What was your jump from a levels to uni like?

No STEP it might've helped improve my mathematical ability by a lot

I was struggling with algebra, but have been done with that since last semester.

Been struggling with analysis the past two, barely passed the first semester and not sure I'll pass the one I sat this time. Also struggled with an accounting module. I have no one to blame but myself, for my laziness and lack of interest but oh well, lessons learnt for the future.

Yes we do have to make arguments, yes we have to justify what we are doing, have you heard of a literature review, we have to do those sometimes, which includes a review of the journals and other written publications to our research. No one is question the calibre or accuracy of your degree, but what i am challenging is your assumption that just because you are doing a male degree, makes it anyhow better than a female one. In another world i could have done a maths based degree, and gone in to this realm, however life happened, and i ended up taking sociology single honours, and then adding a theatre studies minor to it after the first year.

Again you are doing a good stem degree, which is rewarding and challenging. And degrees which are stem, clearly are more subjective and less scientifically rigorous by their very nature. All of this you can take for a given.

But what i refuse to accept is your presumption that STEM is somehow superior to English, and theatre, and sociology and psychology and the humanities by it's very nature.

Thats like saying a PhD graduate is not a doctor, because they have not done medicine. Actually a phd student is a doctor, just a different specialism. Having a phd is above a bachelor's degree. In fact any phd, assuming it's not a really pathetic one, is better than any bachelors degree, stem or whatever. Would you agree with this statement at least>?

All I've seen so far is you two keep making assumptions about my views. I've never said that I think what I'm doing is superior at all. That's purely assumption on your path because me saying social sciences are not real sciences isn't me saying I thing my degree is better.
I feel like your insecurities are coming off in this argument and has nothing to do with me.

I've never said anything about male and female degrees or phds and not being a real doctor, that's all you and I have no idea where you're coming up with these things from.

All I've seen so far is you two keep making assumptions about my views. I've never said that I think what I'm doing is superior at all. That's purely assumption on your path because me saying social sciences are not real sciences isn't me saying I thing my degree is better.
I feel like your insecurities are coming off in this argument and has nothing to do with me.

I've never said anything about male and female degrees or phds and not being a real doctor, that's all you and I have no idea where you're coming up with these things from.

These were analogies. (Do you need for me to explain to you what that word means as well? It's definition?)

Somebody who claims to be doing an expert degree, but doesn't even know basic English. Sounds about right!??

Yes, I know they were analogies but I have no idea why you brought them up because nobody was talking about medicine or doctors or social sciences being female dominated and stem being male dominated so they came out of the blue.

Your attempts to belittle me aren't working.

I'm not attempting to belittle you.

Okay let's reverse engineer this argument, into the ad hominem which is typically used in these debates.

I have a wife of eight years, and a step daughter who i have supported for the last three. I have been a homemaker for five years, and am also an author and recovery schizophrenia patient for over ten. In 1997 i broke my neck and was in a coma for ten days, being three on the life reading scale.

And you have done a stem degree. Big whhoopie hoo,

Again, I'm saying I feel like your insecurities are coming off in this debate and it has nothing to do with me.

All the other stuff you said is relevant how?

ii reverse engineered an ad hominem attack. in other words put my own trials up against your degree. And i comparison doing an engineering degree is a walk in the park i'm afraid. Try rereading what i wrote thanks.

This is the second time you have failed to grasp the meaning of my posts. Which again suggests that whatever they teach you at your university, it does not fully develop the mind and character/consciousness i'm afraid.

When we do a degree we are expected to grow as characters and individuals, also becoming adults and more fully rounded people in the process.

And don't just say 'i don't see the relevance of this'. Go read a novel.

What are you talking about, of course we have had to learn theories and apply knowledge. But it goes further than that. You are expected to use your initiative, and actually develop original and interesting ideas and contributions to your thesis. Which is something that places these subjects, above pure science i'm afraid.

No STEP it might've helped improve my mathematical ability by a lot

I was struggling with algebra, but have been done with that since last semester.

Been struggling with analysis the past two, barely passed the first semester and not sure I'll pass the one I sat this time. Also struggled with an accounting module. I have no one to blame but myself, for my laziness and lack of interest but oh well, lessons learnt for the future.

What university are you studying Economics at?

Isn't that just making an argument for your case because surely you'll have to justify why you're doing what you're doing.

You're wrong, design in engineering requires a lot of creativity and it's not something you would find in a book so again you're talking about things you don't know about. You keep saying pure science as if you're trying to avoid engineering but it's a part of STEM too and science in general.

i don't agree with this. not at all