<p>Ohh I absolutely agree with all of your points, and I would be the first to say that my statements do have some truth to them, but that they are indeed “extremely overexaggerated.” However, please understand that the statement arose from me trying to play down a friend’s decision to attend another school and also by the fact that, since I’ll be enrolling next year, I’d like to do a little “turf-protection.” (lol) But, on a serious note, I do think you are right, and that the lines do indeed become very blurred. I just imagine that if one has that strong theoretical background it is easier for him to dwelve into more practical fields rather than trying to go into theoretical after having had a practical education. I guess its just that I feel that a theoretical education, by definition, would have more breath and thus be of use in more contexts than a more practical one. Like your case pointed out, knowing that the derivative of 2x is 2 is great if that’s the equation you wanna know a derivative of, but if someone asked you what the derivative of 2x^2 is and u didn’t know the theory behind deriving it, you’d be in a jam. An oversimplifcation, I know, but it gets the point across.</p>