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Well, at certain dinner parties, you can be certain that folk will be far more impressed by your ability to discuss the use of irony in the works of Jane Austen than by a knowledge of RT-PCR techniques in the study of signal transduction in fibroblasts.

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if its not your thing why do it for 5 years????

id have dropped out after a year if i found it wasnt "my thing"

 

It was compulsory to study it up to O-Level standard at that time (1963).

I posted the topic hoping to elicit a few opinions about the usefulness of the subject in the real world.

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Well, at certain dinner parties, you can be certain that folk will be far more impressed by your ability to discuss the use of irony in the works of Jane Austen than by a knowledge of RT-PCR techniques in the study of signal transduction in fibroblasts.

 

You are clearly going to the wrong dinner parties then :-) Fibroblasts trump Austen every time.

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