<p>^Because of passion; the fulfillment of doing something you enjoy. Not everyone wants to pick a field just because it pays good or is lucrative.</p>
<p>Philosophy:</p>
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<li><p>No, we don’t all have excessive facial hair</p></li>
<li><p>Yes, I know I will only be employed if I go to professional school</p></li>
<li><p>No, stop saying that. Enough with “I think, therefore I am”.</p></li>
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<p>hey, nbrink, what IS materials engineering? :P</p>
<p>^& what could one go on to do with a philosophy major?</p>
<p>or, many of these majors, for that matter. like, career-option wise? i think if we got some lists going, it could be really helpful (:</p>
<p>^ when it comes down to it, other than Architecture, Engineering, Business, Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Comp sci, Nursing, and a few others, most majors aren’t preparing you for anything specific.</p>
<p>That’s why Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences are all lumped into “Liberal Arts” - in English Lit or Econ or Biology we’re not prepping for a future career, which leaves many options open.
This is true for most majors - most Science majors won’t become scientists, most Psych majors won’t become psychologists, Econ majors won’t become economists…Theatre is the same way, you don’t pick it just for the shot at acting. I mean with most jobs they just want someone with a Bachelor’s degree who can get the job done, and that means any competent person. That’s why networking and “people skills” often get farther (further?) than a good GPA. That’s why I don’t get why people ask History or Philosophy majors what they’re gonna do but not Physics or Econ majors…neither lead to anything specific. </p>
<p>I smile and nod when I hear “material science” but I secretly don’t know either…somethin with chem and nanotechnology, I bet.</p>
<p>I am hesitant to list my majors and my plans for careers. You guys are too harsh for me. xD</p>
<p>Alix, that’s exactly what wikipedia says about materials science. :D</p>
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<p>That is true, sort of. While you’re right that economics does not lead to a specific career in a way that nursing would, there is a huge difference between economics and history. Even within the “liberal arts” majors that you list, some majors start out (without any further education) with much higher salary than others. Science and math-heavy majors tend to do much better. Simply put, there are many more jobs where practically only science majors can apply for than jobs where only humanities majors can apply for.</p>
<p>Don’t try to turn this into the 3486348686th thread about ‘science makes more than liberal arts’ debate thing. Please.</p>
<p>Psych:</p>
<p>-No, we can’t tell you what you’re thinking. We study psychology, not how to be a psychic.
-We have to study a LOT of science and history
-There is a large difference between a Psychologist and a Psychiatrist (a lot of people don’t know this)
-Yes, we know we have to go to grad school if we want a good job.
-We didn’t all have messed up/traumatizing childhoods…though a fair percentage did.
-We’re not analyzing everything you say, and every word that comes out of our mouths is not “psychobabble”. Unless, of course, we just wrote a 15-page paper on Freud’s theory of the subconscious vs. Jung’s theory of same, and how their disagreement on the subject eventually led to the dissolve of their partnership.</p>
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I didn’t know that, but my point is for most majors you won’t go into that field. Econ majors usually end up in Business, for example.
