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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lawyers aren’t smart enough to do tech[/quote]

Thr former tech lawyers I know are barely smart enough to do law in many cases. One former Stanford electrical engineer I went to a T10 law school with graduated in the bottom of our class, got a summer job anyway, got no offered, and now doesn’t practice. [/quote]

This is something I have been hearing about STEM vs Poly Sci/History/English degrees.  The STEM kids take a mid-level History class thinking they will walk into an A because their avg class requires lots of busy math work then there is a real chance of gettin a D or F (because of how the professor tests more than anything).  Where the History class requires a couple papers that the STEM kid gets a C in because they dont know how to write (both on basic structure level and a support a thesis college level). But the history professor is much less willing to fail a paper that has an opinion aspect/(s)he has to subjectively judge than a STEM test where there is a right or wrong answer.[/quote]

This resonates.

My STEM child can do absolute mind blowing math and physics. In high school he had to commute to George Mason for math his senior year in high school because he tapped out with calc 3 by 11th grade. He has a great very well laid internship this summer at some sort of high compute finance company that does some crazy trades based on math. I don’t even understand what it is.

But oh my god this kid’s writing is ATROCIOUS. Only reason he did well on the English SAT is because grammar is simply patterns. He does indeed love history, but when he writes it’s pretty bad. I’m very grateful he has grammerly and chat GPT to help prompt him.

He works as a math tutor at school, but he spends an equal amount of time getting help at the writing center.

I’d like to hope kids go into fields they are good at and that interest them. My son will absolutely never be a writer of any sort. Nor have a career that requires writing. I don’t really understand what the problem is because he’s a voracious reader.

Everyone has different talents. I’m so glad we are as a species intellectually diverse! We survive because of specialization.[/quote]

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