STEM students in non STEM classes be like... 

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It's always really hard to tell the difference between a philosophy major and the local weed dealer

Philosophy: If you clone a person, are they still the same person? STEM students: Depends if you clone by reference or by value.

Non stem class: “ok, argue your point and you’ll get a good score” Stem majors: excuse me….WHAT?! Stem class: “there is only one correct answer, you cannot argue to increase your score” Non-stem majors: excuse me…..WHAT?!

The literature class was so incredibly accurate. I was always so confused how people came up with their answers.

"This essay requires you to have a minimum of 500 words to pass. " "So you mean exactly 500 words?" "Well we encourage you to write mo-" "500 words exactly. Got it."

"If you think that one sentence is enough, then you think its enough." The Mathematician in me: "Are you confirming that there exists a single sentence for this assignment that will award me an A?"

To be fair, math just turns into philosophy the higher up you go lol

My sister thought college would be a living hell after listening to my STEM major shenanigan for 2 years, but after a single week of college life she just said ‘it was your major choice that was wrong’ coming back drunk from a business major party. It was 2am and I was still doing my Week 1 homework from Inorganic Chemistry.

Felt that English class. My prof literally read out the title and the author's name of a poem and asked the meaning behind the AUTHOR'S name. That was when I knew I was fucked

Question: How do u know it is a STEM student in your class? Answer: they will tell you.

I'm an author and creative writing major, and seeing it from the other point of view is hilarious. I've never been able to track math, but I was always the annoying one catching weird stuff in the poems they made us read. I love how human brains vary so much

I never understood why people actually enjoyed college until I took non stem classes. They're so enjoyable and easy, you don't have to do homework for like half of them.

"Okay, I found the weed dealer" lmao

"if a 9.0 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter of my ass happened right now it would literally add value to my life" I don't know why but this shit had me wheezing

“Who is your weed dealer?!” Caught me completely off guard!

Its not about getting the best grades, its about the best grade to effort ratio

"Is the hole in the donut a part of the donut?" - My philosophy teacher, 2019 or 2020. I still can't fall asleep thinking about it.

I wanna see a liberal arts major taking a computer science class. “Hello World”

I was a Mechanical Engineering major. As a junior, I realized that “Physics for Poets” (physics without any math, just philosophical discussion of principles) actually met a general education requirement. It was a 4 credit course while “Advanced Thermodynamics” was only 3 credits the same semester. I literally got 100% on every exam. I couldn’t believe people got C’s in that class.

i went to a super liberal, laid back, artsy high school and growing up i was always conditioned to think i liked humanities and arts classes better because my high school invested more in those types of classes and the teachers were always the cool teachers. then i went to college and couldn’t figure out why i hated every humanities class i took, and switched from major to major, not passionate about anything. finally i decided i had to switch it up or risk getting stuck in a low-paying job i wasn’t passionate about. i decided to try nursing (even though science had always been my least favorite subject growing up) and absolutely fell in love with stem. always having a right and wrong answer, figuring out how things work, working methodically through problems, getting to feel super smart when a concept finally clicks. i think my experience is the reverse of a lot of people’s - most people’s schools heavily invest in STEM and really cut corners when it comes to the humanities classes. maybe that’s why so many people go into college and get super excited about humanities, because they’re finally taking classes from passionate teachers who love their jobs and are great educators. for me it was the opposite, and i got super excited about STEM as soon as i was exposed to well funded classes and teachers in that field. i think it does send a message about the importance of well funded education, and well-rounded allocation of those funds.

80% of my experience in college was taking electives in arts and realizing why all my friends have so much free time

I'm in CS and the biggest shock for me, when I joined the Zoom meeting for a class on politics, was that everyone just had their webcams on. In my CS classes the prof begs people to turn on their cams and still no one does.

As a molecular biology and biochemistry major, I’m really glad the biotechnology course I took had us do a test and two essays about science in society. That stuff was more “artsy” than I was used to, but the perspective I gained from doing those assignments was honestly really valuable. My brain doesn’t really compute social sciences/art subjects too well, but I understand that they are important.

I'm a dance professor at a small university in the south. My classes terrify the STEM students because dancers only count to 8 and we start counting at 5. Y'all are very funny!

“What is the significance of ‘the’”? Me: yes

One thing I like about STEM was that there's an objective right and wrong answer. I always hated non-stem classes where the answers could be so open ended and getting a shit grade because you didn't basically regurgitate the professor's opinion or interpretation on something.

Im a IT student who just recently took a course called "animal motifs in Czech literature" for one semester to get some free credits and i gotta say this is EXACTLY how it felt. And i mean exactly. One of the most fun courses ever

3:57 ''Super mememable moment that helped me boost my _karma_ on reddit'' Lmao

Next vid: non-stem students in stem classes.

