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    Fortunately there are those here who persevered through the BUD/S like gauntlet that is Studies and they can probably help you cope with the fact that your parents will never recover from the disappointment you laid at their doorsteps. Just go out and buy a really thick long sleeved sweater that's really too big for you, pull the sleeves over your palms and get an oversized porcelain cup and, using both hands, drink some coffee made locally by someone who has a doctorate in some liberal art who smokes hand rolled scented tobacco or cloves and who serves esoteric brands of java (no, doesn't own... just serves) while listening to the sounds of "Broken Placenta" and nodding understandingly as this Studies professional waxes philosophical to you about the intricacies of the human psyche and how emotions are cathartic. You should cry about now.
    Can I do this at the local starbucks, or does it need to be a true mom and pop coffee shop that employees a lot of studies majors?

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    Can I do this at the local starbucks, or does it need to be a true mom and pop coffee shop that employees a lot of studies majors?
    Starbucks is too mainstream now. You need something a bit more on the fringe. Try some local school campus shop, ask around at the head stores or find a poetry reading (just follow the snaps). You risk getting an engineer posing as a Studies major at a Starbucks.

    Whatever you do, don't mention money. They hate it. Their lives are about fulfillment but you will have to foot the coffee bill for you both since the QS person is broke.

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    Starbucks is too mainstream now. You need something a bit more on the fringe. Try some local school campus shop, ask around at the head stores or find a poetry reading (just follow the snaps). You risk getting an engineer posing as a Studies major at a Starbucks.
    Thank you for the advice DMC.

    Hopefully whatever local coffee shop I find has their own blend of the roast, as oppose to starbucks' french roast. I'm truly excited to drink some coffee.

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    Thank you for the advice DMC.

    Hopefully whatever local coffee shop I find has their own blend of the roast, as oppose to starbucks' french roast. I'm truly excited to drink some coffee.
    Avoid the yeast scented coffee.

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    Avoid the yeast scented coffee.
    I think that's the coffee CuckingFunt drinks.

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    It could be considered field research.

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    Never heard of someone failing a philosophy class and getting an engineering degree instead. Never met a parent who said "yeah, we had hoped he would major in studies but he let us down and got a degree in aerospace engineering".
    Know a brilliant guy who found physics not challenging enough and ended up with a PhD in history before he was 30.

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    Know a brilliant guy who found physics not challenging enough and ended up with a PhD in history before he was 30.
    Is that what he told you? How far did he go in physics?

    Also, I am not surprised that a physics major could easily learn history. When a liberal arts guy finds it not interesting and gets a doctorate in physics, let me know.

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    I understand if you don't want to reveal your salary, but my guess is a nuclear whateverthe youdo (and that's not me trying to be condescending about your science degree, that's me not wanting to attempt to correctly spell your occupation ) doesn't exactly worry about putting food on the table.
    Ya, but one requires balance. I happen to like what I do. If I didn't, I'd walk away from it and the flatbed semi that delivers my paycheck.

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    The master speaks. I'm proud to have met him before his passing.

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    Well I'm largely majoring in Accounting/Finance because I enjoy it. Nothing gets my harder than analyzing a company's annual report, doing a cash flows projection and giving an estimated corporate value.

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    Well I'm largely majoring in Accounting/Finance because I enjoy it. Nothing gets my harder than analyzing a company's annual report, doing a cash flows projection and giving an estimated corporate value.


    Kudos. And because you like it, odds are you'll wind up parlaying your gig into a fairly lucrative career with less effort than you might think.

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    Interesting. Is this a project centered on evaluating cytotoxicity towards various cell lines? There are papers in literature suggesting uncoated iron oxide nanoparticles exhibit a degree of cytotoxicity.

    I'm also aware that the usage of iron oxide nanoparticles has become a rampant tool for the labeling of cells when doing an MRI...does your project focus on analytical optimizations?
    Sorry, I kept missing your post......

    Doesn't focus on optimization per se, although post processing is a critical component of what we do clinically.

    The project investigates the use of USPIO to cause mechanical stress in cells. It's purely investigational at this stage, but quite promising. We've found that certain gradient sequences are capable of moving these particles around in cell cultures. We can achieve this effect at field strengths as low as .3T with concentrations typically given clinically.

