<p>I noticed that people (mostly science related majors) tend to make the blanket statement that Engineering/hard science majors are more difficult than everything else because hey have lower gpas on average than liberal arts majors. Yet at the same time they say that their major is harder than fine arts even though people in fine arts programs tend to have even lower gpas. </p>
<p>well the whole thing has funny implications (evaluating academic programs based on who is failing/sufferring the most). Anybody ever wonder about this besides me?</p>
<p>They say that to compensate for their lack of social skills so don’t worry. I’d say business majors are the hardest because you have all the math heavy classes but you also have to have the social skills to butter up the HR folks and network with people in the industry. </p>
<p>Since you created this thread be prepared for the angry nerds to come in and flame this up.</p>
<p>I reread my post, what was so insulting about it that i’d have to be prepared to be flamed. Are the science guys that obsessed with the idea that nothing is harder than their major?</p>
<p>To elaborate, my basic question is about how people evaluate the difficulty of a subject and that the way people do so seems to be invalid. I was just being lazy initially and didnt feel like faming the question formally, but other than that I dont see how what I typed was offensive or something.</p>
<p>There’s just a big annoying debate on this forum about whether liberal arts majors are useless and stupid. Everyone then attempts to defend their major, STEM majors discuss how superior they are, liberal arts majors talk about how your major doesn’t matter, STEM majors don’t care and shout about a “hierarchy of majors” which means something like all non-STEM majors are completely ■■■■■■■■. It’s happened a hundred times, your post wasn’t offensive but it invites some really obnoxious debate.</p>
<p>Really it’s less of a debate and more like a bunch of toddlers on the playground going “MY truck is better than YOUR truck” and sticking their tongues out at one another.</p>
<p>Wow…I had no idea. I only saw like 2 mild (in comparison to what I read a little bit ago) discussions/screaming matches about which major is hardest before I made this thread. Man, I didnt know there was so much hostility between liberal arts majors and STEM majors. There were guys saying humanities/social sciences/ fine arts should be wiped clean from American society(what would there be in living without these pursuits?) going to college for anything not engineering is a waste of time and money (but not effort because “liberal arts reqauires no effort”) and that STEM majors were better at liberal arts subjects than liberal arts majors (not better than a liberal art major would be at science but simply better at what liberal arts majors do). Though, generally those types were the ones who made the poorly construed arguments.</p>
<p>However, there was one thing I agreed with. It’s easier to get a high GPA in liberal arts than science. Not because the subject is easier or less esoteric or whatever, but just simply because science is strictly either or while liberal arts is about making valid points supported by logic.</p>