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Do grad schools care more about your overall GPA or your GPA in your major? If I do badly in classes that aren't at all related to my major does it really matter?
lubuntu said:If you are in a technical major those humanities and English courses are really trivial compared to what we do ;)
lubuntu said:If a physics major can't ace a philosophy or history class with relative ease they just aren't trying hard enough. All of those soft squishy subjects seem to only be worried with effort and not with results, at least at the introductory level at which we take them.
lubuntu said:If a physics major can't ace a philosophy or history class with relative ease they just aren't trying hard enough. All of those soft squishy subjects seem to only be worried with effort and not with results, at least at the introductory level at which we take them.
lubuntu said:If you are in a technical major those humanities and English courses are really trivial compared to what we do ;)
lubuntu said:If a physics major can't ace a philosophy or history class with relative ease they just aren't trying hard enough. All of those soft squishy subjects seem to only be worried with effort and not with results, at least at the introductory level at which we take them.
lubuntu said:ps. Was that poem meant to imply the mother was a bad cook?
lubuntu said:Personally, I would argue for a more British style of University where we focus on what we are interested in.
Office_Shredder said:This is an interesting point that I've never really understood. In Britain, doing A-levels means you've actually started specializing earlier than people in the US (who will do general education for all four years of high school). It might be more a reflection on the relative qualities of the education systems
lubuntu said:I found the similar thing in an English class, Jack, in my case particularity having a strongly feminist instructor where all we did was read things relating to how badly women where treated in the past. She was clearly biased against men and it showed in grading and critiques.
Personally, I would argue for a more British style of University where we focus on what we are interested in. Any thinking person will discover the values of the humanities without having them forced down there throat at an age where it probably won't reach them. An instructional course on writing is one thing but telling me how to evaluate some literature and then telling me I am wrong for my opinion benefits no one, except perhaps the instructors ego.
In your case Jack it might have been prudent to have confronted the professor and invoked Feynman:
"A poet once said, 'The whole universe is in a glass of wine.' We will probably never know in what sense he meant it, for poets do not write to be understood"'
ps. Was that poem meant to imply the mother was a bad cook?