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What is the hardest major in college ever?
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Take Poli Sci at a grad level. That's where the shit gets fucking hard. Probably not the hardest but definitely not a blow-off major either. Understanding the philosophical roots of constructivist international relations theory and how certain non-egoist paradigms (postmodern, critical theory, etc) differ at the methodological level from rational egoist theories can get pretty complicated. And then taking that and formulating real world game theories to predict political decisionmaking... it's can get pretty damn difficult.
Now that I've defended my major, I think I should throw in that I'm willing to guess that physics is the hardest major. Basically because at it's highest levels it's a complete combination of the most difficult mathematics, chemistry and sometimes even biology rolled up into one field that still has it's own distinctive traits.
Now that I've defended my major, I think I should throw in that I'm willing to guess that physics is the hardest major. Basically because at it's highest levels it's a complete combination of the most difficult mathematics, chemistry and sometimes even biology rolled up into one field that still has it's own distinctive traits.
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How is chemistry and biology in physics. Isn't physics the grandaddy of the sciences considering everything must obey the laws of physics.
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whytemyke said:
Why, that doesn't make any since. I can kind of understand chemistry since some of physics/cosmology is related to that, but why in the world would a physicist need to know how a cell works?
Maxwell House
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Aerospace Engineering has to be way up there.
Aerospace Engineering drop outs at my college ended up going into EE and ME. Aerospace was seen as the hardest of the Engineering programs.
Aerospace Engineering drop outs at my college ended up going into EE and ME. Aerospace was seen as the hardest of the Engineering programs.
nah. if you think bjts, fets, and diodes, ie, the first electronics course is the toughest in EE, then you're in for a ride. the hardest are your second level DSP course, communications engineering with probabilistic mathematics, quantum mechanics/solid state devices and 3d electromagnetics/antenna design. but of course depending on schools, requirements vary, so you might be able to escape some of those.Zaxxon said:
but yeah, thermo is one of those really tough, tough courses which unfortunatley, as an EE major, in my school, i was required to take. we all were. i dont know why. and it was really tough. i can only imagine how tough the second level course is, which only mechs and chems are required to take.
anyway, i think the hardest major is subjective, depending on what type of a brain you have. and math could be very tough, but not the diff eq sort...rather the infinite series/sums and probabilistic mathematics.
an oft overlooked but tragically difficult major is Music. They demand perfection from people and instruments that are not perfect.
I roomed with a music major and saw him all of 5 hours the whole semester... ok that last bit is an exageration but the amount of work they have to do combined with the pressure put upon them makes for a very difficult program.
I roomed with a music major and saw him all of 5 hours the whole semester... ok that last bit is an exageration but the amount of work they have to do combined with the pressure put upon them makes for a very difficult program.
WHOAguitarninja said:
This whole calculator discussion just confuses me, I'm finishing up the second year of an undergraduate mathematics degree, and I've got to admit to have only used a calculator on a handful of occasions within that time. Aside from a few stats calculations in first year (which could just as easily be done by hand), the sort of things we deal with simply don't apply themselves to the concept of "computability", they're far too abstract for a calculator to be of any use. How do you use a calculator to prove Cantor's intersection theorem on a topological space? We're allowed bring calculators into exams, but I doubt many out of the class bother, let alone actually make use of them.
That aside, my dept. boasts a rather difficult undergrad course in its collection, Relativistic Quantum Mechanics, which used to be taught by our department head to postgrad theoretical physicists in Yale and has quite a reputation for its high failure rate. Can't say how it stands in the great scheme of undergrad courses, but I plan on taking it myself in 4th year, so I'll get back to you guys to tell how it goes.
I don't really use my calculator a lot out of necessity for my math classes. Lower division math classes has computation problems that can be done by hand and upper division math classes are into the realm of abstract concepts and proof writing to prove these abstract concepts.
Physics is just simply algebra equations, calculus, differential equations, and the likes. Physics is just applied mathematics.
I think math major is the one of the most difficult majors to the majority of the people. If the math major were easy, a larger number of students would enroll in it. Aside from math geeks, everyone stays away from non-required math classes.
Usually, it is students who aren't up to the demands of a Computer Science major often drop out and switch to Political Science.
Physics is just simply algebra equations, calculus, differential equations, and the likes. Physics is just applied mathematics.
I think math major is the one of the most difficult majors to the majority of the people. If the math major were easy, a larger number of students would enroll in it. Aside from math geeks, everyone stays away from non-required math classes.
Usually, it is students who aren't up to the demands of a Computer Science major often drop out and switch to Political Science.
Alcibiades
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at my Engineering school, I think Chemical Engineering is widely considered to be the most difficult, with Electrical Engineering somewhere not behind (and a bit behind that Computer Engineering, which incorporates half of it's course load with EE classes)...
Sorry, but I'm a computer engineering major, and the liberal arts classes I've been taking have been a breeze. Maybe it's also that I'm more attuned to that (?), though I always thought I was good in math.
I can just record lectures, take notes, and do the reviews from the profs, and even without doing all the reading materials still come up well in hand. I've gotton B's in most classes without going my full potential. I just got an A in an exam handed back yesterday in a liberal arts class, whereas in my Basic Chem 101 class (actually for Engineering majors it's CHEM 107 - Chemistry for Engineers, a modified course with Chem 101/102 stuff) I'm struggling with grades and in danger of failing my first college class, definitely in danger of a D if I half-ass the rest of the semester, and my way towards a C is to work really hard these next few weeks... I'm good in math, have decent logic skills (650 or so on Math SAT, no genius but on average for the general college student, if a little below average compared to math and engineering students), can understand concepts well enough after a few problems, but still have trouble in my technical/science classes.
Problem is, I don't study right (if at all), I procrastinate, don't do my work, don't manage my time, and an always up the day or two before tests scrambling to catch up on weeks worth of material. Thing is, I can survive with this strategy in liberal arts classes, but it kills me in my math/engineering (though I've escaped with quite a few miracle B's and C's in those classes anyway)...
Sorry, but I'm a computer engineering major, and the liberal arts classes I've been taking have been a breeze. Maybe it's also that I'm more attuned to that (?), though I always thought I was good in math.
I can just record lectures, take notes, and do the reviews from the profs, and even without doing all the reading materials still come up well in hand. I've gotton B's in most classes without going my full potential. I just got an A in an exam handed back yesterday in a liberal arts class, whereas in my Basic Chem 101 class (actually for Engineering majors it's CHEM 107 - Chemistry for Engineers, a modified course with Chem 101/102 stuff) I'm struggling with grades and in danger of failing my first college class, definitely in danger of a D if I half-ass the rest of the semester, and my way towards a C is to work really hard these next few weeks... I'm good in math, have decent logic skills (650 or so on Math SAT, no genius but on average for the general college student, if a little below average compared to math and engineering students), can understand concepts well enough after a few problems, but still have trouble in my technical/science classes.
Problem is, I don't study right (if at all), I procrastinate, don't do my work, don't manage my time, and an always up the day or two before tests scrambling to catch up on weeks worth of material. Thing is, I can survive with this strategy in liberal arts classes, but it kills me in my math/engineering (though I've escaped with quite a few miracle B's and C's in those classes anyway)...
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