It’s absolutely silly, and the girl’s an idiot. She never should have been in the school in the first place. If they wanted to indoctrinate her into their warped, ass-backwards concept of right and wrong, mission accomplished. They’ve created their own monster and I hope she burns them.
Two thoughts:
First, in this economy there are many IT people looking for jobs that have both experience and degrees from better known institutions than Monroe College. She needs to hunker down and get her foot in the door doing something responsible to be prepared when (and if) the economy bounces back.
Second, I’m really tired of people taking shots at the liberal arts. In many institutions the “liberal arts” major has come to be a general studies program that allows students to assemble a cafeteria plan of unrelated classes. Originally, the liberal arts were basic education for free citizens. It is supposed to be (and still can be) a broad education that emphasizes the finest thought of our civilization. Young people need to appreciate the value of civilization and the role that civic virtue plays in preserving it. In my heart I really do believe that if every one of our college graduates had read Thucydides, Livy, Machiavelli, and Locke, we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in.