I just want to know why. Dont get me wrong, I respect STEM Majors, but they act all high and mighty like an exclusive club because they think they are better than non STEM Majors. While I do agree they are, they dont have to be cocky about it. Its just really annoying me lately. (I apologize if I offended any STEM Majors)
Absolutely agree! But not all STEM kids.
For some of these kids, though, they think the “sun don’t shine where they don’t sit.”
It’s the way they have assumed perfection and told over and over again how great they are. If someone disagrees with Prince Entitled, then that “disagreer” person is wrong. I ran into this over and over again at the high school where I worked.
Annually, we gave out athletic book scholarships to one male and one female ($1500). The student had to fill out a two page application, get teacher and coaches recommendations, write a two paragraph essay and meet the deadline. Some of these kids GPA/test scores were good, but their social skills were awful.
We had some kids whose grades weren’t perfect, but who were respected by their teachers and classmates for just being great kids through all kinds of struggles and adversity. There were 30 of us who voted by secret ballot (athletic team reps). About 95% of the time, the kid with the lower GPA won.
After the awards banquet, handing out the checks, the parents of the Princes and Princesses of Entitlement would accost the Chairman, indicating how unfair the process was because their child was supposed to win. That never ceased to shock me nor my colleagues.
Now, there were 30 adults voting, sometimes while their own children were up for the award! (My kids always were, but there was always a friend who needed it more). Some of the apps were heartbreaking. Some were so arrogant, you didn’t want to finish reading through them. As the selection committee, we were always unified and pleased with the result of the vote. One year we had a tie, with the male athletes, and the chairman was supposed to break the tie, but the committee liked both candidates, so we came up with the money to award both students the scholarship.
It wasn’t complicated, but some of the kids and their parents tried to sue us!
Wow… and you didn’t mean to offend them, OP? Right off the top of my head, thinking about D1 and D2’s high school classmates, I know jerks who are theater majors, business majors, film majors, music majors, and political science majors. I don’t think you can pin bad behavior on one type of major just because you have a personal conflict with a few.
Just stay off le Reddit and suchlike sites. I don’t notice the STEM master race arrogance here, for example.
I’ve never encountered this in offline life. STEM majors are no more or less likely to be jerks or elitist than social science or humanities majors. There are some people who do trot out the trope that social science or humanities majors are unimportant and unlikely to get a job, but they’re not all STEM majors.
And so are some non-STEM Majors
Sorry, I’ve got to disagree, strongly with “While I agree that they are…”
Nope, your major doesn’t make you better than anyone else. It’s the quality of the person that matters, not something as silly as their college major.
:-/ This is more arrogant than what I thought you were complaining about.
No, some people are arrogant.
I’ve met arrogant people in ALL majors. It’s not necessarily major-specific. There are even arrogant people who have no college degree at all–imagine that. Perhaps, you just haven’t met many STEM majors.
The OP said some STEM majors are arrogant and this is true, especially on the Internet. Mostly the ones that think all other majors are easy and useless. I am planning on being a STEM major and I can admit this. You guys are in denial.
Lol, as the liberal arts daughter of a STEM major and the sister of 2 STEM majors and the wife of a STEM major. I completely understand the POV of the OP.
No, the OP did not mean ALL STEM majors.
OP get used to it now, smile and nod your head, You will NEVER be right. Your way will never be the right way, you will never win an argument, even if you can produce cold hard fact. You will never be as smart as or smart enough. It’s just the way “They” are wired. That is why they are STEM majors.
I suspect that you are not talking about ALL STEM majors, just Engineers! ;)-
To share a couple anecdotes, the person I’ve met that was most arrogant about people’s majors was an anthropology major. On the other hand, the most generally arrogant person I’ve met is in computer science.
What I’m trying to get at is that there are arrogant people everywhere you go. Best learn how to deal with them sooner rather than later.