Done as of last Wednesday, on to summer classes. Jury duty today, moving tomorrow, exe exam the next day, plenty going on for not having school lol
In my International Relations class, if you haven’t missed more than one class and you have at least a B- average in the course, you get to skip the final exam. Today I found out that I received a 98% on the last exam (and a 105% on the first) - and since I have the necessary attendance, I get to skip the final, and I receive an A in the course. 1 less class to worry about.
While you guys have finals this week, I have a midterm tomorrow…my school goes way too late.
LOL, I have finals on May 22nd and May 23rd. I have two Religious Studies finals on the same day (30 minutes apart) and I’m gonna throw myself into the sun. 
In slightly more positive news, I landed another interview with an environmental advocacy firm in Boston; I’m really excited.
It’s weird being done with school. Today, I was asking myself, “Okay, what do I need to have done for class tomorrow?” Then I realized that I’m done. That sucks that some of you don’t finish until the end of May.
In other news, I’m currently on “open availability” status at my retail job. Tomorrow is Food Stamp Day, and I work 9-5. Oh boy. The extra money is going to be nice, though.
That’s awesome! Hope you do well at the interview!
I got past the first round of an interview for one opportunity that I’m pretty excited about, but probably botched the second part. That awkward moment when intended CS major but a failure at simply installing stuff. Darn. I mean my current (CS related) job isn’t bad, it’s just that this opportunity is a lot more exciting. I also have this opportunity to get experience, but I won’t be paid. Dunno how I feel about that one, a lot of people seem to think I shouldn’t…
Are there majors at your school who are obsessed with being that major? At my school, Computer Science majors love telling people that they’re Computer Science majors. I know one guy in particular and he literally tags half of his Instagram photos #CompSciLife and it’s pretty funny. He went to a Red Sox game last night with his friend and he captioned the photo “Comp Sci dudes at Fenway.”
Mhm.
@preamble1776, that sounds pretty lame. LOL. Why do people have to flaunt their majors? Haha.
I got an internship with the Massachusetts State House
@preamble1776: eh, not really… like, some people are like “my major is superior to yours” after sharing what each other’s majors are, but not really bragging about it from what I’ve experienced.
Also, congrats on the internship!
Major elitism/snobbery is a thing. Being a CS major, I definitely hear a lot of engineers/CS people degrade anything that isn’t a physical science/hard science/engineering major.
I feel like I’d be susceptible to that if I myself were in a more lucrative major (like CS) but what I don’t understand is why people lump STEM as one unit homogeneous in its employability. I mean, I hear Biology majors liken themselves to Engineering and Computer Science majors when the job market for CS and Eng majors is far more promising than that for Biology majors (who don’t pursue medical school.)
There is even major elitism amongst the humanities and social sciences; Women’s Studies and Fine Arts majors get the worst of the criticism from the supposedly more “”“respectable”"" majors like English and Political Science. (lol. Because you know, Literature majors make BANK apparently.)
I don’t think it’s about money so much as difficulty. I have a close friend who is communications: imagine that stigma. Biology, despite the pay, can be likened to CS/Engineering in difficulty.
Oh, at my school, it’s a careerist mindset. You hear a lot of “her major is Theater? lol, no future!” or whatever. Political Science is relatively respected at my school because people have internalized Pol Sci as a stepping stone for law school and people have also internalized the myth that law is still a “lucrative” career post-recession, lol.
When you can count on one hand how many engineering or computer science majors are still left (from my graduating class) after one year of college… I feel pretty great about majoring in engineering haha
Wow, very different experience here. CS, I don’t think many at all have dropped. Easily less than 10% of 150ish
With CS at my school, a pretty small percentage dropped out after Data Structures(like 15%-20%). The thing with my school is that CS is literally the strongest major at the school and one of the strongest CS programs in the nation. All of the CS majors definitely have a chip on their shoulder because not only is it a lucrative career, it is also a difficult one major that only a small percentage of people can master. I try not to act elitist, but even I succumb to it sometimes.
Ex. Last week, a psych TA didn’t show up to office hours without warning and I left the psych department(which was very much out of my way) grumbling about how they can’t even handle a simple thing like office hours and they have nothing important to do anyways etc.
I was talking about graduating class from my highschool. At my university, we had a considerable amount of people switch out, but not many that I knew or who were in the honors college
Engineers.