<p>Electrical Engineering:</p>
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<li>No, we’re not all geeks</li>
<li>Yes, some of us love partying and are not always studying</li>
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<p>Theatre Design & Production</p>
<ul>
<li>No, we’re not failed actors. We actually love working backstage.</li>
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<p>media & cultural studies</p>
<p>-yes, this is actually a major</p>
<p>English:
We actually write less than Communications and Govt/Politics majors.
Not all of our papers are BS.
We dislike faux-insightful, wild interpretations of things.
We don’t just read books all the time.
Linguistics and language study is a real science! With theories!</p>
<p>Guys I don’t know what you don’t know about my majors. =(</p>
<p>My major is pretty rare, so it requires a lot of explanation.</p>
<p>Dramatic Writing:</p>
<p>-I don’t write dramas. I write in the dramatic form. There is a difference.
-I was not in drama club in high school.
-I am not a “theater person.”
-I did not get rejected from the film major.
-I am aware of my impending poverty.</p>
<p>Business:
-Not everybody majors in it to make money. (I want to work in the public sector.)
-A lot of people who major in it will have a hard time finding jobs.
-Is actually a really broad major that encompasses a lot of concentrations: Management, Consulting, Finance, Biz Econ, Real Estate Development, Marketing, Accounting.
-You actually do learn skills and not just network.
-Is actually really interesting.
-We most likely won’t be the ones getting MBAs.</p>
<p>Math: We can do anything</p>
<p>English:</p>
<p>-No, for the seventeenth time this month, I’m not going to be a teacher.</p>
<p>LogicWarrior, there’s quite a difference between getting into graduate school, and actually being a good economist or using certain economic principles.</p>
<p>The monetary decisions of the Fed and tax announcements from Congress affect the way consumers change their habits, and these are macroeconomic concepts backed by econometric data. People in general pay closer attention to macroeconomic variables, and that by itself means something.</p>
<p>Of course, I’m not a fan of either (even though I have strong comparative advantages in Micro Theory and Public Econ). Behavioral economics *****.</p>
<p>What I didn’t know about Econ majors: </p>
<p>they’re argumentative and tend to get angry and start swearing and talking about boring things if you disagree with what type of Econ is “sexier”</p>
<p>…i mean, you don’t see the science majors debating between which type of nucleobase is most important in cellular respiration…because that would just be silly :P</p>
<p>I’m just gonna leave it with this:</p>
<p>You never see someone go onto CNN and talk about marginal utility and profit maximization and all that other stuff that everyone uses.</p>
<p>Also math:</p>
<p>-If you mention that you’re majoring/minoring in math or taking any math above College Algebra, there will be someone who HAS to mention they failed math (at better schools this would be got their only B/C in math) in high school. I don’t know why they feel compelled to say that, they just say it.</p>
<p>Biomedical Engineering:
-We don’t only create medical devices found in hospitals
-We go from tasting that piece of potato chip in order to find it to your liking, we see if snowboard is adjust for one’s feet and it’s aerodynamically stable to nanotechnology to making sure you don’t throw up when riding a roller coaster.
-We’re not some bratty kids that think having a diff. major will shine on pre-med apps</p>
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<p>Yeah, and they usually are almost proud of it. You know, you never hear people bragging about how they can’t read . . .</p>
<p>Math: You don’t see numbers very often after a certain level…</p>
<p>Econ: You almost never talk about money. Ever. This is like the math and numbers deal.</p>
<p>Materials engineering
-Anything at all, seriously I haven’t even started school yet, and I have no idea how incredibly many times I’ve heard “What is materials engineering?”</p>
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<p>That’s exactly the nature of the field though. You have a collection of theories separated along lines by their major proponents. For example, you have your classicists and Keynesians at odds with each other, and your neoclassicists intent on the application of micro theory to macro models (this is where people like LogicWarrior come in). Don’t even forget about those in the Austrian and historical camps - most of the ones I know are surprisingly insecure about their mathematical abilities (perhaps this is why they elect to emphasize their comparative advantages in academia). </p>
<p>Whereas in science, all of that stuff is based on logic. It’s when you start applying stuff to perhaps not even quantifiable or even logical situations that the arguments get a little messy.</p>
<p>Theatre
-Our life is NOT like High School Musical
-We don’t all have crazy stage mothers.
-the guys aren’t ALL gay
-it’s not an easy major
- yes, we know the chances of “making it” are slim</p>
<p>Theatre
-Our life is NOT like High School Musical
-We don’t all have crazy stage mothers.
-the guys aren’t ALL gay
-it’s not an easy major</p>
<h2>- yes, we know the chances of “making it” are slim </h2>
<p>Just curious…Why choose to major in it if you know the odds of succeeding in it are against you?</p>