"I am more of a python fan" I felt that

I hit the amazing sweet spot of being a STEM major who was also great at humanities. I’m an artist, musician, and writer, all of my talents were hobbies I just got really, really good at. My specific interests in STEM is focused on biology, especially evolutionary biology/paleontology. That eventually lead me to learn about anthropology which got me interested in ancient history. Ironically I got into philosophy through my love of science. Don’t worry. To balance it out i was also severely depressed throughout my who time in academia. I had terrible grades in most of those classes even though I understood and was good at everything.

My dad was a doctor. He said the easy class in premed was art appreciation. I went to an art school for graphic design. The easy class was physics and the one everyone feared was drawing class.

"How do we know we exist?" "Easy, we just accept the axiom that we exist"

I'm actually a STEM student with an exceptional passion for languages, and I can tell you that most of my STEM colleagues and teachers can't write for s**t. I'm talking about a "your a compatible blood doner" level of mistakes in actual written reports.

I was a STEM student, but I also studied business. While doing my masters, I worked as a note taker for a few students in the humanities. It was a weird experience.

As a STEM major who loved his non-STEM subjects too, I had a great time in my freshman seminar. There were a number of them, and they all focused on writing (they were basically about priming students to understand what would be expected of them going forward in terms of writing workload), but they placed all the STEM students in the same one that had the same sort of writing assignments but with a STEM-subject bent. We'd get all sort of casual "write a page's worth" single-night assignments that I would tear through, but before long I realized how much of a slog the whole thing was for a number of classmates. Fair enough, to each one's own, right? By the time I graduated, I had concluded that if my goal had been to get maximum enjoyment out of college classes I would have been a history major. Don't get me wrong, that "if" was not actually true and thus even retroactively I'd stand by my major, but that alternative track would have been like a vacation!

I hate how good you are at these

1:30 would have been killer if the professor responded, "No, m = 0 because what you wrote *_has no substance."_*

that "the fuck" got to me man. I relate so much. They spend hours talking about nothing. I read the super boring books and everything. But the difference of opinion with the teacher/professor usually got me a C tops. C doesn't betray you. It justs compiles and runs beautifully.

As someone with a degree in the humanities, I probably would've been just as much a fish out of water in STEM classes. I took a computer science class for one semester and didn't know what the f I was doing, and I only took the lowest-level math class required for me to graduate bc me + complex math = nope. Good thing we as humans vary widely in our strengths and interests, huh? Where would we be as a society without the humanities and where would we be without STEM?

“How many sig figs” triggered my fight or flight

“WHO is your weed dealer?” 😂😂😂 (Edit: why is my first comment with over 1K likes about drug distribution)

I'm getting a STEM degree and wish there was more of a focus on writing. So many scientific papers I read are horrible - they either over explain things in the most convoluted way or barely provide relevant details. Finding a well-written scientific paper is soooo satisfying 😌

I've noticed that people have an odd tendency to discredit any field of study they aren't personally good at. I was never particularly good at math, to the point I was actively failing math classes for a while, but I never thought math was a useless subject that wasn't worth teaching, nor did I think mathematicians weren't important to society. In fact, I have a lot of respect for them because they can easily do something I can't. However, I have met people who do think that mathematics is a worthless field because they personally don't understand it, even though that's not the case. The humanities get this sentiment all the time, especially from STEM majors, who don't personally understand how to engage with them, and thus write them off as meaningless. Just because you don't understand something, doesn't mean there's nothing there to understand.

As a Polsci Major I once sat in a STEM class and realized I couldn't just participate in an debate with the professor and other students about wars or public policies but actually had to have the same answer as everyone else in the room.

1:57 The author purposely chose the definite article “the” as opposed to the indefinite article “a” which clearly shows a determined and concrete thought or desire (I do stem and non-stem lmao)

Well, as a Fine Arts student whose older sister is a biomedical engineer, I have seen both sides, and I think what it comes down to is to be good - and I mean really good - in a field as a CAREER, you have to put in A LOT of work. Granted, what that work is extremely different STEM vs. art, but work is work. Recognize and respect that, artists and engineers!

As a STEM major who wants to be a teacher, writing a paper about the value of art and STEAM felt like this video at first. But now I’m realizing that art, scientific illustration, and creativity actually do play a role in creating a more accessible educational experience. Who knew?

i was a STEM student and I dunno... going to a non STEM class was actually a refreshing change

As an engineer, I actually found history and philosophy quite fascinating. It's too hard to predict the future with science, but looking back gives you a pretty good idea about what's gonna happen. Humanity has never changed.

