NationStates Jolt Archive

Stangely as it may sound, this is actually ,my first post in the 'General' forum. Also, besides threads sent to me by way of Instant Messaging, this is my first time to even venture in 'General.' Sooooo....w00t.

Anyways, to the topic at hand.

While sitting here in the library on campus, I decided, "Hey, I'd [randomly] like to know what everyone studied on NS." So tell me, what did/are all of you studying?

I, personally, am an Urban Planning major, with an emphasis on Transportation and Mass Motivation Design. My goal is to lead the transportation department, and design highway systems and revamp mass transit. However, a lot more goes in tyo Urban Studies, than just mere planning. In fact, this course is extremely psychological in nature. One can't just plan a highway, you have to plan on what the affects will be on the citizens, and if they will utilize the plan to the full extent.

I'm finding it quite fascinating, if I do say so myself. Currently, I am a student at the Univerisity of Texas in Austin, and I'm a sophomore.

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I'm doing this on an iMAC in the comp lab, and for someone who has used PC's all his life, it is quite an experience. I think these iMac's are kinda cool. Alright, I'll stop saying random things now.

I'm wasting my life away as a Computer Studies major, with a slightly less-than-enthused focus on Data-comm and hardware.

I got bachelor's degrees in Psychology, Philosophy, and Biology. And might I just say that college was a blast...anybody who hasn't gone to college should definitely try it!

welcome to General :P

in the UK we don't generally (haha) do this major/minor business - just one subject... so my degree was a BScEcon in Politics, but before that i was doing one of those in Economics.
however now i'm on a year's leave of absence....


edit: my uni days were kinda shite :(
Bottle? haven't seen you around here in a while... or is that me just not noticing things as usual? :confused:

Like PM says, we don't really do major/minor that much. You can, but I'm not doing joint honours, I'm doing a single honours degree in Modern History.

I have a level four certificate in Film and Television, which is the equivilent of first year university, although in a useless subject.

I'm currently having a gap year (my second year out of highschool) but I might hit uni next year. Still deciding.

I have a degree in physics.

Bottle? haven't seen you around here in a while... or is that me just not noticing things as usual? :confused:
Yeah, I've been off-and-on lately, with emphasis on the "off" part. Classes started up for me about a month back and that eats up a lot of time. I'm also applying for a training grant, and that means typing on my 'puter for like 25 hours a day...after all that, I'm less inclined to come type on NS.

But everybody here is just so much fun that I can't stay away for long!

I have a degree in physics.
So you wouldn't have much trouble detailing the typical angular rotation and acceleration of a Lunatic Goofball, in that case...very handy!

Music Composition/Theory, minored in Astronomy and Piano.

I have a degree in physics.

Somehow that does not surprise me. :D

All the physics majors (even my dad has a degree in physics) I know are wacky.

I'm currently an English Education major with a minor in philosophy. It's my fourth year at this university and I'm getting tired of college life. :(

So you wouldn't have much trouble detailing the typical angular rotation and acceleration of a Lunatic Goofball, in that case...very handy!

...or calculating the changes in momentum of objects colliding with his groin; yes, it seems very handy indeed!




I'm going off to start studying Medicine in about two weeks. Wish me luck!

So you wouldn't have much trouble detailing the typical angular rotation and acceleration of a Lunatic Goofball, in that case...very handy!

I think anybody would have trouble detailing the angular rotation and acceleration of a Lunatic Goofball. They're very unpredictable. ;)

I have Bachelors in Psychology, Geography and Environmental Science, currently doing a Masters in Social Science Research.

Being at uni is great, although I'm currently experiencing the downside as I should really be writing my enormous assignment instead of posting here... It's already late...

Again, no 'major' or 'minor'.

Have a B.A. in History and Political Science (i.e Politics)

M.A in History (Modern International Relations) currently in progress.

Somehow that does not surprise me. :D

All the physics majors (even my dad has a degree in physics) I know are wacky.

I'm currently an English Education major with a minor in philosophy. It's my fourth year at this university and I'm getting tired of college life. :(

I haven't decided if Physics makes you wacky, or wackiness makes physics understandable.

The end result is the same. :D

It will be International Relations in 3 weeks' time. :D

I haven't decided if Physics makes you wacky, or wackiness makes physics understandable.

