“Choosing a major is not choosing a career,” says Jeff Selingo, author of “There Is A Life After College.” Pearlstein mentions that it was sad for him to meet new freshmen who had already declared themselves majors without the opportunity to take other classes that could possibly change their minds. The generation we live in is filled with people who only live artificial lives. Everyone wants to make money, but does not want to know humanity with its own cultural history. We need people educated to think critically and humanely, not just competitively. Get a degree in anthropology if you want to learn more about how the world works; take an arts degree if you want to understand how to create things. And why do people here put literature in quotation marks (“literature”) as if it were a disease to be separated. Literature exposes you to different ways of thinking and expressing, inviting you into alternative worlds that are crucial to understanding our own. Want to get practical? Literature shows you how to write, communicate ideas, and how to use proper grammar so that you (business manager, accountant, etc.) can be understood by