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silkhighway
Joined: 24 Oct 2010
Location: Canada
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 Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| daskalos wrote: |
| chellovek wrote: |
| I wouldn't go about saying stuff like that, especially on here. Such sentiments are considered heresy nowadays. |
Are you kidding? At least half the fun of being a liberal arts major is being able to wax heretical about all this. "I think, therefore I am a heretic."
@silkhighway: That you seem to want to use "elitist" as an insult tells me everything I need to know about you. |
Hah! Did you learn those inductive critical thinking skills in your romantic poetry class?
elitist - consciousness of or pride in belonging to a select or favored group.
I didn't use it as insult, I was calling it what it is. |
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Riker
Joined: 28 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:18 am Post subject: |
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| Vagabundo wrote: |
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Well, I went to school and got a BA in Mathematics and can't understand why English or Business is even offered as a degree. They really don't require formal training.
Think of it like this. A person seeking a degree in business knows they are not going to learn anything that common sense couldn't tell them. Its highly doubtful that anything new will be learned. It is just some requirement which must be filled for reasons no one can explain. One look at the material and you almost immediately think: "people have to study this? from a book? really????"
People who study math and science generally are looking for knowledge. I studied math because they were the coolest department ( nicest professors ) at my university. But I eventually became brainwashed to believe non scientific fields are lower than dog crap, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. |
you'd be amazed at how many people actually lack "common sense".
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even Liberal Arts majors.
especially so among mathematical/engineer/computer majors.
the latter group in particular seems to lack communication/social/people skills.
at the best American universities, every undergrad has to take what's usually referred to as a "Common Core" for their first two years, giving one a broad liberal arts background. Only in the latter part of your 2nd year do you begin to take specialized courses that are specific to your major(s). |
I doubt you know very many Math majors, my university had a total of 8 or so for undergraduates, out of 22,000+ students.
From my experience they are the most commonsensical and logical people I know.
Computer science people are downright freaky and scary, and totally non sociable.
Chemistry and physics majors tend to be super nice, but a little dorky.
English majors tend to be super self absorbed and like to talk about what they "know"
Business majors tend to be people who can't decide on anything else, and have a primal fear of theoretical math and science. |
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