what is the OMGKEWLEST major for a young person to major in these days?

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is it still Entymology or has it changed

― iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

yeah. It's entymology. Go for it.

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

Naah, it's etymology now.

― StanM, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

endocrinology

― gbx, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Entomology

― Tom D., Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

intelligent dance music

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

Emo-ology.

― chap, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

animal husbandry

― Fluffy Bear, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

Speech Impedimentology

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

My friend who was in the individualized / interdisciplinary study college w/ me @ NYU majored in TIME TRAVEL

― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

computational aspects of neurological modeling

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

English Literature

― Jenny, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

phrenology

http://www.iddl.vt.edu/rcd/accessibility/images/workshop/rule_a/phrenology.gif

― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Enigmatology.

― Casuistry, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

scatology

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

frippertronics

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

french horn

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

meteorology. srsly -- weather is BADASS

― gbx, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

numerology

― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

<i>My friend who was in the individualized / interdisciplinary study college w/ me @ NYU majored in TIME TRAVEL</i>

Gallatin? my friend majored in "Identity."

― poortheatre, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

oh. yea. nu-ilx

― poortheatre, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

Gallatin indeed. Mine was "Politics & Theatre."

― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

at my school double major combinations are cooler
math & art is pretty common and nerdy, but art & environmental studies is sexy

― Maria, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

sexy like a filthy hippie

― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

SHORT LIST:

CREATIVE WRITING
ANESTHESIOLOGIST
SALMON FARMER
GUITAR TECH
DENTAL ASSISTANT
OR GET YOUR DEGREE, YOU CAN MAJOR IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT OR IN ACCOUNTING

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

ooh speaking of salmon farming, also environmental engineering according to some other thread = money + activist points. environmentalism is SO HOT these days!

― Maria, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

guitar pedal builder (read: electrical engineering)

― kingfish, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

middle eastern studies surely

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

excersise science

― g®▲Ðұ, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

middle eastern studies is popular...for tools

― Maria, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

Divinity
Qabalah
Theology
Sorcery

― elmo argonaut, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

Dr. Hibbert: I'm afraid your playing days are over my friend, but don't worry, you can fall back on your degree in--Communications? Oh dear Lord!

Luchenko: Da I know I know it phony major. Luchenko learn nothing, NOTHING!

― nickalicious, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

immobilarity

― Edward III, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

harry-potterology

― Ms Misery, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, i think most gayatri spivak fans are tools, but i think i'd be in the minority in my collegiate universe there

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic

― Heave Ho, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

vollmann studies

― Edward III, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

there are also schools without middle eastern studies depts, i see

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

uh since when do middle eastern studies majors read spivack?

if I could have been disciplined and learned the recquisite math in college, I would have loved to major in evolutionary bio.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

Cock-blocking.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

ilxography

― Edward III, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, i guess my spivak-worshipping friends were english/anthro people, but i thought she had classes zoned in our unwieldy middle east (including india?) dept in addition to english. anyway, i wasn't paying much attention to that universe, even though i was doing lots of (inter-departmental) asian civ.

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

I really think the only people who pay attention to Spivack are lit studies people, which is probably as it should be. and her moment is pretty much over, even among them.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

fuck you haters. english and comp lit are the best majors, and spivak is an intelligent woman whose books, despite my disagreements with them, are worth reading. her translation of of grammatology sucks, though.

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

I never said she wasn't smart! she needs an editor and I just don't think she's said anything particularly useful since "can the subaltern speak?"

max, I'm the englishiest english major evah.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

You want tools, go to Politics and IR. and Economics. and kinesiology.

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

guys, english sucks

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

FUTURE STUDIES srsly

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

guys, english sucks

gabbneb on Wednesday, March 7, 2007 5:11 PM (1 minute ago)

PISS OFF

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

I think he was kidding?

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

whatd you major in, gabbneb

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

LETS HOPE SO. DONT MAKE ME HIT YOU UPSIDE THE HEAD WITH MY COPY OF THE COLLECTED WORKS OF TOBIAS SMOLLET

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

basketweaving

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

HOW'D YOU LIKE THEM PEREGRINES PICKLED, MO'FUCKER?

