<p>“at least you are giving up your argument, supported only by personal anecdotes, that all majors pretty much make the same money out of college.”</p>
<p>Shockingly, no. I am not giving up my personal knowledge to blindly agree with the data presented in your news link. I’m a fan of real life examples, you see, as numbers are so easily misrepresented.</p>
<p>lol that’s some conspiracy theory stuff right there</p>
<p>ok i admit, i made up all of those numbers and submitted it to cnn and they believed it xD</p>
<p>I took a statistics class once and all it entailed was the teacher telling us not to believe statistics and showing the class all the different ways in which numbers can be inflated, deflated, misrepresented, and the like to make any given point. For more information on this topic, look at that thread about liberal professors and the discussion about global warming in there. Every side has “the facts” but none of the facts agree with one another. I wonder why?</p>
<p>lol yes</p>
<p>there is a politically motivated group out there manipulating the figures about starting salaries for different college majors.</p>
<p>the AEML. anti english major league</p>
<p>i’m out. gonna go make some deals in back alleyways and sealed boardrooms.</p>
<p>peace</p>
<p>“lol” all you want, but you aren’t going to be making that kind of money right out of college.</p>
<p>And I googled “starting salaries” and every ****ing website has a different number from a different source. How do you explain that? </p>
<p>“the AEML. anti english major league”</p>
<p>Also known as CC.</p>
<p>entrance salaries don’t tell the whole story. engineering salaries spike to ~80k very quickly. Up until last year, it wasn’t uncommon to make 100k 4 years after graduation here (which is when you get your PEng.).</p>
<p>This thread should win some kind of award for its meaningless speculation.</p>
<p>I love how everyone’s so certain of starting salaries for their future careers. Don’t act like you have the job yet. Also, don’t forget that it’s not all about the major. You have to have the work experience. No matter what my major was I would never be assuming I would be making as high as some people here think they will, and that’s why I’m being very careful about money now. </p>
<p>The other thing about loans and debt is that it’s not just for this year or the next semester- after four years that’s a LOT of money we’re paying for school. It’s nothing to joke around about. There’s no room to assume so much about the future.</p>
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<p>it’s all lies. engineering provides, like, no benefit to society. being able to write papers about chaucer is the new skill that every business wants.</p>
<p>I thought this thread was about something else, not salaries lol. I hate it when there is a red star and I cant remember what I wrote.</p>
<p>Well I already know what job and salary I’m going to have when I graduate if I decide to go a certain route. </p>
<p>Just thought I’d add more FIRE to whatever you guys are talking about since of course I did not bother reading.</p>
<p>lol i can’t believed i got sucked into that discussion. that was really engineering of me to nerd out over avg. salaries. i still think it is funny that AbbyP doesn’t recognize <em>adjusts glasses</em></p>
<p>You know, silence_kit, I like that you manage to make every discussion about how awesome engineers are.</p>
<p>lol you brought it up with ur 'lil dig at engineers! it was moronic of me to take the bait, but whatever. for the record, the same idea applies to doctors spending dollars on med. school. actually, it is more appropriate to see schooling for them this way.</p>
<p>or do you deny that a doctor makes more money than an english major? lol</p>
<p>If one uses one’s mad English skills to write a bestselling novel, then who makes more? The podiatrist in the strip mall in suburbia, or the novelist?</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s entirely possible to say, “I’m majoring in Z, so my salary in Y years will be X.” You make as much money as you want to make.</p>
<p>To get back to the topic, I will be attending college for four years. I’ll be working for at least fifty years. When I have the rest of my life to work, I’m not going to be too worried about pinching every penny. I’m going to enjoy my time in college. I’ll definitely work as much as I can, but the full time student plus full time job schedule is not for me. If it’s for someone out there, good for that person.</p>
<p>Maybe you should read back, silence_kit. Because I said nothing derogatory towards engineers.</p>
<p>"(And we all know engineers are just rolling in the money! [/sarcasm]) "</p>
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<p>The novelist, obviously.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I agree. However it is very reasonable to make arguments about the plight of an avg. student in a major based on the avg. starting salaries.</p>
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<p>Yeah, this was the phrase that set off my engineering defense system. And it’s good to know that fellow posters have my back. <em>awkwardly tries to fist bump comiclover</em></p>
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<p>haha i’m totally spiderman in that pic. but being in engineering, statistically i’d look a lil more like </p>
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<p>most of the kids in my engg classes are skinny</p>
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