<p>Name a major (not your own!) that you're impressed by. Also list your own major/minor to make it interesting. This should be a nice break from bashing each other : )</p>
<p>My major/minor: neuroscience and genetics</p>
<p>Impressed by: Aerospace Engineering...apparently they teach these folks to design rockets and spaceships or something! guess you can't skip many classes or you're screwed. </p>
<p>your turn!</p>
<p>me: econ</p>
<p>impressed by: foreign language majors, math majors, biology majors
all because i’m terrible at it all.</p>
<p>My major is dramatic writing (playwriting/screenwriting), and I am impressed by ethnic and women’s studies majors. Not only do these subjects generally fascinate me, but they take real courage to go into knowing that you will spend four years getting ragged on then not have a job waiting for you when you come out the other end.</p>
<p>Major Payne</p>
<p>I take him pretty seriously.</p>
<p>My major: Communications with an emphasis on journalism</p>
<p>Impressed by: Computer Science/ Electrical Engineering just because it was something I was pushed to for some time but then I finally made my own choice to major in something I really wanted to do and it always amazes me when I hear people who are majoring in it because they love it (I mean i’ve only heard this a few times) and not because “my parents are making me.” That’s pretty cool.</p>
<p>Major: Russian. Minor is Arabic for now.</p>
<p>Impressed by people who sincerely want to be teachers. I guess there is no set major for that.</p>
<p>My likely majors are history and German.</p>
<p>I’m impressed by math/engineering type majors because of the intricacy of all the numbers, formulas, etc., and because college level math seems difficult to master. With humanities, even if you write a paper that’s bad or mediocre, you’ve still written a paper, but with math, there’s no such thing as doing a problem badly (aside from using unnecessarily complicated methods to solve it), either you solve it well, or you don’t solve it. Sorry if that only made sense in my head, I wasn’t quite sure how to put it into words.</p>
<p>I’m also impressed by creative writing majors/minors (or as a focus within an English major), because I love to read, and they create poetry and prose that people read. Being able to produce beautiful language is awe inspiring.</p>
<p>Me: Finance
Impressed by: Math majors</p>
<p>Impressed: Engineers, Physics, Art (wish I could be an artist)
Me: Health</p>
<p>I’m an engineer. An aerospace engineer too, and I get a lot of “Wow, that sounds hard!” from pretty much everyone. It’s a great feeling :D</p>
<p>Majors I respect: other engineers, most pre-med track majors, and social work. Those social work people seem to have it really tough, trying to do good for people in the worst situations, with little resources and visibility.</p>
<p>lol, history and anthropology for me </p>
<p>respect: any major with alot of math in it.</p>
<p>I’m a Chem Major, It should come as no surprise that I respect my fellow ivory tower mates: Physics and Math majors.</p>
<p>I’m a political science major, but I have the utmost respect for any sort of engineering major, especially Industrial Engineering/Ops Researchers. I don’t know why that specifically, but the hard sciences at a secondary educational level are truly something impressive.</p>
<p>My major: Biology/Math</p>
<p>Impressed by: Foreign language (my weakness) and media arts major (the major I really, really wanted, but wouldn’t be able to take because I’m so scared of not having a job later)</p>
<p>my major: im EE to the bone.</p>
<p>impressed by: mathematics or philosophy majors. they study some abstract stuff.</p>
<p>My major: Chemical Engineering</p>
<p>Impressed by: Other engineering fields, chemistry, physics, economics, computer science and pure mathematics.</p>
<p>My: Business Administration</p>
<p>Impressed: Math, maybe Finance, Accounting. I don’t know if these are even difficult, but I have the option to switch over to one of these if I want to.</p>
<p><–Philosophy</p>
<p>Majors themselves don’t ever impress me. Combinations of majors can. (Materials Engineering and French, Physics and English, etc.). GPA minimums apply.</p>
<p>Me: IR, with Arabic concentration</p>
<p>Impressive: English Lit., for starters. Literature is some of the most subjective, interpretive stuff out there, and for someone to have the kind of insight and skill to get meaning and emotion out Hemingway or Faulkner or Shakespere is mightily impressive to me.</p>
<p>Then of course, Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. Why? I can’t understand a word of it, haha.</p>
<p>I’m a Spanish major.</p>
<p>Chemistry majors impress me–the courage to not be lazy but to really dedicate themselves to the work is really impressive. In a different way, I really respect math majors–not just a math-heavy discipline (like physics–though that of course is a little impressive in its own right), but to simply major in math itself… that’s really impressive.</p>
<p>And Psychology majors for their courage. It’s one thing to major in something you know you’ll get a job in. It’s another to major in something you won’t get a job in. Psych is different; EVERYTHING hinges on grad school. To have that kind of courage to be willing to risk everything on whether or not a grad school likes you… that’s ballsy.</p>