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

this is one of those things where im going to get really invested and mad at everyone for insulting my major and not realize that theyre joking and then look at it tomorrow and be like, "why did you bother?" and then ride my bike into traffic, isnt it?

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

basketweaving + asian civ is cooler than english, i guess

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

more like prelaw + asian civ

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

Max, I hope this doesn't sound really condescending, but you remind me of myself when I was an undergraduate. I miss having that kind of enthusiasm about our discipline.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

as bad as a lot of lit majors are i dont think theres anything worse than IR kids (or "DWA" kids, as the department is called at my school)

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

prelaw

LOL

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

HEY. :p

― jessie monster, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

dude you're a lawyer right? you'd have to be with those shoes

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

whats yr major jessie

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

― jessie monster, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

IR.

― jessie monster, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

DON'T TALK TO ME.

― jessie monster, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

i wish your major was "xpost"

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

wow this non xpost thing sucks balls

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

you are just mad I can pretend my major is useful.

― jessie monster, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

ha ha im sure youre very pleasant (my roommates are IR and politics, respectively, and are very nice guys). i just say that cause i was gonna do IR and then i took one class and the people were such vagina-cleaners that i almost threw up.

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

yeah there are a lot of dummies in IR.

― jessie monster, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

to be fair there are a lot of 'wads in english and comp lit too. but if i have to watch one more goddamn movie about human rights or another fucking student-run forum about the middle east im going to buy one of those knife-dildos, seven style, and bleed out the whole fucking department.

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

right now I am a computer science major but I say fuck that. I don't know what I want to do though. I will consider Salmon Farmer though.

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

there are lots of wads everywhere

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

On this earth, for instance.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

English - Creative Writing w/Pop Culture Studies Minor

I will rule life.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

yeah steen they just built an English factory down the street. u might wanna check it out.

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

You might want to duck before my collected words of Tobias Smollet hits you in the jaw.

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, well, they built a computer... science... factory down MY street.

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

10k english majors with 10k typewriters for 10k years will make 0k dollars

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Tobias_Smollett_c_1770.jpg
COMPUTERIZE THIS, CURT1S

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

i doubt most english majors care about $$$ too much. stupid generalization, but hey, the internets is full of those.

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

english majors?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

it's also really not news to those of us who were English majors that we're not making any money, but thanks!

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

TOBIAS SMOLLET

is that how you spell it? i read Humphrey Clinker in an english class i took just for fun - it was pretty good! i got an A on a paper that was mostly about camping out for phish tickets.

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

horseshoe, we're brethren! just comiserating is all.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

I plan on marrying into money when I drop out of graduate school. Also, I think there's two "T"s in "Smollett."

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

Garrison Keillor http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2005/01/15/scripts/poem.shtml Louis Jagger.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, English majors :(

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, it's cool, we brought it on ourselves.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

I was just repeating a dumb joke that I heard on That 70s Show, I'm probably going to dump this shit-end school and go to a lib arts college anyway

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, that was supposed to say "GK *sounds like* LJ."

― jaymc, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

curt1s come to liberal arts we just have threesomes and smoke pot all day long also drum circles

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

ahahaha I already do that here though!!!

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

oh wait that's not what I was implying though

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

"though though though..." gah I am completely out of it today

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

YES

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

i know--i was just trying to entice you to our side

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

But really I didn't mean to imply that I think liberal arts college is easy or anything!!! I just feel completely out of place here in geekland

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

xpost all righty

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

ONE OF US ONE OF US

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

liberal arts school is just like "reading rainbow" but without levar burton

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

i go to a fake liberal arts school though, our science depts arent a joke and we have a football team.

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

also not enough wite kids

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

but without levar burton

SIR YOU JUST LOST YOURSELF A CUSTOMER

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

t/s levar burton vs thomas smollett

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

The show's original theme song was written by Steve Horelick ( the series music director and composer) and Janet Weir and was recorded by singer Tina Fabrik. It was used until 1998. Classic episodes with the original theme song and some of the original sponsor tags, were shown on some local PBS stations between 1999 and 2002. A new version of the theme song by R&B legend Chaka Kahn has been used since 2000.

