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What Are You Going to Do With That? By William Deresiewicz (The essay below is adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May.) The question my title poses, of course, is the one that is classically aimed at humanities majors. What practical value could there possibly be in studying literature or art or philosophy? So you must be wondering why Im bothering to raise it here, at Stanford, this renowned citadel of science and technology. What doubt can there be that the world will offer you many opportunities to use your degree? We should start by talking abo