“College is a time to explore what you love. Don’t worry about your major,” said a beaming comp lit major to a room full of wide-eyed prospective students and their parents. This former econ major sat on a panel at Barnard’s admitted student weekend trying to convince us all that college was a magical time of self-discovery and intellectual exploration. Meanwhile, my mother ever so cynically shifted in her seat next to me and rolled her eyes. “Yes, but where will she get a job?” her look said.
