This mentality doesn't seem to apply if you want to study anything that requires any sort of advanced (aka expensive) resources. Computer Science is generally

This mentality doesn't seem to apply if you want to study anything that requires any sort of advanced (aka expensive) resources. Computer Science is generally cheap and easy to learn for the same reasons that a web start-up is easy to launch. But mechanical engineering requires expensive industry software and equipment. Biologists need wet labs. Anything in the Science or Engineering departments is going to require expensive equipment. Otherwise, as a stand up comedian at my school said "I'm currently writing a series of passionate essays on topics I couldn't care less about. It's called college."