Preserved Topic: your major? (Page 1 of 2)

What is your major?
or
what was your major?
or
what will your major be?

just curious...


major:
* one's principal field of study
* Of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes

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so, that term is not used over here. i guess its the topic you specify on in your studies, right?
well mine is computer arts & design & multimedia.

Will go for MIS

If I ever get my ass back to school!

:: m a x ::

Ok! My major(s) in rough chronological order are... a) Fine Arts, b) then Computer Science, c) then Physics, then back to d) Fine Arts and finally e) Industrial Design. My doctorate is a "Doctor of Divinity", but I didn't have to study for that one, I just had to send $20 to the Universal Life Church, heh. ;-þ

Your pal, -doc-

I'm actualy studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts but I'll never touch a paint brush. My major would be Communication Design with a sub major in Interaction Design.

Undergraduate Major in Classical Guitar Performance and Music History and Lit.
Masters in Music History and Lit. and Research of Music.

Get this, when I was a Sophmore in college, they canned the computer science degree!

Later,
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~Binary is best~

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Hoping to qualify (that can't be the right word ) for the BCs degree in Computer Science at St. Andrews next year, my major will probably be in either computer programming or mathematics

-= Veneficuz =-

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Major in Computer Science: Application
Minor in Math and Medicine

I was going to classes for 2-1/2 years solid all year round. Brain fry.

My is Technology: Virtual Design

Mechanical Engineering - *yawn* many moons ago ~Vp~

Computer Science @ University of Michigan (woohoo!! we just won the CCHA tournament champ ). Concentrating on programming but i'd like to learn just about anything and everything to do with computers



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Electronic Media, Arts and Communication (sounds complicated but it's easy)... probably switching to or dueling with Computer Science soon.

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a) Fine Arts, b) then Computer Science, c) then Physics, then back to d) Fine Arts and finally e) Industrial Design.

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Really real, no joke. FWIW, while there are 5 majors, there was only 2 universities, (and 7 years in the process!) I suppose I should have added "undecided" to the above list, that was mostly what I seemed to major in, heh.

The Doctorate is also real, even if I did get it as part of yet another elaborate joke.

Your pal, -doc-



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Mechanical Engineering .. never finished .. during my college days (just 6 months ago) I was self teaching and learning from the best of these guys from around this asylum and other fine sites how to program and design .. though C++ and Fortran as well as background in Unix helped me with HTML .. CSS .. PHP .. and other fine programming

peace

Don't have the Major/Minor system in Sweden either, and my academic resume is a strange mixture of a little of everything.
I've got one years study worth of statistics, and one semester of music history. But I guess my major would be Animal Ecology, since that's where I got my Masters. Did my master thesis on the behaviour of great tits. (No, not *that* kind), which of course is very useful now that I am a web designer
My Minor would be Book History I guess, as I got a B.A. in that. This was more the "fun-and-interesting-but-no-job-prospects" sort of study area. Learnt lots of fun stuff about different graphic techniques, and got to handle old books from as far back as the 1200's. My thesis in that I wrote on "childrens litterature published as series in Sweden from 1700 to 1910"

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Political science major @ Georgetown.

Im minoring in physics and english though.

My goal is to graduate with degrees that will never help me in life.

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cheers.jay

Electrical and Computer Engineering @ UC Irvine

umm... I actually studied at a university for about 8 weeks before I got fed up and went skibumming instead... I tried to study Economics, but that was not for me.

Since then I've studied graphic design for one semester (night school) and took a 2y course in Information and Communications besides my dayjob.

At the moment I'm trying to get funding for an MBA. There's a real cool program at our university that allows you to customize your education, choosing three "study blocks".

They've got a course called "design management" that just screams my name

Jestah said:

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My goal is to graduate with degrees that will never help me in life.

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That is exactly what I have! Everyone keeps telling me "Well at least you have an education!" That still doesn't get me anywhere!

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~Binary is best~

Oh, if were including things we didn't finish then...

1997-1999] Engineering > Civil - This is where I learnt how to spell badly and make poo flow down hill.
1999-2000] Business > Marketing - This is where I learnt how to lie and make up new words!
2000-2001] Information Technology > Network Engineering - This is where I learnt how to hate Windows NT.
2002] Fine Arts > Communication Design > This is where I get to make interactive things that look nice.

I only just realised that it's been about 5 years since I left Highschool. Man I've sure been wasting a lot of time.

Although I'm thinking about taking on a double degree, the Arts (Comm. Design) I'm doing now as well as a Computer Science degree. I'm just not sure If I want to do ~that~ much work at once. I don't know if there's a credit point system in the US but if I do change I'd be doing 60 credit points per semester for 4 years! Although the course is geared towards the development of games and large scale multimedia projects. Eh, I'll decide towards the end of the year.

