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[quote=Anonymous]I’m an engineer and let me say that those who say that humanities majors are useless don’t know what they are talking about.  I went to a (let’s just say it’s a pretty well ranked) big state school decades ago.  At that time, engineering students comprised a very small percentage of the student population.  Most undergraduate students belonged to the College of Letters and Science, and among those, most majored in “letters” rather than “science.”  What I saw was that too many humanities students just didn’t take studying seriously.  Too much time partying? doing frats/sororities, and other things (no need to say what they are here).  There’s nothing wrong with humanities at all.  But too many students didn’t take it seriously and just crammed before the exams and papers due dates.  Engineering students studied much harder on average because it’s so hard to get a good enough GPA and dropout rate was so much higher.  Sure, there were hard working history students too, but they were few and far between—the ones who excel could do a lot of things—law school, grad school/academia, etc. [/quote]

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