what was your "major" in university/college

interesting how engineering hasn't been broken down. mechnical engineering, electrical engineering, and chemical engineering are all different things.

+ civil engineering

phrenology

xp yeah i had guessed that those were the big four but there are too many others i wouldn't know how to deal with (software, bio, energy, etc.) + regional quirks (many people here are in mining engineering ¯\(°_o)/¯) for me to feel comfortable dividing it up like that

History ;_;

English specialist, film major, philosophy wipeout.

doubled in engineering. electrical and aerospace.

voted computer science but I went to a hippie school where I designed my own major so I did smatterings of philosophy, cognitive science, crit thy, blah, w/e

Middle English Lit + American History

LOL "art school" ;_;

Philosophy

history, but i was/am america's worst student

^^^ badly practiced history

Looking back, I'd like to have doubled in a language, maybe French.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqiMfPe6U7g

we've done this, haven't we? English lit, would do history or sociology if I had it to do over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqiMfPe6U7g

Law. Would probably have done something different had i known how little use it was going to be but it was interesting all the same.

journalism

we've done this, haven't we?

― horseshoe, Monday, 3 September 2012 14:42 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i couldn't find it

English.

but probably should've been a business major

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

lol ilx and such. let's see how demographics shift over a few years.

I graduated from a college (The Evergreen State College) that did not have majors. So, 'other'.

political science/Econ double B.A., tho I will be dong an educational administration M.A. in the next few years

other science program (not physics/chem/bio) but if i could go back i'd do english then go to med school

wouldn't it be easier to go to med school w/ a sci ug?

nb: idk

BEng Electrical & Electronic Engineering followed by MSc Electronic Circuit Design & Manufacture. I now work for a utility but don't really do anything that is too directly relevant to either.

If I could go back I'd do something different. Maths, economics or architecture, not sure.

went to film school aka "you are making a mistake with your life"

arts degree may as well have been clown college as far as my family & their friends were concerned.
"arts? like painting?"

Voted for Computer Science, but that's what I should have done. What I actually did was C0mputer Inf0rmation 5ystems De5ign (G00gl3p00f3d because it's on my CV/resume)

I spent way too many years earning a degree in Anthropology and all I got was a burning hatred of Evolutionary Psychologists.

My art degree made a great substitute for the toilet paper I couldn't afford to buy.

English. Only finished 3 months ago, so still waiting to see how it all pans out.

Popular culture (basically an English degree with all the lit theory applied to film, tv, music, pornography, etc etc) with philosophy. Voted cultural studies as closest.

chem & physics but only finished chem

i wanted to be a quantum mechanic but lo and behold, you can't earn a BS in physics, you have to earn a BA, which basically meant another year of humanities electives (whee!) so fuck that, i dropped it

instead i became a very mediocre oceanographer, thx college

Journalism, English minor. What a horribly formed "joke."

mechanical engineering but became a control systems engineer by practice. Now I test power system engineering software.

Popular culture ... with philosophy.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy)

does that mean you are qualified to write a "The Philosophy Of... (Popular TV Show/Movie)" book?

BA: English Lit/creative writing MA: Women's Health

Silby did you go to Hampshire?

we've done this, haven't we? English lit, would do history or sociology if I had it to do over.

― horseshoe, Monday, September 3, 2012 2:42 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

HOLLER

Yeah, if I could do it over I wouldn't have done English. I think I would do sociology and then go to med school.

If I could do it over I would go the public health to med school route. Get all that torture out of the way before I was too old to know better, and then have a satisfying and high-paying career!

i somehow have a degree in psychology despite never being interested in psychology and never reading any original source material from any prominent figure in the field.

I double majored in English lit and Sociology, but I did my honours year in English only.

xp from what i've experienced that's the psychology standard. but at least you know lots of silly experiments that you can bring up to explain away any and all social phenomena.

i did philosophy and i'm still doing philosophy, maybe this'll be something to regret when i find myself on the job market, but not just yet.

they introduce you to other people w/ connections and you do kegstands w/ them for 2 years

xxp: pretty much; they do things like "2 week unit in Shanghai, followed by 2 week unit in Mumbai, followed by 2 week unit in some other random place, followed by a week at wherever the school your program runs from is, rinse and repeat"

a large part of it sounds like a massive money sink but a larger part just sounds like a really cool experience

like, if I'm gonna get a vanity degree, I want the one that has me globetrotting

I've always felt that sending kids to live in a bunch of different countries over 4 years would be a better learning experience then sending them to some random rural place w/ a big football stadium

it's hard not to learn things in foreign countries, even if you hate learning things, you have no choice

haha otm

pilgrimage rites are great social ritual

I think maybe even more important that choosing a different major, if I had it all to do over again I would not have gone as a straight out of HS 17 year old. I would have taken at least one year off first. I was too young.

I am kind of jealous of people who have read many great works of literature & are able to discuss them on a high level.

― crüt, Monday, September 3, 2012 8:49 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

go read this, or, better, don't

I think if I had to go back and change my major it would be to something even MORE useless like drawing. I kind of regret not taking more art classes. Actually it is obvious I totally regret it because I cry and feel all these deep longings every time I read a bio of a drawer I like –Schulz, Gorey (though Gorey was self-taught!).

