<p>oh. my bad. had gotten that impression from some other posts.</p>
<p>you guys are still hardcore. I couldn't have handled the ChemE workload.</p>
<p>The Core takes up a lot of time. Two semesters of Lit Hum, two semesters of CC, two semesters of major cultures, one music hum, one art hum, one frontiers of science, and one university writing. There are also some language requirements/phy ed/science requirements you have to fulfill. I really enjoyed music, lit hum, but I found the CC class (and readings) to be extremely dull. It really depends on the professor...</p>
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<p>She's literally the only girl I know in SEAS.</p>
<p>dpa - instructors can be a drag. Thankfully, you can at least switch mid-year during LitHum and CC.</p>
<p>The old classical education of Aristotle consisted of the trivium (rhetoric, logic and grammar) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy). The trivium was the language skill needed to communicate the sciences. The Renaissance concept of the educated man was someone who excelled in several things: Alberti, the model Renaissance man was a linguist, scientist and philosopher, as was da Vinci. If you are a genius (idiot savant/math-sci grind) don't go to Columbia. Einstein would not have flourished there. He would have been happier at Caltech. da Vinci and Oppenheimer would be comfortable at Columbia. Participatory democracy requires cultivated men and women who have a nodding acquaintance with many fields: Columbia's Core will give you that as will Yale's Directed Studies. You may even become a cultivated man but that's no guarantee of a moral life. You can listen to Wagner and commit genocide as did Eichmann.</p>
<p>ragaswami--
How strict are Yale's distribution requirements? I didn't think they were on par Columbia's core? Do they also take around 2 years to complete?</p>
<p>Check into DS at Yale. It is comparable to Columbia's Core. Only 125 students are accepted. For those who don't get into DS there are the usual distribution requirements.</p>