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What is your Major?

Political Science major, French minor. I'm a senior in college right now....sitting in the library at 1:30 am trying my damndest to do everything but my thesis. I've got 50 of the required 100 pages for an undergrad thesis due March 11th. I'm writing about the political implications of the American 'culture of fear' over the past century; still need a catchy title. Microsoft Word is begging me to put in another 10 pages on the WWII internment of Japanese Americans before I go to bed. This chapter is due on Friday...work hard play hard!
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samiwas said:
My main focus currently lies in lighting design and installation for several touring museum exhibits. So far, I have done 18 installations in the past 5.5 years, with three more in the next three months. In addition, I've also been a lighting programmer and/or operator for four musical theater tours, and also spent many years on tour with ice shows.

Outside of that, I work locally as a stagehand or lighting tech in theatre, corporate trade shows, and television.

It's quite a different world from 9-5...although sometimes I yearn for that stability!!
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That seems like great work. The variety of that kind of career is appealing because you have the satisfaction of working in several different environments, as opposed to an office that you work out of day in and day out. In other words, it's less routine than the average 9-5 job.

I graduated this past December with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and a Minor in Political Science. I was heavily considering going to graduate school to pursue an MBA, but upon further consideration (and relying heavily on the advice of others) I'm now considering a JD program where I can get a Masters degree and a degree to practice law. I'm a very outgoing person with a lot of energy and it would kill me to work a mundane 9-5 job in an office cubical lol. Law interests me because I would get to work on different cases and I think that it can be a rewarding field as well...not to mention it would bring my Political Science background into play.

Ugh...I'm just so confused! One day I'm studying for the GMAT and the next day, I'm studying for the LSAT lol.
 
I will never stop studying stuff. I didn't finish college until I was 30 and had a hard time committing to just one subject. While I was still in high school, I was setting up myself to study engineering.

When I got into a four year school, I went from business to english to human resources management. For grad school I spent fifteen years on and off studying business, law, public administration, and accounting. But I kept a healthy core of undergraduate courses I took in art because that's what kept my interest more than other subjects.

In the last part of my life I want to continue like my parents did and keep on taking classes and learning new skills. I have investigation, mathematics, physics, history, and theology as interests and will probably do course work in those areas on graduate and undergraduate levels. Nobody can be a renaissance person these days with so many different fields of study but I won't stop trying.

Anyway, learning after high school can be a lifetime enjoyment and does not have to be "school" in the sense now you can study what you want, not what some administrator said you have to learn before you finish grade 12. Many find that after one knows it all when they become an adult, the rest of life is learning just how much they don't know.

So far the smartest and wisest people I know never went to college, and while college is a good idea, it will provide very little of what you will truly find useful in everyday life. There is no teacher better than failure or knowing what you cannot do. It's at that point when you see your limitations when you can actually reach your best potential as a person and as a scholar.
 
gibbz said:
I am in the 2nd year of a Ph.D. in meteorology
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That is so cool that you found something to study on the PhD level.

I am afraid I will be one of those people jumping around on the MS and MA level forever and end up with more of those, along with dangling courses related to nothing, than some old people do with cats.

Most PhDs I know stuck with their field until retirement which is a pretty good sign of people who know what they want to do. But a few PhDs I know went into owning a store, getting into buying and selling real estate, and a couple becoming professional artists or musicians after ditching their field of study sometime after their PhD. The main reason for that is either they hated research (found it too solitary or depressing) or hated teaching (didn't like that very hard skill that eight years of school do little to address). Life is interesting that way.

Are you going to be one of those tornado chasers? I had a friend who would have loved to do nothing more and he left a very high paying job to go do that, but then found out he missed the pay too much in his former job and said goodbye to tornados. He then left again for tornados but his lifestyle by then was used to excessive creature comforts so back to the money, and some had a feeling that older age made him lose the guts to go head into those things ever again. :)

Personally, I would have gone for the tornados and I don't understand people who do something like he did and hated, just for the money.
 
Undergrad: Graphic Design & Spanish (funny part I got a job with both studies)
Grad: Information Science (not gonna finish any time soon unless I get let go from my job and take some funemployment)
 
Majored in Mathematics and Physics, minored in Astronomy.

