[rsayers]

Agreed. When I finally went to college after years of programming, I picked religion as my major. It's a great jack of all trades major in humanities. You get history, language, philosophy, and more. I even got a trip to India out of it.

After years of programming I felt I would gain little by studying CS. Sure I would learn, but only after going though classes that would teach me nothing or little at all in order to get to the good stuff. If I was going to throw down the money for a degree I wanted to learn something new.

I eventually went for the low hanging fruit and switched to IT with a software emphasis at a school where I could graduate much faster, this was more for fiscal reasons though. I feel what I picked up in my brief time as a religion major was extremely valuable and I came out with a lot of knowledge and better understanding of a lot that goes on in the world.