The end result is the same. :D


In my second to last year at high school, I failed english, maths, history and drama but passed my 5th subject.... Physics.


Seriously, how the fuck did I fail maths and pass physics? Meh.

In my second to last year at high school, I failed english, maths, history and drama but passed my 5th subject.... Physics.


Seriously, how the fuck did I fail maths and pass physics? Meh.

I rest my case. :)

Seriously, how the fuck did I fail maths and pass physics? Meh.
depends on the level of physics... i used to love (and be good at) the subject until they started putting all this maths in :mad:
it was my favourite subject, along with economics, till halfway through a-level when the maths started rearing its ugly head. then i went to uni to do economics and the same damn thing happened there. i hate maths :mad: :mad:

then i went to uni to do economics and the same damn thing happened there. i hate maths :mad: :mad:

How did you figure you'd study economics without doing maths somewhere along the line? :p

I'm also applying for a training grant, and that means typing on my 'puter for like 25 hours a day...after all that, I'm less inclined to come type on NS.

How are the hands holding up to that? You seem to be capitalising things a lot more these days?


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Joint Honours in Philosophy and Scholastic Philosophy, and then an MA in Continental Philosophy. Nothing do with the work I do these days.

How did you figure you'd study economics without doing maths somewhere along the line? :p
cos at a-level i could handle the maths. i figured i'd be able to learn and handle the maths at degree level.
i was wrong and it was shit :(

economics is the easiest and most common-sense thing in the world without all that BS maths to get in the way. if they'd just used words rather than equations and stupid algebraic models to convey the theories and all that, i'd have been fine...

I have a BS in Engineering with a specialty in Biomedical Engineering, as well as minors in Math, Chemistry, and Biology.

I'm currently trying to get a Ph.D. in Bioengineering.

((Don't ask me what the difference between Biomedical and Bio- Engineering is, no one has been able to give me a satisfactory answer yet. ))

I got an A+ for statistics, but the only reason I didn't get the lowest possible mark in Calculus was that I stopped handing in assignments and didn't meet terms... I prefer Maths lite :p

Environment and Resource Management.

I am majoring in Nursing/Pyschology (NOT psychiatric nursing) while fulfilling pre-med requirements. I know.....shoot me now! ;)

The College/University life is indifferent to me, but then again, that is me.....I'll be in school for the next thirty (over exaggeration) years of my life. :P


Dempublicents1 I believe the difference you may be looking for just comes down to the focus point of each. Bio-Engineering is more general while Biomedical is specificy medically related. I am sure that is not precisely what you are looking for, but I thought I would give it a try.

I'm an English major at the University of Louisville. Coincidentally, I also work here. Hopefully enough to get tuition remission by the time I go for a master's in teaching. (Provided all goes as planned)

BA Psychology
BA Spanish
one class away from a BA Sociology
all from Rice University

Advanced studies in Comparative Religion, Linguistics, Horticulture and Yoga.

MEng Computing.

University was much more fun than Real Life, I think.

I read Medieval History when at University.

I majored in Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College and graduated with honors earlier this year.

I don't think I want to become an anthropolgist (which would require getting a Ph.D.), but I could easily earn a degree in social work, some humanities field, or even marketing if I really felt up for it. Right now I am working, getting used to Real Life and figuring out what exactly I want to do.

I majored in Anthropology at Bryn Mawr College and graduated with honors earlier this year.

I don't think I want to become an anthropolgist (which would require getting a Ph.D.), but I could easily earn a degree in social work, some humanities field, or even marketing if I really felt up for it. Right now I am working, getting used to Real Life and figuring out what exactly I want to do.

Good luck. In the Bush Economy, the only new jobs that are being created are in minimum-wage service industries, like MacDonalds. And most of them are going to mexicans. (not my opinion, but according to the Dept. of Labor statistics)

I have a degree in physics.

What do you do with it, career wise?

Im a Physics major with a minor in Mathematics.

I majored in Economics at Iowa State University. I highly recommend Economics or a minor therein, quite interesting.

What do you do with it, career wise?

Im a Physics major with a minor in Mathematics.

I have a career in Physical Comedy. :)

im working on a double major. history and religion...

I took Physics and Computer Science combined major with a minor in Psychology.

Yep, it was a busy course load.

I have a BS in chemistry and Biology (minored in Art, yes, art) and am currently workig on my PhD in Chemistry :headbang:

I took Physics and Computer Science combined major with a minor in Psychology.

