<p>Biochemistry major. Contrary to everyone else I kind of like the responses I get. I usually get eyes wide open OH man I hate chemistry!! Or “oh man! I could barely pass chem1”</p>
<p>then they ask what I want to do after my undergrad and tell them dental school and i get the “eeewww I could never work on someones mouth!!” I like that response too, it always makes me laugh :)</p>
<p>I think most of you on here need to lighten up, a lot of you guys really sound like a$$holes. Most of the people are just trying to make conversation, instead of getting all worked up, go along with it and try to make a new friend.</p>
<p>every time when I say that I want to major in international relations and get a job involving politics and government, my coworkers automatically assume that I want to be a bureaucrat government slave like them. Haha, I just feel bad for them because they are so embittered about their jobs. They don’t understand how passionate I am about my major, and they just go…oh, “so you want to be a politician? You must be a good liar!” Then I have to explain… majoring in international relations/politics does not necessarily mean that I want to be a politician, at all. Silly misconceptions</p>
<p>Perhaps your “prejudice” was really just a stereotype, which would mean you completely ignored the idea of evaluating on a “case by case basis”, eh?</p>
<p>I can have stereotypes and prejudices but still do my best to give everybody a fair shot. That’s really the best any of us can do, and if you argue otherwise, you’re probably being dishonest with yourself.</p>
<p>I’m Philosophy, Art History, Women’s Studies major/minors.</p>
<p>Art History doesn’t have much of a bad rap, but the other two…
If you’re a philosophy major, according to PSU’s student body, you must be a pot-smoking, acid-dropping hippie who doesn’t actually do any work, and rumor has it that you can be conferred a Philosophy degree upon graduation if you have taken a handful of intro-level philosophy courses. Truth, I actually heard a bunch of kids discussing this as if it were fact. Because a Philosophy major doesn’t have any real requirements, since there’s no work involved. It simply means you spent at least what, six credits, nine credits, thinking…(oddly enough, my degree audit begs to differ)
Once you graduate with a Philosophy degree, you move to San Francisco, take shelter in an abandoned shack, wear Birkenstocks, and of course, smoke lots of pot. That’s it, you can’t do anything else.</p>
<p>If you’re a Women’s Studies major, you ritually burned all your bras when you declared your major, ceased to shave your legs, decided that all men are scum, and then moved to San Francisco with the Philosophy major and you do nothing but partake in angry rallies with homemade signs declaring that lesbians should be able to get married, too. Occasionally the Philosophy major joins you, but he’s high during the rallies anyways. He speaks only when some “really deep” thought crosses his mind, which is always some magnificent one-liner. If you press him for further explanation, he’s silent. He can’t do it (or maybe he’s just going through a really intense part of his trip).</p>
<p>Philosophy majors can’t be women, and Women’s Studies majors CANNOT be men (a male women’s studies major can no longer be considered a male if he declares this major, regardless of how many hot chicks he drunkenly hooks up with the following weekend. NO EXCEPTIONS).</p>
<p>sad. you know, nursing used to be a primarily male field and it was highly respected. then around, i believe, the civil war?, women became the mainstay of the nursing field. since then, it’s generally been looked down on and the relative pay has gone down greatly…the same as most other jobs previously held by men that are now done primarily by women.</p>
You know, that’s completely true. I guess some of us are just open minded enough to look past stereotypes in a situation like college majors and judge a human being’s motives individually. Some people are just more capable of overcoming the misconceptions due to stereotypes than others.</p>
<p>I cant understand for the life of me why someone would enroll in college to be a Communications/Sociology/Physical Education/Fine Arts major - they arent worth the $$$$. In fact, I think the Communications should be cut out from every college in the US - if you REALLY want to study qualitative communication, major in broadcasting or journalism. If you really love one of the above majors, then double major or take it as a minor. It really cant be that hard at all, I imagine.</p>
<p>Theres a reason engineering/math/physics/chem/bio majors are looked up upon by college faculty - they’re more intensive, and they certainly earned it.</p>
<p>that’s BS, alipes07, you’re only showing a clear bias. you’ve obviously never taken an upper-level humanities or social sciences course, or if you have and found it simple, then your professor or your school’s curriculum requirements just suck. you probably wouldn’t even know what to do in it and would fail without question since you don’t even understand HOW it could be difficult. these subjects require vast amounts of research of all varieties, as well as lots of abstract thinking.
