"sooooooo.....what's your major?"

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your undergrad degree only

had to condense the list so don't complain if yours isn't on it, hell, mine isn't and I made the poll. pick the closest thing and explain. still vote if you didn't finish.

double majors pick uh whichever one you liked better

betting for the winner goes on below, early money's on 'english'

Poll Results

Option	Votes
English	44
Philosophy	15
History	12
Computer Science / Computer Engineering	12
Political Science / International Relations	12
Art	9
Psychology	8
Mathematics / Statistics	7
Film	6
Creative Writing	5
Foreign Language and Literature	5
Biology	4
Music	4
Business / Finance	4
Economics	3
Graphic Arts / Media Arts	3
Journalism	3
Chemistry	3
Law	3
Linguistics	3
Chemical Engineering	3
Anthropology	3
Theatre / Dance	2
Physics	2
Ethnic and Regional Studies / Gender Studies / American Studies	2
Electrical Engineering	2
Aerospace Engineering	2
Architecture / Landscape Architecture	2
Urban / Regional Planning	1
Bio(medical) Engineering / Biochemistry	1
Mechanical Engineering	1
Fashion	1
Agriculture	1
Religious Studies	1
Accounting	1
Classics	1
Health Sciences	1
Communications	1
General Studies / Liberal Arts	1
Geography	1
Civil Engineering	0
Education	0
Sociology	0
Forestry	0
Archaeology	0
Geology	0
Astronomy	0
Atmospheric Studies / Meteorology	0
Marketing	0
Environmental Studies	0

― iatee, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:05 (sixteen years ago)

chemistry. which is lol because i couldn't even remember year 8 chemistry now if i tried

― w/ sax (electricsound), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:12 (sixteen years ago)

english

― akm, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:12 (sixteen years ago)

modern culture and media - born from the english department as the semiotics department, then got renamed as it incorporated film and television studies

― what happened? I'm confused. (sarahel), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:15 (sixteen years ago)

music

― tehresa, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:15 (sixteen years ago)

english will win btw

― This is the day when fisticuffs happened everywhere (country matters), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:16 (sixteen years ago)

technically, "applied music - voice" which means "vocal performance"
xpost

― tehresa, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:16 (sixteen years ago)

journalism

― Local Garda, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:17 (sixteen years ago)

should have done english

― Local Garda, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:17 (sixteen years ago)

was there unapplied music?

― what happened? I'm confused. (sarahel), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:17 (sixteen years ago)

think they call that 'music theory'...

― iatee, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:18 (sixteen years ago)

economics and political science, i chose the former

― Marrakesh and Ashley Olsen (m bison), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:19 (sixteen years ago)

yes, or music ed
xpost

― tehresa, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:20 (sixteen years ago)

english, the gnarliest of all majors

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:20 (sixteen years ago)

xxpost: just curious whether "composition" was considered applied music

― what happened? I'm confused. (sarahel), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:21 (sixteen years ago)

poli sci

― wow heaven is cool (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:21 (sixteen years ago)

forestry will lose.

― what happened? I'm confused. (sarahel), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:22 (sixteen years ago)

fuck forestry

― iatee, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:22 (sixteen years ago)

everything but 'applied music' is just called what it actually is:

* Applied music (performance)
* Composition
* Jazz studies and contemporary media
* Music education
* Musical arts
* Theory

― tehresa, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:23 (sixteen years ago)

why is forestry so hated?

― what happened? I'm confused. (sarahel), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:24 (sixteen years ago)

law & politics, picked politics duh. shoulda taken english lit.

― lex pretend, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:24 (sixteen years ago)

i don't hate forestry.

― tehresa, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:24 (sixteen years ago)

what does jazz have to do with contemporary media?

― iatee, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:24 (sixteen years ago)

I was a double major in philosophy and english: this added an extra year to my undergraduate education.

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:25 (sixteen years ago)

there should be a tandem poll- "are you happy with the major that you picked?"

― wow heaven is cool (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:25 (sixteen years ago)

don't ask me!
i think they should all just be renamed "bachelor of music in you will never earn a decent living"

― tehresa, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:25 (sixteen years ago)

lol xpost!