Yep, it was a busy course load.

Interesting combination, Psychology was one of my majors and I noticed that people in other fields of science seem to look down on Psychology as being 'less scientific'... Did you ever have a desire to call yourself a pseudoscientist? :p

Dempublicents1 I believe the difference you may be looking for just comes down to the focus point of each. Bio-Engineering is more general while Biomedical is specificy medically related. I am sure that is not precisely what you are looking for, but I thought I would give it a try.

Yeah, that's what they tell me. Problem is, it simply isn't true, at least not yet. The projects in Bioengineering are just as medically oriented as those in Biomedical Engineering. Maybe, in the future, we will have more projects outside of medicine, but we certainly don't now. And, in truth, the necessary skill set is pretty much exactly the same either way.

A junior working toward a degree in linguistics, then off to law school.

About to start my 3rd and final year of a History degree (BA). Uni life is sweet, I'll be sad to leave.

About to start my 3rd and final year of a History degree (BA). Uni life is sweet, I'll be sad to leave.

im in my third year also, but i still have another year to go after this one...

About to start my 3rd and final year of a History degree (BA). Uni life is sweet, I'll be sad to leave.

Do postgrad! I gave the 'real world' a shot for a year then went back for a masters. I'm not in any hurry to exchange being a student for beign a wage slave... One more year to go.

I was a Computer Information Sciences major with a focus on Web Design and Development. I also minored in Anthropology.

I hold a Master's Degree in Political Science, I will one day I hope get the chance to finish and get my Ph.D. However that is on hold and has been since I had another child.

My undergrad was in Christian Education, and I am currently enrolled in a Masters of Divinity Program.

Do postgrad! I gave the 'real world' a shot for a year then went back for a masters. I'm not in any hurry to exchange being a student for beign a wage slave... One more year to go.
I would, but I'm lazy as anything. Plus I'd only do it if I could guarantee staying at the same university, which I can't. Maybe I'll try the real world for a bit, and if I find it's not for me, I'll go back to uni.

Currently getting my business degree in Econs & Finance.

Double-majoring at VCU:

Major #1: Homeland Security

Major #2: Philosophy

I stick out like a sore thumb in the Philosophy department when I wear my Greek letters.

I would, but I'm lazy as anything. Plus I'd only do it if I could guarantee staying at the same university, which I can't. Maybe I'll try the real world for a bit, and if I find it's not for me, I'll go back to uni.

I was lucky, my masters turned out not to have a very high workload. But I've never had to put too much time in to get decent results so I've enjoyed uni :)

I am in second year bachelor of Community Design and going for a minor in Enviromental Studies. I plan on majoring in urban design in my fourth year honours with a focus on transportation. Good Luck to everyone in school this year.

Physics

i'm doing archaeology and palaeoecology

Bachelor of Music/Voice Performance.
Currently exploring getting a J.D. (law degree) - just need to get some fundage.

Working as a COBOL programmer. Go figure.

Math & CS @ University of Pittsburgh. There's also some bull major called "scientific computing" that I've been informed I already qualify for. As far as I can tell, you get it once you're halfway through your junior year of both those. Apparently, that notice was the first time my advisor'd heard of SC, too.

I, personally, am an Urban Planning major, with an emphasis on Transportation and Mass Motivation Design. My goal is to lead the transportation department, and design highway systems and revamp mass transit.
My Mother just retired from her position as Director of Planning at the Ohio DOT*. Let me warn you not to try this- everyone above her (three levels still in state, then anyone of any authority at Federal Highway) is a political appointee. The current director was fired from his only previous job, a middle-school S.S. Teacher. He's a political hack with no relevant education or experience, and his job (also, all of planning) has almost nothing to do with designing highway- the engineers are required to do all of that, and then they hire a university or a consultant for 10 hours to read over & present their ideas to the director.

What's worse, he's been banking on Taft getting tarred, feathered, & run out of state for the past six years (as with anyone who's had to work with the government)- fully expecting himself to disappear the moment anyone but a stock & file republican's in power. So, he's replacing asphalt with concrete, and starting massive projects due the beginning of the next administration, and giving them about a quarter of the proper funding so it looks like the next guy screwed up immediately.

