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exboyfil

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6. Maybe math major jobs are capped out but
Tue May 15, 2012, 11:05 PM
May 2012

lots of growth potential for math heavy majors like engineering (has got to be they want to further expand the H1B Visa program (sarcasm alert)).

They say math, and I think math is important. More important is science especially the ability to detect B.S. I have been amazed by even trained engineers that do not flip an envelope over and determine if something really can be true. An understanding of the world requires an ability to quickly evaluate things. It is a skill which can be taught. It ranges from simply understanding the difference betweeen a million and billion (and now trillion) to how much is spent on what at the federal level.

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