i really could go on and on, but it’s not worth it, i shouldn’t even justify your post with a reply.</p>
<p>yes, I’ve taken a upper level psych class and it was the easiest class I had last semester…skipped a 1/3 of the classes and still got an A</p>
<p>I have a feeling you are communications major LAC. Do me a favor and drop out of college or switch your major. Seriously, you are single-handedly dumbing down the college education system…</p>
<p>The thing is LAC, that it’s been proven that science and engineering majors do better in humanities/social sciences than vice versa. It’s also been proven that GPAs in humanities/social sciences are inflated compared to science/engineering. It’s also well known that science/engineering requires a lot more time/effort due to the assignments, studying (you don’t actually learn the material in lecture, you’re just introduced to it), and labs. I could dig up these studies if you want, although that could take some time. About abstract thinking… take a course in abstract algebra. I’m not trying to put down arts, but lets me realistic… science and engineering are a lot more intense. I have actually taken upper level social science courses (since I maxed my junior course limit) and I loved them because there weren’t any labs or weekly assignments, just papers and exams. It’s easy to say that “if you found it easy, your school must be easy,” but ease it relative. Compared to abstract algebra, physics, organic chemistry, etc., they were pretty simple.</p>
<p>your generalizing my post, burgler. I only mentioned these 4</p>
<p>Comm - read above posts
Sociology - unnecessary major, imo. Takes the study of the human/group construct to unnecessary heights.
Fine Arts - as a hobby? great, but not college, please. they have specialty schools for these also, so no need really for them in larger academic settings.
Philosophy - they call this a major, b/c it requires you to think. Funny, I thought all majors require thought…</p>
<p>i’m not a communications major.
if you read two posts prior, you’d see that i’m philosophy, art history, and women’s studies major/minor/whatevers (i’m in the process of transferring).
so every social science or humanities major is dumbing down the college education system? that’s completely ridiculous. i plan to obtain two Ph.D.'s, and am not switching my majors, so suck it up and deal with it.
i’m guessing that your psych class was fairly simple - if you took several upper level courses from fields like sociology, philosophy, psychology, etc, i guarantee that you’d run into problems unless you are genuinely too intelligent for the school you’re attending.
note that intelligence isn’t the same as brilliance.
someone brilliant would not argue that psychology majors are worthless. i’m really not even going to entertain this discussion anymore, it’s a joke. what, was the girlfriend that broke up with you this afternoon a sociology major?
good luck finding mental help when you go crazy because you can’t figure out the perfect algorithm for your project, or something else weird that old engineering majors do.</p>
<p>are you proposing that i don’t have to study outside of class, that everything is just handed to me in lecture? WRONG.
i do MOST of my studying for my philosophy courses outside of class, and trust me, it’s intense. a philosophy course isn’t just asking you to THINK, it’s asking you to think about things that haven’t been thought about before - big difference.
and russell, are you trying to tell me that because a class has a lab, it’s more time-consuming and thus harder? that’s just dumb.
and give me cold, hard facts that “science/math people” do better in humanities and soc sci courses than vice versa, because i know plenty of engineering majors who can’t even spell, let alone write a genius philosophical paper. this just sounds like a conjecture based on your wishful thinking.
here’s a thought, maybe your organic chemistry classes were hard because they were so d@mn boring.<br>
frankly, in high school, i did better in my ap calculus course and test than my ap american history, but i found my ap history to be more interesting. i took more time to do my ap history homework than ap calc homework as well. so what does that mean?</p>
<p>I never said anything about humanities/social sciences not having to study outside of lecture. I was just listing the many things that science/engineering majors do, arguing that it’s more intense than what humanities/social science majors do.</p>
<p>And this is all that I can find for now. I can find the actual studies that I saw, but like I said, that’d take some time.</p>
<p>The physical sciences and engineering had rigorous grading standards roughly in line with the recommendations from 1976," stated Rine, “while the humanities and social sciences in many classes had all but given up on grades below a B, and in many courses below an A-,”</p>
<p>Grades in humanities courses are notably higher than those in the social sciences, and both are higher than grades in the natural sciences. Yet would anyone say that Harvard’s best students are in the humanities and its worst in the natural sciences? In fact, science students regularly do better in nonscience courses than nonscience students do in science courses.</p>
<p>I apologize if you you interpreted my statement as a personal attack. It wasnt - it was a comment on your area of study. I’m sure you are an intelligent person, who could exceed in any discipline.</p>
<p>Its just my personal opinion that engineering/physics/chem/bio/etc. majors make a more meaningful contribution to improve the quality of life, thats all.</p>