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Got a quick screen grab so you could see what I was talking about.

WHAT IS THIS NONSENSE. WHOEVER MADE THAT NEEDS TO FIGHT ME

honestly this mindset hurts kids who love the arts so much.

imagine constantly fighting high school councilors just to get into the one class that keeps you alive.
imagine constantly lying to teachers about what you plan on majoring so you don’t get “the talk”
imagine no one you love believing in you, and constantly asking what your “back up plan” is.
imagine being kind of miserable at your own graduation and grad party because people are always asking you about your future, and when you tell them they just look at you like your stupid.

imagine constantly being told that what you do isn’t good enough. that you’ll never succeed without changing who you are.

imagine having to try to stop yourself from flat out breaking down and sobbing in front of your professor after your first lesson, because they simply told you “you know what? I think you can do this. If you work hard I think you can be very successful in this field.”

because that’s the first time anyone’s actually believed in you.

yeah, science is great, but putting it above the arts is one of the biggest mistakes this society has ever made.

^^^^^ This is really well put. ^^^^^

In addition to all the other good points on this, I want to point out that Wells Fargo would have had to pay a graphic designer to create this. How can they say the arts are impractical and unnecessary while they are paying someone for their design skills?

and they have a lot of gall to say that considering the work of visual artists is literally everywhere in research labs

from educational posters

to textbook figures

to even the packaging art and design of the reagents we use

so as a scientist i just want to say: without the hard work and expertise of artists, research science, for one, would not be as productive. so thank you. your skills are valuable and you are needed. 

and look, science may keep us along longer and make our lives more productive but what is the point if we can’t also do things like watch shows and movies and go to museums and dance performances and listen to music?? STEM is like the flat outline of a drawing. yeah, you can tell what it looks like, and i guess it could function on its own; but the things like humanities and literature and art fill it with color, and shading, and emotion. so much more beautiful, so much more fulfilling right? they make the life that STEM helps improve worth living. 

so i’ll be the scientist bc that’s what i’m good at and what i like to do, and you be the dancer, the actor, the artist, the historian, the poet, ok? and together we’ll both make the world a better place :)