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I can fully understand that; you're just missing the point. You're not looking for hard answers in the humanities, while accepting the fact that there's worth i

I can fully understand that; you're just missing the point. You're not looking for hard answers in the humanities, while accepting the fact that there's worth in things other than hard answers. History courses can do a lot to improve your ability to recognize patterns in past events or behavior. It also imparts a great deal of knowledge that requires intellectual growth and expansion. Philosophy courses can help you argue a point better, because it's so easy for someone to question your assumptions since everything is so wishy-washy and up in the air and you can't really assume anything. It's really quite frustrating, I can understand how this field feels circuitous and useless. Religious studies help you understand religious people a little better, and see some worth in some forms of religion. Most of all, it will hopefully help you understand your own life better. Most atheists seem to think religious people are categorically stupid, and while there are plenty of stupid religious people around, there are a good deal of pretty wise religious people. Foreign language courses, coupled with some sort of interaction with natives, help you to see the world in other peoples' eyes in a much more direct way than monolingual study. Also, all of these studies can be just plain fun, and tons more fascinating than a CS lecture about problems people have solved ages ago. Not everything has to be strictly utilitarian. I can see how it's really hard to see how humanities advance anything, if you are so short-sighted that material and technological progress is the only measure of human worth. Sometimes it's important for people to be educated in the human condition, both for their worth and for others.

Dilpil 18y ago
Philosophy courses can help you argue a point better- that is, the logic side of philosophy. And if your going to take a class like this, you might as well take a full blown logic class, which is in essence a math class. Religious studies could help you understand religious people better. Psychology however, would be a far more direct way to understand religious people, as well as many other phenomenons of the human mind. As for the courses being more fun than CS, I would certainly disagree. Of course, this is entirely subjective- and I can see why someone who disagrees with that would choose CS. I cannot however, understand why someone who finds CS boring would major in it.
- nihilocrat 18y ago
  I cannot however, understand why someone who finds CS boring would major in it. Just pointing out that CS can get boring sometimes, too. There are plenty of fields and subjects in CS which just aren't going to be interesting to everyone majoring in it.

Dilpil 18y ago

Philosophy courses can help you argue a point better- that is, the logic side of philosophy. And if your going to take a class like this, you might as well take a full blown logic class, which is in essence a math class. Religious studies could help you understand religious people better. Psychology however, would be a far more direct way to understand religious people, as well as many other phenomenons of the human mind. As for the courses being more fun than CS, I would certainly disagree. Of course, this is entirely subjective- and I can see why someone who disagrees with that would choose CS. I cannot however, understand why someone who finds CS boring would major in it.

nihilocrat 18y ago
I cannot however, understand why someone who finds CS boring would major in it. Just pointing out that CS can get boring sometimes, too. There are plenty of fields and subjects in CS which just aren't going to be interesting to everyone majoring in it.