In the Nov. 6 column, "Uncle Mark says: how to declare a major," Mark Larson sure does a great job of bashing some of the best majors on campus. If the majors offered were useless in the real world, the administration would not approve them. Larson deliberately belittles the College of Business Administration and the College of Engineering. When someone starts insulting the decisions and choices that lead to my future, I have a problem with it.

The College of Business Administration is ranked in the top 50 undergraduate programs in the nation-how can anyone come along and say that we are the ones who come to college to be rich or because we thought we had to come? Some of my friends in the college are the most intellectually curious people I know; they always want to go beyond the theory of class in order to gain a deeper understanding and a real world application of materials.

Another point to ponder is how a few of the introductory business courses match up against some of the toughest courses you will find on campus. If we are that stupid, why do we have world-renowned companies SEEKING OUT Marquette College of Business Administration graduates?

The low blows to the engineering majors are not funny either. Let engineering majors have an ego if they want to.

Last time I checked, engineers aren't writing poems or novels, so who cares how well they can or cannot write? If they are able to design innovations that make the world a better place, they've succeeded in my mind! Without engineers, there would be no Marquette Interchange connecting highways, and most definitely no intricate details in the architecture of our buildings like that of Cudahy Hall.