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Bill vs Steve? Mac vs PC? Liberal Arts vs Engineering? What was Your College Major?
TechCrunch has an interesting essay on college majors and what will serve young people best in the future.
Technology blog TechCrunch (a fellow AOL website) put forth this interesting essay by University of California Berkeley professor Vivek Wadhwa. According to Wadhwa, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates implied in a recent speech that money to the liberal arts should be reduced because it doesn't correlate with job creation; later Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs called Apple's latest creation, the iPad 2, technology married with humanities.
You can read more about it, and Wadhwa's views, on the New York Times's Room for Debate. I won't spoil Wadhwa's conclusion, but what do you think? Are you glad you majored in what you majored in? Or would you change your major?
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