<p>^ Philosophy isn’t easy, it’s probably the hardest lib arts major.
Compare yourself to other Engineers, not Sports Management majors who get A’s. What’s good in your major is different from what’s good in theirs. Why does it bother you that they get better grades? A 3.7 in Sports Management isn’t as good as a 3.4 in Engineering. </p>
<p>What’s more annoying is being Pre-Law and knowing that people with easy majors get A’s and will also apply to top law schools - but if they’re not smart, they’ll screw up the LSATs. LSAT’s are way more important than GPA in Law admissions. I’d like to add that Science/Engineering majors always have the highest LSAT score, because most of the test is logic.
Are you kidding? Or did you mean people who take easy classes in UG and then try to get JD’s - Law School is not easy, and a JD from a good Law school isn’t easy to come by.</p>
<p>Everyone has their own definition of “useful knowledge”. In Chemistry you might learn about why people put salt on the road when it snows. But, to most people it’s more useful to know where to buy the salt than why salt prevents freezing. </p>
<p>You should not be frustrated at a low GPA. GPA is all relative. A liberal arts major wanting to do masters at Harvard is going to have to compare his GPA with another liberal arts major. So it meaningless for him to have his GPA higher than that of an Engineering student. </p>
<p>Most employers rarely care about your exact GPA.</p>
<p>well, i do hate it when there are naturally smart people who can party and still ace their engineering degrees and end up with a job at NASA. now that’s unfair, but also extremely rare. all the rest of us average joes better have something those people don’t have… but i can’t think of any. i don’t know why you would be frustrated at people who choose to take the easy way out. life is going to suck for them in the end.</p>
<p>obviously it depends on the person and all these generalizations are stupid. there are some people who breeze through an english major, and some who spend hours every night reading and writing and trying to understand often very difficult works. there are some physics majors who just get it, and get through that major relatively easy while others struggle as much as the english major.</p>
<p>its really not fair to say one is easier than the other, because it entirely depends on the person.</p>
<p>I don’t know where you go to school, but at my school, outside of the basic freshman intro courses, humanities courses involve tons of reading and writing. You can’t be drunk all the time to read something and have a good recollection of it. </p>
<p>If they know how to not procrastinate, and then get drunk every night, then more power to them.</p>
<p>don’t make sweeping generalizations about us humanities majors. </p>
<p>i’m sure you wouldn’t appreciate it if i said all engineering majors are devoid of talent and creativity and are simply pursuing it because they have nothing else going for them and want a good paying job.</p>
<p>I myself am a history major and I don’t ever recall ever having to think very hard in my classes. I have a lot more academic respect for people in engineering or the sciences, because in my humble opinion you actually have to do real work in those classes and not just vomit out a few pages of double-spaced BS masquerading as literary analysis and call it an “essay”. I don’t mean to offend anyone but that’s just been my experience so far.</p>
<p>^ ok, that might be true for history majors, I don’t know because i’m not one, but it’s not like all liberal arts majors are about churning out bs essays and and literary analysis. i’m a liberal arts major, that doesn’t mean I’m not required to take several calculus and stats classes, even though I’m not in a technical major…I don’t just read books and regurgitate material and analyze it, many classes in my major are mathematical and theoretical…i feel like a few people on this thread have implied all we do is read a bit and analyze some things, then drink the night away…I also have a lot of respect for engineering/physics majors who deal with such difficult material though. plus engineering seems to require the most number of credits.</p>