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Re:Stanford's Most Popular Major Is Now Computer Science by hkmurakami on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @09:57PM (#4197243)
If people pursue a discipline because "the industry is hot", rather than because of genuine interest in the subject or enjoyment of learning / improving, bad things happen to them when the industry inevitably cools down.

I think about the CS majors during the times of the .dom boom, or the architecture majors during the housing/construction boom, and wonder how many students were stuck with a degree that was difficult to find a job with, and were not inherently interested about in the first place.

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Re:Stanford's Most Popular Major Is Now Computer Science by cluda01 on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @10:43PM (#4197352)
The approach to problem solving you acquire from any rigorous scientific endeavor will benefit you for the rest of your life. These benefits will probably still apply regardless of whether or not you go on to be a practitioner.

I suspect we can find more than a few data points here.

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