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<p>Well to be fair, most liberal arts majors couldn’t do this either. You don’t need to be skilled in creative writing to do well as a liberal arts major.</p>
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<p>I don’t think very many companies want to bother with on-the-job training.</p>
<p>After three years of proofreading every one of my history major brother’s bazillion papers, I consider liberal arts majors an exercise in creative nonfiction.</p>
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<p>Yes but at least they can write and understand what they’re reading. How many people walking around campuses across America can barely keep the numbers on their paper straight or even understand a basic math textbook? That is the ‘reading and writing’ of math but I’ll bet I can find 25 people who can do a thesis statement to every 1 that can explain and understand the scientific method.</p>
<p>"wow, that’s too bad. mathematics and physics are fine intellectual pursuits. "</p>
<p>Not everyone finds them interesting enough to pursue a degree in.</p>
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<p>What I am trying to say is that the skills you need to be successful in business are ones that you can only learn on the job. Going to school for 4 years isn’t going to make you a better businessman, unless you need specialized training for accounting/finance, etc.</p>
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<p>Already replied on this, but I heard one will get the basic training during first period of job.</p>
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<p>More smug lies that lib arts majors tell themselves to mask their own inadequacy. People who tend to be good at ‘complex math’ are the people who are good at other fields as well. It’s a lie and a very bad lie. It’s like someone who is insecure about their own looks glaring at someone who’s pretty and saying “Well I may be ugly, but at least I’m not a moron like her!” Senseless.</p>
<p>Bottom line; more science majors are excellent at paper writing than English majors who are excellent at science. Sorry, didn’t mean to rain reality on your parade.</p>
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<p>Yeah, we expect the math/science majors to be more proficient in reading and writing than liberal arts majors in mathematics and science. There aren’t a lot of “history for engineers” or “intro composition for physicists” classes, but there are many “physics for liberal arts majors” and “mathematics for business majors” courses. </p>
<p>However, being able to read/write/communicate well is a much more useful skill than being able to do math or understand science.</p>
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<p>I know. But they are missing out . . .</p>
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<p>Did you get a B in your required English class? You seem very upset about English.</p>
<p>Most engineering/science majors can’t write well, sorry to break it to you.</p>
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<p>True, even someone with straight A’s from MIT needs to do well in their interview.</p>
<p>“I know. But they are missing out . . .”</p>
<p>I do not think so. LOL.</p>
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I won a local scholarship for my essay writing and I placed out of the snoozefest that is university English by APs and ACT scores (which, since you’re so interested in knowing, I got a 5/5 on both and a 36/36 on my English ACT score :)</p>
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Because saying ‘sorry, this is the truth’ makes it so. I would retake your rhetoric classes if I were you.</p>
<p>Wishful thinking, MissSilverstris. Why is it that in my 12-person senior year AP Chemistry class, I was the only one who could manage to get a passing grade on the 5 page term paper we had to write? Oh, that’s right. I’m a writing major. And I know how to string a sentence together without putting the teacher to sleep.</p>
<p>MissSilv you have been cranky this entire time.</p>
<p>As a science and math student in high school, I was required by my district to take and pass 4 years of English classes and 4 years of History and Political Science Classes, on top of all the science and math classes I wanted to take. This resulted in me having very few electives to use toward anything not related to what I needed for my interests (science and math) and what I had to do to graduate (English and history). The more liberal arts students, on the other hand, could (and usually did) stop taking science after 9th grade biology, or in some cases 10th grade chemistry, and stop taking math after pre-calculus (which can be reached as early as 10th grade). This has always seemed to me to be an unreasonably tough double standard, that math and science students are expected to do well in History and English (especially if the want to go to college), while more liberal artsy students can skip out on the math and science altogether.</p>
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<p>I’ll echo this. I grade homeworks for an intro engineering class. Whenever the students have to justify something by not stringing a series of equalities together it can get pretty bad.</p>
<p>“Sorry, didn’t mean to rain reality on your parade.”</p>
<p>Maybe you should take your own rhetorical advice, MissSilvestris.
Or just read your own posts.
Whichever.</p>
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<p>It’s called passive-aggressiveness. Mayhap you can try it some time?</p>
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<p>Sorry, fighting against ignorance and false assumptions tends to wear me out. Anyways, I’m off. Play nice, kids.</p>
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<p>You’ve been using anecdotal evidence this whole time, I thought I’d join the fun.</p>