<p>Most majors are respectable to me except those in made-up fields. The ones I least respect are Education (especially their fake masters degrees) or Women’s or Ethnic Studies (no offense intended, but it really seems more political than scholarly). That said, I also tend to disrespect degrees from glorified community colleges. Note there is a huge difference between a ‘community’ college and a ‘commuter’ college which could well be a top university.</p>
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<p>yeah i agree. doctors get their egos stroked way too much in the media & public perception. can anyone name a tv show or movie that features an incompetent and/or crooked doctor? no, House doesn’t count.</p>
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<p>I guess you guys have a point, but that isn’t to say that it isn’t a profession that shouldn’t be respected. I mean, modern medicine has allowed human beings to live for longer times and thus has allowed people to use and expand their knowledge for a longer period of time. I totally agree that the media and the public are definitely hyping up being a doctor, when there are plenty of professions just as grueling and important i.e. engineering. I mean if you ask any little girl or little boy, I am betting that at least 50% of them will say they want to be a doctor. But as a profession, I really have to say its done a lot for people.</p>
<p>I also respect Pre-Med majors AND doctors.</p>
<p>The competition for Med school is so great. I have always thought that the thing about most engineering areas it that you don’t have to be an “ace” and still get good jobs and make good money.</p>
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<p>oh i don’t doubt that they work hard or that they have a ton of responsibility in their jobs at all.</p>
<p>its just that they get deified for doing their jobs. i don’t know why i’m personally bothered by that, but i guess i am.</p>
<p>i feel like sometimes they take advantage of this when it comes to political issues–see the issues of tort reform for malpractice cases & the cost of health care rising because doctors are selling new treatments and drugs.</p>
<p>and in terms of impact to society, one average doctor does more for society than one average engineer or research scientist. but, . . .</p>
<p>i bet if more people became engineers or research scientists, (these people come up with new technologies that improve economic efficiency which improves people’s lives), the US would be better off than if more people became doctors . . .</p>
<p>Math physics, CS Chemistry. Honestly, yes pre-meds have it hard, but have you guys considered Biomedical Engineers who try to make it to medical school? Lol.</p>
<p>Communications.</p>
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<p>My uncles a doctor and says that most doctors don’t always prescribe the drug that would best treat the ilness. Instead they have to fulfil quotas or prescribe the drug that they are told to even if its not the best. Pharmacuetical companies are becoming to powerful. Also he told me that a doctors pay is overrated. Much of your income is lost throgh taxes, insurance. My uncle says that almost 10% of his patients are not able to fully pay their bills on time. The advantages of a doctor are overrated.</p>
<p>Physics
Applied/theoretical Math
Law (Juris Doctorate)
Doctor (MD or VET)</p>
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<p>Your boyfriends choice of majors is his decision…you can suggest he post on here, but it’s really not a good idea to do the major research for him.</p>
<p>This is not a major but the school I graduated from had a minor in Community Service. They were hoping to make it into a major one day (the department not the university).</p>
<p>Architorture. Seriously, those guys and girls get shafted for five long years.</p>
<p>Social Work. Nothing but respect for those people.</p>
<p>I agree with “architorture.” My two semesters of architectural design were killers. </p>
<p>I would also say piano performance. I thought about majoring in piano, but decided not to after I heard how brutal it was. A friend said it ruined the pleasure he used to get from playing. I also knew I wasn’t good enough to solo with an orchestra, and I sure didn’t want to end up as a piano teacher.</p>
<p>I can’t think of a health science major I don’t respect - nursing, OT, PT, etc.</p>
<p>Add another one for architecture. They seem to work all day and night all the time for 5 years, before graduating and getting jobs with relatively low salaries to start. If you don’t love it, you’re not going to make it.</p>
<p>Id have to say any Pre-Meds who make it through with really good gpa’s, accounting majors, psychology majors, and most of all, Philosophy majors. I couldnt imagine having to deal with the lack of respect that philosophy majors get. true enough they might not make as much as anyone else, but they have the guts to stick it out through that hard stuff. I couldnt do it all, philosophy is intense</p>
<p>No, I find the physicists look down at other majors.
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<p>Folklore and Mythology.</p>
<p>If not that, then perhaps Biochemistry or Neuroscience.</p>
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There is a difference between being a doctor (as in a physician) and being a medical researcher. I definitely respect medical researchers because they are the true heroes of medicine. I mean… sure they’re useful to society, but there are some jobs that really help us advance humanity as a whole. That is why I hold scientific research in very high regard, whether it be theoretical physics/computer science/mathematics, medicine, and almost all experimental sciences. They really are the ones that allow all this innovation to be done. Lately, engineering research has been able to build up enough it seems to be able to contribute vast amounts of knowledge towards doing more… practical things (since the physicists are busy with superstring theory and QM and all this other tomfoolery).</p>
<p>So yes. Any research position I hold in very high regard, no matter what it is. You have to discover things that no one has ever discovered before… that is why I have a sort of distaste for medicine generally and law. You go and memorize stuff and sure it’s difficult as hell and god knows how some people get through it but at some point you know enough and sure you keep learning things at this seminar or that conference, but really the rest is just applied knowledge.</p>
<p>Damn I sound like such a nerd.</p>
<p>All legitimate jobs advance humanity. </p>
<p>Scientific advancement without social advancement is useless. Fields like Law, Sociology, Medicine, etc. may not seem as “glamorous” as Mathematics or the natural sciences but the former fields establish the legal, social, and medical norms on how and/or why scientific research may be conducted. In return, scientific research influences how the latter fields redefine the established norms. Even scientific pursuits such as String Theory and QM are influenced by the philosophical and social questions of who we are, where we come from, etc.</p>
<p>The OP asked about majors, not fields. There’s a difference between majoring in Sociology and being a sociologist. Yes, the Sociology major at most universities may be a relatively “easy” program to complete but being a sociologist is not necessarily a “walk in the park.” I hope this distinction is clear enough so let’s debate about the program, not the field.</p>