What do we believe about each program?
Do you believe your program is better than others? You wouldn’t be the only one.
Some students believe there is a not-so-secret ranking system of who suffers the most in their classes and who’s actually the best program in the school. To test this ranking, students were anonymously asked a series of questions, ranging from deep to outright strange, to show if there is a hierarchy.
Ultimately, the responses showed absolutely no evidence of a hierarchy, and the responses were varied. Some were neutral, while many had fairly… strong opinions about whose program is the most competent. So, for this Bolt issue, I have picked my favorite responses for your entertainment.
What is the “final boss project of your program”?
Education student: “Entire curriculum.”
Science & Psychology: “Capstones.”
English: “Science Courses.”
Management: “Working for free for a company.”
Who has the highest “God complex”?
A “God Complex” is where they believe they’re better than everyone else and superior. According to my unofficial poll, the psychology and science students had the most votes.
On a scale of 1-10 how much of your degree is based on “vibes” versus actual labour?
Most students’ answers ranged from 4-7, but education had the biggest gap, with the lowest being 3 and the highest being 10.
Chemistry student: “It’s all based on vibes, shapes, colors, and math, like stuff we learned in preschool, so i would say 8.5”
What is the biggest lie people believe about your major?
Education: That we just play with kids and that kids are fun. When in reality, we do much more than that and kids can be difficult.
Drama: Drama students are just “cat fights waiting to happen” but they are kind people who work for what they want.
English: That we need to read a lot. “We don’t actually read at all”
Science: Students will be getting 6-figure paying jobs right after graduation when in reality it will be hard to find jobs.
Management: We party and love crayons, while they are people with strong work ethics and teamwork.
If we are forming a survival colony, what soft skill from your major keeps you from being kicked out into the wilderness?
Education students: Organization skills and teaching the children, to “make sure we’re not cavemen in the future.”
English students: books for knowledge or firestarting. Also, critical thinking
Chemistry students: “I would be dead.” “I don’t think I would survive, university does not prepare you for that [kind of] critical thinking.”
Accounting students: being social, “half the time we are talking about cows — fun fact cows can commit suicide.”
Anonymous student: “my personality.”
Now what major will be sacrificed for the greater good?
Management: “I think accounting majors are annoying.”
Chemistry: “We do not need history majors. Away with the historians, to the pit with them.”
Education: “Marketing would not be useful, everything else is crucial, there wouldn’t be much to advertise or to pitch.”
English: “Math or sociology because I do not like those classes”,
Management: “Data management, we do not need her. What will she do, show us charts?”
Finally, which major has the smartest students?
Education: “Education, they practice skills and are taught to be perceptive to others.”
Chemistry: “Each major has its own type of intelligence, they might not be able to succeed if they did each other’s things, one major cannot determine what smart actually means.”
English: “history, it’s hard to retain information and it’s so boring”
The results
In the end, there is no real hierarchy: just stereotypes, stress and strong opinions. What this experiment really showed is that each major thinks that some majors are harder while everything else is automatically so much easier.
But in a survival situation, it’s time to say goodbye to the history and finance majors.
