Which majors make someone seem 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.

Don't expect too much from an ambulance chaser.

Don't expect too much from someone who thinks everyone with a law degree is an ambulance chaser. Why do people make dumb comments like this? Not the pp by the way.

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Anonymous wrote:Comparative Literature

Instead of sophisticated, I think "likely pompous windbag" when I see that major.

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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.

I was a philosophy major. Most of the people who graduated with me ended up either on Wall Street or at law school. We did have one go to med school the year before I graduated.

Of course that's where they ended up, where else would they get hired with that degree.

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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.

I was a philosophy major. Most of the people who graduated with me ended up either on Wall Street or at law school. We did have one go to med school the year before I graduated.

Philosophy is not too bad humanities, but
that's most likely the school, not the major.

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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?

Are you serious? Have you read Heidegger? Hegel?

Yes. I double majored in philosophy. I guess my strengths are in reading and analysis, though, as I am also a lawyer. I found calculus and physics to be difficult.

My DS is a math whizz and sailed through calculus and physics. Philosophy on the other hand was utter disaster.

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Anonymous wrote:Art History

No. This screams trust fund

No at history means you're actually interesting at dinner parties

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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?

Are you serious? Have you read Heidegger? Hegel?

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Art History

No. This screams trust fund

No at history means you're actually interesting at dinner parties

You might think, but the phd, working art historian I know is such a bumpkin. If anything the training just made her less aware and capable of develop.

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Anonymous wrote:Linguistics

I was going to say that. And philosophy.

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Anonymous wrote:Puppetry

https://admissions.wvu.edu/academics/majors/puppetry

The only correct answer.

I learn something new everyday!

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Anonymous wrote:Art History

No. This screams trust fund

Well, that is the point.

Trust fund babies are sophisticated??

The key word was "seem."

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Anonymous wrote:This is a question that George Costanza would ask.

😂😂😂

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Anonymous wrote:Linguistics

I was going to say that. And philosophy.

Philosophy, yes. Linguistics, no.

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This has got to be one of the most pathetically needy social climbing questions ever on DCUM and that’s saying something. WTF OP?

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Anonymous wrote:This has got to be one of the most pathetically needy social climbing questions ever on DCUM and that’s saying something. WTF OP?

OP didn't say OP was asking for purposes of social climbing.

I can't say that the degrees ever helped me social climb. They haven't even really been topics of conversation in "the real world" (outside of academia), as most people I come across haven't studied it, so there's not much to discuss.