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[Ingles, Raymond]

> From: Rich Elswick

> Do not discount general eduction

 When I got my undergraduate degree, my graduation present was the *best ever*. My
parents sprung for a whole extra term where I could take whatever class I wanted.

 I had a great time. I took an anthropology course, a class on making holograms,
a course on literary fantasy (my one regret was that the science-fiction version
wasn't available that semester), the 'intro to women's studies' class (as a white
male middle-class heterosexual engineer, in the early 1990's... though for the
most part I was treated as a human being), and an 'intro to modern dance' class,
just because it was something I would ordinarily never, ever do.

 One of my favorite things to do when I was in college was, of an afternoon where
I had a long break between classes, go pick a random class and sit in. (I'd choose
a large auditorium so as not to disrupt things.) It was almost never boring, and
even in the boring ones I'd learn *something* I hadn't known I didn't know.

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                               (313) 227-2317

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