^^^
Is that true? Has anyone heard the Chaka Kahn version?

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

i do not care how many t's there are in smollett, as i am posting on the internets, not writing a paper.

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

IL N'Y A PAS DE HORS-TEXTE, MONSIEUR QUE

― max, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

ALSO I WAS POSTING IN ALL CAPS WHICH CALLZ FOR FUNNIES MISPELLINS

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

max, where is dat? that sort of sounds like *cough* oberlin.

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

"not enough wite kids" sounds like Oberlin?

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

I guess I did miss[pell it 1nce when i posted in noncaps, but again, I couldn't care less.

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

I have a friend at Gallatin who is majoring in Radical Political Sculpture. or at least that was the last i heard. i think he now majors in hanging out with pseudo-famous gay people at magazine parties. him:
http://photos-563.ak.facebook.com/ip005/v40/60/83/800514/n800514_32362563_13.jpg

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, i haven't seen him since 2003.

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

i think he might have been being sarcastic about the wite kids.

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

The Olsen twins "go" to Gallatin!

― g®▲Ðұ, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)

i live 25 minutes away from gallatin!

― gbx, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

(canyon)

― gbx, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

a canyon is a division of sorts

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

it is a division of big hills

― gbx, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

no, sorry guys--0ccid3ntal, in Los Angeles, where Barack Obama went before he transferred to Columbia. And I was serious, sort of, abt the wites--we are one of the "most diverse" schools, whatever that means (when I go visit friends at other skools its like watching "Friends" in the rural northeast with more ecstasy and fewer hot chicks). we're also urban (well, as urban as you can be in LA) so that makes us, uh, atypical. but i like it here! i almost applied to oberlin but i probably wouldnt have gotten in (not that i got in anywhere i applied anyway).

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:09 (eighteen years ago)

I'm another NYU grad although I wasn't at Gallatin. I did English Lit/Creative Writing. Heh. I did, however, have a lot of Gallatin friends with some fantastic majors but I am pretty sure that Time Travel is better than all of those combined.

― ENBB, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

Time Travel friend I think had an independent study in his chosen major, I think -- it was called "a psychotic meltdown."

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

I propose a double major in String Theory and Modern Dance might be considered cool.

― Sara R-C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

Today's OMGKEWLEST is to drop out three credits shy of a degree. Bonus points if you go to grad school anyway.

― milo z, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

otm

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:44 (eighteen years ago)

xpost to Sara R-C

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:44 (eighteen years ago)

did someone mention english ;_;

― unfished business, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:45 (eighteen years ago)

otmology

― walterkranz, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:49 (eighteen years ago)

Today's OMGKEWLEST is to drop out three credits shy of a degree.

Shit I was doing this back in '98.

― walterkranz, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

I almost majored in the French horn. I chose scatology instead.

― molly mummenschanz, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:54 (eighteen years ago)

how many college-aged ilxors are there? me, curt1s, jessie, hoosteen, louis... who else?

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:54 (eighteen years ago)

define college-aged

― milo z, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

i meant "in college," i guess, not "college-aged."

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:56 (eighteen years ago)

I am in college, but not "college aged."

I graduated in 1994 with a double major in biology and women's studies. It was a popular combination at the time (I don't know about "cool," though). Currently picking up a nursing major (now that I'm 35!). Not cool, but practial.

― Sara R-C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 02:12 (eighteen years ago)

haha Facebook ILX Group! [/not really]

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 March 2007 02:14 (eighteen years ago)

the modern culture & media kids is totally omgkewl

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/MCM/undergraduate/art-semiotics

― daria-g, Thursday, 8 March 2007 02:18 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of time travel, a whole section of this thread gave me serious deja vu just now.

― jaymc, Thursday, 8 March 2007 02:18 (eighteen years ago)

Those who do not .xls history are doomed to repeat it.

