Her whole aura is incredibly irritating - she has some sort of white savior complex and would of course deny that and stand behind her Harvard degree claiming how other people are just not as "enlightened" as her. Has she checked her (they?) white privilege yet? lmao
People here act like in you're doing to be a "pro" aka nationally-top level runner, your time is 100% invested in running and there is no time for anything else. The truth is that this is absolutely not correct and "elites" have tons of down time, spending it getting massages, taking naps, and (no joke) "watching netflix" between their morning and afternoon runs. Furthermore, there are NUMEROUS examples of successful runners (often without a sponsorship) who have succeeded while working or invest their time elsewhere while training.
Dakotah Lindwurm - Works full time as a paralegal while qualifying for the 2024 Olympic Marathon Kiera D'Amato - was setting American Records working as a relator without a sponsorship Martin Hehir - ran as a pro while in medical school DOING ROUNDS Nell Rojas - Finished top 10 at Boston TWICE unsponsored while owning and running a gym Molly Seidel - Worked part time at Starbucks when she qualified for the 2020 Olympic Marathon Honorable Mention - Morgan Pearson, who is a triathlete and not a full time runner, has competed in and WON races against nationally-elite fields.
Also think back in the day before sponsorships - "elites" HAD to have jobs or continued training during grad school. Frank Shorter WON AN OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL WHILE IN LAW SCHOOL. 50 years later, his marathon times would still put him in the top of group of American man and that's without the help of modern super shoes.
This begs the question - if you're a shoe company, is it worth it to fund your athletes at the level they're at, considering many without any sort of financial support are thriving and succeeding while beating those with "full funding?"
Jack Bacheler made the '68 Olympic team while getting a Ph.D in entymology. Ron Hill got one in textile chemistry while working as a chemist and raising a family while training full time. Depends on the person and circumstances but grad school and running can be very compatible. And Ramsden's not talking about doing both simultaneously.
Laura Muir became world class while in Vet School. Bannister broke 4:00 while in Med School. Talented and driven people will succeed. Not everyone does best in a less structured, full pro setting (see Andrew Wheating).
I was also going to mention Roger Bannister.
Also, sometimes what makes grad school difficult is spending so much time in classes and researching while simultaneously being able to afford life (teaching or research assistantship to cover tuition plus a stipend, OR a "real world" job separate from the University). If her "real world" job is being a professional runner, that actually may result in a less hectic schedule than many grad students.
A PhD in 'environmental humanities'. What a pointless subject. Why not be normal and get a MBA?
lemme put it this way. we have trained meteorologists and environmentalists etc. explaining the nature of the scientific issues related to climate and a significant portion of the right won't even admit that much. so i don't even buy it's that she's viewing these issues as humanities as opposed to science. she could train for and present her ideas as degrees C or meters of sea rise and so what. so it's really environmentalism or the climate at all. it's not just science, it's applied science that doesn't make waves.
you can go on meteorology program websites and the conservative ones will usually have some sort of parsed statement like global warming exists but we're trying to sort out exactly what percent is nurture vs. nature. thing being an elementary grasp of data and math shows it exists. NWS where i live has a 120+ year climate databank. you can literally search for what the weather was each day for a month dating back to the late 1800s. you do that and you figure out it was several degrees cooler. i went back and confirmed my sense that there was a chill in the air my first XC morning practice in HS -- it was high 60s in august here. few decades later it will be pushing 80 every morning and drop into the 60s once every in a blue morning. that kind of morning almost doesn't exist anymore. pushing 80 at 8am you feel walking out the door. if you more rigorously run the data a big shift has happened, multiple degrees, amount of temps above or below certain numbers, pick any month. and yet if she majored in meteorology with a climate focus, she'd probably get a significant fraction of the same crap.
also, re her job prospects, i think people are reading in the job struggles of someone with average grades and a humanities master's from third rate East West State. if she followed through on her plans, we're talking a high GPA harvard grad going to her pick of grad schools then looking for a job. setting aside your criticisms of her potential choice of field as narrow or woke, she's probably be top of the pile for any job in it. woke or not. setting aside, like i said, someone who gets where she is, has tons of drive and discipline anywhere she wants to go.
and if all that fails, a career of high NCAA finishes from harvard while maintaining near perfect grades gets her a head coach job at a serious academic school.
If you are majoring in Art History, sociology, communications, or any subject with "studies" in its title, you better have family money. It's ridiculous for someone with a working class background to major in something so frivolous.
Harvard will meet 100% of your financial needs, and no matter what you major in you will have good options when you graduate. You don't have to sell your soul and major in Hedge Fund Management just because you're poor.
You would be surprised; the big 4 accounting firms, the leading management consultants, wall st firms and other companies all hire humanities majors thru the Harvard on campus recruiting program.
These firms understand that Harvard grads, regardless of major had to be top performers in math just to be admitted to Harvard. They just want smart, goal-oriented people to work for them.
The 1st month for a new hire with absolutely zero business experience can be entertaining, but they learn quickly. These type of hires often do very well later in management positions.
some some pathetic little loser boy with no life and no future who barely graduated from 6th grade is mocking a PHD........ Typical LetsRun loser. This page used to be good before pathetic POS like you joined
It's not contempt for liberal arts. Studying Latin, Greek, classics, and great books is important.
Studying woke garbage like "Astroenvironmentalism as SF: Bordering (and Ordering) Otherworldly Ecologies", "Cotton, Whiteness, and Other Poisons", or "“These Lusting, Incestuous, Perverse Creatures”: A Phytopoetic History of Plants and Sexuality" is pointless.
if you are to intellectually stunted to actually READ the documents please don't comment on them
Thanks for engaging with my comments in good faith/earnestly. I'll grant your point that there is a good deal of bad humanities scholarship that stands on nothing other than its orientation to social justice issues (or what some here call "wokeness"). However, I think if you look around at a lot of the major institutions and high-profile research in humanities and social sciences, you'll find that most of it is not as "woke" as you may be lead to believe.
Also, the number of academics that are *actually* doing Derridean deconstruction or who are *actually* Marxists these days is pretty small in the grand scheme of things.
some some pathetic little loser boy with no life and no future who barely graduated from 6th grade is mocking a PHD........ Typical LetsRun loser. This page used to be good before pathetic POS like you joined
You fool. I'm not "mocking a PhD" since she hasn't even started. You didn't read my two follow up posts. I'm not some bubble head dreaming about a PhD, I've had one for 20 years now and made good use of it.
Note: the caveat here is that accessibility and ease of producing lit/art is exponentially great than it was 500 years ago so there is a lot more chaff to wade through.