<p>^ I’m dumb. I might need that explained.</p>
<p>@ Platts - I once submitted the same paper to 2 different English profs and one gave an A, the other a B+. Not a huge difference, but it all depends on the Prof’s personal preferences. If the Prof has her period that day, B+! if she just got laid, A! If I was a Creative Writing/English/Lit major, I would get annoyed over this. </p>
<p>In my college, everyone is required to take a Writing seminar, which is jumbled up with all different majors together. We had to constantly read each others work and the best papers (decided by the Prof) were read out loud…and I was surpised to find that many of the best writers weren’t English majors, or even Liberal Arts majors. I think Philosophy majors are the best writers; they think abstractly and focus on logic, rather than trying to sound pretentious with flowery language.</p>
<p>^English major is the waiter. The preprofessional majors all have desk jobs they need to get back to.</p>
<p>^ that was generous of you to explain. sometimes it takes me a little while to understand things. some things i will never appreciate. it is a curse placed upon me by my chosen area of study . . . for example i will never appreciate the allure of a well-placed comma.</p>
<p>“What would you all like to order to drink with your meals?”</p>
<p>Read that out loud.</p>
<p>i tried but i couldn’t. </p>
<p>engineering major here</p>
<p>I wasn’t referring to you, but the person who posted it/whoever told him that joke.</p>
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<p>that happens in math too if you go to a bad school.</p>
<p>I don’t care if people think my finance major is easy. It’s what I like and it’s what I am good at.</p>
<p>Besides, all those other majors would take away from my time playing golf, partying, drinking, watching football, tailgating, playing fantasy football, being on the club hockey team, intermural softball and floor hockey, school newspaper, more golfing, Entrepreneur society, etc.</p>
<p>I’ll take my easy major over the crap those engineering kids go through anyday. (Plus the chicks are better on the eyes in biz classes.)</p>
<p>Silence_kit is actually very funny :)</p>
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<p>You are probably going to end up better off than most science/engineering majors. In my case, I consider it a shame that I never liked finance.</p>
<p>That’s why everyone hates us business majors; we have it (relatively) easy in school and the best job prospects after school and we know it :D</p>
<p>The only reason people don’t take business majors seriously is because many, including me, feel that business should be left for grad school. MBA’s are a whole other story than a BA in business administration.</p>
<p>IMO MBA doesn’t teach a whole hell of a lot either. At Wharton the undergrad curriculum is arguably tougher than the MBA one. Save accounting and finance, how much business can you really teach in school? Business is best learned on the job and business schools are more for networking, recruiting, and the name on the diploma. A business degree is a great tool, but not really the best education.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t expect someone named mathboy98 to have the best taste in humor. </p>
<p>My problem with it is that the first 10+ pages of this thread is literally just post after post talking about how stupid/lazy/worthless/wasteful/etc humanities majors are, and then someone dares question the brilliance of math majors, silence_kit decides to take it personally. : P Also, it’s just not funny.</p>
<p>As a finance major, I would have to agree biz education is generally useless. The internships, alumni networks, and diploma is matter a he.ll of alot mre than what you learn in class.</p>
<p>And why wait for MBA level? I’m planning on never even bothering with a professional degree. I just want to get my foot in the door, work my way around for awhile, make contacts, and after five years or so start my own business in real estate investing/developing. An undergrad business degree is what’s best for me.</p>
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Well, how much of anything can you really teach in school? The best education anyone can receive is out of the classroom. But, earning an MBA allows you to have more of that sort of instruction.</p>
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People view humanities majors as stupid because it is very common to see someone drop science/engieering after getting a string of Cs and then do very well in humanities. You rarely see someone drop humanities with a string of Cs to do very well in engineering or science. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but its a lot rarer.</p>
<p>The smartest people I know have majors all over the place. They could all write the papers if they wanted to and could do the math or engineering if they wanted to. One person I know actually dropped an English major at an Ivy for math because he found English was too easy and a waste of money.</p>
<p>Majors I don’t take seriously: ones in which it’s obvious the student is only in it for the money.</p>
<p>^^ couldn’t agree more.</p>