so the lecture that i saw this weekend was the one by Jason Mittell about the modern effects of television. He opened his speech by saying that liberal arts is a designed uselessness and that really struck me as true. If you think about it, we are( or our parents) are paying thousands of dollars a year so we can take courses like the sociology of smuggling, if Buddha made movies, etc etc, classes that arent really preparing us for work after college, but opening our minds to new ideas and concepts that may or may not be useful in later life.