<p>Now you're going to tell me that Wharton Finance has no idea what they're doing. CCers behave in a certain predictable way.</p>
<p>Anyways, that's ludicrous. There will be no mention of brownian motion, thermodynamics, or physics in a FINANCE class. Finance and physics have nothing in common. Everyone knows that.</p>
<p>I still think finance is the coolest major, and I still find science repulsive.</p>
<p>just because it doesnt appear as if youre joking (and im bored), calx wasnt saying that youre going to have to literally take physics classes as a finance major. what you are going to have to do, at least at any self-respecting finance program, is the EXACT SAME MATH that is done a few buildings away for a physics class.</p>
<p>ask any economics professor (finance is just a specialized economics program) what other major is most similar to economics. youre not going to be told business or sociology or international relations. youre going be told its physics. at least 90% of the time.</p>
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<p>oh, and the coolest combo of college majors is math and philosophy.</p>
<p>my sister will be majoring in interactive information technology which is something to do with web design/computer graphics/video game animation. sounds fun to me.</p>
What's not? You're equipped to enter a career where there's a good chance you'll be on the cutting edge of technology. From the mp3 player, laptop, and DVD players you use today to the unthinkable, mind-blowing technologies that'll replace them tomorrow, computer science IS the bleeding edge of innovation today.</p>
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<p>Check out the destinations for majors in fields such as engineering in at the top schools. You'd be surprised how many of them go straight to Wall Street after graduation. Many of the quantitative reasoning skills such graduates acquire are highly valued in finance.</p>
<p>NYU, i heard finance was an elitist industry, If you were going to a selective/good State U. instead of an elite university (penn NYU etc) would it still be better to major in Finance instead of business adm or something else?</p>
<p>Ewwww....engineering's too nerdy for my taste.</p>
<p>I'm as far as they come from a nerd.</p>
<p>Math (this excludes business/finance as biz/finance majors are actually required to ANALYZE/INTERPRET the numbers, not just produce them, and make decisions) and science are for dumb people. People that do pure math and science only do it because they aren't able to think on their own. Math and science are two areas in which one can memorize certain processes and regurgitate them when the occasion requires. There's not much thinking involved. However in the social sciences and the humanities, you're actually required to THINK CRITICALLY. I think that critical thinking ability is more important than math/science ability. Seriously, who cares if you can memorize everything in a book if you can't draw parallels, apply it in the real world, make conclusions, or interpret the information in a book (as in think critically). 99% of all people are capable of memorizing things, but the percentage with the ability to think critically is certainly smaller than 99%....</p>
<p>Just my $0.02</p>
<p>I just had to do that...lol :)</p>
<p>Please don't hate me because I hate science....</p>
<p>Somebody has to make all the money that financial consultants are advising on. Somebody has to have ideas for a company for venture capitalists to invest in. These guys are leeches! It's cool to do something that produces something, especially something for export. Good for America, too. Long live engineers!</p>
<p>Anyways, i'm looking into physics, math, and other sciences. Coolest? <em>shrug</em>. Whatever floats your boat, and those certainly make mine float.</p>
<p>It really is hard to understand how someone can hate science. If it wasn't for science, we would all still likely be out hunting deer with poorly fashioned spears, living in caves, and sleeping on stone floors every night... Not to mention using these handy computers to type up these posts on CC.</p>
<p>You make it sound as if science has done nothing but good? IN addition, take some history! You might just find that "science" wasn't science until about 200 years ago. Before that, there was natural philosophy. It all branched from philosophy.</p>
<p>There are no good or bad ideas, just what people do with them.
Anyway, move your date to about 500 years ago DRab, when science developed the scientific method and was hence forever separated from philosophy. To quote an old joke that floats around campuses...
*A dean was complaining to the physics department about how much money they spent on their experiments. "Why can't you be like the math department?" he asked angrily, "all we need to buy them is a blackboard and a wastebasket! Better yet," he continued, "why aren't you more like the philosophy department? We don't even need to buy them a wastebasket!"</p>
<p><em>scurries away, hopes people can appreciate a joke</em></p>