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	<title>Comments on: No more triple majors, please: College kids should cut course loads</title>
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		<title>By: Brian</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This article is ridiculous. No intellectual curiosity? Timidness? I&#039;m really not sure how to respond to your assertions, because their foundations are exceptionally weak. It seems to me, however, that the fact that a person has chosen to specialize in 3 different areas, despite all the extra time and work it will take,demonstrates incredible confidence and intellectual curiosity.

I&#039;m triple majoring in Slavic &amp; Eastern European Studies, Russian, and German. I&#039;ll be very employable for the several career paths I am considering. And it takes more than 3 months to learn a language. The process takes years. You have obviously never studied a foreign language, especially not a critical needs language like Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, etc.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This article is ridiculous. No intellectual curiosity? Timidness? I&#039;m really not sure how to respond to your assertions, because their foundations are exceptionally weak. It seems to me, however, that the fact that a person has chosen to specialize in 3 different areas, despite all the extra time and work it will take,demonstrates incredible confidence and intellectual curiosity.</p>
<p>I&#039;m triple majoring in Slavic &amp; Eastern European Studies, Russian, and German. I&#039;ll be very employable for the several career paths I am considering. And it takes more than 3 months to learn a language. The process takes years. You have obviously never studied a foreign language, especially not a critical needs language like Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, etc.</p>
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		<title>By: Dr. Del Castillo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dr. Del Castillo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Carly Fiorina double-majored in Philosophy and History. Where did you get that she had one major in English? 

I suggest you do minimal research before posting untrue events as facts in support of your argument.


As for myself,
I triple majored in Political Science, Peace/Conflict Studies, and Public Health at UC Berkeley. I then received a MA in International Relations and Diplomacy at the same time as receiving my law degree and MBA. And as of last year, I also have a MPH and MD from UCLA Medical School. 
Now, at age 30, my possibilities are limitless and I work for the government as a diplomat and advisor to the Department of Health.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Carly Fiorina double-majored in Philosophy and History. Where did you get that she had one major in English? </p>
<p>I suggest you do minimal research before posting untrue events as facts in support of your argument.</p>
<p>As for myself,<br />
I triple majored in Political Science, Peace/Conflict Studies, and Public Health at UC Berkeley. I then received a MA in International Relations and Diplomacy at the same time as receiving my law degree and MBA. And as of last year, I also have a MPH and MD from UCLA Medical School.<br />
Now, at age 30, my possibilities are limitless and I work for the government as a diplomat and advisor to the Department of Health.</p>
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		<title>By: D</title>
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		<dc:creator>D</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Do you have any evidence to validate your claims? We have all heard the horror stories of the double or triple major/masters/phd students that never find real work, and evidently people love to focus on those stories, but what about the opposite? Maybe you should research how many triple majors actually have great jobs and are highly successful and put the myth to rest? That seems like a better contribution than discouraging further tertiary education. I am 22 and have been at university for 5 years and have disparate majors in business, management and two IT fields as well as minors in human resource management and project management. I have also worked full time for a multinational company for several years now where I am valued for my technical and business skills, both of which I use every day. So far every promotion I have received I have had to wait for because I was too young (perhaps I should have remained at university even longer), not because of a lack of creativity or multiple majors.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you have any evidence to validate your claims? We have all heard the horror stories of the double or triple major/masters/phd students that never find real work, and evidently people love to focus on those stories, but what about the opposite? Maybe you should research how many triple majors actually have great jobs and are highly successful and put the myth to rest? That seems like a better contribution than discouraging further tertiary education. I am 22 and have been at university for 5 years and have disparate majors in business, management and two IT fields as well as minors in human resource management and project management. I have also worked full time for a multinational company for several years now where I am valued for my technical and business skills, both of which I use every day. So far every promotion I have received I have had to wait for because I was too young (perhaps I should have remained at university even longer), not because of a lack of creativity or multiple majors.</p>
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		<title>By: Simon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t care about what a triple major is gonna look like on paper for me, I just love languages, so I&#039;m doing a triple major in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. Is that so wrong? I have seriously looked through the whole University handbook and I cant find a single other subject I&#039;d like to study, so may as well get three majors! I learnt Korean fluently in a year by myself so I also happen to know that studying languages is really no stress for me, in fact it&#039;s what I enjoy in life the most.. What&#039;s your take on that Penelope?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#039;t care about what a triple major is gonna look like on paper for me, I just love languages, so I&#039;m doing a triple major in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. Is that so wrong? I have seriously looked through the whole University handbook and I cant find a single other subject I&#039;d like to study, so may as well get three majors! I learnt Korean fluently in a year by myself so I also happen to know that studying languages is really no stress for me, in fact it&#039;s what I enjoy in life the most.. What&#039;s your take on that Penelope?</p>
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		<title>By: Simon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t care about what a triple major is gonna look like on paper for me, I just love languages, so I&#039;m doing a triple major in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. Is that so wrong? I have seriously looked through the whole University handbook and I cant find a single other subject I&#039;d like to study, so may as well get three majors! I learnt Korean fluently in a year by myself so I also happen to know that studying languages is really no stress for me, in fact it&#039;s what I enjoy in life the most.. What&#039;s your take on that?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#039;t care about what a triple major is gonna look like on paper for me, I just love languages, so I&#039;m doing a triple major in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. Is that so wrong? I have seriously looked through the whole University handbook and I cant find a single other subject I&#039;d like to study, so may as well get three majors! I learnt Korean fluently in a year by myself so I also happen to know that studying languages is really no stress for me, in fact it&#039;s what I enjoy in life the most.. What&#039;s your take on that?</p>
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		<title>By: john</title>
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		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;John – ... time.&quot;

