<p>I love this thread. It’s like, WHY CAN’T WE ALL JUST LEARN MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS AND BE HAPPY?!!!</p>
<p>Dear Concerned Middle Class Fathers,</p>
<p>Math is great, but nobody cares. This hysteria about STEM majors is just that: people think that by satisfying some arcane list of requirements, they will purify themselves before the nebulous ether and gaim entry to heaven on earth. Before, people used to buy great artwork for the churches in order to buy out their souls, and even before that, they did rain dances and sacrificed virgins. Now everybody’s advised to put themselves through the Majors of Hell, for a propensity for the humanities is Original Sin, and only linear algebra could possibly save you from the inferno/not being decent enough to enter the middle class.</p>
<p>But the fact is, the world was always as it is right now, in the sense that, to succeed, one must hustle. A piece of paper, whether it says that you go to confession regularly or that you completed pre-med requirements, will not save your ass unless in a bathroom situation. Unfortunately, there is no substitute for hard work, and there is no medicine for uncertainty.</p>
<p>p.s. Multivariable calculus is pretty legit, tho</p>