<p>^Ok, that is freaking hilarious! LOL!</p>
<p>No i was laughing at QwertyKey</p>
<p>So many engineering students think they are better than every other kid in another program. So much smarter. At my school they blow around with jackets (the leather arm kind that football and hockey players have) with engineering written across the back. Give me a break. I gotta kind of agree with whoswithwhatnow. Most of them are about as fun as genital herpes to hang out with.</p>
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<p>Yes, that is a little extreme.</p>
<p><strong><em>folds and hides t-shirt that says “Math Major” in bold letters</em></strong></p>
<p>I’m a CS major, and I just hate it how the students at my community college transfer to the university after taking a whole bunch of easy courses while I have to wait until I take all the calc and physics requirements. They look down on me for remaining in the community college for an extra two semesters.</p>
<p>As engineering students, we should not look down on other majors because they are taught skills that benefit society. If a major has no use, why would colleges waste their money providing it?</p>
<p>To make money. You do realize education is an industry and it’s all about the money, right?</p>
<p>It is sort of like saying “Why does MTV exist even though they don’t add anything to society.”</p>
<p>Better yet, PurdueEE, society itself is an industry.</p>
<p>Hear, hear.</p>
<p>knowledgeiskeyy: So tell me what can do you with a degree in women studies, communications, art, african american studies, classics, comparative studies, jazz studies, and so forth. You see the problem I have is that people who do majors like this blow their entire 4 years of college off and then brag about how they are honor students while people in science, engineering, mathematics and so forth bust their butts to get their reward. But then right after college these are the same people who have no financial security because they rather get a degree in something non profitable vs. something that can benefit them. I think one poster put it a good way. You would probably see the same people making signs asking for food.</p>
<p>Universities should only offer two majors: engineering and business.</p>
<p>@ enginox, what happen to science and humanities? LOL</p>
<p>Sciences yes because if I had a pick I would do biochemistry or physiology. Humanities not needed.</p>
<p>My dad, an engineering prof, used to have fun debates with my boyfriend’s father, a classics prof. They would argue about the value of a vocational education versus a liberal arts course of study. They could have been on different planets, they were so far apart!</p>
<p>A Liberal Arts education needs a good dose of vocational/professional education and a vocational/professional education needs a good dose of Liberal Arts education. A healthy society needs a balance of each in order to function properly.</p>
<p>The problem is that Humanists have failed to make a compelling case of why they are badly needed by modern society; instead, they have allowed Professionals (engineers, medical doctors, lawyers, investment bankers, etc.), people not properly qualified to make qualitative judgments, to dictate how a modern society should function.</p>
<p>The result is what the society we have today, where many individuals choose engineering not primarily because they find it intellectually stimulating and challenging, but because there is the “promise” of big bucks at the end of the tunnel. Minor evidence are threads such as these where the “measuring stick” is how much money other majors make or whether or not they find a job.</p>
<p>This begs the question, if society determined engineers would earn an average salary (say, the salary of a journalist), how many individuals would be willing to enter a tough, challenging engineering program?</p>
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<p>I don’t understand why other people’s majors bother you so much.</p>
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Then the individuals in it solely for the money will simply move on to the next highest paying profession and you’ll still have the same problem. Society values practical applications - that’s not going to change.</p>