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 8 March 2007 02:20 (eighteen years ago)

is there a facebook ilx group??

― JW, Thursday, 8 March 2007 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

FUCK i do kinda wanna do that brown program cause i'm a semiotics douche that mourned baudrillard.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 March 2007 02:48 (eighteen years ago)

Not to my knowledge.

There [b]is[/b[ the L0uis "Jigger" Jagger Appreciation Society though!!!

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 8 March 2007 02:55 (eighteen years ago)

lolitics

― lfam, Thursday, 8 March 2007 02:55 (eighteen years ago)

fuck typing a ]

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 8 March 2007 02:55 (eighteen years ago)

I almost joined the Jigger Jagger Society!

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 March 2007 03:00 (eighteen years ago)

heh heh.

― the table is the table, Thursday, 8 March 2007 03:01 (eighteen years ago)

i wish i had majored in in lolitics.

btw, creative writing sucks shit. the only reason i am okay with finishing my major or going back to school at all is because this guy is advising me:
http://www.oberlin.edu/english/images/fac-photos/desales.jpg

― the table is the table, Thursday, 8 March 2007 03:04 (eighteen years ago)

dreaminess aside, he has a deep sonorous reading voice, has great taste and knows his shit, is friendly, AND had a super-raunchy affair that made his wife divorce him. sweet.

― the table is the table, Thursday, 8 March 2007 03:05 (eighteen years ago)

dreaminess aside, he has a deep sonorous reading voice, has great taste [...] AND had a super-raunchy affair that made his wife divorce him.

was the affair with you?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 March 2007 03:06 (eighteen years ago)

no. some ugly english bitch who is really into victorian lit.

― the table is the table, Thursday, 8 March 2007 03:08 (eighteen years ago)

he read a poem at reading that contained the line "'say your wife's name when you fuck me'"

― the table is the table, Thursday, 8 March 2007 03:09 (eighteen years ago)

i am in college twice

― gbx, Thursday, 8 March 2007 03:10 (eighteen years ago)

i kid dood, i kid!

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 March 2007 03:13 (eighteen years ago)

i understood that. i just thought i should explain. he gave up a beautiful though frosty wife and two beautiful kids and a dog for some viclit woman. i mean really, what a martyr.

― the table is the table, Thursday, 8 March 2007 03:15 (eighteen years ago)

louis this is pretty awesome

For all those classic yard football "i've waited four years to play in this direction!! you're all miserable little sods!" moments, the hiding naked on microwaves, the necrophilia poems, the passion for KOC, the arrival at the 1sts vs OWW cricket match in spite of its cancellation, and the steady evolution of as much a Westminster institution as Mohan is a College one.
Louis, come back.

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 04:04 (eighteen years ago)

can we make the jigger appreciation society the new facebook ilx group?

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 04:05 (eighteen years ago)

i might have to be in agreeance to this.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 March 2007 04:22 (eighteen years ago)

truck driving, obv.

― ian, Thursday, 8 March 2007 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.lunargifts.co.uk/wallrug%20pics/35%20TRUCKERS.jpg

― ian, Thursday, 8 March 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

an ilx facebook group? i can just see the tagline: "ILX - where the elite meet to put each other down."

― lfam, Thursday, 8 March 2007 04:53 (eighteen years ago)

OMG truckers nevah forget
xpost

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 March 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

id join an ilx facebook group but i dont want my friends to know i spend this much time on an internet message board

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 06:56 (eighteen years ago)

haha OTM

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 8 March 2007 07:07 (eighteen years ago)

all my friends already know, if only because they're all, "where do you get this shit?" and i have to explain.

then again, two of my bros are already on here, so that only leaves a few....

― the table is the table, Thursday, 8 March 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

i always just say 'internet'

― lfam, Thursday, 8 March 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

ditto

― gbx, Thursday, 8 March 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

I propose a double major in String Theory and Modern Dance might be considered cool.

i took a PoMo dance class at NYU and we spent a few class periods talking about string theory.

ARTISTS STAY AWAY FROM SCIENCE YOU KNOW NOT WHAT YOU SAY.

we bounced around on the floor and pretended like we were the most fundamental unit of the universe.

