science and humanities and grad school

[TheBugLady]

I also had your frustration regarding graduate school.  My advisor during
my master's program was sympathetic and I actually minored in English
Literature.  My PhD advisor was unsympathetic, but I sneaked I took
classes in other areas anyway.  This was important to me because
scientists can be rather narrow in their thinking and I wanted to remind
myself what science as a way of thinking was good for and what it wasn't. 
As things turned out for me, I ended up teaching at St. John's College
where all the faculty are expected to teach the entire liberal arts
curriculum - all from the original sources.  I still practice my
profession (entomology) as well.  It turns out that many of my own most
pressing questions were extra-scientific, though my colleagues in science
did not generally ackonwledge this.  Linda Wiener  TheBugLady at aol.com