  So,  this is us in a few years:  College by Dave Berry College is basically a bunch of rooms where you sit for roughly two thousand hours and try to memorize things.  The two thousand hours are spread out over four years;  you spend the rest of the time sleeping and trying to get dates.  Basically,
 you learn two kinds of things in college:  1.  Things you will need to know in later life ( two hours)  These include how to make collect telephone calls and get beer and crepe- paper stains out of you pajamas.
 2.  Things you will not need to know in later life ( 1, 998 hours)  These are the things you learn in classes whose names end in - ology,
 - osophy,  - istry,  - ics,
 and so on.  The idea is,  you memorize these things,  then write them down in little exam books,  then forget them.  If you fail to forget them,
 you become a professor and have to stay in college for the rest of your life.  It's very difficult to forget everything.  For example,  when I was in college,  I had to memorize,  don't ask me why,
 the names of three metaphysical poets other than John Donne.  I have managed to forget one of them,  but I still remember that the other two were named Vaughan and Crashaw.  Sometimes,  when I'm trying to remember something important like whether my wife told me to get tuna packed in oil or tuna packed in water,  Vaughan and Crashaw just pop up in my mind,
 right there in the supermarket.  It's a terrible waste of brain cells.  After you've been in college for a year or so,  you're supposed to choose a major,  which is the subject you intend to memorize and forget the most things about.  Here is a very important piece of advice:
 be sure to choose a major that does not involve Known Facts and Right Answers.  This means you must not major in mathematics,  physics,  biology,  or chemistry,  because these subjects involve actual facts.
 If,  for example,  you major in mathematics,  you're going to wander into class one day and the professor will say:  " Define the cosine integer of the quadrant of a rhomboid binary axis,
 and extrapolate your result to five significant vertices.  If you don't come up with exactly the answer the professor has in mind,  you fail.  The same is true of chemistry:  if you write in your exam book that carbon and hydrogen combine to form oak,  your professor will flunk you.
 He wants you to come up with the same answer he and all the other chemists have agreed on.  Scientists are extremely snotty about this.  So you should major in subjects like English,  philosophy,  psychology,  and sociology-
subjects in which nobody really understands what anybody else is talking about,  and which involve virtually no actual facts.  I attended classes in all these subjects,  so I'll give you a quick overview of each:  ENGLISH:  This involves writing papers about long books you have read little snippets of just before class.
 Here is a tip on how to get good grades on your English papers:  Never say anything about a book that anybody with any common sense would say.  For example,  suppose you are studying Moby- Dick.  Anybody with any common sense would say that Moby-
Dick is a big white whale,  since the characters in the book refer to it as a big white whale roughly eleven thousand times.  So in your paper,  you say Moby- Dick is actually the Republic of Ireland.  Your professor,
 who is sick to death of reading papers and never liked Moby- Dick anyway,  will think you are enormously creative.  If you can regularly come up with lunatic interpretations of simple stories,  you should major in English.  PHILOSOPHY:
 Basically,  this involves sitting in a room and deciding there is no such thing as reality and then going to lunch.  You should major in philosophy if you plan to take a lot of drugs.  PSYCHOLOGY:  This involves talking about rats and dreams.  Psychologists are obsessed with rats and dreams.
 I once spent an entire semester training a rat to punch little buttons in a certain sequence,  then training my roommate to do the same thing.  The rat learned much faster.  My roommate is now a doctor.  If you like rats or dreams,  and above all if you dream about rats,
 you should major in psychology.  SOCIOLOGY:  For sheer lack of intelligibility,  sociology is far and away the number one subject.  I sat through hundreds of hours of sociology courses,  and read gobs of sociology writing,
 and I never once heard or read a coherent statement.  This is because sociologists want to be considered scientists,  so they spend most of their time translating simple,  obvious observations into scientific- sounding code.  If you plan to major in sociology,
 you'll have to learn to do the same thing.  For example,  suppose you have observed that children cry when they fall down.  You should write:  " Methodological observation of the sociometrical behavior tendencies of prematurated isolates indicates that a casual relationship exists between groundward tropism and lachrymatory,
 or 'crying, ' behavior forms.  If you can keep this up for fifty or sixty pages,  you will get a large government grant.  EDUCATION:  Like sociologists,
 educators want desperately to believe that they are scientists and that there is something involved in teaching which is esoteric,  above and beyond,  one person telling a group of people things to memorize.  I once sat through a class in educational techniques where the topic of the semesters was The Need For Openness In The Modern Classroom.  We memorized the need for students to be free to express themselves in class both verbally and physically without restraint,  as we sat in neat rows repeating exactly what the professor,
 and other educators had agreed we should memorize.  Another example:  if you want to say at a particular student is lazy and need to have his butt kicked,  you must translate as follows:  " The paradigm established by the environmental constraints imposed on the student by an autocratic,
 patriarchal,  and thereby outmoded system of values,  has created an apathetic mode of response on the part of the student which requires stimuli be applied via a systematic outcome based approach with a goal of enriching the student to alternative multiculturally based,  non- violent methods of self actualization"
