Would you?

[Rob King]

I don't think saying a subject is easy necessarily dismisses it. I find art, literature, and theater to be extremely important to humanity (the humanities durrr), but I wouldn't necessarily rank them as being the most difficult things in the world to grasp with a little bit of research and motivation. But that's also the beauty of them, they're meant for everyone to understand and enjoy, at their own pace so to speak. Science and Engineering is not like that at all. It's a fast paced, competitive area of study with a lot of complicated concepts that can be very, very abstract to most individuals. To this day, I couldn't for the life of me know where to begin with figuring out physics questions. Once I had someone show me the equations to start with, I was fine. I could hack it in undergrad Physics but I knew I'd tank at the graduate level, and I like to think of myself as a hard working student. Hell, I knew bright kids in grad school who completely and utterly failed hard. These people were driven and motivated towards their subject. That sort of stuff just doesn't happen in humanities.

You do have something there, I suppose.

I mean, I've complained time and time again about the morons I have to deal with in Philosophy. The kinds of guys who are 28 and ignorant, still going to school just so their parents will think "oh, well, he's doing something with himself." so they let him live in the basement. I hate those guys.

I do have a certain level of admiration for my science friends. Some of them are completely nuts. One of my friends just had a paper published on ... I don't even know. I tried to read it for solidarity's sake, but I couldn't understand a word of it. He assures me that there are a lot of Chemists who probably wouldn't understand it either.

But I guess what I'm really reacting against are the experiences I've had with arrogant science majors. Or, even worse, engineering students. I had one guy tell me that I should do a 'real' degree, and stop wasting my time on Philosophy, since I could just read that in my free evenings. He seemed to believe that reading philosophy for a half hour every once in a while was essentially equal to a major in Philosophy. After all that was what he was doing.

I felt like slapping him with some motherfucking Kant.

 

[Chazwozel]

I don't think saying a subject is easy necessarily dismisses it. I find art, literature, and theater to be extremely important to humanity (the humanities durrr), but I wouldn't necessarily rank them as being the most difficult things in the world to grasp with a little bit of research and motivation. But that's also the beauty of them, they're meant for everyone to understand and enjoy, at their own pace so to speak. Science and Engineering is not like that at all. It's a fast paced, competitive area of study with a lot of complicated concepts that can be very, very abstract to most individuals. To this day, I couldn't for the life of me know where to begin with figuring out physics questions. Once I had someone show me the equations to start with, I was fine. I could hack it in undergrad Physics but I knew I'd tank at the graduate level, and I like to think of myself as a hard working student. Hell, I knew bright kids in grad school who completely and utterly failed hard. These people were driven and motivated towards their subject. That sort of stuff just doesn't happen in humanities.

You do have something there, I suppose.

I mean, I've complained time and time again about the morons I have to deal with in Philosophy. The kinds of guys who are 28 and ignorant, still going to school just so their parents will think "oh, well, he's doing something with himself." so they let him live in the basement. I hate those guys.

I do have a certain level of admiration for my science friends. Some of them are completely nuts. One of my friends just had a paper published on ... I don't even know. I tried to read it for solidarity's sake, but I couldn't understand a word of it. He assures me that there are a lot of Chemists who probably wouldn't understand it either.

But I guess what I'm really reacting against are the experiences I've had with arrogant science majors. Or, even worse, engineering students. I had one guy tell me that I should do a 'real' degree, and stop wasting my time on Philosophy, since I could just read that in my free evenings. He seemed to believe that reading philosophy for a half hour every once in a while was essentially equal to a major in Philosophy. After all that was what he was doing.

I felt like slapping him with some motherfucking Kant.[/QUOTE]


Reading Nietzsche still boggles my mind. That was one smart dude.

 

[Shannow]

Not going to lie, I was a comp science major. I loved programming as a hobby throughout high school, and decided upon graduation to transition this into my degree. I did well, too. But I realized that I would not want to do it as a job for the rest of my life, and instead, decided to go more towards where my interests were.

I switched to communications (gasp!), focusing on media relations and radio broadcast. I loved it. Had a complete blast at classes and interning, working my way through school with shit jobs and a non paid internship I loved. A truth though..the courses were cake. Not hard at all. But it was also something that captivated my interest, and as such, with its broad scope, I moved to my current career. which I do like.

The only thing I regret, and may have chosen to go to instead, was full on Media Library Sciences. I still may do that within the next year by going for my Masters in it, as that I can transition what I have already into this. Going to suck having to live broke as a student again though, after a few years of earning in the workplace.

I do not demean the major choices of others, because its all about what you do with what you got AFTER you are done there that counts. Some are much harder, this is true, but then again, you go to where your strengths are.





...except philosophy majors. Damn useless pricks!

 

[Rob King]

Reading Nietzsche still boggles my mind. That was one smart dude.

Man. I remember when I read Thus Spoke Zarathustra. I had gone to visit a friend of mine, and discovered that the hostel I was counting on a room in had closed down. I couldn't afford a hotel, and blahblahblah.

Sat down in a 24 hr. coffee shop and started to read. I didn't even remember that night that humans slept. I just had coffee after coffee and kept reading. All the while, all I could think was: "Man, this guy would really hate me." And yet, I couldn't help but like him.

I must have missed a lot of it, and if I read it again now, maybe I'd catch on to stuff I was missing before, but while the book was in my hands, I couldn't care less. Nietzsche was speaking, and dammit I was going to listen.

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Not going to lie, I was a comp science major. I loved programming as a hobby throughout high school, and decided upon graduation to transition this into my degree. I did well, too. But I realized that I would not want to do it as a job for the rest of my life, and instead, decided to go more towards where my interests were.

Hey, that's exactly what I did. Except, instead of Communications I did ...

...except philosophy majors. Damn useless pricks!

... Oh. Well, to hell with you too. :humph:

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I do not demean the major choices of others, because its all about what you do with what you got AFTER you are done there that counts. Some are much harder, this is true, but then again, you go to where your strengths are.

Oh, and on a more serious note, that's pretty much what I was trying to say before.

Damn. Maybe Communication isn't useless rly:

 

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Yeah, like Chazwozel said: just because I think they're objectively easier, in no way implies disrespect. I love a lot of those majors, and wish I could work in some of them for eternity. Two different points, I assure you.

 

[SpecialKO]

Maybe Communication isn't useless rly:

The thing with "Communications" is that its a very general descriptor for a field that covers a whole hell of a lot.

"Communications" programs can cover anything from retail floor sales to quantitative analysis of media distribution across a population segmented by age, income, and historical response rates.

It depends on the specific school and program.

Is it more "difficult" than physics? Not even close...but you'd be surprised at the number of physicists I've met who need to justify their funding who are scared of giving presentations.

Or maybe you wouldn't be.