If you had a very intelligent child entering college today, what major and language skills would your recommend?

If you had a very intelligent child entering college today, what major and language skills would your recommend? –@goldfo100

Here’s the problem, in a nutshell, with entering college – you are going to be with the same people you spent the past 12 years with (demographically) and doing the same thing (spending most of the day reading books that have nothing to do with anything, and then fooling around with your friends without any supervision for the first time) and doing it on your parents (or the bank’s) dime.

So if you are fortunate to have that dime, how about do something that would be much more beneficial: don’t go to college. Spend a year learning to paint, or taking singing lessons, or learning yoga in India (getting in shape, meeting people from all over the world, learning Eastern philosophy) or any of 100 other things that will actually better your life, force you to meet new demographics, and do it for much cheaper than the cost of college.

Then, after a year or two of that, why not go to college then – if you still even want to?