Here’s another interesting question from the anonymous app:
Thing is, I’m not seeing that. My most curious, sensitive and deep-thinking students tend to double-major in Spanish and computer-sci, Spanish and Chemistry, Spanish and pre-med. The students (always male) who’ll show up at my office to talk about poetry, history, and society are pretty much all future programmers. A new computer-sci major came today, and by the look of it, I’ll see him in my office now constantly. They are all very interesting guys with a wide range of interests.
Curiously, the discipline that absolutely despises foreign languages is English lit. English majors never take our courses beyond the required Beginner level. A double major in English and Spanish is more rare than a giraffe in the Arctic.
And this is completely off-topic but it’s very sad that female students never go to professors’ offices just to chat. I go down the hallway and see a male student chatting with a prof in every other office. Female students will only come with some nitpicky question about a grade but it’s the beginning of the semester, so grade worries haven’t begun.
I literally remember the last time I had a female student show up to express her thoughts about philosophical issues. It was 2011, she was older than me, and had a schizoaffective disorder.
Getting back to the subject, my husband is a quant. The friend I’m the closest to here is a Computational Chemistry professor. And the colleague who drives the whole campus crazy with philosophical musings is a physicist. Maybe I’m very lucky but I’m not seeing one-dimensional, boring science people.
We also have some great science types participating on the blog, by the way.
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