<p>^ amen…sheesh</p>
<p>Seriously, no one knows anything regarding the difficulty of a linguistics major?</p>
<p>Our daughter plans to major in Comm/Public Relations. Why? Because she LIKES that subject and can see herself writing press releases, designing marketing campaigns, etc. for a living. She’s in the top 5% of her class but we have no plans to talk her into something more “worthy” and risk that she ends up w/ a more tangible degree, but miserable in her job.</p>
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<p>What’s the difference between communication and communication<em>s</em> major?</p>
<p>JamesGold - I’m majoring in PNP (Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology) with a concentration in linguistics. I’ve only taken intro ling so far, but from what I’ve heard, it can get pretty hard if you don’t have the right kind of mind for it. Linguistics is a more analytical field than most people make it out to be, and some scholars are going so far as to say it should be included in the field of natural sciences, as difficult as, say, chem.</p>
<p>That being said, I don’t think any one major is harder than another. It’s all on an individual basis.</p>
<p>Instead of simply classifying majors as “hard” or “easy,” what’s really more important is the amount of effort one puts into a major. Psychology may have an easy rep, but it’s not easy to produce original research with insightful findings. Also, departments vary enormously by the school you go to. At Princeton, math has a reputation for being the hardest major, perhaps followed by physics. But one can choose to take the “easy” or “hard” track on a variety of majors.</p>