<p>i’m debating between art history and philosophy. neither because i want to enter a specific career that will benefit from it, i just like learning, and have found myself most interested and have benefited personally from both art history and philosophy.</p>
<p>any care to provide additional insight with possibly UCLA and philosophy?</p>
<p>I suppose I haven’t. I only took two courses at the CC level, but it didn’t take me long to figure out I was being fed outright horse-poop from day one. </p>
<p>I suppose that’s another big problem I have with philosophy. Many of the questions posed are open-ended or rhetorical. So in essence, all the professor can really evaluate is your ability to form a well reasoned argument. Though not the easiest thing to do, lets be honest with ourselves, it’s not rocket science…</p>
<p>While bio is hardly the most difficult major out there, it is far more than simply regurgitating facts. The upper division course work one does in the life sciences is notoriously difficult. I’d wager that most non-science majors would literally crap their pants if they had to take Organic Chem and Mammalian Physiology at any point in their studies. Heck, the only people that have it worse than us are physics, chemistry, and engineering majors.</p>
<p>But heck, you sound like a cool guy, so here’s hoping you prove me wrong and don’t end up a jobless wonder.</p>
<p>Fair enough. :)</p>
<p>And I think I know why UCSD is such a “science” school… it’s quiet enough for everyone to concentrate. haha, kidding. My ex-girlfriend is a human bio major there. Been there my share of times.</p>
<p>i feel like bringing this thread back.
any phil majors remain?
or are grey and i the only ones left?
stats?
hobbies?
fav. current bands?
fav. authors?
turn ons?</p>
<p>3.74
coffee cigarettes and whiskey
joy division, Beethoven
Wittgenstein
females</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>I wan to double major in Philosophy and Anthropology (though Anthro. is my lead major if I have to choose). </p>
<p>I have a 10 year sales career under my belt so I could give a hoot if there are jobs for philosophy majors, I can always go back to sales and with a degree, will be worth far more than previously. </p>
<p>But I’m seriously considering law school. </p>
<p>Cheers to Philosophy majors!</p>
<p>I’m also pre-law, of course.</p>
<p>~3.5 w/ ridiculous upward trend</p>
<p>pre-law, hailing from UC Pierce – the lesser known, slightly ■■■■■■■■, younger, significantly more persian stepbrother of the UC system.</p>
<p>growing a beard until i hear back from schools, caffeine, nicotine, gpa means, guillotines, barely-18s and other things of that sort. </p>
<p>new glassjaw, redman (specifically, dare iz a dark side), lootpack, dynospectrum, some of that raw living legends shteez… but ya’ll don’t know about that hip hop sh**.</p>
<p>nabakov, dostoevsky, a little voltaire here and there. </p>
<p>this turns me on in my ears:</p>
<p>so check the manuscript /
man you flipped /
put it down if you can’t handle it /
got a B-R-C-G ----> that’s a Blunt Rollers College Graduate /
i got a degrees in physics on how high i can get
etc.</p>
<p>Hi Grey,</p>
<p>I’m also a philosophy major planning to go to law school. I work at a large law firm as a paralegal and most of the attorneys majored in subjects like Anthropology, Sociology, Art History, even Photography. In fact, the managing partner I work closely with in the corporate department majored in Anthropology and went on to Harvard Law. Really, what is recommended is a major that you know you can do well in since the LSAT’s is such a numbers game. </p>
<p>Here’s an interesting article I found on why Philosophy is a good major in preparation for the LSAT’s: and law school</p>
<p>[Philosophy</a> and Law](<a href=“http://www.unc.edu/depts/phildept/law.html]Philosophy”>http://www.unc.edu/depts/phildept/law.html)</p>
<p>lake show!</p>
<p>haha, floyd are you persian?</p>
<p>nope. just overtly racist.</p>
<p>(kidding)</p>
<p>(am i?)</p>
<p>(yes.)</p>
<p>Wow, this anchor kid is the lonelist kid I’ve ever seen. I remember him talking about his “stanford professor” in another thread. I would be embarassed to be a bio major after reading that guy’s posts. Good thing I changed to chemistry.</p>
<p>haha, yeah.</p>
<p>did you actually learn about nabakov and voltaire in your classes? isn’t that a little low brow and too easy? Where’s the love for Bertrand Russel, Martin Heidegger, and Wittgenstein</p>
<p>no, we didn’t learn about them in class. i just think they’re fun. i mean, any opportunity to empathize with a pedofile is an opportunity worth the while, right?</p>
<p>i love russel, am intrigued by wittgenstein and think heidegger, though interesting, is way ahead in the running for ‘most tedious readings of all time’. i just hate the way he writes; and that goes for any of the various translations of any of the passages i’ve been exposed to… and i still don’t really get ‘dasein’. (no, that wasn’t an invitation for you to try to explain it)</p>
<p>generally, i like reading the analytics, but the inconsequential continental philosopher holds a special place in my beard, where all of my gooey emotions are located.</p>
<p>well philosophy does influence other academic subjects also and we can see this clearly with the existentialists Sartre having influence in literary works like Albert Camus. Do any of you read any modern day philosophers like Richard Rorty or Karl Popper?</p>
<p>Rorty and Popper are ‘contemporary’, not ‘modern’.
I liked what little i read from Rorty. about his ‘intersubjective truth’, eliminating the varied legitimacy between scientific methodology and other types of intellectual thought…
good stuff.</p>
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<p>Says the guy who wants to go to the school this “loser” already attends. </p>
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<p>Classy.</p>
<p>hahah 10char</p>