<p>its relative for everyone. A friend at MIT basically got B's and C's in all of his non math/phyx classes. The class he got an A- in was "Deriving Maxwell's Equations and Einstein's Special Relativity" </p>
<p>He was having trouble in orgo and such yet he was acing that class without even going to most lectures. I guess for those kind of people, engineering would be a breeze. And I'm sure if you ask them, I'm sure they'd put philosophy over physics. </p>
<p>I on the other hand, worked my ass off for a 5 in mech and 4 in E&M. I think for me, anything is easier than physisc -_-"</p>
<p>they were just naturally good at math and applied mathematics i guess. Most of them finished lin alg and abstract math their senior year in high school</p>
<p>The toughest major depends on your strengths and weaknesses IMO. I am a definitely a math/chem/physics person. I think the hardest thing for me would be english classes because they are just so damn boring</p>
<p>Well you can look at it one of two ways: What are the hardest majors for you and what are the hardest majors for most people? That's why the best way to analyze the situation is to know what works for you, because what may be hard for most people may be easy for you.</p>
<p>Also, like swimguy112 implies, the difficulty of a major depends on how much you enjoy it. If you get good grades in social science classes, but can't stand the reading and papers that come with them, then that weighs heavily on your perception of the difficulty of a major.</p>
<p>This thread is so ridiculous. Most people are saying their major or a major very closely related to their major is the hardest. I wonder how all the math majors here would do as an American History major?</p>
<p>I'm a math major, and I would flunk out if I were an American History major! There's no way I could pull it off. It has nothing to do with intelligence like a lot of pompous people are trying to make it seem. I just don't care about the subject enough to devote the necessary time.</p>
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<p>Actually, I have to disagree. If you get good grades despite hating the readings and papers, or especially, not even doing the readings and papers, then you are going to think the major is pretty easy, simply because you are getting good grades. The very fact that you are getting good grades despite hating the material only reinforces that notion. </p>
<p>Contrast that with another major where you actually enjoy the material, but still get terrible grades. I can think of numerous engineering students that underwent that; heck, some of them eventually were expelled and so ended up with no degree at all. All of them undoubtedly thought that engineering was extremely difficult.</p>
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<p>I rather highly doubt that would happen, simply because in most liberal arts majors, you frankly don't have to enjoy the material and you don't have to do the work, and you will still pass. Granted, you probably won't get an A. But you'll still get a passing grade. They just don't fail anybody.</p>
<p>haha Shacklefored I really liked your explanation of the math-physics relationship but I don't think anyone bothered reading them :( (I realised after reading subsequent responses)</p>
<p>The IQ table doesn't answer the question at hand though. A major doesn't have to be intellectually challenging to be hard. As a whole, the hardest working students I know are architecture majors (B.Arch, not B.A.). How this translates into grades, I don't know.</p>
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<p>Nah, I tend to prefer the converse: "What is the major in which you are the most unlikely to actually fail." </p>
<p>I say that because, frankly, in this day and age, you basically need a bachelor's degree if you want to have a decent career. Yes, there are a few exceptions such as entrepreneurship, to some extent computer/IT work, and (if you're born with talent) professional sports/entertainment, but by and large, whether we like it or not, you basically need a bachelor's degree. The degree can be in anything, as long as you have a degree. The difference between getting a 4.0 and barely graduating with a mediocre GPA is miniscule compared with the difference between barely graduating and not even graduating at all. If you don't have that degree, most employers won't even grant you an interview. They won't care why you don't have a degree, all they'll is see that you don't have a degree. </p>
<p>Which gets to the point I've been making before: schools should not be expelling those students who do poorly in engineering, because the truth is, those students would probably have graduated if they had just majored in an easier subject when they started. Maybe they would have gotten mediocre grades, but at least they would have passed. But throwing them out means that they won't get a degree at all, and that's a serious problem.</p>
<p>As of now I am in my 3rd year of architecture school at USC. Ive been living with a mechanical engineer major (senior) and an electrical engineer major (graduate). From what I have read on these forums it seems to me that much of the debates are between these majors, and since i find myself in this unique situation, I will share my opinion on this matter. Keep in mind I have been living with these people since day one of school so I have a very comprehensive understanding of their workloads.
To this day the mechanical engineer has worked substantially less than the rest of us however his work is still legit. Also I know he does not put in the A level work. Most of his work comes from labs.
The EE major is now working on his masters and he puts in so much work. Besides me, I have not seen anyone work as hard as he does.
With respect to the content of work our majors consist of. I would have to say his seems much more difficult to grasp. However every person is inclined to be better at something. He admits that he could not do what I do, just as much as I could not do what he does.
With respect to amount of work, without a doubt, architecture is more work.
On average I sleep 4 hours a day over a whole semester. When its final production time (last 2 weeks) i sleep about 1 hour a day. Stress everyday
Unlike other majors, when we are done with a project that we spend hundreds of hours (in some cases over) we cannot just simply turn it in and wait for a grade. We must present the project to a panel of professionals, and stand there as they criticize every little detail.
To sum it up. Architecture is the most stressful major but the most rewarding.</p>