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)

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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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