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Originally Posted by asaris
The philosophy will help a ton with law school -- I don't know how much with getting in, but the skills you learn as a philosophy student are key for being a good law student. Plus, if you study a little Sartre or Nietzsche, you're really good at cocktail parties 
As far as working for a few years, I don't see how philosophy could hurt. You learn critical thinking skills, and most employers like those sorts of things. Econ won't hurt you at all in either endeavor, and will probably help. |
I’ll second that. I was not a major, but I took a lot of philosophy. The reading skills I got from reading philosophy have been priceless in grad school (where i study American culture)
I have also found that it fills in a lot of the gabs that drive history. Understanding what the dominant philosophical thoughts of a moment in time can be very reviling when looking at the history of the time