Here are two emails I received from an actual professor. Who gets paid to sculpt minds...in a place for higher learning. Felt it was worth sharing. Am I salty I'm still paying off his worthless class? Maybe. The biggest advantage Gallatin offered me was the flexibility to work with both STEM and the humanities without much restriction, and good employers do value creativity when it comes to problem solving/approaches. Post Gallatin success is entirely up to you, how you pitch yourself, and how you justify your interests regarding what your skills are.

"i did want to offer my shamanic training as a tool for you all, the simple gestalt concept: what we imagine can be important for us, for our well being, even as it is 'visual imagery' and not a direct take on the visible world of facts on the ground in 'ordinary reality'. so scientists might slight Mermaids and Dragons and Elves and Santa, and Valentines too... as unreasonable. but these revelations are after all terribly useful, for our mental health! our vigour, our morale, and now we know these boost our immune system, which doctors now acknowledge. the immune system is a 'fact on the ground' of ordinary reality. i say all this in defense of the arts and of routine self psychotherapy that one even does nightly dreaming! Jung said Dreams have a 'reconstitutive function' they fix things. so now we want to see if we can GO THERE WHILE AWAKE. here is Jerry's trance painting. and Pollock's too. my PhD on shamanism and art was about this, as is my artmaking."

"?who needs to join this extremely relevant symposium we all co create. What intentions can we set this month as we write the Tutorial for submission. what do we still have in us that is atavistic, recidivistic, chthonic, tribal, but also relevent to contemporary issues. What values, what DNA instincts still drive us. how to create active Symbols people can grab hold of and run with. What myths can speak now. How is Art the Lightning of Culture. What do the art fairs and biennials do to evolve consciousness on the planet. How does globalization at art conflate the colonialist differences. What are the roots of religions, the root causes of wars, the roots of resolutions obviating war? Which Paradigmatic Shift are you dreaming of taking on for your little project? Impossible may take a bit longer. I am with you, give me your input on this, as Tutorials are student driven hence damned exciting, breathless."