• pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’m very confused as well. Some universities do have ridiculous requirements though. I was planning on being a veterinarian and had to take politics classes. I switched to IT and was required to take general chemistry.

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      8 months ago

      40 years ago at UCLA, I had to do my FORTRAN programs on punch cards submitted through the batch system. The CS/Math department (no CS department then), only offered 1 section in FORTRAN with 40 others in PASCAL. And it was taught by an Engineering professor. Why would a Chemistry major take a computer science class? Remember all those shiny machines CSI uses to do forensic analysis? They came from chem labs.

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        8 months ago

        I get if that’s what you want to get into, but if I was aiming to be a Linux System Engineer (like I currently am), I’d never chemistry.