But not really, it’s not like scientists get paid a lot to do research; the academic fields aren’t lucrative. Most science majors get their Bachelors, head into the working world where they might make more because certain jobs require quantitative skills not everyone has. science majors are “Liberal Arts” too; bio majors study Bio the same way history majors study history…both are academic rather than pre-professional and don’t lead to a specific career. applied science stuff like Enginering/Comp Sci makes money.</p>
<p>Nursing:</p>
<ul>
<li>We actually don’t WANT to be doctors</li>
<li>Is hard!</li>
<li>Isn’t just for girls</li>
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<p>Math majors learn nothing but worthless information aside from the prerequisites for everyone. And it’s robotic – easy robotic. For those very two reasons employers tend to frown upon them.</p>
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<p>You can tell you know nothing about the math major, so why would you be so bold to claim that it’s easy and robotic? Probably another science person who knows they wouldn’t be able to do pure math and so just bashes it.</p>
<p>First of all, the only math that IS at all robotic are the “prerequisites for everyone,” the classes you claim to be useful. Those are also the only easy ones. Everything else takes creativity and is definitely NOT robotic. Otherwise we would have robots and computers doing proofs left and right. And yes, computers have done a few proofs that admit such solving, and yes, there are Mathematicians who will not accept those results until they are proven by real people.</p>
<p>Since math is creative, majors develop critical thinking. And it shows. You start applying the same methods and logic to everything in your life, after applying it to homework problems for hours each day. And when someone explains something about their major to them, math majors pick it up quickly. Employers would like this sort of thing. I really, really doubt there is any employer who is biased against math. Maybe neutral to it, but not biased against.</p>
<p>^^considering that it was said earlier that people brag that they failed a math course, I’m pretty sure most employers would be impressed by someone who completed a college math curriculum rather than thinking it was easy bull.</p>
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So, may I ask what one does as a Sports Management major do without managing sports? Investment banking?</p>
<p>As for my major:
Economics is not business. It is not in the business school. I am not a business major.</p>
<p>“^Because of passion; the fulfillment of doing something you enjoy. Not everyone wants to pick a field just because it pays good or is lucrative.”</p>
<p>I get that those years of college will be fun for someone who majors in something just because s/he loves it. But what about afterward?? Will s/he still be happy when s/he graduates college, can’t find a good job with the degree and have to pay back all these loans??</p>
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<p>It’s like saying what does someone do with a business degree; there are all kinds of possibilities: marketing, finance, tourism, hospitality, pro sports, minor league sports, college sports, health clubs, community centers, country clubs, etc.</p>
<p>I’m not in college yet but I’m thinking of doing econ. I’m not sure of a common misconception about econ majors though.</p>
<p>“But not really, it’s not like scientists get paid a lot to do research; the academic fields aren’t lucrative. Most science majors get their Bachelors, head into the working world where they might make more because certain jobs require quantitative skills not everyone has. science majors are “Liberal Arts” too; bio majors study Bio the same way history majors study history…both are academic rather than pre-professional and don’t lead to a specific career. applied science stuff like Enginering/Comp Sci makes money.”</p>
<p>Was talking to the guy who was talking about jobs and money. xD</p>
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She will still continue to love it, thank you very much.
Personally, my plan is to get m degree while double majoring/ minoring in something else I love. I will try the audition circuit for a few years, and if it happens, great, if it doesn’t, then I’ll get an education certification so I can be a theatre educator, or go to grad school. I really have no interest in being a “movie star”.</p>
<p>Bioengineering:
- We can kill you too (Which is why we have an ethics requirement)
- We can do a lot of stuff that sometimes even scares me (Yes, I’m a tad bit scared of my own major)
- Biologists think we’re engineers and engineers frown down at us thinking we’re biologists, but we’re really engineers at heart, a jack-of-all-trades engineer. </p>
<p>“Probably another science person who knows they wouldn’t be able to do pure math and so just bashes it.”</p>
<p>I kind of resent this, panther, because during summer school I took a proof-based discrete math class that was a prerequisite for math, cogsci, and some compsci majors at my school. They all felt the need to ask me why I was taking the course since it wasn’t required of me, and the fact that I’m majoring in something with bio- attached to it shocked them since the apparent assumption among (some) math majors at my school is that bio-related majors can’t love math.</p>
<p>To add-on to the one I posted earlier:</p>
<p>Mech Engineering & CS</p>
<p>(Computer Science)
- I will not help you install your printer/software/mouse/keyboard/OS/monitor/stolen software/Game
Microsoft and Apple have made their respective software and/or systems idiot-friendly. Read the on-screen instructions and follow them. Easy as pie. - For that matter, CS major =/= Best Buy Geek Squad. Call. Best. Buy. Not me.
- I will not help you create the next “coolest, guaranteed-to-be-a-hit, we’ll be millionaires” iPhone App/Computer Game/Software/OS/Website
- I will not help you.</p>
<p>(Sorry, this was sparked by my having to spend an additional two hours last night trying to get my stepfather’s printer set up, over the phone. I just had to release it somewhere. :o )</p>