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t. BA
lmao retarded people acting retarded, what's new?

lolololololololololololol

she's not wrong

>Has absolutely know idea what actual math is like

Old news senpai. Sage'd.

I guess that's why I can take 300 and 400 level humanities aND literature classes, skip all the lectures, spend 2 hours per paper and get 90+% when the rest of the bas whine about how hard their work is. What a joke.

It's time to accept some narcissistic bullshit from an angry barista.

Ummmm sweeties adding up numbers isn't going to do anything if you have no emotional intelligence!

Sounds good dear, but please remember, no whipped cream.

>oh my fucking em gee no engineer has ever written anything fucking em gee evar

YAAAAAAAAAAAASSSS

yyaaaaassss gurl preech

el mayo you can just google it my cashier does my math for me anyway

kek

this is a satire article right? like The Onion or something Im assuming

The only BA degrees I respect are artists. At least there is technical skill and intelligence required. Fuck everyone else though.

That's true
t: maths BA

But she is

i actually agree with this

I graduated summa cum laude with a 3.992 gpa
the only B : Philosophy 201

it was just too hard to parse the 5 types of second-order subjectivism according to Hume

no its real, what are you fucking racist?
STOP OPPRESSING ME BIGOT
RACIST FASCIST RACIST FASCIST RACIST FASCIST

>Not recognizing satire
Sign of autism desu

Poe's law

Well if you were smart enough for a BA you could tell the difference.

These click bait articles on Facebook appeal to the majority clientele, nothing new.

I'd probably struggle getting a BA in philosophy, much like Evergreen State students would struggle with getting a BSc in Bio since they're currently without a bio instructor due to "institutional racism"

I hate it when people use the phrase "savage", but damn...

>Alice Cahica
>Trainee journalist in London. Former video news journalist at The Times and The Sun.
>The Sun
She writes for a shitpost rag. She gets paid to bullshit.

that's philosophy though, which is closest to BS out of anything in BA - not BA in general

Is sociology class easier? I fucked up by taking 2 econ classes when I needed 1 econ plus a humanities requirement. I dread taking non-stem classes so much because I don't want to piss the professor off by saying something she hates. Pretending to be a naive about world news and politics worked well in my other non-stem classes so far.

>taking non-stem classes
and I know a sociology major, it sounds like a breeze

Can you give a reason you believe this wss intended as satire, other than the fact that you disagree?

You must be European. I'm an amerilard and taking English and humanities is a requirement. I have to get into student debt to learn why men are evil and should be killed.

As a math major i must agree that a BA is much harder than a BSc.
simply because there is no way of knowing what opinion the teacher wants you to have on some random irrelevant topic.
I just recently passes the course history of math, tought by some history PhD. but it honestly was the hardest course I ever took.
Just immagine
>getting a huge book that is written by a brainlet.
>you start reading it and its literally full of shit.
>your teacher starts foaming from his mouth as he rambles about the book in class
> every now and then you hear him spew out the words that women are equal and that they are all beautifull regardless of their size.
>somehow the teacher thinks this relates to the class but the logical connection is missing.
>teacher makes obvious logical fallacies all the time.
>have to write a fucking report about some topic that relates to the course.
>decide to just copy some shit from a few books and add in a few sentences about how much you like BBW porn and how important education is.
>get an A-
>wtf. how did that happen
>final exam coming up.
>Literally asking about the smallest details of the peanut chunk in the huge pile of shit that makes up this book.
>I didnt even pay attention to the peanuts
>last question for 30% of the marks
>name one female mathematician and describe why she is such a great pioneer.
>yes i got this. just negate all the usual statements on /pol/ and write them down.
last question saved me. but besides the obvious gibberish of womens rights. none of that liberal arts shit makes sense

Alot of Arts students who didn't drop out of STEM think higher up math classes just deal with longer numbers and nothing else. "You think you are smart because you can add 1 billion to 1 trillion user?" is actually a real life meme.

I see your sarcasm, but that's actually true.
It doesn't matter if you have a PhD in pure math or theoretical physics. If you can't discipline yourself to do things other than studying you'll never get to be more than a high school teacher.

