This is very true, and kind of disappointing. But then...there are many things about the university atmosphere that disappoint me a lot more.
The way I see it...my degree, to me, was 'a joke' to get compared to a lot of students. Before you misunderstand, I'm not tooting my own horn academically...Instea d I mean things like that fact that I did not have to get a job while I was doing my work. Nobody close to me, thank God, has passed away during my university career. Things like this have made my degree a walk in the park to obtain, and I wish you all the same. I did have a bit of a stress-related hallucination episode wherein I had to withdraw from a couple of courses, and brief financial difficulty, but I got through it and I feel like it was easy...
These things go beyond what major you choose...really, the sheer difficulty of success is not the academic part of university...it's the biopsychosocial model folks. One word sums it up:
HEALTH.
Health is our natural biochemistry. It is our sanity. It is our social acceptance. It is our loved ones...it is all this and more...
My health has made my university career easy. I can find people in any other faculty who have not had it so lucky...and hence I would (incorrectly) conclude that my program is a 'bird' program and that it is not to be respected for its difficulty.
...On the contrary. There are people who look at me and say "Wow...you took all math courses this year? YOU CRAYZEH!" while I look at the diligent humanities student, with x number of essays due this week...and I think to myself "YOU CRAYZEH!"
Where would the world be without physics and Engineering? The humanities students wouldn't have printing presses, or books to analyze!
Where would the world be without math? The Physicists and Engineers would not have the tools necessary to created said items.
Where would the world be without biology, chemistry and medicine? ... Well, It's a bit too unpleasant to think about personally.
And just when you're starting to think I'm biased (I deliberately saved these for last)
Where would the world be without the social sciences and humanities? Well I put it to you...is life worth living without expression? In many ways...this is the most important, defining factor of our existence. Can we live without cell phones? Perhaps...we did for thousands of years...but can we live without music? Art? Literature? Perhaps we could as well...but do you, even you biased engineers who seem to hate them the most, really want to?
I did just want to inquire about this. I was just about to say "I'm glad I'm in Math so I can avoid the whole faculty wars thing" when I read this:
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Similarly, Math students and Engineering students often get into superiority arguments.
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Are you sure this is true? Math and Engineering are completely different, since Math deals with the abstract and engineering with the tangible. I don't remember engineers ever saying anything about Math being useless (except for one fellow who thought
everything in life was useless, including engineering)...and infact, often times Engineers would ask me for some help solving this or that.
Just seems to me more like the math faculty tends to keep to itself. XKCD put it best:
