Business Majors... - Page 3

kelseyg · 04-22-2008, 07:04 PM

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I'm starting to sense a superiority among the science students on this entire forum.

Fixed that for you.

College confidential is always a little ridiculous, especially on this front.

I think, who cares how difficult something is as long as you're doing what you love? Some people are business majors and some people are physics majors. Some people are physics majors and some people are astrophysics majors. Some people like to paint murals and some people like to design homes. It makes no sense to say one is superior because it is more difficult than the other.

wutangfinancial · 04-23-2008, 01:04 AM

to the dude trying to denigrate me for being an econ major instead of business:
you're an idiot. I'm double majoring in finance and econ, and I have the actual humility and honesty to admit that my business classes are a joke. Game theory, econometrics, calculus- not so much a joke.

I'm taking b-school classes cuz I'm lazy and there's better looking girls in business classes.

Also, McGill is universally considered a difficult school....and we have strict grade distribution policies, as do all Canadian schools. So the average can never be higher than a B- in business classes, yet I still get A's in them, and I'm not a great student.

pearlygate · 04-23-2008, 01:15 AM

lol owned by wutang

auscguy · 04-23-2008, 03:37 AM

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there's better looking girls in business classes.

That's so true!!!

Vyse · 04-23-2008, 04:20 AM

Sure b-classes are easier than engineering, but i dont want to hear any trash talking from liberal arts majors. You LA majors are going to be making nothing compared to business majors, and you know it. At most schools, being admitted to the business school is difficult, while anybody can be a LA or natural sciences major.

burgler09 · 04-23-2008, 07:36 AM

I'm going to dental school to be an oral surgeon, I'll be making more than 90% of business majors. Just because anyone can become admitted to a science major, doesn't mean a worse student can make it through..

kelseyg · 04-23-2008, 10:58 AM

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Sure b-classes are easier than engineering, but i dont want to hear any trash talking from liberal arts majors. You LA majors are going to be making nothing compared to business majors, and you know it.

Some people care about more in life than making money. Sheesh.

CollectivSynergy · 04-23-2008, 11:19 AM

Majoring in business isn't difficult at most schools, but there's a huge amount of time you have to spend outside of classes and homework. If you want to be successful, that is. Of course, if you just coast then it's a relatively easy major.

steevee · 04-23-2008, 02:05 PM

Wait, how many people actually care more about satisfying their own intellectual curiosities than get a good paying job? Surely, you can't be thinking about the purpose of life or how to quantitatively describe the behaviour of atoms and molecules when you your bank account only has $1k saved up for a rainy day?

College is no longer a place to seek knowledge. A college degree is the high school diploma of the 21st century. Most people just want to get their BA or BS and get a good paying job. Those who are genuinely interested in seeking knowledge will go to grad school.

wutangfinancial · 04-23-2008, 03:04 PM

^what Steevee said is true.

That said, I'm trying to use my smarts to make more than 99% of passionless, apathetic business majors.

If I take the time to say, start a small global macro hedge fund based on my own raw abilities and knowledge, and my track record attracts capital, I've truly accomplished something.

Or I start an advisory website, or any number of other ventures with potentially high pay offs that require genuine inspiration.

Also, the most important criteria for b-school: being good looking and tall.

Why do you think all the grad programs are full of ugly people? Because they don't have the looks or social grace to "make it" out of undergrad by simply climbing the corporate ladder.

kelseyg · 04-23-2008, 04:39 PM

Steevee, you're over-simplifying the issue.

I was responding to the assertion that liberal arts majors shouldn't have an opinion here because business majors are going to be making more. My point was that there is more than money involved in deciding what to do for a living - NOT that money is a moot point.

The option isn't between making a lot of money as a business major and making none as a humanities major. I'm surprised I have to explain this. You can usually make a reasonably comfortable living doing what you love (like teaching) even if you could make more money being a banker. Some people are fine with an average lifestyle - to suggest that making less money than a business person is to be completely broke with only 1k saved up is an absurd overstatement.

Seriously, everyone needs to stop making this into such a ridiculous argument and using massive generalizations against "the other side."

wutangfinancial · 04-23-2008, 05:07 PM

you guys still don't get it. A "Business" degree is not required to be in business.

Actually, a business admin degree from state is looked down upon by most prestigious place.

Harvard has no business undergrad.
Yale has no business undergrad.
Princeton has no business undergrad.
Williams has no business undergrad.
Dartmouth has no business undergrad.
Duke has no business undergrad.

^Are grads from these schools not successful? Go to Wall Street and tell me.

Oh yeah, Standford has no undergrad business. Yet they seem to produce tons of successful venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.
Wait, maybe it's because these undergrad kids actually learned how to do something. Like, you know, invent a new search technology, or maybe invent a new source of alternative energy. And yet they never took courses in "how to manage" and "organizational behavior"

burgler09 · 04-23-2008, 05:52 PM

wutang you are right, the women are definitely better looking. try taking physics or upper division chemistry... for some reason the babes aren't around lol

aworldapart · 04-23-2008, 06:12 PM

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Oh yeah, Standford has no undergrad business. Yet they seem to produce tons of successful venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.

wutang, learn how to spell "Stanford" and brush up on your grammar before you spew your incoherent crap all over this board. Seriously. No one wants to clean up your mess.

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Wait, maybe it's because these undergrad kids actually learned how to do something. Like, you know, invent a new search technology, or maybe invent a new source of alternative energy.

By far the best sentences I've ever read on CC. "Standford" kids don't "learned" how to invent a "new search technology" and a "new source of alternative energy." What are you babbling about?

Hm, and you wonder why McGill isn't respected outside of Canada, eh?

burgler09 · 04-23-2008, 06:26 PM

Personally, I think its stupid to judge anyone based on their major. Judge them how they act, but you have to realize I'm a science major and I have plenty of friends who are.. most of them go to the bars and parties and have friends who are all different majors and don't think anything of it. The ones who DO care are the losers who haven't seen a girl outside of the computer.