Prestige

 We all grow up with biases. Some are bad, some are ugly, and some are just plain idiotic.

I am no exception.

Ranked from highest to lowest prestige, here is the ranking of academic fields based on the biases I picked up growing up in the USSR. Over-simplified and incomplete. This is so wrong, but somehow so fun…

1.   Math

2.   Physics

3.   Medicine

4.   Chemistry

5.   Biology

6.   History

7.   Philosophy

8.   Literature

9.   Art

10.  Psychology.

Specific to my family:

• Music (classical…. Like concert pianist, or piano teacher) – pretty high up, but not quite as high as math.
• Sports, ballet, rock climbing, contemporary music – not even on the scale, only OK as a hobby.
• Business (like running a business, having your own business, etc) – completely off-scale alien concepts.

Dear reader, please feel free to share (or complain about) biases when it comes to career or academic fields of study.