Some books are even useful, like the football I use to get when the one I had been using simply needed replacement.
There is the eminently useful, like Pintofeed, a remote feeding system controlled using your smartphone.
Conventional wisdom offers its usual facile answers for these trends: Students (sometimes pressured by parents paying the tuition) choose fields more likely to yield high-paying employment right after graduation — something "useful," like business (19% of diplomas), or technology-oriented.
You can't be useful like that".
Sometimes labelling is only useful, like with OCD.
Much better to cultivate something useful, like tomatoes.
Then they could head off to do something more socially useful, like robbing banks.
If only that kind of intelligence could have gone somewhere useful, like the refugee crisis.
I'd probably have been wiser to do something useful, like going skiing.
Or maybe purchase something useful, like a tote bag to cart around your groceries.
We could all be doing something useful, like going to Darfur, so let's not get overwrought".
