As I mentioned a while ago on a new deceased blog, I get a lot of questions about what I'll do with my undergrad degree. James McManus wrote a fun piece for The New Yorker's Talk of the Town section recognizing major historical figures who played poker —McManus is a poker player and writer.
Anyway, the piece is great, something a good writer/journalist and history expert could definitely write. So there you go. Perhaps I'll use my History degree to write Talk of the Town pieces about high profile poker games.
Just to restate, there have been plenty of successful people who didn't major in the "useful" undergraduate studies (i.e. something meant to go toward a law, business, or medicine degree):
Malcolm Gladwell majored in History
Noam Chomsky majored in Philosophy and Linguistics
Michael Bloomberg majored in Mechanical engineering -not very useful for running a company or being a politician
Steve Jobs didn't get a undergraduate degree
Perhaps the undergrad degree isn't prophetic of the course life will take...
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