― poortheatre, Thursday, 8 March 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh I hate dance classes like that. I had a modern dance class in college where we talked some about anatomy, but we spent most of the class rolling around on the ground, trying to feel like starfish. It was seriously annoying.

― Sara R-C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

Holy crap. I don't think I'd be able to keep from laughing if I was told to roll around on the ground and try to feel like a starfish. I'd probably have to excuse myself from the room.

― ENBB, Thursday, 8 March 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

Modern dance classes of that sort are full of ridiculous metaphors. If you want to pass the class, you just do what they say. I'd been in enough dance classes that I didn't find it funny, just aggravating. (That was a second level modern class - the third level was awesome - very serious, hard work. You had to pass second to get to third, so...)

― Sara R-C, Thursday, 8 March 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

Brown is for hippie fags.

― jessie monster, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, I said it. I'm the new Ann Coulter.

― jessie monster, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

but do you do PIE?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

I have more resentment for liberal arts majors than a social science major can rightfully have. Let's talk about my hatred of philosophy majors. Which is like English in that all its majors either a) don't care about money or b) will be supported by their wealthy parents/trust funds for the remainder of their lives, but philosophy majors have the added bonus of being self-obsessed douchebags.

― jessie monster, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

but those IR majors, SALT OF THE EARTH I TELL YA

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

I'm at university, but I'm 26. English & Philosophy, so passe.

― emil.y, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

the social sciences are contained within the "liberal arts," dude

― gabbneb, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

"liberal arts" does not equal "humanities"

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

the social sciences are contained within the "liberal arts," dude

gabbneb on Thursday, March 8, 2007 4:14 PM (4 minutes ago)

I know, I was being facetious/ironic/whatever the cool thing for college kids to be is.

elmo is right that "humanities" is probably more applicable though.

IR just suffers from being popular (at least here), therefore more dummies than unpopular major. Let's face it, our generation is made entirely of narcissistic whores. NYT told me so.

― jessie monster, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

no, but it pretty much comprehends the humanities. wikipedia, for instance...

The scope of the liberal arts has changed with society. It once emphasised the education of elites in the classics; but, with the rise of other humanities during the Age of Enlightenment, the scope and meaning of "liberal arts" expanded to include them.

― gabbneb, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure we all hate business majors!

― jessie monster, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

hate and envy

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

there are none on ILX because they are all busy making money.

― jessie monster, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

Majors I hate (at my school):

Psychology (dumb)
Kinesiology (dumb)
Cognitive Science (not a real science)
Philosophy (won't read anyone after Hume)
Politics (republicans and ex-CIA agents)
DWA/IR (free marketeers and neo-liberals in the guise of compassionate human rights advocates)
American Studies (barely exists anyway)
Art History & the Visual Arts (film and studio art emphases)

Majors I like (at my school):
English & Comp Lit
Religious Studies
Critical Theory & Social Justic3 (took two of the top ten classes in the Young America Foundation's "GAYEST LIBERAL CLASSES EVER" list)
Art History & the Visual Arts (art history emphasis)

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

also I kind of like the History dept.

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

where you go school?

― jessie monster, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

doesn't anyone take math at your school?

― horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

0ccid3ntal Coll3ge

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

"Math" falls under the category of "Majors I don't care about."

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

altho i have a close friend who's a genius math major and a genuinely nice dude.

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

math majors are pretty neat people!

psych majors are women who want to pop out a baby right after college.

CS majors are more into their major than anyone else I know.

my school's IR majors are a pretty varied bunch...we have programs oriented towards different aspects of IR, so we get everything from hardcore environmentalists to rightwing capitalists.

― jessie monster, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

wtf is a "neo-liberal"??

― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

it's an economics thing.