As a biology major and current med student I was so triggered by the “sig figs” it brings back horrible memories from chemistry lol.

I did a Chemistry degree and it was funny when we were forced to take a Law class and every single student failed as we all thought it was stupid waste of time so the lecturer had to just give us an easy assignment so we could all pass and she said she hated us lol.

In Philosophy: OK, found the weed dealer. Best Line Ever!!

"You got an F." "But what is F, if not MA?" And you're the one asking someone else "who's your weed dealer"?

I somehow managed to ace two literature classes (one English, one Classic) and a Slavic History class as an engineer. My professors were just as clueless to the logic of the universe as I was.

Lol my professor sent a 32 pages PDF file to read just to answer 10 questions. I converted it to a word file and serched words and saved my life.

"OK. I found the weed dealer." That's quality writing right there.

Agreed on art history. A whole lecture was dedicated to Whistler's Mother and the only good part was when the teacher showed a clip of Mr. Bean ruining the painting. Another lecture we broke down some short film where an old lady sits in a chair and repeats something like "for herself, by herself, just a little like herself" or something like that. Can't remember how it went exactly only how I felt.

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At my school, the STEM kids taking their one French class to collect their AP credits outperformed the French majors in the same class.

Since "the " is a definite article used to refer to a specific object, the choice of the word "the" also indicates that the forthcoming object is something specific and important to the story. If used in relation to the protagonist, it is something they consider to be unique enough to be separated from the rest of the objects in their life. It could also be a signal to the reader that the forthcoming word is something that would to be universally understood as a unique object or concept. On the other hand, if the word after 'the' is neither specific to the character nor reader, it could be a means for the author to engineer confusion and thus interest in the reader. Regardless of the intention of the author, beginning a story with "the" signals to the reader that the words coming after are worthy of interest and curiosity. In this way, an author can more quickly immerse a reader into their story.

In literature class, the interjections like "tf", "wha", and "WHOS YOUR WEED DEALER" after some guy pulled random bullshit out their ass and the teacher lapped it up got me. I relate so hard to both of em

I’m an art history major and to be completely honest with you that’s kind of how I feel. It’s more interesting to read the textbook than to be in the class

As a guy who likes non STEM classes, as much as the STEM classes themselves, I found this to be funny as hell, the part with the art history class was the one I most identified with

2:12 “da fu*k” 💀💀💀

On my second semester I messed up and took the wrong class. The professor was very inspiring with an opening speech. Once he got into the topics I realized it was for petroleum engineers. I felt so stupid to leave adter being there half way thru so I stayed. And I had to take notes otherwise it would look weird. I was going to just pretend to take notes but that would be more stupid so I took real notes.

omg you summed it up so well... if i have to take one more literature class in my life i'm jumping from a window

As a CS major, the one on philosophy I'm not actually sure is accurate. One of the philosophy classes I took, "critical reasoning," talked all about how we make arguments, how we reason and how we come to logical conclusions. This was all actually very useful information in computer science, especially when it comes to proving things.

“What was wrong with my work?” “You didn’t interpret the question correctly” “I answered the question because that’s how it was asked”

My major has a weird mixture of STEM and non STEM subjects and my friends are all studying engineering so I alway love laughing at them when they struggle to write long texts or lack reading comprehension, it’s all good fun though and I really love both types of classes

FOR REAL. I'm doing a computers program and I just failed my first course ever, which was Business Mathematics. I'm doing great in all my computers courses but all the other requirements are absolutely tanking my GPA. University has been a huge struggle for me since I was used to having teachers breathing down my neck and forcing me to do my work in high school. Compared to high school, I'm doing really bad and something needs to change.

As an engineer- let me encourage you younger people to focus on being well rounded. You’ll find that when you’re the engineering expert member of your team, the rest of your team is more interested in your ability to communicate on their level. They hire you more often. You make more money. You have better job security.

the literature discussion is so real- i'm a computer science major now, and back in the 12th grade i took AP literature. i was really sitting there at my desk, doing actual math with the ages and timespans listed in Wuthering Heights to disprove the theory that Cathy's ghost could have been at the window

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As a STEM student, I LOVED non-stem classes. So easy, so many gray areas to expand with BS I loved it. The only things padding my GPA to graduate above a 3.0. Got a BS degree for a reason :)

A couple of years ago I had to take Econ 101 alongside my engineering classes, and the first day we were taught "what is a graph and how are they used". I've never rolled my eyes harder than that day.

0:59 that is a great programmer joke

I liked to use humanities electives as a chance to troll the professors. Telling a philosophy professor that postmodernism is just nihilism with extra steps wrecked him for like a month.