Translation:

&lt;b&gt;I could&#039;ve just emailed the author in the first place without drawing any undue attention to those comments at all&lt;/b&gt;, but instead I&#039;d rather post about it to grandstand and draw attention to myself and hopefully start an argument with the idiots that posted them.  Instead it seems someone intelligent has responded, so I&#039;ll just mosey on now.

===============================================

In all of your posts, it&#039;s pretty evident that you like to talk MUCH bigger than what you are.

&quot;I&#039;m not going to bother to address anything you said, or frankly even to read any of it.&quot;

Please, you&#039;re fooling no one.  You knew I made a comment about the email address, which means you read at least some of that comment--even though we both know you read the whole thing.  Make your mind up:  either read it or don&#039;t.  Now you&#039;re just making yourself look more incompetent with each post.  

As for all of this, I&#039;m done.  You can have the final word.  Nothing you can say or do short of getting all these comments deleted will keep you from looking like the silly little girl that you&#039;ve been exposed to be.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#034;John – &#8230; time.&#034;</p>
<p>Translation:</p>
<p><b>I could&#039;ve just emailed the author in the first place without drawing any undue attention to those comments at all</b>, but instead I&#039;d rather post about it to grandstand and draw attention to myself and hopefully start an argument with the idiots that posted them.  Instead it seems someone intelligent has responded, so I&#039;ll just mosey on now.</p>
<p>===============================================</p>
<p>In all of your posts, it&#039;s pretty evident that you like to talk MUCH bigger than what you are.</p>
<p>&#034;I&#039;m not going to bother to address anything you said, or frankly even to read any of it.&#034;</p>
<p>Please, you&#039;re fooling no one.  You knew I made a comment about the email address, which means you read at least some of that comment&#8211;even though we both know you read the whole thing.  Make your mind up:  either read it or don&#039;t.  Now you&#039;re just making yourself look more incompetent with each post.  </p>
<p>As for all of this, I&#039;m done.  You can have the final word.  Nothing you can say or do short of getting all these comments deleted will keep you from looking like the silly little girl that you&#039;ve been exposed to be.</p>
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		<title>By: Michaela Spangenburg</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michaela Spangenburg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>John - you think I would give either you or those losers an email addy I cared about and used for something OTHER than spam? Come on. I just provided the email because I think it&#039;s a bit rude to fill up someone&#039;s comment page with an unrelated laundry list of complaints you have about a third party, as you did. 

