The Daily Beast: "Mechanical Engineering Is Useless"

Despite all their recent robot media hype, Penngineers are getting no love. Luckily, most of them are used to it.

The Daily Beast has compiled a list of the 20 most useless degrees, and while English and Art predictably made the cut, Mechanical Engineering Technology actually ranked higher than either of the aforementioned majors, topping the list at number 8. The biggest slap in the face, however, is the accompanying picture, which features one of Penn's very own GRASP projects, the robot pitcher.

We'll just see if the folks at The Daily Beast (all of whom, of course, received degrees in linear algebra) are still singing the same tune when their computers mysteriously melt down next week. Nobody messes with the Penngineers. Nobody.