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[quote=Anonymous]I went to a SLAC and studied biochemistry.  My best friend went to MIT and studied computer science.  She actually had more distribution requirements in the humanities than I did; American schools are big on having a well rounded education and I think in many cases the math/science nerd who never needed to write an essay is a myth--at least at top schools.  I think that people have this myth that going to an engineering school means you don't take any humanities classes--not true in the US.  Since I went to such a small school, I had plenty of writing assignments for my science courses--mainly weeding through the primary literature and writing papers about it, and I had to write up my own original research for a senior thesis, so not all STEM educations are alike.

I will have to say, though, that ON AVERAGE, for most people math, science, and engineering are more difficult.  Sure you can have a rigorous history or English program, and hard working people come in all majors.  My dad is a brilliant, hard working guy with a great law career, and he majored in English.  However, as a science major, I had lab courses for up to 4 hours a day, typically 2 or 3 of them in a semester.  This means I had basically double the class time as my humanities majoring friends, even if I had the same amount of credits.  I had just as much, if not more homework with less unscheduled time to do it.  It is also harder to blow of a graded problem set than it is to blow off reading for a discussion course.  It is also well documented that exam based majors (i.e. engineering, the hard sciences) tend to have less grade inflation than humanities courses where the grade is more based on discussion participation and graded papers.  All of these things made studying the hard sciences less appealing to several of my peers in college.[/quote]

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