Either way I'll be 25/26 by the time I finish... ~sigh~

Broadcast Electronic Communication Arts (B.A.)
with an emphasis in Audio Production (wanted to be a sound engineer).

I started minoring in CIS (Computer Info Sys) which is not the same as Computer Sci and somehow gets wrapped in the Business program. I quit that when I got extremely pissed at my C++ prof (jackass).



.:[ The Tao of Steve ]:.
Be Desireless
Be Excellent
Be Gone
...................................

Working on:

Mechanical Engineering Technology,
Next year I start Mechanical Engineering.

I am beginning to think that I am the only one here that didn't study computers.

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~Binary is best~

dunno yet. it seems General Studyz? Maybe Video stuff or Graphics communication... or fine art... or digital pimp somday maybe?

. . .

LOL, Bit! I can relate to jackass programming professors. My one high school teacher used to get on my case for my lateral algoriths that worked fine. "That shouldn't work." Then I'ld run the prog and everything worked just fine. "Well, it shouldn't work and you did it all wrong." Whatever.

You're not alone CPrompt

I didn't either.

Criminal Justice /Sociology


OH ! And I have a nursing degree from Brother DocOzone AKA "Doctor of Divinity" of the Universal Life Church

Hi InI! OK, concerning "the boat", and whether it's being missed or not, I wouldn't worry too much. If you like your work and feel you're making personal progress with it, then school can certainly wait. (It'll still be there, honest!) If you're not making enough headway at your job, you should either a) find a new one or b) consider some more schooling to get the right doors opened. Knowing you and what you already know, I'll bet that a traditional 4 year colege degree program would drive you to tears of boredom, I may be wrong, but university schooling has a lot of silly time-wasting courses that don't necessarily apply to everybody, especially once you have an idea of your eventual goals. If I were you, I'd consider a series of smaller courses, aimed at Sun Certification or one of the numerous other certificates you can glean along the way.

I got my silly $20 Doctorate just to poke fun at people who mistake education for learning, and diplomas for wisdom. I wasted a lot of time and money working my way through school, and I learned a few useful things, but those few things dfon't compare to what I've taught myself in the years since. When Malin and I get old (shut up, now, I heard the sniggering from you all!), anyways, when we finally get old we're planning to move near a big prestigious university and simply show up to classes, study and make notes, but never show up for the tests. There's wonderful things that I want to learn, but they can wait till I have the time and inclination to just sit still. I'm hoping being a feeble old man might help with that, heh.

Your pal, -doc-

IM gonna be going for MIS when I finally go.

get? *smirk*

I got three years of Computer Science so far with a Math minor and a Theology minor, but I took time off so I won't be back in school till January. Fun stuff, let me tell you.

I went through quite a few majors myself before settling on Comp Sci. I have about a whole year of chemistry sitting on my transcript, as well as an Advanced Robotics Programming class, and a bunch of loose ends from switching majors so many times. Not that I'm complaining. The knowledge gained was worth the price of the class even if it doesn't count towards my major.

heh.

Doc, it seems as if you and Malin have got the same idea as me and one of my friends

We're realised that the "laidback university plan" would be fun a couple of weeks ago..
(oh, and we also plan to start a upscale, weird furniture design agency when we get old. Retirement should be a blast )



(e) So NOW i know when docs little server error thingy shows up (/e)

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Computer Science


Sasha.

Hmmm...going to be:

Digital 3D Animation baybee!! I was very happy to find this course still being run by the Royal Mebourne Institute of Technology.

Political Science and Photojournalism.

And I still haven't used the Poli Sci.

But I'm a better person.

Cool Shi!

We'll stand together and show them "Computer class, I don't need no stinking computer class"
well, maybe I do

Later,
C:\


~Binary is best~

CPrompt: I wouldn't worry about that at all. I'm not really sure about this majors business (and I'm not even sure of what some of the things I've been doing would be called). I have had some computer training over the years but most of that is pretty useless (I once wrote a great database program in Pascal!!), at least directly. Most of what I do is the outcome of a couple of decades of hobbies, secondary skilling and transferring skills from other (now defunct areas) of training. So I suppose I have been on or signed up to things in (in alphabetical order):

Computer science and Geography (never even started that course properly)
Geology/geochemistry (not very relevant to this place but...)
Mechanical Engineering (never finished that one)
Physics (parts their MSc)

I wonder why Mech Eng is such a popular one around here??

Emps