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To: trubolotta
You're right: my sister is a liberal arts major, although we tried to steer her into physics and mathematics.

After just one year in U.Va.'s history and anthropology departments, she now believes that the U.S. is very racist, that there are "problems" here that need "fixing"...before we begin to "fix" the "problems" of the world.

As an engineering student, I do learn mathematics. Hell, all of us do...we all have to cover calculus; many have to cover differential equations, linear algebra, probability, and discrete mathematics. Computer science and engineering majors at U.Va. are only 2-3 classes away from an applied mathematics minor and 4-5 away from a mathematics major.

153 posted on 06/17/2007 8:48:06 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Sic Semper Tyrannis ~ No Amnesty for Incumbents * WAHOO WA! ... UVA2009 * Fred Dalton Thompson 2008)
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To: rabscuttle385

Congrats and good luck. I’m an engineer and went through the same math courses. The college I attended in 1966 had a “humaniities department”, one of the first in the nation for an engineering college. It was basically a collection of agitprop courses. The few that didn’t spew hatred for this country were pretty good.


157 posted on 06/17/2007 8:55:53 AM PDT by trubolotta
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To: rabscuttle385

Oops, just saw your Post 153. I also was an engineering major (Georgia Tech). Being an engineering major, I was able to avoid quite a bit of academia’s leftist brainwashing. However, I did have one engineering professor who lowered my grade from an A to a C because I dared question how many women’s deaths would it take before the FDA banned mifepristone.


375 posted on 06/17/2007 1:40:04 PM PDT by Hoodat ( ETERNITY - Smoking, or Non-smoking?)
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