So, as long as you can take orders, stay the heck out of Government and go into consulting. The only reasons to stay in government are that I can do three people's jobs (without a degree) in the background while surfing the net, and that there's so much paperwork involved in getting fired that you can straight up say "This is your job, I'm not going to do it" to some other Dept's director.



*I worked there one summer in college, & for a group they granted at OSU one summer in HS. I've seen it work, and the only change I was able to make was losing the paperwork for starting a $90 million project to beautify bridges somewhere in Southern Ohio, where they'd set the budget to $5 million.

History major with a Military Science minor

up next: masters and doctorate

Math & CS @ University of Pittsburgh. There's also some bull major called "scientific computing" that I've been informed I already qualify for. As far as I can tell, you get it once you're halfway through your junior year of both those. Apparently, that notice was the first time my advisor'd heard of SC, too.


My Mother just retired from her position as Director of Planning at the Ohio DOT*. Let me warn you not to try this- everyone above her (three levels still in state, then anyone of any authority at Federal Highway) is a political appointee. The current director was fired from his only previous job, a middle-school S.S. Teacher. He's a political hack with no relevant education or experience, and his job (also, all of planning) has almost nothing to do with designing highway- the engineers are required to do all of that, and then they hire a university or a consultant for 10 hours to read over & present their ideas to the director.

What's worse, he's been banking on Taft getting tarred, feathered, & run out of state for the past six years (as with anyone who's had to work with the government)- fully expecting himself to disappear the moment anyone but a stock & file republican's in power. So, he's replacing asphalt with concrete, and starting massive projects due the beginning of the next administration, and giving them about a quarter of the proper funding so it looks like the next guy screwed up immediately.

So, as long as you can take orders, stay the heck out of Government and go into consulting. The only reasons to stay in government are that I can do three people's jobs (without a degree) in the background while surfing the net, and that there's so much paperwork involved in getting fired that you can straight up say "This is your job, I'm not going to do it" to some other Dept's director.



*I worked there one summer in college, & for a group they granted at OSU one summer in HS. I've seen it work, and the only change I was able to make was losing the paperwork for starting a $90 million project to beautify bridges somewhere in Southern Ohio, where they'd set the budget to $5 million.

That's bizarre and appaling... What's with all the political appointees in the US? Sounds like something you'd expect in a feudalism. Why not just treat all jobs like jobs and hire suitable candidates?

History major with a Military Science minor

up next: masters and doctorate

Military science? Interesting- care to elaborate?

Double major Math/Physics. Currently teaching HS math in an inner city school. (no money for a physics class unfortunately.)

I received my bachelor's degree in history from UC Davis. My concentrations were American and modern European history. I minored in political science.

I'm taking a break from school, but I'll be going back to pursue my master's and PhD in history.

I did a year of unclassified studies and am now intending to do a double degree in math and Engineering Physics from the University of Saskatchewan.

I'm doing a double major in Political Science and History, and I am going Pre-law.

entering 3rd year media studies and english.

That's bizarre and appaling... What's with all the political appointees in the US? Sounds like something you'd expect in a feudalism. Why not just treat all jobs like jobs and hire suitable candidates?Because suitable candidates are generally attracted to the higher pay of the private sector. Plus, it's easier for a governor/president/mayor to make sure thy will be done if the person in a job understands that, not only do they have the job because of the man giving the orders, but their job only exists because he created it. Though, the former is usually good enough.

To be more explicit, the job exists because he appointed & hired a comittee specifically to vote on creating that position. Sometimes a governor can create the position out of thin air, because certain states give their governors lots of money/power (I.E., North Carolina). Occasionally, the state legislature votes to create it a new position, since some governors have no power whatsoever (Texas). This rarely happens, since they generally keep a structure that they like, but a position can be created or dropped at any time.


You can tell I'm not fond of Government, can't you?

i have not done college or uni, but i have now finished high school to a degree, just sit there now waiting for another 34 weeks i think, adn that is me done, so far i have no higher qualifications which relates in english education to A levels i think, no idea about america. and after high school have no ideas about collega or uni.

I am going to Uni next year and I'm hoping to study maths.

Maths first degree, then economics, then some more maths. Plus a bunch of random minors in my Batchelor's. Plus a horribly convincing fail in Materials Science when I was younger.

Heh...

It's double major Theatrical Acting/ Soc. Psych.

I'm going to end up serving coffee for the rest of my life..

I love it!

