...I get to go to university.. Have the reputation of drinking too much and partying way too hard. I'll get to be loud and crazy and everyone just takes it because we're engineers. Then I go into the job market with a heck of a degree and I get to actually problem solve? Sounds like a dream come true to me.

Mcgillguy88: hear hear rhymes with beer. KNow what else rhymes with beer... ENGINEER!!

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Wow, you people are really pathetic if you think you can justify why a certain degree is better than any other. Each degree is unique and there are different things which make it valuable. All of you are obviously biased to your own degree of interest, particularly you engineering students. Everyone isn't really trying to justify to the rest of us why their degree is so 'great,' they're trying to justify it to themselves. It's even more pathetic when people rely on stereotypes rather than fact to justify their opinions. I really don't want to rely on future so called 'engineers' who have the tendency to rely on information given to them by some 'joe' off the street, rather than a reliable source, or actually go out and research themselves.

See if I use any of your roads, bridges, computers, etc. ...

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Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do in life, you will be a success!!

you could say the same thing for math. without math at it's core engineering wouldn't be a discipline. you could say that math is even more fundamental then.

what about society? almost everything you do and experience daily is a product of laws and businesses and such as well. Your society cannot operate without laws and people to enforce them, and people to make and rule over the rules holding the country together. in that respect you need people in the social sciences who understand the laws and can apply and judge on them.

and don't even get me started on science. my point is that through logic almost every discipline is necessary for a functioning, developing society. even the fine arts. they're not fundamental though and societies can do without them but they still have purposes.

I could launch into some great long explanation about why music is the heart of mankind and all that junk, but I'm not drunk or high right now, so I got nothin'. Just keep in mind that if you build a really super-fancy theatre, you need people to perform in it. If you build a centre for treating X terminal disease, chances are pretty good it'll be planned to include some kind of music therapy area. If you're trying to impress your boss so you can move into a slightly bigger cubicle (maybe one day you'll have one near a window!), you might invite him to dinner and allow him to admire the print of a Matisse painting hanging over your mantle before you serve him a meal on your best china (hand-painted, and made in a tradition that has been alive for centuries) with the soothing sounds of Mozart or light jazz in the background. Or maybe you'll take him out to a ballet and allow the music of Tchaikovsky and the brilliant moves of the highly trained dances win him over. Afterwards, you'll go home and watch your favourite movie on TV.. and I'm not even going to list all of the "arts kids" who were involved in the production, advertising, and creating of that.

"which is best?? I rock because I go here and blah blah blah LOVE ME" threads make me angry.

So how's the weather in Kansas, buddy? Seen any intelligently-designed miracles lately?

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McGill Engineering 2010

darn right!! math rules the world!!

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Math/CA Waterloo '13

pure math develops the formulas and identities engineers need for their work. you can't have an engineering program without math requirements.

all in all i think this entire thread is really petty. almost all disciplines are vital to society---math as a basis for most related domains, engineering and science as applications and investigations, social sciences for the administration and functioning of the society, etc.

Um, you've forgotten this fact:
Artsies only see numbers in statistics/scientific facts.
science majors observe and record them.
Engineers can create them.

p.s. yeah, dont' take this thread too seriously, it's under School Spirit.
p.p.s. We <3 you arts and humanities majors too. Without you, there wouldn't be nearly half as many people to make fun of.
And I think we can all agree that business majors are sellouts.

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"My parents live in Ohio; I live in the moment." -himym.

The graduate with a Science degree asks, 'Why does it work?'
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, 'How does it work?'
The graduate with a Business degree asks, 'How can I profit from it?'
The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, 'Do you want fries with that?'

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-Stringer

Wow, arrogant much?