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An honest article would say that a humanity degree signals that you're conformist and happy to tolerate boredem just as well as a STEM degree, and a STEM degree
by throwaway284721 7y ago
An honest article would say that a humanity degree signals that you're conformist and happy to tolerate boredem just as well as a STEM degree, and a STEM degree doesn't teach anything relevant either. This article says that with a humanity degree you can be just as smug as people with STEM degrees are.
- leetcrew 7y agoI honestly feel sorry for people who have this opinion. I'm not implying that your analysis is wrong for the school you went to or even CS programs in general, but I feel that I learned a lot of relevant things in my undergraduate study and I'm sad that other people didn't have the same experience. just a quick sampling of some stuff I did in my CS major: * wrote a Pascal compiler from scratch * implemented a variation of FAT32 in the linux kernel * implemented a simple pipelined MIPS arch in vhdl * benchmarked different versions of a parallel algorithm on a HPC cluster to see how it scaled on core count * implemented lots of data structures in c++ some of that stuff applies directly to the work I do now. I landed a good c++ gig straight out of college, and I really appreciate all the tough c++ projects we had to do in school. amusingly the Pascal compiler also turned out to be relevant, as I now help maintain a compiler for a proprietary dialect of Pascal at work. the cpu arch, HPC, and linux stuff isn't directly applicable to my work, but the linux project was a good exposure to working in a large codebase. not everything in a CS major is going to be directly applicable to your career, but a good program will give you strong foundations for any specialty you branch into later.