Engineering majors need like 4 years of pure humanities classes to fix what’s wrong in their mind. This whole thread is so cruel to op.
Fuck “humanities.” Pieces of shits are forcing me to pay $1.5K per class and all they do is fucking make me read chapters in a book or articles and post my thoughts on a board then reply to some asshole with “Your thoughts on the universal gene is very interesting. I never thought of that!” Fuck off.
If you’re gonna send my tuition money to make bombs to kill children overseas, at the very fucking least give me skills to destroy you. These discussion-based “classes” were free when I was in middle and high school, and the quality of posts remain the same because no one cares - not even the people in the damn major. I don’t even know who any of my classmates are because I just skim through their shit, reply, get 100%, and move on. What about humanity is being taught here other than dredging through bullshit while being nice to others? Waste of time and money.
Now, if your humanities are in something actually fulfilling and have some kind of resemblance of a class - such as painting, drawing, photography, music - yes, definitely take those. Though music and art tend to gatekeep students because they expect you to have experience prior to applying. Engineering students tend to be notorious for neglecting creativity for MUH OBJECTIVITY!!!
I took some classes on the middle east and religion for my elective humanities class. In one of them i sat next to a guy who openly wanted to go work for the CIA.
Unlucky for him my professor was good and pissed him off with regularity.
For those classes, they were mostly a combined lecture/discussion, we’d take notes, read a book, write papers, and discuss some more and it was quite fulfilling. I’m sorry you are taking classes during the age of the discussion board. I had to do those once or twice but it was more rare a few years ago.
I know humanities classes can be good, so I’m for them. I had a great sociology class freshman year with an awesome professor who spoke about civil rights to his mostly engineer major class and would argue with em regularly. All my non-major humanities classes were really enlightening and had really passionate professors. I had another in American religion taught by some minister who didn’t hold any punches, and an environmental science class taught by a woman who lived off of “wait, what??” moments in her students.
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Top two replies are about cultural assimilation and joining the military.
Fuck that I’m never leaving South Africa.
If you’re in America, and have residency you can look into enlisting in the military as well to gain your citizenship.
Forcing engineering grads to design and build the that they get thrown into.
