<p>I sometimes wonder what people who know about this forum think of it. lol</p>
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<p>sounds like fun though!!</p>
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<p>Didn’t edit these so don’t blame me for any less than PC words.
<a href=“http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=college+confidential[/url]”>Urban Dictionary: College Confidential;
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<p>LOL! My sister pursued engineering during her freshman year and did very well in her science and math classes, but she decided to change her major to media studies because she found her classes extremely goddamn boring. I think she’ll do fine because she already has experience by having a job and volunteering somewhere where media studies is encouraged. I can imagine her having an impressive resume by the time she gets her bachelor’s degree.</p>
<p>I’m sure there are many other examples of humanities or liberal arts majors that are good at mathematics or the sciences, but did not pursue it because they were not interested.</p>
<p>Of course there are more people who can write an essay than do math, but writing is more essential in real life. As long as one can do basic calculations and have an elementary understanding in science, they will get by. As for writing, one should write beyond an elementary level to get taken seriously. If one cannot spell or a clumsy and awkward writing style, they will be regarded as stupid or at the very least have no common sense.</p>
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<p>Please explain to me how you propose to measure writing ability, then. If the ability to write in such a way as to appeal to people ISN’T a measure of good writing, then what is? Failure in getting an audience? </p>
<p>Good writers write directly to their audience, not above or below it, and for that, they are successful. You may not like their writing, but others do, and if they are successful, who’s to say that Dean Koontz and Lauren Conrad (not to mention Micheal Crichton) aren’t good writers?</p>
<p>Surprised nobody has attacked my major yet. I’m a GIS major. Some don’t consider Geography a science, but it is possible at my Uni to get a BS in it. I’m pretty sure most of you guys would file GIS under the useless Liberal Arts category.</p>
<p>Unlike just a plain old Geography major, Geographic Info Systems will actually get me a technical skill for a career that is in demand. It’s a very technical and computer oriented program, not fluff.</p>
<p>OMG THIS IS STILL GOING?</p>
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<p>True dat. I mean, I can do a lot of thinks besides read. Except for higher level math (heh, maybe lower level math too. xD), that’s what you engineers are for.</p>
<p>I switched to liberal arts because I felt like I wasn’t really learning anything important for what I wanted to do with my life and the types of jobs I was looking at in the future seemed either very mundane or not beneficial to society as a whole. I’m not a “save the world” type but I didn’t want to sit in a studio designing hospitals or houses for rich people.</p>
<p>Hey I like Micheal Crichton. :(</p>
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<p>Does Google Maps hire GIS majors?</p>
<p>They sure do! As well as a ton of jobs in the government, and also various companies are starting to contract GIS divisions in with their marketing departments to map out their sales statistics for products across a state or nation.</p>
<p>You can justify any major. Every major has a purpose and a reason or the departments wouldn’t exist. However, those things are only truly tapped when you pursue the course of study to the fullest. I doubt your average English major puts that much thought into their studies as the humanities champions are citing. </p>
<p>If you ask an average person what they think of a humanities major versus a science major they’ll respect the science major more with no other information about the two. It’s mostly because most people in this country believe that they can read and write, but are not comfortable with math. They aren’t even exposed to real math and they already find high school stuff too difficult. You tend to respect skills you do not possess more than the ones you have. Part of this is also people don’t really know good writing and speaking skills because they can already do both at a respectable level for their needs. However, they do acknowledge that they struggled in high school math. Maybe if high school English teachers graded tougher and high school history courses were more about thinking and writing than fact memorization, people would respect humanities majors more.</p>
<p>There are exceptions to everything, but you can’t deny that there are more humanities majors who dropped science because they couldn’t hack it than science majors who dropped humanities because they couldn’t hack it. There will always be people who jump from one to the other because of interests, but I still have yet to meet someone who told me they started as an English major but switched to EE because they couldn’t write the papers in the intro courses and were struggling with all Cs, but found it easy to do all of the math, physics, and engineering. If we saw the latter scenario happen more often people might have a different impression.</p>
<p>I would never scoff at a GIS major . . . So many businesses use GIS for one thing or another. What college do you go to, out of curiosity? AFAIK there are only a few that offer GIS majors, right?</p>
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<p>This .</p>
<p>“Anyone can become a journalist or teacher. In fact, aren’t you encouraged not to major in those fields?”</p>
<p>First of all, I have never in my life been told not to major in journalism, but maybe that’s because I actually plan on being a journalist. Now, sure, I’ve been told to major in something else along with journalism, that way I can have a certain niche. For instance, if I wanted to write for a theatre-related magazine, it helps to be a theatre major as well. Also, I hate the “any can [insert career path here]” argument. If anyone could do anything, well, would it really matter if people went to college? Let alone what they major in while there.</p>
<p>Anything pretentious.</p>
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<p>how pretentious of you</p>
<p>African American and womens studies. Sports medicine</p>
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<p>i c wat u did thar.</p>
<p>Somehow my major has yet to be mentioned. I’m surprised by that.</p>
<p>my 2nd major is East asian languages and cultures and I don’t even take it seriously sometimes. ROFL. I don’t understand what you would do with this degree by itself. I needed it to study abroad :)</p>
<p>Nutrition and Kinesiology are two majors that I scoff at.</p>
<p>I dont see what’s wrong with kinesiology; athletic training is no joke.</p>