Not really. They have distinct, logical rules which you only need to apply in order to solve problems. What is hard is trying to guess what an English teacher wants, when the rules (if they exist) are malleable and obscure, and no two teachers have the same grading standards.
Of course, I got a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology, and would never consider getting even a BA in English.
I could substitute any soft subject here and still be accurate.
The problem is "You can't learn organic chemistry emotionally. " Our children today are not taught to use their logical minds.
Rather than gather facts and then make a decision, they make a decision and search for the facts to support it.
I think the point and purpose to college anymore is the hard sciences. Math, chemistry, physics, engineering. Liberal arts has degraded to the point of just being a piece of paper that has lost a lot of value.
I am a lawyer who flunked high school chemistry and had to have a tutor over Christmas break. I hated chemistry and I hate moles to this day. Some people have a mind for hard science, some people think straight in the realm of law.
You nailed it there. I graduated from college as an engineer, but had to take the mandatory English and other classes. In my first English class, the professor asked, "Who here has not read the Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn books?" I reluctantly raised my hand. Her reply was that it was too bad, since I had missed one of the great joys of childhood.
In my next English class, I was required to write an essay on, get this, "the role of the Mississippi River as a God", in the Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn series. Now, I'm convinced to this day, that Twain had no plan to write about "the role of the Mississippi river as a God". He planned to write something to make some money. He wrote about the Mississippi since he grew up along its shore.
The motives and analyses of century later professors are simply their own motives, not Twain's. It is not possible to guess what the professor was actually looking for. I graduated, though, so I must have gotten an acceptable grade. It was probably a B, since I had absolutely no interest in studying hard for an English class. The other thing I remember from the class was that we had to read a William Faulkner book. Faulkner was absolute the worst author I have ever read. He used no punctuation, no capital letters, and no logical order. The professor praised his "stream of consciousness". I deplored his gibberish.
My daughter discovered she had a knack for chemistry in college, getting her BSN from George Washington University with a 3.4 GPA.
Of course, she wasn’t some kid fresh out of high school. She enlisted in the Army and served for six years so she could use her GI Bill, became a licensed Paramedic, earned two Associate degrees (AAS in Emergency Medical Services and AS in Biology), transferring her credits to GWU.
She’s now a CEN working at a Level I Trauma Center.
Now THAT is a something...right there!!
Exactly. All anyone needs to do to do well in chem is work the problems at the end of each chapter. Unfortunately most students would rather blow a doobie than actually do homework and learn something. Chem is rational and logical just like Math. Anyone can excel in either if one is willing to take the time to do the work. I have zero sympathy for the lazy.