School = Brainwash?

Do you ever know how much knowledge will be useful down the road? Do you think that you'll actually be getting a job as an IT major? Do you think that you'll actually be happy for the rest of your life just being a server operator, system operator, or networks adviser? Most humanities courses will be useless, except for a small subdivision that requires statistical analysis and graphical interpretation. To be honest, data assembly and rate mapping is cross-applicable to numerous fields. Whether measuring the rate of enzymatic catalysis through Michaelis-Menten or the crude birth rate / crude death rate, seeing graphical trends and abstracting how the original equation would look from a derivative would be an important skill is any field.

That's like asking me: "Do you think you'll ever have a kid in about 10 years?"

I don't know.

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It's unclear whether I'll get a job or not, but I'd rather not be overly pessimistic or optimistic. Also, I doubt a lot of people are actually 100% satisfied with their career. Regardless of which career they'll start off on, it's going to be rough somewhere along the road. I don't think the point of having a career is to have fun with it, but to find one that you'll think is a lot more rewarding or pertaining to your own interests. I don't even know anybody that would say "Yes, my job is very fun!" unless they test video games for a living or something.

Even if I would come across a point in time that I would require the knowledge from my Humanities courses, by that time, I'd probably forget about it anyways. The only thing I care enough about now would be to in-take a lot of information as much as possible that's related to my choice of major. I try to learn as much as I can about technology, but I don't think I'd care about learning about the history of .. Western Civilization. Even if situations like that were to arise, if I wasn't interested in enough, not like I'd bother to find a resolution.