― tehresa, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)

jazz and twitter studies

― iatee, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)

(Music history/musicology should also be on that list, obv.)

endless xposts I'm earning a living BTW.

― Sundar, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)

english

― fuck bein hard, BIG HOOS is complicated (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)

there was no undergrad musicology major, grad only.
my sr year they added an extra certificate you could get in 'world music studies' or something.

― tehresa, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:27 (sixteen years ago)

xp tehresa - that's refreshing compared to where I got my undergrad degree, where it felt like the sensibility was to rename common majors such that one would often have to explain what it was.

― what happened? I'm confused. (sarahel), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:27 (sixteen years ago)

so far it seems like music might be giving english a run for its money.

(maybe I shoulda used a different phrase...)

― iatee, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:27 (sixteen years ago)

At my college "popular music criticism" was offered as an ethnomusicology class.

― what happened? I'm confused. (sarahel), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:28 (sixteen years ago)

A fellow literature and philosophy person here.

― Bob Six, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:28 (sixteen years ago)

lol wtf!
xpost

― tehresa, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:29 (sixteen years ago)

english

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:30 (sixteen years ago)

okay contest over english is gonna win

― iatee, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:30 (sixteen years ago)

math but i have forgotten 95% of it in just 3 yrs :(

― HHooHHHooHH-oob (harbl), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:33 (sixteen years ago)

just imagine how much math those of us who haven't taken a math course in almost 20 years have forgotten!

― what happened? I'm confused. (sarahel), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:34 (sixteen years ago)

a lot%

― iatee, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:35 (sixteen years ago)

history

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:35 (sixteen years ago)

Philosophy aka degree in not-giving-a-fuck-and-just-talking-shite-and-only-going-to-three-lectures-a-week

(started doing maths and switched because I decided I'd rather read stuff and wanted to be challenged. I wish I'd just done a degree in something I understood and could pass exams in and stuck to the challenging reading in my free time)

― ailsa, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:35 (sixteen years ago)

Currently in journalism, will probably switch to, like, ENGLISH

― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:37 (sixteen years ago)

xp alisa: tempted to classify my major as "creative writing" because there was sure a lot of bullshit, pulling-things-out-of-one's-ass going on.

― what happened? I'm confused. (sarahel), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:38 (sixteen years ago)

in retrospect, would've gotten degree in studio art and/or geography

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:39 (sixteen years ago)

yeah i would have done geography or linguistics. i really don't like math anymore.

― HHooHHHooHH-oob (harbl), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:39 (sixteen years ago)

sarahel did you go to brown?

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:40 (sixteen years ago)

i liked physics but my school's physics BS was 5 years, no thx

― HHooHHHooHH-oob (harbl), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:40 (sixteen years ago)

xp tracer hand: Yes, yes I did. Put me in the category of current college tuition at alma mater exceeds current annual income.

― what happened? I'm confused. (sarahel), Sunday, 15 March 2009 23:41 (sixteen years ago)

Skipping 205 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

i think she's just a bad and lazy writer. i mean, maybe that's the same thing.
^^yup.

oh, god, you even understood *that* from spivak?

ha, safe to say daria that i prob butchered even that pretty badly. thought i understood a bit when i read 'can the subaltern speak' but yea, not really. god reading that was so brutal

― mark cl, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 02:32 (sixteen years ago)

what happened to rrrobyn does she still post here?

― mark cl, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 02:33 (sixteen years ago)

that's the thread where rrrobyn says that essay is "in her files" <3

xps

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 02:33 (sixteen years ago)

Weird how all three mentions of Geography thus far have been would-haves. I am proud to represent the haves. I am rooting for you, my beloved non-rocks and chemicals oriented Earth Science major!

― Duderonomy 1:69-420 (iiiijjjj), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 02:37 (sixteen years ago)

Can I just
boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

― ZS1983 (Z S), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 02:37 (sixteen years ago)

hahahaha

― tuppence b. bag (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 02:39 (sixteen years ago)

yah where is rrrobyn???

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

these days

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

Biology and women's studies; I voted biology (not that women's studies was on the list...).

― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 03:21 (sixteen years ago)

Oh, and the explanation: I was a pre-med who was interested in particular in women's health. (And now I'm picking up that nursing major so that I can do something about it... hopefully.)

― Sara R-C, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 03:22 (sixteen years ago)

shit is missing "fine arts"

― ambience chaser (S-), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 04:14 (sixteen years ago)

mine was english but i voted 'aerospace engineering'

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 04:16 (sixteen years ago)

was politic science but switched midway through my senior year to asian studies after the department wouldn't let me do the thesis I wanted. alas, not an option in the poll.

― Super Cub, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 06:10 (sixteen years ago)

yah where is rrrobyn???

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:00 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

twitter afaic

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 06:33 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

lolllllllll

― iatee, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:02 (sixteen years ago)

demographics!

― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:05 (sixteen years ago)

even less science than I expected

― open up a cat of whup-ass (dan m), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:06 (sixteen years ago)

Holy shit. I am amazed. What the fuck do you guys do for a living???

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:22 (sixteen years ago)

Is this just an ILX thing?

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:23 (sixteen years ago)

would imagine that ilm had even more writers, if anything

― iatee, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:24 (sixteen years ago)

peace to my histoire brethren.

― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)

^^ represent

― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:27 (sixteen years ago)

film, but i prob care about movies less than most people here these days...

― Vaclav Havel mostly. (Matt P), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:32 (sixteen years ago)

such a waste of free college

― Vaclav Havel mostly. (Matt P), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:32 (sixteen years ago)

you could have been building america's bridges

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:33 (sixteen years ago)

I'm the only accounting major :^[

― wilter, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:39 (sixteen years ago)

I guess it was super boring and barely useful at all 'in the real world'..

― wilter, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:40 (sixteen years ago)

haha. kinda shocked at only 1 classics major, though.

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:41 (sixteen years ago)

i considered classics for a bit!

― yes threads (country matters), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:42 (sixteen years ago)

haha. kinda shocked at only 1 classics major, though.

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, April 14, 2009 6:41 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

....Laurel?

/gbx.xls

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:44 (sixteen years ago)

civilisation is doomed if a deadly virus strikes the planet to which only ILX users are immune.

― Prince of Persia (Ed), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:46 (sixteen years ago)

Happily there won't be any marketing peeps tho

― wilter, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:48 (sixteen years ago)

wait is that a Hitchhiker's joke?

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:50 (sixteen years ago)

you'd be amazed at what english/humanities grads turn to xp

― yes threads (country matters), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:50 (sixteen years ago)

ahem, and music majors!

― tehresa, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:51 (sixteen years ago)

also, attn sara and asian studies dude:

Ethnic and Regional Studies / Gender Studies / American Studies

― tehresa, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:52 (sixteen years ago)

who is the other physics major?

― caek, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 23:54 (sixteen years ago)

we need more ilx geologists

― lorax enforcement officer (electricsound), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 00:54 (sixteen years ago)

forestry was robbed

― velko, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:02 (sixteen years ago)

;_;

surprised at lack of sociology majors!

― tehresa, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:07 (sixteen years ago)

yeah I was about to write that actually. I wouldn't have been surprised if that had been one of the top 3-4.

― iatee, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:11 (sixteen years ago)

surprised by the strong maths showing

― caek, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:13 (sixteen years ago)

math = science's english major??

― iatee, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:19 (sixteen years ago)

― someone who is aware how stupid the net is (harbl), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:20 (sixteen years ago)

science's english major is definitely biology anyway

― someone who is aware how stupid the net is (harbl), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:20 (sixteen years ago)

well i didn't vote but if i had, mark 1 down for "Atmospheric Studies / Meteorology "

― fucken cumlord (omar little), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:20 (sixteen years ago)

eschatology

― someone who is aware how stupid the net is (harbl), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:20 (sixteen years ago)

my final year was all atmospheric physics and astrophysics, so you could put me down as half for those two, but my degree says "physics"

― caek, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:22 (sixteen years ago)

btw i didn't actually study Atmospheric Studies / Meteorology

― fucken cumlord (omar little), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:23 (sixteen years ago)

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