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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because they are usually harder. [/quote]

Really?  I was an English major and I distinctly recall helping the engineering/math/science/econ majors I met in my classes who couldn't write an essay about literature to save their lives.  "Hard" is really defined by your own natural skills, and I think we can all agree that it takes all kinds to make the world go around.  I have an advanced degree and am employed as a professional, by the way.  [/quote]
How many people need to "write an essay about literature" ever in real life?  Maybe a NYT book reviewer?  [/quote]

Want hard?  Try bullshitting your way through a math proof.  Not quite as easy as pumping out a subjective essay about Ovid.  I can tell you, having double majored in engineering and The Classics.

[b]Seriously, engineering requires a lot of discipline.  [/b]It may not be that it's "hard" but you have to buckle down in ways that many humanities majors didn't have to because they had a lot more flexibility about when to write an essay, and what they could learn to do so.  And I think you really underestimate the amount of writing an engineering major needs to do.  Not English writing, but I'm sure you would have had at least as much trouble properly explaining what I discovered in my senior thesis than the majors you describe had trouble writin an essay.

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True.  Best major in the U.S. for getting a high-paying job?  Petroleum Engineering.  Not fun, but you are set for life.  Reservoir engineering is another.  Hard math, science, physics, calculus.  Very tough majors.[/quote]

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