Juggling Diversity

A survival kit for Newcommers to Jacobs University Bremen

How to recognize a major from far away May 6, 2008

Filed under: How to recognize a major from far away — Survival Kit @ 10:04 pm

Photo by Duncan Blair

Here’s some tips on how you can tell someone’s major without asking him or her:

Is the subject :

a) unshaven and spaced, walking around with a stack of homework and glasses falling off the bridge of his nose ? EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computational Sciences)

b) have a faraway expression and lost in thought about the universe ? HTAL (History and Theory of Art and Literature)

c) part of the IRC furniture ? IPH (International Politics and History)

d) cracking math-related jokes and laughing at them while others look confused ? MATH

e) chemically analysing Aramark food in terms of molar masses and organic structure ? CHEMISTRY