>I enjoyed college for the sake of learning. After engineering college I went back for the humanities and am so glad I did!

I wasn't in the engineering school as an undergraduate (my bachelor's is in Math), so had a pretty good opportunity to take a broad spectrum of courses. I had a lot of social sciences. However, if I were in school today, there are courses I'd take that scared me then.

Our older son is a junior in college (Amherst) now. He's double-majoring in Physics and Astronomy. We're really delighted with the wide range of courses he's taken. In his case, lots of humanities, including a drawing course. He's at the only school among the 15 we looked at with him that doesn't have a distributional or core requirement. What they told us was that they've found that their students do a good job of distributing their courses. The benefit of this approach is that no one is ever in a class because they have to be; they've always chosen them. I don't think this would work everywhere, but it certainly does there.

Tamar