I agree that some humanities fields can be brutal if they don't like what you had to say about something, but based on what my wife tells me (her degree is in sociology) it has more to do with if they like you personally. When she was going for her degree as long as she had a good raport with the prof she was golden, but if she differed with them on ideals or something she couldn't do anything right. While it gets me frustrated how she could do reports on books from reading the preface and get an A, at least in me CS degree I was either right or wrong based on fact and not some underpaid bitter little man's opinion of what was right.
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I agree that some humanities fields can be brutal if they don't like what you had to say about something, but based on what my wife tells me (her degree is in sociology) it has more to do with if they like you personally. When she was going for her degree as long as she had a good raport with the prof she was golden, but if she differed with them on ideals or something she couldn't do anything right. While it gets me frustrated how she could do reports on books from reading the preface and get an A, at least in me CS degree I was either right or wrong based on fact and not some underpaid bitter little man's opinion of what was right.