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[bliumchik]

Dear LJ: I have no work ethic, but I just wrote half a paragraph about the semiotic meaning of colourbars, so perhaps I should be getting my degree in Master of BS.

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[packbat.livejournal.com]

If there were a Masters of BS, I rather suspect that they'd make up two-thirds of university grad students.

(I was about to make an exception for engineering and the hard sciences, but then I remembered the university-approved upper-level Mech. E. elective "Ambidextrous Thinking".)

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

...seriously? How exactly is one taught to think ambidextrously?

[packbat.livejournal.com]

As far as I can tell, it somehow involves using Wikis and building cardboard balloon-catchers.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

*scratches head*

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Also it's reputedly an easy A.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Well, whatever floats their boat. Engineers, *shrug*

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

I'm in Sydney Uni Wind Orchestra, and it's FULL of engineers and science students. My theory is that either they're all in denial, or their parents made them do something more "appropriate to their marks", and that they should be doing Arts, which is FUN.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Oh no, that would be law or business. Engineering isn't quite high enough on the parental approved careers list. Besides, in my experience engineers tend to be fairly creative people. Look how many hilarious blogs are written by engineers.

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

And economics! My god, some of the economics people I know are good at what they do, but they *hate* it.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Haha yeah, I remember what my history teacher once said - she's got a friend who's an actuary, and she makes stunning amounts of cash but spends most of it on the kind of drugs you need to forget that you're an actuary :P

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

*cackles*

One thing I would never want to be is anything to do with maths - I'm okay at it, I took Advanced Maths in year 11, I just hated it. The joke in my extended family is that I got the history and language smarts, and my cousin M got the maths and science stuff - he's at the University of Waterloo (in Canada, I'm half Canadian), doing IT, and he gets crazy marks like 99s and 100s in all his maths and programming subjects.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Yeah I feel the same about maths. Although calculus was oddly soothing. All the derivatives. I liked algebra. But I'd hate to actually have it matter to my life.

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

When we got to precalculus at the end of year eleven, I stopped, stared, and went "I don't get this what's going on this doesn't even look like real maths" to myself, because I like maths to be about concrete things, and precalculus really *wasn't*. Then I fled maths completely for History Extension.

I liked algebra though, I wish I still knew how to do it. That and trigonometry - trig was one of the few maths tests I ever got a really high mark on.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hated trig. Sines and cosines just DON'T MAKE SENSE. It was just memorisation because my head really couldn't get the underlying logic, and there was A FUCKING LOT to memorise.

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

I liked it because I could see what was going on, right in front of me - it was geometry and algebra stuck together.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Ah, maths.