I&#039;m not going to bother to address anything you said, or frankly even to read any of it. I, unlike you, do not have time to sit in front of my computer and dissect something someone says point by point. I will say this, though - I have no idea what your problem is with me or why you randomly chose to insult someone who was clearly just trying to do right by someone else. Its easy to assume from that that you have an issue with the rest of what I said, otherwise why would you bother? If I want to take on trolls who are making sexist and disgusting comments and try to do someone constructive about it, what is it to you?

With that, I hope you go make better use of your time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John &#8211; you think I would give either you or those losers an email addy I cared about and used for something OTHER than spam? Come on. I just provided the email because I think it&#039;s a bit rude to fill up someone&#039;s comment page with an unrelated laundry list of complaints you have about a third party, as you did. </p>
<p>I&#039;m not going to bother to address anything you said, or frankly even to read any of it. I, unlike you, do not have time to sit in front of my computer and dissect something someone says point by point. I will say this, though &#8211; I have no idea what your problem is with me or why you randomly chose to insult someone who was clearly just trying to do right by someone else. Its easy to assume from that that you have an issue with the rest of what I said, otherwise why would you bother? If I want to take on trolls who are making sexist and disgusting comments and try to do someone constructive about it, what is it to you?</p>
<p>With that, I hope you go make better use of your time.</p>
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		<title>By: BushyTail</title>
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		<dc:creator>BushyTail</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Penelope is a puppet for the Nazi Seagull League, our bitter aerial enemies! Join the Revolutionary Army of Squirrels today!

FIGHT FOR FREEDOM!
FIGHT FOR LIBERTY!
FIGHT FOR SQUIRREL INDEPENDENCE!

LONG LIVE THE RAS!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Penelope is a puppet for the Nazi Seagull League, our bitter aerial enemies! Join the Revolutionary Army of Squirrels today!</p>
<p>FIGHT FOR FREEDOM!<br />
FIGHT FOR LIBERTY!<br />
FIGHT FOR SQUIRREL INDEPENDENCE!</p>
<p>LONG LIVE THE RAS!</p>
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		<title>By: john</title>
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		<dc:creator>john</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Okay, I&#039;ll go slow and do this in pieces so that you can understand this. :)

&quot;John: I&#039;m guessing that reading skills and logic is what you are lacking in. I was referring to the comments, which could be removed at any time. Case in point: Note that one of the comments was taken down. I emailed the author, and apparently she saw the common sense in removing one of them.&quot;  

You were referring to the comments?  Wow, so was I!  They could be removed at any time, but apparently WERE NOT (see, I can use caps to show I&#039;m &quot;angry,&quot; too) until you self-admittedly emailed the author about it.  In other words, I&#039;m sure scanning for troll comments on a near seven year-old &lt;strike&gt;article&lt;/strike&gt; blog post isn&#039;t high on the author&#039;s to do list.  Also, way to play copy cat with that first witty line.  Thinking for yourself must not be one of the things they teach at your institution.



&quot;Seeing as how you are so upset about the possibility of their removal that you are going to make smart ass remarks to me, I wonder if you are possibly one of the people (or the one person) who posted those comments. If you are, might I suggest you get lost.&quot;

You seem to be the only one upset at all, going out of your way to chastise one or two trolls that will likely never visit this page again.  As for your silly accusation, I don&#039;t waste my time making stupid comments like that.  I&#039;d much rather use sense and intelligence to call out foolish people like yourself.



&quot;And if you want to continue to harass me, why don&#039;t we take it off this page – mekkiethenekkie (at) yahoo.com. There&#039;s no reason to fight this out on someone else&#039;s blog. Or you could just get lost, in general.&quot;

So making a sarcastic is harassment now?  Get a life.  I&#039;m wasting too much time dealing with you now.  I want to correspond with a silly person like you via email about the same amount as those other two numbskulls who posted before you.  You may want to ask to get your comment deleted, as well.  You&#039;ve completely invited those two (or one) guy(s) to completely spam up your account--if they do ever visit this site again.  I hope that email was an alternate of yours...At their level of intelligence, I&#039;m sure that&#039;d be a fun day for them.  