This. Also designers. Philosophy can come too if we're talking analytic philosophy.

>/pol/nigger
>valid opinion
kys yourself, brainlet scum

>womens rights
>makes any sense

KEK
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It depends ENTIRELY on the professor. If you luck out you'll get a moderately interesting class where you learn about cultures and how various Jews with PhDs are the scum of the Earth.

Chances are you'll get a shit for brains professor though and will spend the entire class learning about why you are evil.

Highlights of my sociology class:

>Dominoes is inherently racist; the concept of pizza delivery is, by its very nature, racist.
>Denny's is inherently racist; the concept of cheap flapjacks is, by its very nature, racist.
>Yes, both of those reasons are literally what we were told in two separate ten minute rants.
>You're basically a Klansman if you don't believe in the "Small Pox Blankets" meme
>People do not engage in discrimination as a way to scapegoat a group and lash out at it, they do it solely because all Cishetero White Males are inherently prejudiced and act solely out of hate
>Blacks are biologically programmed to like fat girls (""""professor""" was fat)

don't pure science majors outscore most humanities majors on the verbal part of the GRE, except philosophy majors?

You're confusing the Bachelor of Arts with the Bachelor of Fine Arts/Bachelor of Art.

Bachelor of Arts is for humanities subjects in general, and can basically include anything qualitative. It can include art subjects, but is generally limited to subjects related to but not directly involved in the production of art, eg. art history, applications of art in architecture, museum curation, etc. It can also include plenty of applications of hard sciences too, eg. the aforementioned architecture.

It's basically a catch-all for basically anything that isn't restricted to a very specific domain or method of study, or simply the degree that you choose when you want to study something like a science, but you don't want to do everything science. Although I understand that last part doesn't quite apply to American students, who seem to be forced into spending a quarter of their degrees in generalised courses anyway.

>tl;dr Veeky Forums pretends like arts is all courses about Afro-Carribean Women's Empowerment and 14th Century Basque Millinery Techniques, but only a brainlet would be that gullible to think that's statistically accurate
>y- you're not all brainlets, ar... Are you?!

I wouldn't know, I didn't take that class.

>I don't want to piss the professor off
if you're an easily-offended snowflake that can't listen to viewpoints that strongly oppose yours, don't take the course so you can stay in your safe space

Some things I learned from my Macroeconomics professor back in 2012
>Global warming is a globalist hoax designed to undermine capitalism
>Obama is irreparably destroying the economy while cooking the numbers to make it seem like he's improving it
>Diseased Mexican children are being shipped over the border and integrated into our schools to infect our children
>Democrats have pushed a vaccination agenda despite the clear links between autism and vaccines

My first two years of college were all electives. And I still have more electives REQUIRED by my department. The good news is I do not have to take 12 credits of foreign language.

Sounds like a shitty college

>being a brainlet who couldnt pass his AP exams

I have both a BS and a BA degree and I can say from personal experience that both are very hard.

>BA is hard
top kek
>Go into first class
>Listen to professor, take notes every time she talks about her feelings or her political opinions
>After that write every essay in such a way that it will masturbate her ego
>Get A++ at everything and graduate with honors because that's all humanities degrees judge. How good you are at sucking cock.

I dropped out of mech eng because I found it boring, I have been thinking of a BA in product design for ages, yay or nay?

Just read these sentences
>We get given the choice to write our own essay title, too – what the fuck does that even mean? Is it some sort of reverse psychology where our tutors want us to write an essay title to show autonomy. Or will they take offence if we don’t pick one of theirs? It’s much harder than finding out what ‘x’ is.

Especially the first one
It makes me chuckle every time I read it
>We get given the choice to write our own essay title, too – what the fuck does that even mean?

Or this
>I’m not saying that your degree is pointless, because it’s probably not.

A Bachelor of Arts telling BScs their degree is PROBABLY not pointless?

>Whether we’re teachers or world leaders, we don’t need to have a BSc next to our name to do it: a BA is good enough.
A BA is good enough? Just good enough? Doesn't really sound like it's written by a BA, more like a BSc writing satire

>You ask us: “What’s the point to your degree?”, “Haven’t you learned to read yet?”, “Don’t you wish you were good at Physics?” The answer, quite honestly, is that you’re intimidated by us.
...

