<p>College</a> Grads: Which Ones Earn the Most?- Yahoo! HotJobs</p>
<p>So stop whining about the outliers in easy majors you know who snagged a high-paying job. They are the exception. The facts don't lie, engineering, physics, economics, and computer science are great degrees to have if you want a good job.</p>
<p>Who is whining?</p>
<p>I would not be whining. Those other majors probably had to stand out in every category to get hired…while I get offers for just merely breathing.</p>
<p>There is atleast one thread a week asking why engineers should be engineers and not ibankers, probably what he’s referring to with the ‘whining’.</p>
<p>And almost all of those threads were started by bearcats and perpetuated by bearcats. Now that he is not posting as much, those threads die quickly, thank God.</p>
<p><em>knocks on wood</em></p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t have that much respect for engineers who have to intent on using their degree and instead jump into consulting/investment banking. That’s just me, though.</p>
<p>That is you and every other engineer who is in it for the love of engineering and not for money.</p>
<p>Easy majors? I think engineering is easy. I can barely pass my non-engineering courses…</p>
<p>I know how you feel, lil_killer129. My 3.3 UGGPA was due mostly to the fact that I got C’s in things like econ and mythology because I simply couldn’t motivate myself to give them effort when I had plenty of real, “interesting” work to do.</p>
<p>Hooray for putting my “In-Major” GPA on my resume.</p>
<p>Haha, I second that one, chuy.</p>
<p>Yeah… I can’t stand literature. I’m a pretty philosophical person, but literature is like fake science, make up stuff and pass it off as your interpretation. what you feel, etc.; in short, ********.</p>
<p>Reminds me of this comic strip:</p>
<p><a href=“http://xkcd.com/451/[/url]”>http://xkcd.com/451/</a></p>
<p>So… hate on other subjects thread, who’s in?</p>
<p>lol. If I wanted to major in something hard, it probably would have been music.</p>
<p>“I’m a pretty philosophical person, but literature is like fake science, make up stuff and pass it off as your interpretation. what you feel, etc.; in short, ********.”</p>
<p>Holy crap that is the best description of literature I have ever heard! </p>
<p>+1 Hadsed</p>
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<p>I thought this was a response to the constant arguments between the humanities and social sciences majors and the math and sciences majors about how math & science/humanities is so much more important than the other and/or more applicable to everyday life.</p>
<p>Yeah, those people are weiners. You wonder if they even know what 42 is!</p>
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<p>Let me put it this way. Before the recession, nearly half of all MIT undergrads who entered the workforce took jobs not in engineering or science, but rather in consulting or finance, and even today, nearly a third of such students choose consulting/finance. I would hardly call that a matter of ‘outliers’ or ‘standouts’ when we’re talking about a third to half of the students. </p>
<p>Granted, one could argue that MIT is itself the outlier, being arguably the most prestigious technical school in the world. Yet I would say that that only reinforces the point: that even at the world’s premier technical school, a giant fraction of the students apparently do not really want to work in engineering or science, instead preferring consulting or finance.</p>
<p>Dead thread should remain dead.</p>
<p>I agree…stop digging up old *****. don’t know forum etiquette?</p>
<p>Well he brings something to the thread, he’s not really just bumping for a ■■■■■■■■ comment or anything. Pretty sure for most forum boards that’s okay.</p>
<p>Sakky are you trying to say most of those engineers who take finance and consulting jobs don’t like engineering?</p>