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by WalterBright 654 days ago
The worthless college degrees are the "gee, math is hard" ones.

At Caltech, you could get a soft degree, but you still had to pass 3 years of math, 2 years of physics, and 1 year of chemistry. There weren't any "weeder" versions of them, either.

P.S. I could work the quantum mechanics problems, but was uncomfortable because I didn't understand QM. Years later I learned that nobody understands QM, they just know the math works :-)