I could go on

Why do you care about the opinions of anonymous posters of a Taiwanese fruit-collecting texto-jpeg board?

>simply because there is no way of knowing what opinion the teacher wants you to have on some random irrelevant topic.

Nicca, our teachers grade papers by throwing them in the air and passing the ones that fall on the right.

t. Physics Undergrad

That sounds pretty nice, I assume you're researching aerodynamic behaviour of paper?

Oh yeah. Groundbreaking stuff!

Kidding aside, I'm not LARPing. Professors here do this. Depending on how nuts they are, they will grade you depending on where the paper lands. Or they'll pass the first few tests and fail the others. or any other number of stupid shit.

And that's not to mention the huge subjet matter, the classes & Political Parties that get their way through them. It's a fucked up situation.

Might be partially true.

You realize how important this skill is when writing papers and proposals.

It's time to accept that the difficulty of a degree is irrelevant in the real world

>In BAs, we have to go and write arguments. We have to actually form ideas out of words, and do so in a coherent and convincing way.
but that's exactly how studying maths looks like, but then your arguments have to not only be convincing and feel kinda right, but have to be rigorous and formally correct. Why all the brainlets think uni maths is just finding the x like in high school, but with bigger numbers? And why somebody who doesn't know how maths or other STEM courses look like feels competent to shit on them?

Are you me?
I almost accidentally double-majored in Philosophy because I was padding my GPA with easy As from it. Once you've read Descarte or Kant or Rawls you know their work and you can take as many classes as you want on them and pass.

Philosophy classes fall into two categories: Reading quizzes over material some other dude wrote in the past and what he meant by it and how it stood or fell with time, and learning the rules to games of logic and critical thought. Both are trivial to prepare for, so you can take 2 per term while still taking a full math/science load and reap two guaranteed A's.

I bet this author failed intro science in high school.

That has to be a dude. No chick would wear anime t-shirts like that

Mechanical Engineering is a meme studied by Mexicans who just want to work on their cars. Study what you're passionate about. I was interested in psychology throughout high school until I took my first psychology course my freshman year. I turned 360 degrees and walked away. I then went on to do a forestry major because I just wanted to fuck off from society, which I had to take biology. I found molecular biology is incredibly fascinating and now I'm a biochemistry major.

you mean balancing an equation like the economy or budget?

Instead of writing sentences like, "Hillary was too smart to win"?

Well, I'd still stick it up his ass if you know what I mean.

Idk, the writing style is what I'd call snarky but that doesn't make it satire. I've known some really fucking stupid people who I could see saying this stuff and while parts may be intended to make you laugh, they're also serious about the main point.

Do you see any other satire on the same site? I don't think I do

>turned 360

I guess so, I don't think I'd have the patience to see an arts course through.

I imagine most people in STEM don't have the patience for the humanities.
I tried it once. It wound up with me shitposting on every single assignment
This was the title for my final paper for a sex ed class--it was 13 pages long: "Chest Torpedoes Oscillating at Mach 4"

I have a BSc but did a BA in my first year before switching. Didnt have to show up in a BA and got top marks, not worth while for the amount of money you put in as most of it is common sense. Science was more challenging and had a larger work load, you could still hardly attend class but you couldnt make all your grades up doing two good essays. The only people that think BA's are hard are people in an arts degree, they have no comprehention of what a large workload or intense study is.I had a mate in BA that complained because he had uni more than 3 times a week....

Yeah probably. A BSc is mostly learning facts and models which are based off logic and therefore make sense.

A BA is more about subjectivity and creativity, which I'm not very good at.

She is totally wrong.

Saying BScs don't require creativity because you can rote learn math is like me arguing BAs don't require creativity because you can rote learn grammar and spelling.

>posting clickbait
At least post the archive.is
archive.is/LSimz

Is this satire?

>paper for a sex ed class
w-what

Perhaps the most homosexual post I've ever seen on Veeky Forums

t. mech eng working in aerospace

ITT: retards who don't understand the diferent between A BS and a BA. It has nothing to do with the subject. BS is just a more specific category. For example, you can get a BA in biology, but an ecology degree, a subset of the biology branch, is a BS.