I'm now getting my PhD in Applied Mathematics with a concentration on Operations Research.

EDIT: On a side note, for those of you that are interested in Math/CS but don't want to become academics/programmers, you should check out the field of operations research. I didn't know it existed until I came to graduate school, but I think it's pretty interesting. Another option for math/physics guys is mathematical finance, which will get you a lucrative job in Wallstreet (quarter million starting), but is incredibly stressful (which is why I doubt I'll end up doing it).
 
Originally Posted by macswitcha2
Bachelors of Science in Biblical Studies

Currently earning my Masters of Science in Biblical Studies.

bartelby said:
No offence but is that not an oxymoron?
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Not necessarily an oxymoron but peculiar indeed. Biblical Studies and or Religion usually come under the Arts/Humanities or to lesser extent Social Sciences. Usually a B.A. is conferred in those fields of study, I am curious where Macswitcha 2 went for studies where they offer B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biblical studies.
 
Currently in my last year of Neuroscience, woo!! I'm also doing a minor in business with a certificate in entrepreneurship.
 
Capt Crunch said:
EDIT: On a side note, for those of you that are interested in Math/CS but don't want to become academics/programmers, you should check out the field of operations research. I didn't know it existed until I came to graduate school, but I think it's pretty interesting. Another option for math/physics guys is mathematical finance, which will get you a lucrative job in Wallstreet (quarter million starting), but is incredibly stressful (which is why I doubt I'll end up doing it).
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That is so true. My grad studies, instead of just accounting, will use the love I have for mathematics (but can't get around to the point of academics) and love of computer hardware (but not fixing stuff like I did for a decade), to come up with an investigation compliance degree related computer hacking and being an accountant-auditor. I didn't like the general MBA and thought it was a repeat of any old business related degree, and law school sucked after just a year though I found certain aspects interesting.

I thought auditing and complying with current law was like general accounting, but I get to use some advanced math to catch cooked books or improper books/forecasts and hacking/hard drive recovery to look for unentered revenue to help in current, ever changing compliance and tax laws. If your client, for instance, wants a worse case scenario and a best case scenario of how a product launch will affect future revenue and thus taxes, they look to somebody who knows something about math. Apple didn't know iPod was going to take off to where it did, but I am sure they certainly had compliance auditors and/or serious finance mathematicians to help them deal with more income than to know what to do with. Sometimes too much success too quickly can land you into a world of hurt if you don't pay attention to tax time. :)

I know another person who majored in math in grad school but instead of the common path of teaching, he found a way to use his skills and PhD to help K-12 education within strict state cutbacks made by (certain) governors. It's amazing how many things use math besides being a math teacher/professor/scientist.
 
Computer Science Major, just finishing my BS because my employee is paying for most of it!
 
Little Endian said:
Originally Posted by macswitcha2
Bachelors of Science in Biblical Studies

Currently earning my Masters of Science in Biblical Studies.



Not necessarily an oxymoron but peculiar indeed. Biblical Studies and or Religion usually come under the Arts/Humanities or to lesser extent Social Sciences. Usually a B.A. is conferred in those fields of study, I am curious where Macswitcha 2 went for studies where they offer B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biblical studies.
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Philadelphia Biblical University
 
Wow, I seem to be the only Automotive major here. I switched from CS to this mostly because I saw the math requirements :eek:. I'm really glad I did because after I found this I find myself enjoying it more and more everyday.

I'm also studying Japanese and would like to pursue that more somehow.
 
Two: one in Biomedical Science and the other in Medicine. The best part of my first degree was my honours project where I studied the effects of cannabis on mental health.
 
Was never 100% sure what a Major was. I just studied Laws, and the whole 3 years were in various areas. We do have some combined degrees, like Accounting and Law for example, which is mostly Accounting, and some modules in relevant areas of Law. Maybe that's like a Major/Minor..
 
Currently I'm double majoring in Information Systems Management and E-business. It was an extra 5 or so credits for the second major.... so why not, right? haha

I'll be graduating spring, '11
 
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