Sometimes it seems that what we study in college doesn't have much relation to
what we end up doing for a living. Following is a list of various degrees, as
well as what graduates actually end up doing after earning them.

Computer Science:
     College
        Spend most of your time in a dimly lit lab, playing XTrek and drinking
	Jolt. Interact only with other CS majors, and only via the Net if you
	can manage it. Become passionately involved only in the continuing
	IBM/Amiga/Macintosh debate.
     Real Life
        Spend most of your time in a dimly lit office, playing Flight Simulator
	and drinking gourmet coffee... at least five cups an hour. Interact
	only with your own project team, and then only via e-mail. Become
	passionately involved in the continuing debate over who pays when the
	schedule slips, which wasn't your fault because you told them to take
	DOOM-playing into account from the beginning.

Psychology:
     College
        Spend most of your time in a dimly-lit lab, playing with rats and other
	vermin. Drink Jolt by the six-pack to stay up all night with the
	rodents. Interact only with other Psychos, but only to analyze their
	behavior in non-lab situations. Become involved in the continuing
	debate over whether a trained rat could succeed as a comp sci major.
     Real Life
        Spend most of your time in an unemployment line and living in a
        cardboard box with other vermin, wishing it had been you who changed to
	CS instead of the rat. Continue to consider yourself superior to social
	work majors.

Economics:
     College
        Spend most of your time in a brightly-lit room full of charts and
	graphs. Learn about supply and demand, GNP, supply and demand, prime
	rates, supply and demand, inflation, and supply and demand.
     Real Life
        Spend most of your time in a brightly-lit government office with people
	who look just like you. Issue reports you wrote in college because
	you're too lazy to write new ones. Watch 6:00 newscaster explain your
	report to unsuspecting viewers. Listen to President explain that the
	economy sucks because of unemployed psychologists.

Math:
     College
        Spend your time in a cramped office, thinking about polydimensional
	shapes and arguing their properties with other mathematicians. Scream
	when they steal your work. Steal their work. Be a social outcast.
     Real Life
        See "college" above. You work for the university.