Psychology, as you well know, Jarridia. I'm most likely gonna go into clinical and branch into forensic psych.

And it's about damned time you posted in General..how many times have I told you to do so?

I'd like to have a double major when I get there... but then again, I might not be able to get a B.S. and B.A. both in 4 years, and I'm psyched about neither taking majors in the same area nor taking extra time to finish.

Currently, however, my biggest worry is that my math teacher's classroom phone is still broken from that one idiotic boy that, thank heavens, was not actually in many of my classes last year, and I therefore can't reach him to ask if I can take half his class by independent study this year.

Finance with a mathematics minor.

Business Admin...
Not really come in habdy for me since I drive truck for a living.

3rd year BA War Studies. The most awesome course in the world.

I have a BS in History (yes, that's right) with a minor in Japanese and a deep background in Computer Science. In a year or so I'm going to go for a Master of Engineering Management degree. That's diversity for you.

Pre-Med. Last year, as I was in the M.D. only level, of the accelerated program. Thank god for accelerated med programs!

What was my major aye?

I got my B.S. in Political Science.

I'm planning on Majoring in English, with a possible Minor in Theatre. But there's a year between now and then, so I may change my mind.

I'm majoring in physics at McMaster University in Hamilton, On.

I think I'm going to switch to Astrophysics since I'm here for an extra year anyways.

Did English language and literature.

Am currently doing international political economy.

Im going into college next year and i plan to major in Pre- med. Has anybody had that major? How is it?

Right now I'm well on my way to earning a Bachelor of Science in a joint History / History of Science Degree (emphasis on early modern British History) along with a certificate (Since UW-Madison doesn't technically offer Minor Degrees) in Physics.

Hopefully sometime early next year I'm going to attempt the LSAT to see if I can enroll in the UW-Madison Law School. Otherwise, I'll spend the remainder of next year completing the degree requirements for my joint major and work towards a Masters and Doctorate in History.

BA in English, MA in Teaching Secondary Level English.

I was majoring in chemical engineering, but I switched to psychology. Three years and my parents still have not recovered.

Psychology is awfully depressing though, no matter how happy you were before class, you leave feeling down. Whether you are learning how easy it is to sway juries or the psychological abuse used to enable physical abuse, it makes you feel bad about your peers.

I was majoring in chemical engineering, but I switched to psychology. Three years and my parents still have not recovered.

Psychology is awfully depressing though, no matter how happy you were before class, you leave feeling down. Whether you are learning how easy it is to sway juries or the psychological abuse used to enable physical abuse, it makes you feel bad about your peers.

I was majoring in chemical engineering, but I switched to psychology. Three years and my parents still have not recovered.

Psychology is awfully depressing though, no matter how happy you were before class, you leave feeling down. Whether you are learning how easy it is to sway juries or the psychological abuse used to enable physical abuse, it makes you feel bad about your peers.

I was majoring in chemical engineering, but I switched to psychology. Three years and my parents still have not recovered.

Psychology is awfully depressing though, no matter how happy you were before class, you leave feeling down. Whether you are learning how easy it is to sway juries or the psychological abuse used to enable physical abuse, it makes you feel bad about your peers.

Fine Arts-Sculpture (No, I went to a REAL school, not University. Anyone who takes Fine Art @ Univeristy is wasting their time and money.)

I was majoring in chemical engineering, but I switched to psychology. Three years and my parents still have not recovered.

Psychology is awfully depressing though, no matter how happy you were before class, you leave feeling down. Whether you are learning how easy it is to sway juries or the psychological abuse used to enable physical abuse, it makes you feel bad about your peers.


Perhaps a class in Patience would help. I do beleive this is the first time I've seen someone manage to make a quadruple post.

I'm currently studying Political Science and Print Journalism, and hope to major in both. I'm thinking of adding an Economics minor to that as well.

I was an English major at the University of Maryland, College Park and at University College prior to that.

I was an Arts and Sciences major at community college...

I am currently working on a B.A. in History and am considering doing Religious Studies as well at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada

Heh...

It's double major Theatrical Acting/ Soc. Psych.

I'm going to end up serving coffee for the rest of my life..

I love it!
I applied for a job in Starbucks the summer after finishing University.
They turned me down.

Before my plans of World Domination consumed me, I got a BA in Fine Art and Illustration.
Mwah ha ha hah!