Gold and Beautiful

All that glitters is not gold..... But it is usually very attractive!!!!! I think that's why we make some wrong decisions :-)

Fareed Zakaria had this post on FB today. It shows the top 7 Bachelor's degrees awarded in US in 2008-09 and the top 7 bachelor's degrees awarded to international students in US in 08-09. It is no news that US is lagging behind in graduating STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) majors. The problem has been discussed for a long time. There are tons of papers that are presented at conferences and published in journals even today that discuss different experiments conducted by many colleges and universities to increase their enrollment in STEM disciplines. Most of the funding for these projects comes from NSF, which funds some of these projects from H1B processing fees. It was heartbreaking for me to read some of the comments on that post. Before I say anything, lets get this straight: I teach at a liberal arts college and hail the idea of a well rounded individual.  I don't think that money is everything and that it should dictate what you study and work as for t