<p>you see all those pre law idiots getting As because they pick the easiest classes.. or those humanities majors just drinking-****ing all day long because they don't have to use their brains anyway.. while you're taking the hardest classes and might not get As at all.. I know it's everyone's choice.. and life's unfair</p>
<p>No. It's called taking advantage of the system.</p>
<p>They paid the same amount as you did to attend. If they don't take advantage of the educational opportunity, well that is their fault.</p>
<p>Well, you can be happy when those alcoholics (that's what they call them after they graduate at least) with their 2.3 GPA in Sociology can't get a decent job offer. :)</p>
<p>Yes, because everyone who drinks in college ends up an alcoholic and unsuccessful LOL. You all are delusional.</p>
<p>not all humanities majors take the easiest classes, theres a lot of reading and writing papers involved</p>
<p>I am curious to know which classes you have decided are the hardest</p>
<p>I also hate it when I have to drive a Mercedes-Benz while my neighbor gets to drive a Bentley.</p>
<p>Screw him!</p>
<p>wow, you sound like the stereotypical engineering/science major who thinks everyone else is dumb. believe it or not, humanities classes require work too...and not all pre-law students take the easiest classes. i'm considering law school, not sure if i'll apply or not, but I certainly don't take the easiest classes. I've met plenty of pre-law students majoring in the hard sciences/engineering because they want to do patent law. If all pre-law or pre-med students cared about was a 4.0, we would all go to easy colleges and pick majors like Leisure Studies.</p>
<p>Maybe you should go out and have a drink once in a while and have some fun, instead of being an uptight jerk and looking down on everyone, and crying about how it's unfair.</p>
<p>Does anyone here hate it when science/engineering students come here and talk down on the humanities?</p>
<p>I'd rather be educated by Plato and Hemingway than by some no-name chemistry textbook.</p>
<p>And from what I know, pre-law students who take easy classes don't usually end up in top law schools. So perhaps you've been meeting the wrong type of pre-lawyers.</p>
<p>Everyone else isn't dumb and almost majors require SOME work, but there is no way in hell that I would ever compare a literature or history degree's difficulty with that of physics or engineering. There is a reason why a lot of tech majors can't 'go out and have a drink' and that is because they're studying their butts off to get notoriously difficult degrees while their pals over in communications and English are cruising by with half the hours of studying and hitting up bars three times as much. The degrees are not even close to equal in difficulty. </p>
<p>I don't think that anyone who doesn't do a technical degree is useless or lazy but I do see a lot of people in my program and others who take that sort of attitude. Not everyone can or wants to be a scientist or an engineer and we need all sorts of people in this world.</p>
<p>I am however not a perfect person and the humanities majors who think they're doing the world a favor by mindlessly reading philosophy books and writing crappy poetry get on my nerves. Humans, as a species, like to believe that the world is fair and that while the tech majors are better at science or math, they can't POSSIBLY be good at writing or any creative activity. This is a fallacy and one that only comforts special snowflakes who need to find something about themselves to feel good about. Other than this sort of annoying, yappy-type student, I love humanities majors and I have a lot of friends who chose to go that way.</p>
<p>Accl*Mass=Force: I'd MUCH rather get a B in my Quantum Mechanics class than an A in Advanced English Composition :) Which GPA do you think looks more impressive, exactly? A 4.0 in Media Studies or a 3.4 in Engineering? I'll give you three guesses but the first two don't count~</p>
<p>We all know that an Engineering/physics degree isn't easy to come by, it's a helluva lot of work and requires intelligence. But that's no reason for them to be tools and look down on other majors. Society couldn't function if we didn't have teachers, journalists, advertisers, salespeople, politicians, artists, veterinarians, doctors, lawyers, etc, yet some Engineering types seem to be of the opinion that they alone are important, because they received a couple years of Vocational training. So people like the OP who talk about how only they use their brains make themselves look bad. </p>
<p>Oh, and OP - if you know any pre-Law students who are truly stupid, rest assured they will bomb their LSATs, which are WAY more important than GPA, and not get into Law school. then you can laugh at them :D</p>
<p>Of course they're not tools. I would apologize for the people who have views like that, but that would mean claiming them in a sort of way and that's something I'm reluctant to do ;) But you're absolutely correct.</p>
<p>You should be thanking the heavens there are people who take the 'easy classes' and get JDs; who else is going to interpret the juggernaut that is the US legal code and save your silly hide when you happen to 'eff up with a design? Ease off the bitterness, you'll live longer.</p>
<p>Engineers with a BS and earn more than Art students with a BA, ceteris paribus. Therefore, you should not be complaining if you have to work more to get a better wage. Second, it's supply and demand. A student majoring in theoretical physics might complain that his major is way harder than say the Business student's, yet at the end the Business student earns more. Well it's supply and demand. If society doesn't care about what happened 1 second before Big Bang, then there's no reason to study physics other than your own self-pleasure. Then you should be satisfied with your additional knowledge. Who cares about GPA and partying?</p>
<p>who says you can't pick easy classes?</p>
<p>im diggin augustcaesars response</p>
<p>i did say life's unfair and that everybody has his own choice.. and I know I am doing what I like and I know I will have no regrets..</p>
<p>I was just trying to vent my frustration..</p>
<p>by the way, I don't think you'll get as much useful knowledge from reading plato than reading a no name chem book. fact.</p>
<p>it's your fault you chose to kill yourself studying throughout your years of college..you don't really have the right to complain about your workload because you CHOSE it.</p>
<p>also, i know a lot of science majors who really, really suck at writing papers--they'd much prefer solving some physics equations to evaluating faulkner's rhetorical strategies in a 15+ page paper..</p>
<p>I promise you, if you dig deep enough into some of those departments, you will manage to find some very intelligent, very motivated students absolutely passionate about their subjects of study. You probably just don't see them, because like you, they are working hard and studying, not out partying. </p>
<p>The best example of this might be acclaimed author David Foster Wallace, who pursued philosophy and English in undergrad, yet wrote two award winning theses, one entitled "Richard Taylor's 'Fatalism' and the Semantics of Physical Modality" and turned the other into a best-selling novel.</p>
<p>Did his abilities and intellect far surpass the average college student? Absolutely. Is he an indicator that in any department, you might happen to find some incredible thinkers. I think so.</p>
<p>Just as not all engineering majors are bitter *******s, not all humanities majors are alcoholic party hearty idiots.</p>