You mentioned having a certain point of view towards "easy" majors - something that can be considered from the point of view of the Hamlet quote on good or bad being decided by thinking.

"Easy" majors are often judged by the ease of getting a high grade. Yet, politics - the job of allocating limited resources among a population - is incredibly complex, despite most considering themselves to know at least enough to engage in political debate, and despite the clear evidence that we're not doing so well allocating those resources.

Somehow, technical fields, which often have concrete solutions that are bounded by certain immutable physical laws - something where a solution is so "easy" it can be discovered, tested, and confirmed -- have been determined to be "hard".

Yet the hardest problems we face - those around combatting hunger, improving mental health, discerning valuable information - come from academic fields that are considered "easy".

Maybe the mind makes it so, and therefore we don't recognize that traditionally "easy" academic fields deserve better than a disdainful judgment.

We have rockets that can take us to other planetary objects, but we cannot feed our whole population. Which subject is really the hardest to solve?