Wouldn't call all PhDs dumb because they are philosophy, would you?

>the tab
>the tab for norwich uni
Fucking lol

I have a BA in mathematics
t. Cambridge graduate

Maybe, what gives it slightly away is the fact that apparently the first thing anyone does before starting to read a book or write an essay is reading somebody else's notes on the subject, which is slightly ironic considering how the arts are known to be more "creative".

True t b h.
I can't write to save my life.
t. gaygineer

>Being THIS new

This is a satire piece.

>she misused an apostrophe
Top kek

From the link:

"We’re sick of the smug looks you throw at us when you ask if we can balance an equation – because we probably can’t – but as least we can use the right to, two, too in context."

So she's bragging about not being retarded?

"cat's" as in "cat has"
>inb4 should be "cat has shat"
"shit" can be past tense.

> We also have literally no friends on our courses.

I love how she brags about being a so much better writer than STEM students -- and then she misuses the word "literally".

ha, ha, and in the *very* *next* sentence after that:

"You’re in nine until five everyday which is good for you."

It's "every day", not "everyday". "Everyday" can only be used as an adjective, not as an adverb.

Source:

> en.wiktionary.org/wiki/everyday
> Adverb - everyday
> Misspelling of every day.

Balancing equations is something you learn in high school. Is this seriously the bar they're using to measure the skills of a BSc?

The less mathematical a course gets, the lower my grade becomes in that course. My whole life, math has always padded my GPA. I can't write essays for shit.

>Some things I learned from my Macroeconomics professor back in 2012
>>Global warming is a globalist hoax designed to undermine capitalism
>>Obama is irreparably destroying the economy while cooking the numbers to make it seem like he's improving it
>>Diseased Mexican children are being shipped over the border and integrated into our schools to infect our children
>>Democrats have pushed a vaccination agenda despite the clear links between autism and vaccines
But all of that is true though

Blah blah blah.....

There are more BA's than BScs.
Whatever is harder will have the lest, whatever is easier will be the most common.

Again, every retard has a BA, BScs are few and far between (when considering the entire population).

How is loading cargo for $14/hr at your airport working out for you bruh?

What if I can "balance equations" like most 10th graders, and write a sentence like this one here, "hun"?

>name one female mathematician
Shit, I've got nothing.
Who are some famous female mathematicians Veeky Forums?

>simply because there is no way of knowing what opinion the teacher wants you to have on some random irrelevant topic.

you just look at them. do they look like a faggot? then they want to hear about how great SJW and Marxism is.

The only Famous Female "Mathematician" I know is the "1st Computer Scientist" Ada Lovelace.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
She is remenbered for making the "1st algorithm/computer program"
But we all know that was Babbage who created it.

The only Famous Female Scientist I know is the Chemist Marie Curie.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie
But Marie Currie was just the Brainlet assistant of Pierre Curie. Pierre Curie did the research. She was just His assistant.

Only major name that pops into my head besides Curie is Franklin. That's probably because I'm a biology major though.

Emmy Noether.

Emmy Noether.
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether
> Described by Albert Einstein as the most important woman in the history of mathematics
> As one of the leading mathematicians of her time, she developed the theories of rings, fields, and algebras.
> In physics, Noether's theorem explains the connection between symmetry and conservation laws

Was chemistry and physics double major at a top 20 school.
When I had to take a history course, I was sitting next to a history major.
When I took a psychology course, I was sitting next to a psychology major.
But when a humanities major takes a math or science course, they are not sitting next to math or science majors.
Why is that if BA is harder than BS?

>Only major name that pops into my head besides Curie is Franklin

Lise Meitner developed theory of nuclear fission. Some say robbed of Nobel Prize.
In biology, Barbara McClintok, Nobel Prize winner who studied transposons.
There are others, especially in biology.,,eg Rita Levi

this reeks of insecurity and projection

t. bs/ba double major

>his degree begins with the letter "B"

Stop posting clickbait shit OP.

based Emmy.