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- From: rapaport@acsu.buffalo.edu (William J. Rapaport)
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- Subject: Re: B.S. Degree
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 15:21:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.232802.22588@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> shanks@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Mark Shanks) writes:
- >
- >Well, the corporations think it matters. Go knock on the door at
- >GM, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, or Honeywell (and these are the ones
- >I know of) with a BA, and you will be given the bum's rush. It's
- >a corporate "cookbook" thing. No BS - no job.
-
- The companies I've talked to say that they don't distinguish between the
- degrees; so, probably some do and some don't.
-
- >
- >>I urge most students to go for the BA, since it requires them to know
- >>something besides CS and math.
- >
- >And BOY, do they need it. While at McDonnell, I was stunned to hear
- >the University of Missouri - Rolla grads brag that they never had
- >to read a book or write a paper. None of that "fuzzy study" shit
- >for _these_ geniuses. And it showed.
-
- This is an interesting inconsistency between your first comment and your
- second: companies want BS degrees, but they also want the "liberal
- education" that tends more to come with the BA degree; do I understand
- you correctly?
-
- >
- William J. Rapaport
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