An engineer's brush with the humanities

From Chip Morningstar's How to Deconstruct Almost Anything - My Postmodern Adventure.

My last serious brush with the humanities in an academic context had been in college, ten years earlier. The humanities appear to have experienced a considerable amount of evolution (or perhaps more accurately, genetic drift) since then.

This not too far from William Chace's lament about The Decline of the English Department.