I'm a geography major and lets be honest, we don't get a lot of credit.Doctors get medical questions, psychologists get mental questions, and gas station attendants get asked if these donuts are fresh.
We get questions any idiot can look up in an atlas. (or questions about rocks)
Does anyone care that I can discuss the geopolitical situation threatening Kosovo or that I can identify major land features on a 7.5 minute USGS topographic map?
No, they want to know the capital of Uzbekistan. (Tashkent.....but I used wikipedia.)
I guess the world expects us to have memorized countries and their capitals......and I guess I'm a failure.
I wonder if my professors are aware of this?
My case in point:
Kristen: "How would you pronounce the capital of Kentucky? Lou-e-ville or Lou-ville?"
Logan: "I'd pronounce it Lou-ville."
Kristen: (smugly) "Really, cause I'd pronounce it Frankfort."
Although, I suppose this is all really an attempt to justify my currently abysmal scores in Traveler IQ.
