Majors you take seriously

Alix2012
Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:11:19 +0000

@Mathboy - Yep exactly, if you’re headed to Grad school it’s less of a GPA rat-race and more about handling advanced topics, which looks more impressive to grad schools than A’s in easier courses. In Math everything’s even more theoretical so advanced complex classes matter even more. And I also don’t hear many physics/math folks whining! Notice how these types of threads always turn into Arts vs Engineering vs Business, and math/sci gets ignored - a lot less whining and condescension there. Although Engineeers have it really hard so I understand them complaining about stuff and feeling like they have it worse than everyone else…because they kind of do. I picked Aero Engineering in my OP and it’s not only because it sounds impressive, engineering is pretty damn hard an a lot of work.

@ Comiclover - please don’t get offended, I’m just trying to make sense of what you said - that preMeds don’t want to become doctors. Now, it seems like an awful lot of trouble to go through if you don’t want to be a doctor. That would be like if I said “I don’t know any nursing students that REALLY want to be nurses.”