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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I did think of this point, though, in some ways science/engineering majors are "cowardly."
A lot of people pick those majors, not because they're interested in building bridges, but because its more likely there will be a job at the end of the degree.
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Sure if by cowardly you mean smart.
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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
And not me, if you went to a top flight, really really good college, your liberal arts classes would have good profs who don't give As away.
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First of all, where I went to school, the humanities profs did curve their classes. The curve-no curve thing was brought into this discussion to address Ty's remarks that grades don't reflect intrinsic merit. In a science/math class where there is a right and a wrong answer and the number of A's is limited to a set percentage, grades do in fact reflect intrinsic merit.
Second, whiff. It isn't an issue of how many A's are given. It is an issue of how the prof's determine who gets an A or not. In the non-science/non-math classes, it is simply up to the prof's own subjective standards of what is good made up shit vs. what is bad made up shit. Even at a great college. The same paper expounding on the imagery of the ant fight in Walden Pond might be good to one prof at a top school and not so good to another at the same school. The same paper can get different grades by two profs at the same top school.
And you have got to be kidding me if you are suggesting that prof's at top schools aren't subject to manipulation of their egos by students. They are more susceptible to it.
