I thought God was a cheap imitation of a mathematician.

Search top 20 most useless degrees on the internet for the full list Phil is using. I was shocked to find chemistry and mechanical engineering on the list. But it makes sense once you look at the bls' outlook concering those fields. Personally, I'm majoring in sweep kicks through cobra-kai.

Iridionprime

It's mechanical engineering technology.There is a difference between that and mechanical engineering itself.

ENGINEERING.........that is all

zip0

The problem with engineering is that it's a very rigorous curriculum with a relatively high drop-out rate (including changing majors to something easier). I am not an engineer, but I went to an engineering school. I knew plenty of people who were originally engineering, but then switched their majors to things like business or liberal arts. I've also yet to meet an engineer who did not exhibit a strong interest in it (i.e. building things) or at least a serious mathematical/computer/science background of some sort from a young age. There's a reason they pay well.

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Physics 2 wasn't bad, either. The biggest difference in terms of difficulty between that and the first course, Newtonian mechanics, is the relative lack of common sense checks. The math wasn't much harder, though conceptually, it could tie one's brain in a knot for a while. (i.e., read the damn textbook)

I'll never understand people who ***** about lower level courses.

Heisenderp

If you don't have a background in the material and no one seems to teach it well, it could be a problem. I went to a school noted for poor teaching and professors (particularly in the math department).

Yeah, it's always easier to blame the teacher for your own failures. Even if the teacher is the biggest moron ever, you can still easily on your own, you know. You're a big kid now, in college.

It's not all on the professor, but if the syllabus is poorly constructed, the professor unclear, and if the student has no background in the aforementioned subject matter, it could be a big problem.

It goes both ways, you know. Students have to do their own work, but that is no excuse for poor lecturing.

What's up with all of these arbitrary hypothetical propositions?

We should just get a team of elite snipers to take out the NK government.

Kocelot

But one of the most important figureheads and office holders in NK has already been dead for almost 2 decades ;).

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[QUOTE="JigglyWiggly_"] Philosophy wahahahhahahaha

At the UC'z, Bio students have to take at least Calc 2, I don't think a philosophy student has to take that, or classes like physics 2, etc. Not that I am a bio major, bioenginiigering here.

Pretty much everyone who is not an engineer, or science major actually has mental dissabilities I've noticed, at the UC'z anyways.

coolbeans90

Calc 2 is easy, though.

Physics 2 wasn't bad, either. The biggest difference in terms of difficulty between that and the first course, Newtonian mechanics, is the relative lack of common sense checks. The math wasn't much harder, though conceptually, it could tie one's brain in a knot for a while. (i.e., read the damn textbook)

I'll never understand people who ***** about lower level courses.

If you don't have a background in the material and no one seems to teach it well, it could be a problem. I went to a school noted for poor teaching and professors (particularly in the math department).

I suspect a high number of them majored in saturated areas or those listed in the thread of the 13 most "useless" degrees. That said, no matter what kind of work you are trying to find, it helps to be marketable, to know someone, and to provide something that the economy has a shortage of. It also helps to at least know something.

I wouldn't be surprised if many college students graduate without learning much or anything useful at all. Even I (graduated first in my school) came close to being that ill-equipped.

It seems that anything not S.T.E.M.-based is stupid and saturated nowadays. At least that's what they would tell you at a technology school.

Don't just ridicule North Korea. Do so also to the ones who support it.