is cool, and he know how to mute my BS 😉

@vanessa

thanks, that's a cool question to ask ❤️

maybe I'll go back and ask the college, hey could I take another philosophy course?

whether it "fulfills the Minor" or not, I'd just love to take the class.

I want to take a Philosophy course!!!!
(ty for helping me realize this ❤️ )

sorry, I merged lots of ideas. so I didn't attend Stanford Univ. nor would I ever, omg.
I mean, who would? who would go to fuckin Stanford, laughable.

but so,
I attended a tiny college in the midwestern US. I had friends and good professors whom I loved.

They helped me feel free to explore. that's why it's sad to me -- despite the privilege and permission to explore what I loved, I still didn't, explore.

I still didn't get a fucking philosophy minor. really people???

@vanessa did the philosophers of ancient Rome, the Taoist monks, or armchair-sitters around the world let something like not finishing a Stanford course stop them? I doubt it.

You have a social media account and the will to put your opinions out there—and at the end of the day, isn't that what the internet is all about?

why didn't I just take one more course and go for the philosophy minor? so that when I'm loafing on the couch, I could say I'm philosophizing?

oh well. I've made worse mistakes. like that DUI in 2018. it wasn't my fault though.

A far bigger mistake would've been attending fuckin Stanford University. Or allowing anyone I love to go there. That place sucks.

@alice @aral

people who understand statistics --not just the results, but how statistics are done -- are the absolute coolest people on the planet.

@aral

@vanessa I started out wanting to be a criminal psychologist for the FBI (too much X-Files I guess), then like 1-2 years in, it dawned on me that I'd have to work for the FBI to do that.

So I thought "abnormal psychology! That's needed in a few places!" and I was close to enough credits, so why not?

Then, while doing psych experiments, I learned statistics—and loved it.

Then to do statistics and experiments more effectively, I learned to code—and loved it.

So that's how I ended up with a Computer Information Systems degree, with a double minor in Behavioral Science and Statistics.

hey, you know what? just go to University of [insert your state]. if your pimply kid can get in there, they'll have a great time and emerge a better person than if they went to Stanford. Please encourage them to major in the humanities, after fucking around for the first 2+ years. They should not "choose a major" until their academic advisor forces them to do so, because they (said advisor) is "worried." Junior year, second semester. that's when they start worrying.

@aral @alice

cool. that's cool.

and I'm sure @aral is so happy to now be included in a discussion about the value of a liberal arts education vs being a shill for the Stanford - to- SiliconV pipeline.

I'm sorry. I'm just a bitter biologist who wished they had a philosophy minor.

💓 ❤️

@vanessa Not at all; exactly the kind of discussion I’d want to be included in :)

💕

I'm sorry. 😔

@aral