Everyone usually attends college for the same group of reasons: to enhance learning on a subject you favor, to experience the stereotyped life of parties and drinking, to get paid more than those who don’t attend or because it’s what everyone else is doing.
Just like in any environment, biases based on competition emerge.
A select group of majors, such as engineering, science and pre-med, are known for believing that they have harder tests, grading scales, courses and material to learn. Comparing grade point averages between majors isn’t possible, however, because of the heavier burdens they have to endure.
Engineering majors alone will take an average of 128 to 132 hours and are required to take calculus, physics and chemistry their first semester on campus. They are also the only college at the University with a complex flow chart outlining required courses and prerequisites needed.
Majors that don’t appear as complex from their titles — such as kinesiology, studio art or communication studies — receive the stereotype that getting a major in said fields is easy.
Studio art freshman Patrick Lebas agreed.
“People think we color in books and draw pretty pictures,” Lebas said. “We take foundation classes and go through materials before getting to actually produce