I brought in a student panel to my First Year Experience class this semester and they were all pre-med. A student asked what their biggest regret was and they all said "not majoring in art/theatre/music - you can major in anything you want to be pre-med, just take the pre-med classes."

I only half joke that since most of the students were just going to get a job at daddy's company there was a strong ethic of "just take whatever class interests you."

Even tho it was the most $$$ in state public uni tuition at the time, all I could afford was the University of Vermont. The fact that a lot of rich out of state kids considered it a "public ivy" helped subsidize my scholarships. That kind of student body also engendered a very liberal arts education

Admittedly, it's from a local co-op, but our Turkey is $70 alone.

I still remember the outrage that Howard Dean's wife said that she would continue to practice medicine if he won the presidency.

“Last year was the highest year in the past 10 years in the number of children that die from the flu, 90% of the children that die from influenza every year are healthy children… The common finding in those children that happen to die from the flu is that they did not receive the vaccine.”

I feel so old - all my history exams in college were in class blue book essays.