<p>“Yeah, mathematics is an excellent exercise in reason. Because of that I think it would be good for every major to require an intro to proofs class. I think you’d convert more math majors that way . . . the mathematics that most liberal arts majors see is just boring computation.”</p>
<p>I think what made me dislike math and think of it as being boring was the fact that some of my teachers would just give us a couple pages of homework to do every night and the next day we would just begin the next lesson without going over it or barely discussing it. That and they would take off points on quizzes,tests, and homework for not doing it their way even if we came out with the correct answer.</p>
no they weren’t…and I only read 3 pages haha. But I hate it when people make fun of people for something as dumb as majors. Once I was having a meeting with my Writing TA who was telling me how he loved my work and thought I should enter it for some writing scholarship the college offers. Then he asked me whether I was majoring in Creative Writing or English Lit and before I could answer, made some joke about how easy it was to tell the Humanities students from the Science students because one group could actually write and the other could barely string a sentence together! And he chuckled for a minute until I told him I want to do research in neurogenetics…<em>awkward</em> :o he did not end up reccommending me for the scholarship =/</p>
<p>That definitely is a bummer. I could definitely see how that would turn somebody off from math. In pure math, you’re homework is usually fewer problems, which require a lot more time and space to complete. Also, you don’t really need to be great at arithmetic to be good at math. That’s a common misconception.</p>
<p>FWIW, I’m not a math major (although I was at one point).</p>
<p>As told to me by a graduate, you have 2 opportunities for jobs- you can be a professor, or you can work at Wendy’s. He was a Wendy’s worker, with a straight-A transcript.</p>
<p>Women’s and Gender Studies</p>
<p>Seriously, what do you expect to do with that? </p>
<p>Languages</p>
<p>Just study abroad. 4 years of language classes does nothing for you. I know a handful of international students at the high school level who have come into the US with no background of English and are now more well-spoken than half the native speakers here.</p>