I had another laugh about a week ago when the professor of my senior seminar course decided it would be interesting for him to know what we (the members of the class) were doing after graduation. After each person said what they were doing (most had decided to go to graduate school to pursue two to three more years of arbitrary fact memorization and inane argument craftsmanship) the professor weighed in on each of our decisions with an amusing anecdote or maxim of "real world" knowledge. This is a person who has spent nearly his whole life in a school/academic (code words for pointless mental inoculation) environment. How in the world would he know anything about the variety of career choices of his students. Obviously he never pursued any of these actual careers because he elected to stay in school for seven or eight years after college and perpetuate the system of numerical grade control that "educates" us so well. Needless to say, not listening to many of your college professors' opinons on anything involving your life or the choices you make outside of the classroom is probably a good way to avoid leading a meaningless school-centered confomist existence. While professors are busy fulfilling a self-righteous narcissistic need to listen to themselves speak consider this: what are you really going to take away from this academic envirionment. My guess is nothing you learn in a boring, overly drawn-out, mundane lecture. Your life is your own, molded and pieced together by no one but you. So the next time a teacher or some other well-intentioned authority figure attempts to tell you their take on what you are planning on doing or aspire to do it is probably best to make a bee-line for the nearest exit. If this isn't possible, tell them to get back to writing that book about their society-changing hypothesis on why dinosaurs, while extinct, still impact historical market fluctuations in Shanghai. 

Think about it. 

-Eddie