So for the record, no, those comments weren&#039;t mine; however, you can get lost regardless.  Enjoy your three majors, I know I do, mine.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, I&#039;ll go slow and do this in pieces so that you can understand this. :)</p>
<p>&#034;John: I&#039;m guessing that reading skills and logic is what you are lacking in. I was referring to the comments, which could be removed at any time. Case in point: Note that one of the comments was taken down. I emailed the author, and apparently she saw the common sense in removing one of them.&#034;  </p>
<p>You were referring to the comments?  Wow, so was I!  They could be removed at any time, but apparently WERE NOT (see, I can use caps to show I&#039;m &#034;angry,&#034; too) until you self-admittedly emailed the author about it.  In other words, I&#039;m sure scanning for troll comments on a near seven year-old <strike>article</strike> blog post isn&#039;t high on the author&#039;s to do list.  Also, way to play copy cat with that first witty line.  Thinking for yourself must not be one of the things they teach at your institution.</p>
<p>&#034;Seeing as how you are so upset about the possibility of their removal that you are going to make smart ass remarks to me, I wonder if you are possibly one of the people (or the one person) who posted those comments. If you are, might I suggest you get lost.&#034;</p>
<p>You seem to be the only one upset at all, going out of your way to chastise one or two trolls that will likely never visit this page again.  As for your silly accusation, I don&#039;t waste my time making stupid comments like that.  I&#039;d much rather use sense and intelligence to call out foolish people like yourself.</p>
<p>&#034;And if you want to continue to harass me, why don&#039;t we take it off this page – mekkiethenekkie (at) yahoo.com. There&#039;s no reason to fight this out on someone else&#039;s blog. Or you could just get lost, in general.&#034;</p>
<p>So making a sarcastic is harassment now?  Get a life.  I&#039;m wasting too much time dealing with you now.  I want to correspond with a silly person like you via email about the same amount as those other two numbskulls who posted before you.  You may want to ask to get your comment deleted, as well.  You&#039;ve completely invited those two (or one) guy(s) to completely spam up your account&#8211;if they do ever visit this site again.  I hope that email was an alternate of yours&#8230;At their level of intelligence, I&#039;m sure that&#039;d be a fun day for them.  </p>
<p>So for the record, no, those comments weren&#039;t mine; however, you can get lost regardless.  Enjoy your three majors, I know I do, mine.</p>
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		<title>By: Michaela Spangenburg</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michaela Spangenburg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>John: I&#039;m guessing that reading skills and logic is what you are lacking in. I was referring to the comments, which could be removed at any time. Case in point: Note that one of the comments was taken down. I emailed the author, and apparently she saw the common sense in removing one of them. 

Seeing as how you are so upset about the possibility of their removal that you are going to make smart ass remarks to me, I wonder if you are possibly one of the people (or the one person) who posted those comments. If you are, might I suggest you get lost. 

And if you want to continue to harass me, why don&#039;t we take it off this page - mekkiethenekkie (at) yahoo.com. There&#039;s no reason to fight this out on someone else&#039;s blog. Or you could just get lost, in general.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John: I&#039;m guessing that reading skills and logic is what you are lacking in. I was referring to the comments, which could be removed at any time. Case in point: Note that one of the comments was taken down. I emailed the author, and apparently she saw the common sense in removing one of them. </p>
<p>Seeing as how you are so upset about the possibility of their removal that you are going to make smart ass remarks to me, I wonder if you are possibly one of the people (or the one person) who posted those comments. If you are, might I suggest you get lost. </p>
<p>And if you want to continue to harass me, why don&#039;t we take it off this page &#8211; mekkiethenekkie (at) yahoo.com. There&#039;s no reason to fight this out on someone else&#039;s blog. Or you could just get lost, in general.</p>
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