We are number15??

The most lucrative college majors:
1. Computer Engineering
2. Economics
3. Electrical Engineering
4. Computer Science
5. Mechanical Engineering
6. Finance
7. Mathematics
8. Civil Engineering
... ...
15. English

Well, based on the article by Kurt Badenhausen, I simply found that English is a not bad but not good major. See this:

15. English
Exerience Salary
0 to 5 years $36,700
5 to 10 years $47,900
10 to 20 years $62,300

Humm.. I remember my dean once said to me that English major is no major. But I treated what he said with the contempt it deserves. I was curious why people always like to learn English or other foreign language, cos somebody once told me that he is a patriot and, he'll never learn other languages except our mother language. I know it sounds strange and a little unreasonable, but in China, most of guys will not chose english as their major except there is on other major left for they to chose, which I mean, some majors are good, but it's too hard for them to take, others are too easy, and they don't wanna take as well, or, they just don't have a choice, cos the score they got was too pathetic, so... And, English, as a course, or a major, is something like very easy to deal with, all you have to do is to remember, remember and remember. Words, grammars, or some other foreign cultures, American's, England's, etc. While you are graduate, you can find a job in foreign company, using what you taught and living a peaceful life. But.

After reading that article, suddenly I found, wow! World is so interesting. Who can tell me why we are going to college? Even when you finish it, you wanna get a higher degree? Cos we wanna find a good job? To earn a big sum of money?

I think in this high development world, only study is not a good way to keep on, and inter- or cross- learning is becoming more and more inportant, especially in our students' daily livies. See, there once a Chemisty major student who studied in Peking University used to pull H2SO4 to a live wild panda to test that if the fur of it will be burnt or not.

Sometimes, you have to be a "éclectique", not a "bookworm". While, I think, English is a good major, cos English is an international language, so, almost every firsthand information are all written in English. To some students who have broad interests, they'll get benifit from it, cos they can read them very easily but to those who english are not good guys, they'll only limited in what their professor taught them. (this is only happen in Non-English speaking countries.) As far as I know, in China, most of intelligent students who studying in Stinghua or Peking University, their English is not that good, but their specialize fields are absolutely top. And, one day I heard that in US, most of the non-inportant "thinking group" of white house or some big company or CIA or FBI are all Chinese. And, if you do an easily search in google or baidu, you'll find that in most of development coutries, US, UK, German, Russia, French, etc, each of their citizens are biolingual.

So, you can figure out, if every Chinese citizen could speak a fluently English, how strong of our coutry will be.

Well, kinda late, so, I'll drop my personal point of view about this article: English is a tool, learn it, use it, to get knowledges of other fields, then, your pay will be doubled and doubled and doubled. One day, you'll be a boss of a big company of your own. So, English is No. 1!