Whatever other factors are affecting your decisions, don’t let the pressure to study STEM eliminate the possibility of studying another field that you might care about. 

Ideas that everyone should read are written to be accessible only for scholars – this restriction of information, intentional or not, needs to stop.

The Career Fair has in the past–and continues present day–to be dominated by employers that represent STEM majors, leaving humanities majors with few specified options to choose from.

I’m a humanities major. Everyday, I hear the stereotypes—I have no idea what I want to do, I don’t have real work, or I am just taking random classes that I find interesting and probably won’t help me in the job world. Yet just because I’ve been put in a box doesn’t mean it isn’t right—I actually have no idea what I’m doing with my life.

Sophomores and freshmen can now apply to minor in the medical humanities, a new interdisciplinary minor announced this year aimed at studying the intersection of medicine and health studies with the humanities.

35-2 vote against Saint Louis University’s President, Father Biondi, last week has sent murmurs of doomsday for the school’s future rippling through the local community.

African-American studies: an unnecessary, fabricated, pseudo-academic escape from the real sciences. It is simply a “recreational” subject of research, ideally left to one’s leisure on the weekend, or designated downtime during the 28 days of Black History Month.

Icome from a large extended family with a lot of engineers, and when I go home for holidays—aside from the usual queries about boyfriends and jobs—I’m generally asked a lot of questions about why I chose the majors I ended up with.