We appreciate the brave young scholars who choose to be geology majors in college.  Especially those who do so without Exxon-Mobil in mind as a career track.  Parents probably do not make a choice like this easy, any more than they encourage their kids to major in English (the major of some of our Contributors).

This Note From The Field by a Professor at Oberlin College gives plenty of reason to think that being a geology major could not only be interesting, but meaningful on other levels.