I remember sitting and talking to my parents. No, not that talk, but it sure was just as embarrassing. The one about... college. The speech in which my mother said: “I will never choose a career for my children. It is their responsibility to choose which medical school to graduate from.” Thanks mom; left me with a lot of options there. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has parents, relatives, siblings, or even teachers who place a strong emphasis on selecting a STEM major in college. A STEM major is said to open doors to a world of opportunities and even guarantee high-paying careers. Meanwhile the punchline for humanities majors is that you only pursue the humanities if you have a desire to end up homeless. Today's society has created this false idea that a humanities graduate will end up without a bright future in today's modern world. What we are all forgetting, however, is the power of the humanities and between robots, computers and soon probably flying cars, studying the humanities is more important than ever. Now the point of my speech is not to tell you that STEM is bad. The highways and streets I've crossed to get here, the next elevator I'll take, the next smartphone I'll buy, please, let's hope there's a real engineer behind it. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay However, in this essay I will argue that the humanities side of academia is just as meaningful, rigorous, and worthy of respect as its STEM counterparts. The study of the humanities is just what it sounds like: the study of human society and culture. The field consists of a wide range of information and topics, all dating back to the universal theme of understanding the human experience. To name just a few common ones, history, English, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics and political science are some of the specializations that fall under the umbrella of the humanities. But why study these topics? After all, the story is just about what an old man in a big wig said a trillion years ago, right? And who cares about critically analyzing literary classics; the writing isn't even that deep right? And my favorite. Philosophy is only for unshaven people who sit on a rock and ponder the universe, right? Wrong. Each of these hypotheses is wrong (although I'm not sure about the beards and philosophers thing). The humanities provide us with the context of our world and force us to think critically, especially because it is so unstructured unlike the sciences. Science will explain how things work, but the humanities will explain why we are doing it and what we are doing. They give us the language we use to convert our emotions into communicable thoughts and actions. The humanities make us: human. What about the jobs you can get with a humanities degree? Well, there are the obvious ones. Teacher. Author. University professor. Teacher again. While these careers are all respectable and chosen by many humanities graduates, the idea that these are the only options available is completely false. A degree in the humanities also has value in other fields, including technological ones, which at first glance may seem completely unrelated. Uber hired psychology specialists to deal with dissatisfied customers and negative reviews. THE.