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Thank you We sneak in Outdated majors Could you give

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us an example of something that maybe someone would major

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And today they say always the hot major i'm gonna

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make tons of money doing this and then maybe ten

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years down the road it won't even exist Well you

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never know I mean things like fracking ten years ago

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no one even knew what fracking was and so all

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of a sudden now fracking is a big thing and

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their students even going to like me a petroleum engineer

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What if that major all of a sudden it started

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to disappear at some point down the road in technology

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i think iphones didn't even exist ten years ago So

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there were students that were studying all these different things

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that you know today Iphones you know all the different

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technology that dominate that didn't exist What if they studied

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that thing that basically just got taken over and then

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they have a useless degree So i think it's good

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to have a broad based education that's really flexible that

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compared to prepare you for a lot of things Ten

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years ago no one knew what fracking wass today it's

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revolutionizing the energy industry What happens if petroleum becomes an

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outdated resource Ten years ago smartphones didn't exist Today they

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run our lives Some computer engineering majors air now rendered

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useless due to the direction of technology a broad based

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education Khun give you the flexibility to prepare you for 00:01:31.413 --> [endTime] many things including competing against a robot

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