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Of course they're intelligent and well-rounded, but there are inherent differences in terms of difficulty in a sociology major and an EE major.

 
Originally posted by: Mo0o
Of course they're intelligent and well-rounded, but there are inherent differences in terms of difficulty in a sociology major and an EE major.
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I'm sure there is, at least in terms of workload. Is there an inherent difference in the level of difficulty or is it related more to the "type" of material being covered? I've known many engineers who couldn't write an analytical essay on Beowulf any more than an English major could debug source code.
 
Originally posted by: ActuaryTm
I confess I laughed at the inclusion of Accounting.

I likely shouldn't, but I did regardless.
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lol I know, I did too, just had to include it in my own defense. I have a Bachelor of Science in Econ that I think is sufficiently rigorous to prove myself, but I prefer accounting. 😛
 
lmao at accounting too. I was offered a job in the accounting department at the place I did an internship (engineering) despite having never taken an accounting course in my life. I had solved a problem they were working on with their programmer. After they spent thousands trying to debug a program, I took a look at it out of curiousity on my lunch break. Fixed it in 20 minutes, and was offered a position on the spot when they found out. Said the head of accounting "you're an engineering student? That's okay. I know you'd have no trouble picking up what you'd need to know after we hire you." Since then, I've still never taken an accounting class.
 
because i have both a BS in CompSci and a BA in econ. And econ was a joke, I took it for signaling purposes only.

I recognize EE is harder than CS, why can't arts and science majors accept that most engineering is more difficult than their majors
 
I have a general B.A. - most of my elective courses centred in the Humanities... a couple religion, a couple astronomy - definitely a mixed bag although my major was Communication Studies and the brunt of my courseload was always reflective of that. I didn't really have a career path nailed down. My job fell into my lap and it has nothing to do with my degree, but my employer wouldn't have hired me without it. I always struggled in math / science courses in high school, but I was also pulled out of elementary-level math classes to be part of an "enrichment program" for certain students - so I like to believe the problems began there. My SO is just about done her Masters in Movement Science (Human Kinetics), so she's kind of the authority when it comes to things from that side of the spectrum, which is fine by me. 😉
 
i have a friend who will take 5 years to finish management. i'm pretty sure that the classes he takes teach absolutely nothing.

it's true that most arts/ buisness majors do not require a lick of intelligence or work to get decent grades. at my school even things like biology and chemistry require a ton less work than engineering.
 
Originally posted by: RichieZ
because i have both a BS in CompSci and a BA in econ. And econ was a joke, I took it for signaling purposes only.

I recognize EE is harder than CS, why can't arts and science majors accept that most engineering is more difficult than their majors
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Don't even try to lump art and science together. Upper-level chemistry will make your head spin just as much as upper-level EE/CE.

Also, art isn't about intelligence. Its about innate talent.
 
I enjoyed the creative writing and literature classes as much as the math and comp sci, but it was being a bookworm (SF) that got me interested in computers in the first place.

One reason for the snobbery is that with a technical degree exercising your skill produces results that are more tangible than a deconstruction of a semiotic analysis of the clothing worn in Beowulf.
 
I have a BS degree in Radiological medicine and am in a field that has nothing to do with medicine heheh. THAT was money well spent!
 
Well, lots of engineering majors do look down on different majors alot. They are just ignorant and arrogant. Being an engineering major myself, i think other majors ar enot as hard, but i don't come out saying it is easy.

That said, any person that wants to replace an accoutnant with an engineer is fcking stupid. Accounting seems like an easy task, but there are so many dam laws associated with it that making one mistake could literally break your company. I think that if some people realized what it took to be a good accountant and get a CPA, they would no longer laugh.
 
cuz these majors have a point

unlike say, creative writing. or history. or japanese history. etc.
 
Hey OP, I am mad at you now since you didn't include business/management..LOL

<<<------ BS in Business/Mgt with Minor in Computer Science and MBA grad. Don't care what degree as long as the $$$$/benefits are good.
 
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