If Pfsense is doing fully recursive lookups , then that ' s a smidge just a smidge better than you using an ISP forwarder DNS on your client . however DNS by default is unencrypted so make little difference in a big data world . <| sep |> minus your nonsensical idea about degrees being able to be dilutedI think you misunderstand my use of diluted here . Basically , if you spend time studying minors then you aren ' t specialising quite as much as if you only studied one major topic , so in a sense , you are diluting the knowledge of one area with knowledge from another area . I don ' t completely disagree with you but surely you understand what I ' m getting at unless you truly believe that students studying majorminor will spend as much time overall on their major as they would have studied on the major sans minor generally speaking ofc , there are lots of bright exceptions to the rules and I believe exceptions to rules are what prove those very rules in many cases . Anyway , I think turning this back towards OP ' s question , I think it depends on why you do a certain minor or double major . If you do it just to buff it up then it might help but if you find it boring then it might just impede your motivation to study and result in lower overall motivation thus lower results than if one had studied one major they are passionate about . I ' ve never met a professor who would discourage a potential student from studying another discipline for reasons you ' ve outlined , however , I ' ve also never met one that would discourage a student from sticking with a solo major . edit Btw I ' m British so the way unicollege works is quite different so maybe part of our differences in opinion lie therein