Dear Science Students And Everyone Who Got Offended,
Here I am, again.
And I am here because there has been massive recoil on my previous post, which was also addressed to science students.
I want to make it completely transparent that I, in no way whatsoever, wrote it to degrade you lot.
My logic here is simple: you take pride in your subjects, so why shouldn't I? Sure, perhaps you are more interested in chemistry than I am, but do not shit on me and everything I believe in just because it's not the same as your beliefs and interests.
To the person who said "I am a science student because I achieved to be so." The whole point of this blog was to tell you, everybody, that dumb students do not choose arts because they can't cope with science or commerce. We choose arts because, just as you develop a keen interest in studying atoms or gravity or pressure, we find beauty in the way the mind works and society functions.
Yes, perhaps our textbooks aren't as thick or heavy and perhaps our portion only consists of 10 chapters, maximum. But that does not mean what we are studying is not important. In no way does it make us worthless or unable to contribute to society.
Think about depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia. Where do you think people with these disorders would be right now if it weren't for the multiple advancements made in the field of psychology?
Without economics and being able to study the per capita income or gross domestic product, without any knowledge of the supply and demand curves and inflation rates, without a proper understanding of the economy and needs of people, and without the ability to make economically efficient allocation of resources, it would be nearly impossible for nations to progress.
Every subject has it's own pros and cons.
I'm also not saying each and every science student is like this. But a majority of you are.
So if you're one of the few science students who does not consider arts inferior, I apologize for having generalized in my previous post.
I have seen several memes on the internet. One such that I saw quite recently, was one that said "I do not always talk to arts students, but when I do, I order large fries."
Does anybody want to take a wild fucking guess how many times I've been told "Drop out and be unemployed already. It's not like you have a lot of career options in the future with arts anyway"?
More times than I can count.
Oh, and the part where I say you don't enjoy your subjects? That I do apologize for, because that is not always true.
I just feel like we, as a community, have been conditioned to place science above arts even though it is not true. We have been told science is for the smart people and arts is for those who weren't smart enough get into science. Not true, is it? We are here because we chose to be here.
In conclusion, my blog was not written with the objective of making science students feel like shit.
It was only written so that I could defend myself for being an arts student, because apparently, that's what it has come to. I wrote it so I could defend myself against the discrimination that I, along with so many others, have been facing, so that finally, maybe we could see it come to an end.
Sincerely hoping I don't offend anyone this time,
An Arts Student
Here I am, again.
And I am here because there has been massive recoil on my previous post, which was also addressed to science students.
I want to make it completely transparent that I, in no way whatsoever, wrote it to degrade you lot.
My logic here is simple: you take pride in your subjects, so why shouldn't I? Sure, perhaps you are more interested in chemistry than I am, but do not shit on me and everything I believe in just because it's not the same as your beliefs and interests.
To the person who said "I am a science student because I achieved to be so." The whole point of this blog was to tell you, everybody, that dumb students do not choose arts because they can't cope with science or commerce. We choose arts because, just as you develop a keen interest in studying atoms or gravity or pressure, we find beauty in the way the mind works and society functions.
Yes, perhaps our textbooks aren't as thick or heavy and perhaps our portion only consists of 10 chapters, maximum. But that does not mean what we are studying is not important. In no way does it make us worthless or unable to contribute to society.
Think about depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia. Where do you think people with these disorders would be right now if it weren't for the multiple advancements made in the field of psychology?
Without economics and being able to study the per capita income or gross domestic product, without any knowledge of the supply and demand curves and inflation rates, without a proper understanding of the economy and needs of people, and without the ability to make economically efficient allocation of resources, it would be nearly impossible for nations to progress.
Every subject has it's own pros and cons.
I'm also not saying each and every science student is like this. But a majority of you are.
So if you're one of the few science students who does not consider arts inferior, I apologize for having generalized in my previous post.
I have seen several memes on the internet. One such that I saw quite recently, was one that said "I do not always talk to arts students, but when I do, I order large fries."
Does anybody want to take a wild fucking guess how many times I've been told "Drop out and be unemployed already. It's not like you have a lot of career options in the future with arts anyway"?
More times than I can count.
Oh, and the part where I say you don't enjoy your subjects? That I do apologize for, because that is not always true.
I just feel like we, as a community, have been conditioned to place science above arts even though it is not true. We have been told science is for the smart people and arts is for those who weren't smart enough get into science. Not true, is it? We are here because we chose to be here.
In conclusion, my blog was not written with the objective of making science students feel like shit.
It was only written so that I could defend myself for being an arts student, because apparently, that's what it has come to. I wrote it so I could defend myself against the discrimination that I, along with so many others, have been facing, so that finally, maybe we could see it come to an end.
Sincerely hoping I don't offend anyone this time,
An Arts Student