― jessie monster, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

Let's talk about my hatred of philosophy majors. Which is like English in that all its majors either a) don't care about money or b) will be supported by their wealthy parents/trust funds for the remainder of their lives, but philosophy majors have the added bonus of being self-obsessed douchebags.

i'm about to graduhate in may with degree in philosophy and theatre. i thinks the combination makes sense (esp. for understanding the greeks... at least this is what i tell myself), but now the theatre kids think i'm pretentious and the philosophy kids think i'm a tourist.. there are definitely douchebags (scoffers that never speak in class), but they're outnumbered by blow-hards (take up 50 minutes of prof's office hours when i just need his initials on my schedule) and tools (try to turn class into meditation hour and allude to the Matrix). hm, maybe i am a tourist.

― poortheatre, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

it's sort of a way to say "classical liberal" that is intended to piss off seattleites and britishers

― lfam, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

think chicago

― lfam, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

psych majors are women who want to pop out a baby right after college.

MRS degree

― poortheatre, Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

poortheatre, yeah, I get similar. The English kids do tend to respect philosophy, but the philosophy kids don't hold much truck with my namby-pamby flouncing or critical theorists.

― emil.y, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

― emil.y, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

Jessie, you're missing the (c) option for English and philosophy majors: law school. (Both offer a pretty appropriate grounding in the kind of thinking you'd be expected to do in law school; in a classicist sense they're most of the exact actual training for becoming a legal thinker!) (Point taken that majors in those fields around you might not be planning on law school, but you know, talk to them in 7 or 8 years.)

― nabisco, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

i prefer "NECRO-CAPITALIST" to "neo-liberal"

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

My pre-law friends are all majoring in History or Politics--but I guess it depends on what kind of law you want to go into (I'm guessing that the kind of people who know that they're going to law school are mostly con-law or business law types).

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

Or Int'l Law

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

necro-capitalist is misleading because it focuses entirely on the economic side of liberalism and ignores the politics

― lfam, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

emil.y--I think that's why I hate the philosophy kids so much; I'm always willing to talk to them abt Spinoza or Heraclitus or whoever but mention "Derrida" or "Foucault" (or even "Nietszche" with some of these fucks) and you get a scoff and an eye-roll.

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

Without getting into an argument that I wouldn't know how to have, I think people who use "necro-capitalist" in, say, academic journals instead of message boards or bowling alleys would say that the "politics" and the "economics" of liberalism are inseperable. BUT THAT'S WHAT ENGLISH MAJORS DO. NITPICK.

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

Also of course part of the value of any degree is just as a signaling device -- denoting the ability to think at a certain level (and function in certain class and social environments, really) as much as actual training in any given thing -- and so, well, this works better with prestigious name schools, but something like a philosophy degree functions pretty hardcore in that sense. You'll find people with philosophy backgrounds (often Ph.Ds, but still) in the high levels of plenty of random fields that just seem to call for "smart" rather than specific skills (e.g., lots of administrative stuff -- they seem awfully well represented among, say, university presidents).

― nabisco, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

dumbest college pres we've had = psychology prof; smartest = comp sci/engineer (stick with it curt1s, you could be president of my school someday!)

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, all departments seem hella vocational these days - nobody really expects anyone who does philosophy to become a thinker/academic, but rather a management type. Which fucking kills me - all I want to do is think. I'd say it certainly seems more useful for jobs than English, though, as it is a bit sterner and more rule-based (very rub description there, but you get what I mean); the two types of thinking can be quite incompatible at times.

― emil.y, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

Depends on what type of English department you're talking abt! But you're right; there are way more football-players-destined-for-middle-management in the English dept at my school than in the Philosophy dept.

― max, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

ok i skipped a lot here but y'all have obviously never met "business" majors. this place is crawling with them because people aren't actually interested in learning and think that having a college degree equals more money automatically. my roommate takes classes in "management" and "management systems" which involve doing group projects and talking about harley's new branding strategy. these people are idiots.

econ majors are at least learning something. business majors are learning how to be toolbags.

