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They've been encouraging people to pursue group 1 and group 2 majors for a while, and theoretically it was a mandate while I was there too. My plebe year academic advisor kept trying to push me into engineering, but I wasn't too interested.
There is a huge difference. We group 3ers took boats/EE/Thermo/etc. for stupid people. A common phrase was "Now normally we would solve a more complicated version of this problem with calculus, but we've simplified it for you guys." I suppose because studying history made me incapable of doing calculus. Insulting, but I wasn't exactly itching to do calculus.
On the other hand, when group 1 and 2ers lowered themselves to our level, they tended to carry themselves with a sumg sense of superiority and a general belief that non-technical studies were pulling them away from more important things. So I suppose the dislike went both ways.
As for the technical majors being important because the Navy is technical, well, maybe in nuke school or some such thing. I don't need to know how to do circuit analysis to understand the electrical system, and I don't need to be able to calculate all the various numbers (I use that phrase because I don't remember what the name of said numbers are) to understand my engine. Certainly physics helped, but two semesters of electrical engineering?
On the other hand, Renaissance Literature was probably pretty useless too.
There is a huge difference. We group 3ers took boats/EE/Thermo/etc. for stupid people. A common phrase was "Now normally we would solve a more complicated version of this problem with calculus, but we've simplified it for you guys." I suppose because studying history made me incapable of doing calculus. Insulting, but I wasn't exactly itching to do calculus.
On the other hand, when group 1 and 2ers lowered themselves to our level, they tended to carry themselves with a sumg sense of superiority and a general belief that non-technical studies were pulling them away from more important things. So I suppose the dislike went both ways.
As for the technical majors being important because the Navy is technical, well, maybe in nuke school or some such thing. I don't need to know how to do circuit analysis to understand the electrical system, and I don't need to be able to calculate all the various numbers (I use that phrase because I don't remember what the name of said numbers are) to understand my engine. Certainly physics helped, but two semesters of electrical engineering?
On the other hand, Renaissance Literature was probably pretty useless too.
