Military Recruiting Ads Thread

[Random8145]

The old rib among history professors is that STEM isn't real education, it's vocational training, because of the mindset a STEM education produces vs. liberal arts.

IMO both are needed. People with only liberal arts and no technical knowledge can be utter morons of the highest order about certain things and the same for people with just technical knowledge but no liberal arts.

 

[exNavyOffRec]

Not a true statement. Roughly 35% of any given wardroom on a sub is non-stem, with no impact to career progression.

There's also no data regarding whether tech majors attrite from the pipeline at a different rate than non tech majors. Getting a B+ or better in the pre-requisite courses and having good SAT scores seems to sufficiently predict success.

Of note, the S in STEM doesn't count as technical as far as the nuke community is concerned, so something like a chemistry degree might as well be a BA in theater.

We had a good number of non-STEM on the CVN's I was on too. When I think back to my Reactor Officers I think 1/2-2/3 of them were non-STEM, I know one was History or English major and another one was an Education major, they were both outstanding RO's.

It did seem like most of the non-STEM came from USNA and NROTC. I didn't have many who I sent to DC for interviews for Nuke who were joining via OCS.

 

[Spekkio]

We had a good number of non-STEM on the CVN's I was on too. When I think back to my Reactor Officers I think 1/2-2/3 of them were non-STEM, I know one was History or English major and another one was an Education major, they were both outstanding RO's.

It did seem like most of the non-STEM came from USNA and NROTC. I didn't have many who I sent to DC for interviews for Nuke who were joining via OCS.

I was asked to derive the area of a circle.

It's really easy to pass interviews when the person conducting it is a pocket protecting nerd who treats you like you're retarded. The bar for exceeding expectations is low.