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Aug. 13th, 2011 12:19 pmYou know, I really do think that Tulane's website is the most functional university website I've ever run across. I shall be sad when it is no longer my university's homepage, because most other uni websites make me shudder in horror.
Also, I kind of appreciate these What Can You Do With A Degree In..." fliers, because it's not just all the useful majors, but everything that Tulane offers. With a degree in classics, you can be a CIA analyst! A minister! An archaeologist! A speechwriter! Fictional!
They're a little more confused by MEMS, but they still manfully tell you that you can be an archaeologist, an archivist, an author, several other things, a specialist (that's...nice?), or a tour guide. Or a lawyer. You can always be a lawyer.
On a related note, there is a Roman historian at Cambridge that I have been told to contact, since he's the one my connections in the Archaeology Department know, but I've decided that there's a slight possibility I should probably read his research before I e-mail him and say, "Hi! I want to come study with you!" YES I PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT HIS BOOKS IN CAMBRIDGE I KNOW. Maybe my poor going-out-of-business Borders (RIP) will have them. Or I can wait till I go back to Tulane. ohgodiwillnevergetintograduateschool
It has also struck me that as I am crazily trying to get into Cambridge for grad, perhaps I should also look at Oxford. Yes. It took me this long to realize that, uh, Oxford also exists as an option. Look, I was in Cambridge for a month, okay? Where they like to tell stories about how Oxford does things WRONG and it is full of dirty cheating liars who trick poor innocent Corpus Christi Cambridge out of its colors because Cambridge has honor and integrity. (I have no idea if this is actually true, but that's what they say at Cambridge!)
Also, I kind of appreciate these What Can You Do With A Degree In..." fliers, because it's not just all the useful majors, but everything that Tulane offers. With a degree in classics, you can be a CIA analyst! A minister! An archaeologist! A speechwriter! Fictional!
They're a little more confused by MEMS, but they still manfully tell you that you can be an archaeologist, an archivist, an author, several other things, a specialist (that's...nice?), or a tour guide. Or a lawyer. You can always be a lawyer.
On a related note, there is a Roman historian at Cambridge that I have been told to contact, since he's the one my connections in the Archaeology Department know, but I've decided that there's a slight possibility I should probably read his research before I e-mail him and say, "Hi! I want to come study with you!" YES I PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT HIS BOOKS IN CAMBRIDGE I KNOW. Maybe my poor going-out-of-business Borders (RIP) will have them. Or I can wait till I go back to Tulane. ohgodiwillnevergetintograduateschool
It has also struck me that as I am crazily trying to get into Cambridge for grad, perhaps I should also look at Oxford. Yes. It took me this long to realize that, uh, Oxford also exists as an option. Look, I was in Cambridge for a month, okay? Where they like to tell stories about how Oxford does things WRONG and it is full of dirty cheating liars who trick poor innocent Corpus Christi Cambridge out of its colors because Cambridge has honor and integrity. (I have no idea if this is actually true, but that's what they say at Cambridge!)