<p>I keep reading about how Stanford students are either techie (science, math, engineering),
or fuzzie (humanities, social sciences). What is biology, specifically the Human Biology major considered to be? I understand its a science, but it doesnt seem to be the math-computer nerd "techie" kind of science. I also understand it contains a lot of sociology and psychology, so part of the major must be social science oriented as well...</p>
<p>yeah, that’s what I want to know; my friend asked me whether I was a techie or a fuzzie, and I wasn’t too sure…</p>
<p>bio is techie; hum bio maybe less so.</p>
<p>Bio is defiantly techie, but it is the fuzzy of the techies.</p>
<p>defiantly techie? like they insist on the title? lol jk</p>
<p>Some bio majors feel like it is an assault on the legitimacy of their science if they are not called techies.</p>
<p>On a side note, I really don’t like the distinction between fuzzies and techies. The terms carry some baggage. Fuzzy connotes being a touchy-feeley flower child and techie connotes being a socially inept human computer.</p>
<p>There are “fuzzies” who are anything but touchy-feeley, and there are many articulate and social “techies”.</p>
<p>my stanford interviewer who Majored in Bio and is now a surgeon said “biology at stanford is a more technical major, which is why it is a BS”
but HumBio is def less techie</p>