I've been back in school for exactly five days since my year-long experience as a Professional Intern, and while I'm sure this has been around for much longer than I've realized, I've noticed that there's a stigma around people enrolled in majors that are historically difficult where they believe that because they're in a historically difficult major, that they're suddenly superior to everyone else. Things that I've heard over the past five days include gold such as "Oh, he's just a business major.", and "I wish I had as much free time as a(n) [insert focus of study] major." (I've heard it with "business", "art", "archaeology", and "biology").
This idea of being superior because of some preconceived notion that people don't work as hard as others in school is appalling. There is no such thing as an easy major in college; simple as that. The concept of higher education was founded on the premise of challenging excelled students and expanding their scope of knowledge by means of rigorous curriculum, and to attempt to invalidate someone's education because they feel he/she isn't being challenged equally is asinine.
The pursuit of higher education is all about passion. Attempting to reduce it to something as systematic as difficulty is an entirely incorrect view. Statistically, people are better at something they find interest in, while struggling with tasks and topics they have no interest in; so if someone looks like they're actually enjoying college, it's probably because they enjoy their field of study and didn't choose their major based solely on a reputation of difficulty or the average income of graduates. Someone's major doesn't reflect on their personality, and to judge them based on it is a narrow-minded take on reality. Life is all about doing what you love and following your dreams and doing what makes you happy. As my mom always says: "You do you Scotty P." - We're the Millers.
This one goes out to all the engineering majors that inspired me to write this rant: If you have a similar need to invalidate people solely because of their passion to learn about a different topic of education from you, then please transfer to a different major, university, or plane of existence. The rest of us don't have time to put up with your intolerance or the negative reputation you're thrusting onto us. You're making us all look bad.