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Originally Posted by soccerchamp76
In my personal opinion, there must be a balance in social vs. academic life. Too much social will obviously result in lower grades, and too much academic will result in possible depression and/or burning out.
That being said, there are different majors that require an altering of the balance, per se. For my major (Chemistry), the balance is favored quite heavily toward the academia side of the scale. That is what Friday and Saturday nights are for.....partying. Next semester, when I add in quantitative analysis + lab to my schedule involving physics and organic chemistry, the balance will shift even further.
The main concept here: sacrifice. There are the people who party for 4 years with a general business degree, and end up with a lower end job. Then there are the people who study and go to grad school/law school/med school, study for a bit further, and pull of some rewarding jobs with high salaries. Sacrifice is what it is about.
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Yep. Well said. Although, there are some fallacies there.
For example, alot of us engineers like to trick ourselves into believing that our 4 years of true hard grind will result in higher salaries than the business guys and the other majors. Ok, we probably beat out the humanities, and we probably have a higher starting salary than business majors, but these guys will still earn more in the long run.
They have more chances to rise up, they get promoted faster, and basically they out-earn engineers very rapidly. And guess what? They got to have a relatively stress-free, social, dress-up-everyday-and-meet-your-fellow-pretty-classmates life, and party and have fun! how sweet is that...
So yeah, for you, that chemistry degree is also hard and grueling, and you might pull a higher starting salary than those party-hardy business guys, but hey, they'll still earn more than you in teh long run.
Life isn't fair, heh.