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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]why is DCUM assuming comp sci majors have no writing skills?
why is dcum assuming english majors have math skills?

why is dcum assuming comp sci majors have lesser social skills than english majors?

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This. My CS major at an Ivy writes beautiful papers and receives solid A's in writing and other humanities classes which are easy in comparison. I wonder how many Humanities majors could do as well in the CS classes - and I'm not talking intro to CS or CS for nonmajors but the weeder classes.  Good luck.[/quote]

Wow you’re very proud aren’t you?[/quote]

DP. Maybe, but not wrong. The myth is that [b]folks good in STEM are always poor at reading, writing, history, and whatnot. [/b]The reality is that many good STEM students also are good at those other easier things. [/quote]

That's called wishful thinking.. Along the lines of 'All jocks are idiots'. What is real is that, outside of those 'intentional' LA kids (those with grad school plans such as law) most end up in LA because they couldn't hack the more difficult majors... and 'reading, writing, history and whatnot' knowledge and skills can pretty much be acquired off the internet these days. Not so with [b]coding[/b] or engineering.[/quote]

You really have no clue what you are talking about...

That said, CS is about far far more than "coding"[/quote]

Of course. If you know that, I certainly do. I specifically did not use those words because some LA idiot will pipe in and say "but, but, Computer Science is a liberal art" and we'll have to go down that pointless rabbit hole again.[/quote]

You two can’t communicate with each other. Kind of settles the CS majors can read and write debate.[/quote]

Why do you assume these poster majored in CS? It was a pretty new field when I went to college.[/quote]

Shorthand. They're team CS, all they want to do is dump on LACs, but they're tearing into each other because, reading comprehension, comical.[/quote]

One of the problems we have in recruiting is that staff actually needs to be able to communicate with others. When we had a double CS and English major recently, it was cause for celebration, until somewhere else snapped her up. [/quote]

This is me.  CS and English with excellent oral and written skills.

I bring writing samples and tech savvy and get snapped up in a heartbeat.  I demand top dollar and get it. I am technical but can also break it down for senior management. I have excellent presentation skills, better than my technical skills. [/quote]

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