I've noticed... I'm in Computer Information Systems personally, since our school doesn't have an IT degree. And much like IT (especially since most business owners don't know the difference between CIS and IT), you'd expect to be doing a lot of stuff with computers. All but like 6 of the classes are just straight business classes. Economics, Stats, Accounting, Finance, Marketing... It's so irritating because it's the degree I need to pursue to get the kind of job I want, but instead I'm learning information that I will never use...

I totally feel your pain! *hugs* :c

It sucks to learn, but it ends up being useful. Good luck!

Shut up and be happy they teach you stuff. I can guarantee that next to anything in math will eventually come in useful when you're trying to make stuff work. I got a bachelor of arts and later had to learn all those matrices, vector products, quadratic bezier functions and all that statistical analysis stuff on my own with no help or structure... Those were some dark and ugly days. :D

This guy likes his math! You might team up and together fight with crime. :3

I went through the exact same thing when I went through computer science in the university... what's with all the MATH?!?

I remember in college, having to take "Engineering Analysis," allegedly all the math an engineer needs to know. My major was Electrical Engineering, but the Analysis class exclusively covered the math for civil engineering. We learned all about integrating over the force exerted on a dam face, but signal analysis? Frequency detection? Comb filters? Not a thing. I got excited when we got to Fourier transforms, until the teacher informed me that FFT's are used in electrical engineering. Going to learn anything about those? Sorry, no.

I don't mind math in IT, but there ought to be heavy emphasis on binary masking, BCD and floating-point math. You'd get less system libraries coming out where 1.0 divided by 4.0 equals 0.249999999999938