What are the top 3 fields that the smartest people choose?

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The discussion revolves around the fields of study that are perceived to attract the smartest students in college. Participants explore various disciplines, often with a humorous or sarcastic tone, while touching on both serious and unconventional fields.

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Main Points Raised

  • Some participants suggest that physics is a top field for smart students.
  • Others humorously propose fields like communications, leisure arts, and even basket-weaving as contenders.
  • One participant argues that the smartest people choose fields based on personal interest.
  • Another mentions that commerce, pharmacy, and engineering are generally chosen by smart students.
  • There is a claim that the smartest individuals may gravitate towards less conventional fields such as politics, climatology, and business.
  • Some participants mention engineering, mathematics, and linguistics as fields that attract intelligent students.
  • One participant humorously references a course on the "History of Furniture" as a field for the best minds.

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Participants express a variety of opinions on what fields are considered the most intellectually demanding, with no clear consensus emerging. The discussion includes both serious suggestions and humorous takes, indicating a mix of perspectives.

Contextual Notes

The discussion includes a range of fields, some of which may not be traditionally associated with high academic rigor, reflecting a playful tone among participants. There is also a suggestion that what students choose may not align with their success in those fields.

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What are generally the fields that the smartest students pick in college?
 
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Clearly, if you could not tell by this site, Physics!
 
lol!
 
Communications, Leisure Arts, Women Studies.
 
Basket-weaving actually has more smarter people than Leisure Arts, I believe.
 
The smartest people choose the field they are most interested in, simple as that.
 
mbisCool said:
The smartest people choose the field they are most interested in, simple as that.

Hmm.. Nineteen years old. Coed university.

A)Pizza
B)Women
C)Physics
D)Beer

I give up. Which is it?
 
im a triple major in physics, applied math, and women's studies at Univ of Texas. and yes, I am a guy
 
aerospaceut10 said:
Basket-weaving actually has more smarter people than Leisure Arts, I believe.

I fully disagree Leisure Artists are much smarter than Basket-weaving majors, consider the difference between the classes Pool Party Planning 312 and Current Events in Baskets (BSW 314). The evidence speaks for its self.
 
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Weedology 101. Guy on my floor is setting the curve in this.

Seriously though what sort of answers did you expect for this??
 
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Cannibus analysis
 
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avant-garde said:
What are generally the fields that the smartest students pick in college?

commerce, pharmacy, and engineering
 
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The smartest people are the ones who go to the majors where the other smart people don't go, so obviously it's got to be politics, climatology, and business.
 
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Fungineering. You need a degree to be a successful fungineer.
 
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What a riddiculous question.
 
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avant-garde said:
What are generally the fields that the smartest students pick in college?

Engineering, Mathematics, Linguistics. Many other fields are various blends among these three. What students pick and what they succeed may not always be the same.
 
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i don't know about undergrad premeds on average, but med students are awfully smart.
 
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What about computer science?
 
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I was once enrolled in a course called the "History of Furniture", which I never attended. But I have come to believe that the best minds usually become Furniture Historians.
 
  • #20
Okay, I think everyone has had their chance at fun, and the point has been made. Before this thread gets COMPLETELY out of control, I'm going to lock it. Thanks for the chuckle. :wink:
 

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