<p>i didn't read every post in this thread, but this is ridiculous. Engineering is one of the hardest majors in college, and art history is quite possibly one of the easiest majors. The amount of work required for each degree simply don't compare. </p>
<p>Now you can be very intelligent and major in art history, ie. the Harvard art history majors, but there's no denying that engineering is a way harder degree to obtain. </p>
<p>As for thinking outside the box, engineers are trained to solve problems with outside the box type of thinking. </p>
<p>Frankly, this type of argument is frequently used by humanities majors to say that their majors are just as useful and difficult as engineering. But the fact is, you can write a 10 page mediocre essay on development of renaissance art, and you will get a C at least as long as you give some effort the night before it's due. In engineering, you can study for weeks for an exam, understand 80% of the concepts, but if you don't apply it well on exam day, you fail.</p>
<p>I'll have a double, but after I hire one of the 95% of non-engineers to be my CEO so that my company is more closely aligned with 82% of F500s. As an engineer who speaks German and toddler Chinese, I think I'm in the minority of foreign-language-speaking engineers. OP's friend's uncle is generalizing, speaking of averages. Of course there are exceptions, that's why 18% of F500 CEOs are engineers. It's all about how different minds work. Gin and tonic, thanks, and mine won't work as well. :)</p>
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I'll have a double, but after I hire one of the 95% of non-engineers to be my CEO so that my company is more closely aligned with 82% of F500s.
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Irrelevant to the point at hand, ie: Engineering is a better major if you want to be an F500 CEO.</p>
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As an engineer who speaks German and toddler Chinese, I think I'm in the minority of foreign-language-speaking engineers.
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Anecdotal. I'd think it's the other way.</p>
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OP's friend's uncle is generalizing, speaking of averages.
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No, he's speaking from anecdotes. Those have zero credibility.</p>
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Of course there are exceptions, that's why 18% of F500 CEOs are engineers.
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All F500 CEOs are exceptions, the fact that engineering is overrepresented is very telling.</p>
<p>I'm a major in History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. We have the #1 top program in the nation. Its difficult major, no joke here at Hopkins.</p>
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I'm a major in History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. We have the #1 top program in the nation. Its difficult major, no joke here at Hopkins.
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I suggest you look in any book with the title "Advanced Engineering Mathematics". Read the section on Convolution or Fourier Transforms. You might reevaluate your definition of "difficult".</p>
<p>What??? This is very disturbing, I'll start keeping in on on those musical theater kids to make sure they're not crossing us. Let's face it, we pretty much run the college major subforum</p>
<p>Yeah, I was once an art history major here at MIT, but I dropped it for mechanical engineering. Art history was just too hard! Cmon people, can you blame me? I need a good GPA for med school</p>
<p>but honestly guys, art history is THE hardest major... I mean have you tried reading those boring textbooks?? In all seriousness, the only things more miserable than those textbooks are the poor lads who have to spend 4 years reading them.</p>