Speaking of brain-dead people....

[Hell's Bells]

Tells me it's a sh!t-load easier to earn a degree at dUMb than it is at MSU. Can't have one without the other, 2002. Reminds me of my brother-in-law who would've needed 2.5 more years to get a Business degree at MSU but got one at dUMb in 2 SEMESTERS...

Sorry Gato, but I'm going to have to slightly call b/s on this one (I say "slightly" because I don't doubt that the story is technically true, but there has to be more to it than what you've told us).

First let's start with a basic truism: at any school, business is not that difficult of a major. I'm not knocking it; accounting was my undergraduate major, and I certainly respect my own education, but compared to law school and my LL.M. program, it was a walk in the park, and would have been had I gone to MSU, Harvard, or anywhere else. It's just not that difficult of a discipline, regardless of the institution.

The reason I say this (knowing that I will surely face the wrath of an overly-sensitive business student somewhere who is reading this) is to make the point that no one, at any school, should truly need more than four years to finish an undergrad business degree. Anyone who spends more than four years to finish such a degree must have either (1) changed majors, (2) double majored, (3) transferred from another school and lost some credits in the process, (4) failed some courses along the way, (5) not taken certain required courses when they were offered, thus getting themselves off schedule to graduate on time, or (6) not gone to school full-time. (There are probably other scenarios I'm not thinking of, but you get the idea.)

Anyway, my point is, I don't know your brother-in-law's story, but there has to be a reason why it would have taken him so long to get a degree from MSU, and it has nothing to do with one school's curriculum being "easier" or "harder" than the other's. Maybe he changed majors; maybe he missed some required courses that were prerequisites for others that he needed, and he was able to get them more quickly at UM than at MSU, etc. At the end of the day, the bottom line is that the basic requirements for a business degree at both schools are comparable, and neither is that difficult.

Pssst. Dude! We're supposed to be out there telling anyone who will listen how hard accounting is. If everybody else figures out that a reasonably disciplined monkey can do it, we're screwed!

[In a loud, booming voice] So as I was saying, although my Chem E classes my freshman year were tough, things went to a whole new level of difficulty over the next four years plus a summer during my time pursuing the holy grail of academic achievements: an accounting degree.

[when hb graduates from college with his cs degree he can probibly say the same dang thing....damn calc classes!]