For example, although I’m sure that psychology is a fine and interesting major, I doubt that, say, studying psychology with many other subjects will complement each other well.

One major that (I believe) universally complement other majors is mathematics; even if it is hard to see a direct connection (say your other major is theology), the training in formal logic and disciplined though is very beneficial. It is also said throughout academia that a bachelors in mathematics will prepare a student for almost any area of graduate studies.

For that matter, computer science would probably do the same thing, as long as emphasis were placed in the right areas.

Point being, there certainly isn’t enough time to be good at everything, but can we study certain things that will make learning other things much easier? This may be an important question.

Wilkie — Ha, I know what you mean. Mistakes can be quite… informative. They can also be a waste of time vs reading documentation, but I suspect that the mistakes you’ve made are specifically because of a lack of thorough documentation.

But, on that, I give you:

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
Abraham Lincoln

The fact is, there’s just not enough time to be good at everything. Either your knowledge is broad or it’s deep. You can imagine that your knowledge has a constant volume, or maybe it’s a function of time. You just have to decide weather to spread that volume out real thin or to pour it into a deep pit.

and i feel the same way about my faith – someone would look at some profile and say “ohh she’s just another CRAAAAZY christian. we don’t like those moral people bringing down the work day.” because while yes, MOST christians are absolutely ridiculous, I am not one of them. and I would hope that’s inherently obvious by just meeting me, but you never know. …a christian could have like … killed that potential employer’s cat when he was little.

so yes i know where you’re coming from.

Jessie, yeah. When I do go back, it will be math-related.

ML, yeah… teaching is great, and I think I’d like to do it, but first I feel like I need to accomplish something.

At least WQED FM is amazing. I used to be a member.

Remember Justin Dunmyre? he was a tutor in the MAC, I think he was a teacher for one of your classes? He ended up getting his PhD in Math because his love for programming (his hobby) was tainted by working for the man. I couldn’t understand why he would want to give up a fruitful profession for 6 more years of school and a questionably fruitless profession.

Now I understand.

I MUST agree with you that Pittsburgh PBS SUCKS… Before Andy and I had cable we used to watch QED a lot. Especially on Saturdays in winter when it seemed there was nothing to do. I enjoyed the pittsburgh culture stuff but none of the really good stuff was ever on. NATURE was really the best thing they had going for them. Where the heck was Nova? The podcasts would always advertise a program coming up on PBS and it would NEVER BE ON PITTSBURGH PBS… GRRRRRRR