Comments on: Weird Science

By: Yaniv

Yaniv — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:09:52 +0000

Powers - The sciences are rooted in the sensual experiencing of reality, whereas mathematics is a man-made method of relating things. They’re different.

Most schools agree with me, too, seeing as they use the term “math and science” rather than just “science.”

By: MQ

MQ — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:51:39 +0000

If y’all could get A’s in art and literature classes just by BS’ing emptily for pages on end, then you had some piss-poor (or grotesquely overworked?) art and literature instructors. If your teacher’s even halfway decent, then you kinda have to get it “right” in art and English too.

By: BlueRaja

BlueRaja — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:10:51 +0000

Yeah, I think it’s just making fun of art majors, something the author of SMBC does a lot (I believe he himself got a degree in art).

One of my favorite ones, from WAY back when SMBC was in black and white - it doesn’t seem to be archived anymore - was a comic in which a man was shopping at a super market and trying to decide between the low-quality toilet paper and the art degrees.
He ought to put those back up, he made some of his best comics back then..

By: GP

GP — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:32:23 +0000

I don’t think it’s about science being “harder.” I think it’s a personal thing, i.e. you (perhaps the cartoonist?) stink at science. The reverse joke could be made with an egghead-looking student holding a bad painting of a stick figure and the caption, “Reason #16 to get your degree in science.”

By: Powers

Powers — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:13:47 +0000

Mathematics is indeed a science, Yaniv. The proofs are logical instead of experimental, but it’s still about discovery and proving hypotheses.

By: Yaniv

Yaniv — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:35:37 +0000

Math isn’t a science.:p

By: Singapore Bill

Singapore Bill — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:31:22 +0000

He got an F because he is a stupid, useless goof who has nothing to contribute to society. Therefore, he should get an arts degree, because they are for stupid, useless people. The cartoonist probably has a science degree.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:07:51 +0000

Yaniv, if you think science is about memorising stuff then you haven’t met true science yet. It’s as much about finding new stuff out than being told new stuff. In maths (which I’m taking my degree in) you have to know it, admittedly, but then it’s a puzzle trying to figure out what to use where etc.

By: Yaniv

Yaniv — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:03:47 +0000

Science and arts are incomparable; the former deals with memorization, the latter with interpretation. Science is about knowing the material, whereas most art degrees deal with being able to create your own material. How difficult each is depends on how skilled a person is with either one.

I, for one, find both fairly easy.

By: Lindsey ^_^

Lindsey ^_^ — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:37:24 +0000

@Carl: ditto. I’m a pretty good BSer, which makes me fly by in English class. You can give me pretty much any situation and I can go on for pages about how it symbolizes oppression or whatever the hell the professors want. With science, you have to get it right. With English, you can BS your way through it.

I’m a French/Linguistics major, so it’s a mix of both. I get to BS in French and be literal with linguistics.