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    its good stuff to make nearly 6 figures a year with degrees in accounting, finance or engineering but it's always from the degrees that you gain a better overview of your life. money isn't everything in one's life and those living the happiest lives are not always the ones who have the biggest bank accounts. education might give you an easy path to a good job and a wealthy life, but that's not what it's all about tbh.

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    I wanna hear more about those doctors/engineers/lawyers in Funt's graduate class that decided it would be a good idea
    to go get a liberal arts degree and work as librarians.

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    great thread

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    college edu has been so ed up these days it wont give you any prestige or any useful skills in the new work force. say you might have a degree in computer engineering but can still end up taking a deadend ty job at starbuck. so it doesn't really matter what your major is IMHO, the complete is worthless no matter what

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    Indeed...went from a goofy back and forth measuring contest to DMC completely sweeping the leg on liberal arts people...then giving a couple of kicks to the face for good measure.

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    Kudos. And because you like it, odds are you'll wind up parlaying your gig into a fairly lucrative career with less effort than you might think.
    No, he's not interested in money. Not everything we do is about money. Perhaps it completes him. Education is for the soul.

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    A science major can dig down and read romeo and juliet and write a report for some english class
    You have clearly never been a TA for a high level writing intensive course. A lot of the science majors can't write worth .

    Which, to be clear, is meant merely as a statement and not as a judgment. Science majors have chosen a profession for which developing those skills is unnecessary. So they are relatively unaffected by being unable to write well. But the claim that any science major could sit down and bang out a competent academic paper just because they're smart enough to do so is asinine and isn't supported by my own experiences having to read/grade tons of art history papers over the last couple of years.

    However, I would never assume that a science major who writes a art history paper did so because they lack the intellectual capacity for academic writing. That would be stupid. The reverse is stupid, too. Everyone is different and is motivated by different things, but it cannot be assumed that just because someone chose a focus in the humanities, they did so because they lack the intellectual capacity to make it in the sciences.

    I mean if you want to say liberal arts is "hard" in the sense that watching paint dry is hard then sure, but it doesn't require as much ability or brain power.


    As Ploto pointed out in the post you quoted, and as I've said many times in this thread, the two disciplines are too different to compare in terms of one being objectively harder than the other. There is no question in my mind that an engineering degree is incredibly difficult. My only contention in this thread is that, just because it's not based in science, an advanced degree in the humanities/arts/liberal arts should not be written off as easy or frivolous.

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    Sure it does. If you think "what's expected" is the norm, you're too long out of a real job. If you get an internship at an engineering firm, you have an open door to get placement once you graduate. That depends largely upon your ability to show how effective you are during your internship. It's not just showing up and fetching coffee. I've hired several recent grads that I knew already on a first name basis and who already knew our systems because they interned and spent a lot of time being useful. When they go, you feel you're short a good resource so you seek to even get a req opened for a new hire. These are not vague concepts to anyone who's hired interns.
    Do you honestly think this is unique to engineering internships?

    We had a couple liberal arts majors decorating the break room however (true story).
    So you didn't have non-engineering majors do engineering work? Shocking. If I ran a museum and took on a couple of engineering majors as interns, I likely wouldn't rely on them for their art historical knowledge.

    Thank god that true story happened, though, else you'd be robbed of a sick burn.

    Stop equivocating reading and volume with technical difficulty.
    I haven't done that. You've accused me numerous times in this thread of attempting to equivocate or directly compare the work of an engineering student to that of a liberal arts student, but my position has always been that the differences in the two fields make such comparisons largely irrelevant, if not wholly impossible. The fact that engineering is hard does not mean that everything that's not engineering is automatically not hard.

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    You're assuming that engineers aren't culturally developed.
    How is that different or worse than you and others in this thread assuming that liberal arts majors are only liberal arts majors because they're too stupid for the sciences?

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    I wanna hear more about those doctors/engineers/lawyers in Funt's graduate class that decided it would be a good idea
    to go get a liberal arts degree and work as librarians.
    And I wanna hear more about when Library/Information Sciences became a liberal arts program.

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    And I wanna hear more about when Library/Information Sciences became a liberal arts program.
    I'd rather hear about lawyers/doctors/engineers deciding to become librarians. It's a lot more entertaining.

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