have hired 6 new tenure-track faculty members, 5 in Columbus and 1 in Lima, who increased our undergraduate and graduate course offerings and expertise in African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Latinx Studies, and Native American Studies as well as in book history, fashion studies, rhetoric, and public history.” (Note: I wonder what non-public history is, and why the History Department didn’t object to this hire.)
How many grads are going to wind up sweeping the floor at the 7-11?
Exactly. I’ve seen some recent grads who seemed all but adrift when it came to any practical work skills.
The graduates in these woke categories will make for good members of the U.S. Congress. Thomas Massie, Rep for Kentucky, built his own house and is completely off the grid. He says his brain turns into a walnut when he is in Congress. Prayers for Massie who recently lost his wife – I believe he has five children.