― gbx, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'm always willing to talk to them abt Spinoza or Heraclitus or whoever but mention "Derrida" or "Foucault" (or even "Nietszche" with some of these fucks) and you get a scoff and an eye-roll.

but this isn't as bad as vapid, hiptellectual comp-literati types who consider the frankfurt school to be the sine qua non of, er, critical thought; self-described lacan scholars that have never read freud, etc..... my roomate is perfect example: "huhuhu, zizek has an essay called 'on yuppies reading deleuze'.. soooo funny." he's talking about YOU, honey! did you ever verify your assertion that socrates ghost-wrote all of plato's books?

― poortheatre, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

gbx, my roommate is in the school of management (she's an accounting major). I know ALL ABOUT IT. #1 complaint from friends of mine in management school is the number of kids who do fuck all because they know they're guaranteed a job at their parents' company making 300k and not doing anything (for fear they would break something).

necro-capitalist is misleading because it focuses entirely on the economic side of liberalism and ignores the politics

lfam on Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:07 (29 minutes ago)

mehhhhhhh neo-liberal only refers to the economic side of liberalism, no? I mean, there are politics to it, but those politics come out of the economics.

― jessie monster, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

1) i actually know a lot of nice comp-lit majors.

2) i'm not a good philosopy student. or very smart.

― poortheatre, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

there are definitely douchebags (scoffers that never speak in class)

I DATED ONE. it did not last long.

― jessie monster, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

haha, i think the school of management in montana is a bit different from boston.

people don't own companies, for starters

― gbx, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

3) scorn for roommate includes her inability to do dishes/garbage/litter box/unplugging space heater next to stack of magazines when she leaves the house.

― poortheatre, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

so what, it is just college for dummies?

― jessie monster, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

― jessie monster, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

My double in English/Phil and a minor in Soc was actually recommended and endorsed by an advisor when I told him I wanted to do grad work in semiotics.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

CS majors are more into their major than anyone else I know.

Haha no kidding, that's why I'm considering changing majors, because I don't give a shit like everyone else seems to!!

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

i wish i had been a classics major : (

― poortheatre, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

poortheatre(major)

― poortheatre, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

nah, it's not all for dummies, not at all, but there's a lot of empty-headed 'business' types that think they're majoring in "getting a job." meanwhile, the people actually getting jobs are their engineering buddies who actually know stuff.

none of my roommate's buddies actually seem engaged by whatever it is they're learning. they're just doing it to fulfill the social requirement of getting a degree.

(bear in mind, i'm making a LOT of sweeping generalizations that could be very fairly pointed out as elitist/classist bullshittery. that being said, i think paying money to learn about harley's branding strategy is a total and unbelievable waste.)

― gbx, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

guys, majoring sucks

― gabbneb, Thursday, 8 March 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

whereas: the art kids and the CS majors and the agriculture majors and even the whiny pre-meds (HAHA) are at least doing stuff they're interested in.

that being said, it took me until late junior year to realize that i should have doubled in CS/studio art

― gbx, Thursday, 8 March 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

but yeah, majoring sucks. be a generalist if you can.

― gbx, Thursday, 8 March 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

if there is to be an ilx facebook group it could be a secret group and thus avoid the OMG SHAME of your friends being interested enough to scour through your groups and view them one by one.

I DATED ONE. it did not last long.

my own experiences with female philosophy students are terrifying and woeful.

― unfished business, Friday, 9 March 2007 00:22 (eighteen years ago)

most people in CS act really into their major because they got no sk1lzz and they frontin

― THIS PIECE, RENDERED IN 1992-ERA CONSUMER-GRADE SOFTWARE, FEATURES A COMMENTARY , Friday, 9 March 2007 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

the thing that bothers me about philosophy majors, more than any other major, is how they talk as though they deeply care about life and understand critical thought, while everyone else lives on a shallow level they couldn't IMAGINE going back to. the arrogance! also, when one says something along the lines of "wow, i guess some good hard labor was just what i needed to balance my hyperintellectualism" while washing dishes for five minutes, that's pretty insufferable, even if they are otherwise lovely people.

― Maria, Friday, 9 March 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

wiat, is the ilx-facebook group a joke? if so, I KNOW RITE? LAME

(if so, i will join it)

― poortheatre, Friday, 9 March 2007 06:31 (eighteen years ago)

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