Liberal arts teacher: So studying my subject is a science. I don't think you know what that word means.

I remember it being exactly like this, I was in a japanese literature class, and I remember every time a character did something stupid and the professor asked why the character did that stupid thing, my answer in my head was because they are stupid, but other students seemed to come up with a more reasonable answer that makes sense.

When I was doing my chemistry degree, I was living with two non-STEM housemates. Our 3rd year presentations were all coming up at the same time, so we practised our talks on each other. I had no problem understanding their talks, usually just pictures of people with a few bullet points and the occasional quote, and I was able to ask some questions (likely amateur-sounding, but I got the gist). I gave my presentation, largely consisting of chemical reactions, graphs, tables and molecular models.... they were lost on the first page.

engineering major here and i’m in my element when i’m in non stem classes lol i’ve always loved english and also history so i wish i have more non stem classes in the future to balance out all the stem classes

I’d rather do any problem set than answer “what does the author mean by this” in a lit class 😐

As a stem student I actually really cared about these classes. These are the things that can make you more well rounded. Understanding history is extremely vital

I loved most of my other classes except English. I took ballroom dancing and it was 🔥

I feel like us accounting majors are in the middle. Like our major can get rough sometimes but it is not as complex as engineering and you don't need to be good at math to do it. I remember in a gen ed class I belive it was English class where me and my accounting classmates were the only practical major paying attention to the class and the biology and other stem majors were bored out of their mind. Fun fact, in one of my accounting classes the professor always curved quizzes and exams and would extend the due dates, if necessary. I don't think they would curve or extend due dates in stem classes. Comment me if I'm wrong.

As a great programmer friend of mine once said: "I never studied scientific subjects, I just understood them, all the hours I passed studying at home were for literature and philosophy, u can't escape that" and damn is that relatable (at least for me it is)

4:20 "seriously, if a 9.0 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter of my ass happened right now it would literally add value to my life. The fact that I haven't jumped out the window should alone win me the Nobel peace prize..." That's it, I'm a new fan ❤️

I recently changed my major from bio to philosophy because I hated the procedural algorisms all the STEM classes required. They require very little thinking, just a lot of memorization. One thing I will say though, the STEM majors who actually learned how to think out the whole integrated system- say of an animal cell- were far smarter than all the kids who just memorized the equation or diagram to get the grade. Philosophy is fantastic because it is all about the art and the logic by which you support you argument; there is very seldom a true answer. It actually compliments science really well because of this, as well as it backs the thinking of all the humanities. BTW, your LA and SS Profs don't actually mind if you give an altering opinion or conclusion to topics than what they have, as long as you reason your opinion out and check to ensure that you are not using a baseless or false argument or false premise(this is what gets most people) to said argument.

I took a Philosophy class in college and I have to say, “I found the weed dealer” is spot on. 😂😂

Stem: is my answer correct? Let's calculate and see. Literature: is my answer correct? Mmm yea I like you.. and yea.. I'm feeling it.

2:27 I can not relate more with the guy asking WHO IS YOUR WEED DEALER LMAOOO

i have a lot of respect for my STEM friends, and am even getting my masters in a more science based field, but i've noticed a lot of them don't have training with critical thinking, debating, or analyzing arguments, especially when it comes to large blocks of text. it makes me grateful that i was pre-law in undergrad and got my bachelor's in a social science. i have the best of both worlds now :D

I never had an issue in either the STEM side or the arts and social science side. I got A's in all my classes it's just a different way of thinking and applying yourself. I took everything from biology, chemistry, math and computer science to psychology, sociology, English, and philosophy and I usually enjoyed the arts classes more. These days I work as a computer systems analyst but I'm learning more in drawing, painting, and music and really enjoying having a wide range of topics to indulge in.

I am a STEM student in World Literature and Federal Government, and I can say this hurts because it's true.

I remember my Japanese history class I took as a STEM student. The TA essentially told us she'd grade our (me and my friends) papers easier because she knew we weren't history majors or something. A little condescending but an A is an A.

history major here: I have NEVER had a professor grade by length alone. That's just a recipe for us to ramble about whatever tangental thing caught our fancy (as the quote goes, "I could have written a shorter letter, but I didn't have the time!"

When I was in College for MechE I always remembered the non-stem classes as a great time to goof off. During Covid I have fond memories of playing Battlefield with my camera off while my Poly Sci professor spoke about the current political climate. Easiest A of my life.

I think it’s usually less about finding the classes boring and more about being frustrated the inconsistency of the class structure. I hated how subjective English classes were, even though I like English