I came to Baylor thinking that college was meant to prepare you strictly for the career that you wanted to have The main reason I chose Baylor was because of their pre-med program. I always thought the process behind choosing a college was deciding what you want to do and then finding a college that successfully produces people of that profession. That’s what I was told all through high school, but I can now see that isn’t quite what it is all about. After reading the essays assigned in class arguing for a liberal education , I see that having a well-rounded education is important to developing a well-rounded way of thinking, and that as an American citizen it is important to have an education in American history. Some people may say that taking a careerism approach to college is more practical than a liberal education; that the extra English, history, and science classes are unnecessary, but I think that those extra classes will teach you skills that you don’t This careerism argument may be true to a certain extent, but in the long run it is far more beneficial to take the liberal arts route for many reasons. You may get really good at one thing that you took many classes in, but if you took all of your classes in science and you make a great discovery down the road in your work, where are you going to get the skills needed to write and publish about it? In “College should be an Intellectual Workout”, Jonathan Malesic argues that working out different areas of your brain by taking classes in different subjects enhances your overall intellectual strength just like working out different areas of your body increases your overall strength. He says, “After a tough mental workout, their brains might hurt, but that hurt
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