Which majors make someone seem sophisticated?

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Anonymous wrote:Art History

No. This screams trust fund

Well, that is the point.

Trust fund babies are sophisticated??

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Anonymous wrote:Economics.

I disagree with the other posters on philosophy and art history. I hear someone studied philosophy and think that's dumb. They must not have a future life/career plan and so are unsophisticated. I've read the major philosophers too and have a law degree. I'm just not impressed with "common knowledge of sophisticated people" majors, like philosophy and art history. Smart people have a foundation in those areas regardless of study/major.

+100 Economics

Economics at T25ish schools

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A combined hard STEM major + an Arts major like Greek, History, Painting etc.

Shows you have direction, and at the same time shows you have the intellectual curiosity and philosophical/emotional bent of mind to take your STEM major into new realms.

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Anonymous wrote:Economics.

I disagree with the other posters on philosophy and art history. I hear someone studied philosophy and think that's dumb. They must not have a future life/career plan and so are unsophisticated. I've read the major philosophers too and have a law degree. I'm just not impressed with "common knowledge of sophisticated people" majors, like philosophy and art history. Smart people have a foundation in those areas regardless of study/major.

LMAO

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Bluegrass and American Roots.

https://denison.edu/academics/music/wh/143987

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Anonymous wrote:Art History

No. This screams trust fund

Well, that is the point.

Trust fund babies are sophisticated??

The question was "seem" sophisticated...emphasis on "seem."

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Anonymous wrote:Economics.

I disagree with the other posters on philosophy and art history. I hear someone studied philosophy and think that's dumb. They must not have a future life/career plan and so are unsophisticated. I've read the major philosophers too and have a law degree. I'm just not impressed with "common knowledge of sophisticated people" majors, like philosophy and art history. Smart people have a foundation in those areas regardless of study/major.

LMAO

Is a future career plan the best way to examine your Being and Time? Are you sure you are actualizing Dasein? Hhmmm

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Physics. DH has degrees in physics/EE and my DC in physics/finance and I've noticed that people only care about the physics degree even though it was the other degrees that made them employable.

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Anonymous wrote:Physics. DH has degrees in physics/EE and my DC in physics/finance and I've noticed that people only care about the physics degree even though it was the other degrees that made them employable.

And engineering requires physics classes.

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Anonymous wrote:Economics.

I disagree with the other posters on philosophy and art history. I hear someone studied philosophy and think that's dumb. They must not have a future life/career plan and so are unsophisticated. I've read the major philosophers too and have a law degree. I'm just not impressed with "common knowledge of sophisticated people" majors, like philosophy and art history. Smart people have a foundation in those areas regardless of study/major.

LMAO

Is a future career plan the best way to examine your Being and Time? Are you sure you are actualizing Dasein? Hhmmm

Sophisticated people do both at the same time
They are capable of planning for the future and examine their being and time
It's not mutually exclusive.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Art History

No. This screams trust fund

Well, that is the point.

Trust fund babies are sophisticated??

Right, an MRS degree is not sophistication.

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Anonymous wrote:Semiotics. Physics and philosophy are the hardest majors - applied math major here.

Applied math is the exact opposite of sophisticated. Smart but not sophisticated.

I did not find philosophy or literature to be hard subject matters. Reading and analysis. Physics, on the other hand = very challenging. And for me personally, not very interesting. What does "sophisticated" mean? Well read? Is this a troll post?

Exactly my question. Is sophisticated even a thing anymore?

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Anonymous wrote:Classics makes you seem like a bookish oddball nowadays

Maybe if you are rich.

I have a family friend who grew up poor and majored in the classics. She is extremely well read. She has worked at a book store and library. She is now a sahm. I don’t think anyone thinks she is sophisticated.

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When I was in college, a friend of mine who had gone to public school in a small, Southern city said he figured out after the first semester that the people who had come from either the top New England boarding schools or the top NYC day schools weren't any smarter or better-prepared or more sophisticated. They just had better French accents. It took me a while to develop the confidence to come around to that view, but he was right.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Semiotics. Physics and philosophy are the hardest majors - applied math major here.

Applied math is the exact opposite of sophisticated. Smart but not sophisticated.

I did not find philosophy or literature to be hard subject matters. Reading and analysis. Physics, on the other hand = very challenging. And for me personally, not very interesting. What does "sophisticated" mean? Well read? Is this a troll post?

Exactly my question. Is sophisticated even a thing anymore?

Basically it seems like the youngs are now mostly focused on Snapchat and tik tok, so....