FWIW, drawing classes kinda robbed me of the joy of drawing. I used to do it voraciously but now hardly ever. And I don't feel that much more skillful, TBRR.

I am kind of jealous of people who have read many great works of literature & are able to discuss them on a high level.

It is a great way to enhance parties for yourself/your conversation partner, and to ruin them for everyone else!

I guess my #1 regret about college is I really wanted my own DIY hedonist rumspringa, and I wanted to go to college, but I think combining the two made them both take 2x the time they needed to.

I had my rumspringa for 8 years, then did college. Best decision ever.

its probably a good thing that time machines don't exist cause then this country would be flooded w/ doctors

― iatee, Monday, September 3, 2012 8:40 PM (46 minutes ago)

posts very much out of character!

Most popular majors
at Bay Area universities
Stanford
1, Computer science
2. Human biology
3. Engineering
4. Economics
5. Biology

UC Berkeley
1. Electrical engineering and computer science
2. Political science
3. Economics
4. Psychology
5. Business administration

UCSC
1. Psychology
2. Business management economics
3. Literature
4. Molecular, cell and developmental biology
5. Anthropology

SJSU
1. Psychology
2. Biological sciences
3. Business administration/accounting
4. Business administration/management
5. Kinesiology

Cal State East Bay
1. Business administration
2. Psychology
3. Health sciences
4. Biological science
5. Pre-nursing

http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_21175486/computer-science-becomes-stanfords-most-popular-major

business is the most popular major nationally by a pretty big margin, psych is prob the most popular major at 'respectable schools'

fart history

International Fart Studies (leads to a Masters of Professional Farting or MPF)

major in history, minor in english lit

tbh i wish i'd toughed it out two extra semesters and done a double major, just bcz i wound up enjoying english classes (last-minute minor change from poli-sci after realizing i couldn't bring myself to take another fucking class about polling) way more than i ever assumed i would.

if i could go back i'd probably try to major in math or some hardcore science but that would necessitate also going back to maybe third grade and turning myself into a better math-er

My undergrad degree is in history, but I also knocked out the basic pre-medical requirements (which in the US is basically 1 year of Inorganic/General Chemistry, 1 year of Organic Chemistry, 1 year of Physics, 1 year of Biology, usually 1 year of math, +/- English, Biochemistry, Stats, etc) during undergrad, because I wanted to be a doctor until midway through undergrad, when I became unsure which of like six things I wanted to do with my life.

I have an MA in History of Medicine, which was basically chosen because I wasn't sure whether I wanted to write or do medicine, so I decided to try a thing where I was writing about medicine. I decided I wanted to do medicine for realsies a couple of months into grad school.

So now I do that, with two degrees in history to my name.

NO one else but me going to own up to not having gone to uni at all, then? :/ I did do a 2 year dip arts at a TAFE later on in life, Im not sure if that counts, TAFE is a weird beast here. sort of like prac/community/tech college I guess?

I feel so uneducated all of a sudden! :(

Eng lit

Second major in philosophy wound up being a minir

okay, so how many of you don't have college degrees?

i am uniquely qualified for 21st century life in that i have (the equivalent of) a minor in canadian studies

what are your thoughts on that recent maple syrup heist in quebec? do you think the country will rebound?

i think someone made a big mistake crossing les assassins des fauteuils roulants

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ignorant foolishness that math and statistics are grouped together.

film, so i went with "other"

getting an mba in accounting now though

slavic studies, so cultural studies. i minored in history and sometimes i wish i'd flipped the two around but oh well

man, double major in english lit/american history and double minor in africana/film really took me far in life

Poll is missing an option for literature other than English.

I majored in German Literature, minored in English and linguistics.

math

psychology

started to do a double w/english and got sidetracked by the student newspaper. for years i regretted dropping english but in retrospect psych was a well rounded major, requiring multiple courses in every area: biology-based and statistics as well as social psych and clinical/therapy. I worked as a research assistant on a big developmental study where we interviewed parents, that was good training for journalism. my mentor during junior/senior year was a british hippie freudian who taught a literary "life history" approach to personality. so i would probably do it again.

Maths & Economics

my major in biochem taught me valuable scrabble words along with all that sci. wish i'd doubled in a language.

I did psychology. It was OK but I mostly wasted my time at university. If I had the choice again I'd have done something like computer science. And actually gone to lectures.

Art History, which seems selfish but I had wanted to go into museums or teaching.

english lit. i did my first two years at community college and loved the experience, ~30 people to a class and great instructors who took a personal interest in how i did. it left me with a vague dream of teaching at the CC level someday but going back for my MA isn't in the cards atm.

Maths & Economics

― Only milkmen burnley have (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, September 16, 2012 11:11 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey cool, me too

mount cleaners: what are you doing now?

Did grad school for a long time but never finished, worked in publishing in various capacities for a while, currently stuck in administrative / executive assistant mode but will probably work in non-profit when I finish my graduate work.

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

lol

ya but when moookie says lol, what is he *really saying* to us?

if you don't know . . .

follows that i'm one of the business dudes, obv

ilx a bunch of lit nerds shockah