University Majors

[opaltiger]

Umm, my running plan is to go to one of the very very few schools in the US that give degrees in ethology, AKA animal behavior.

I JUST DO NOT KNOW YET though help me

There's no need to get a degree specifically in ethology. It's much easier, and probably more helpful, to do a general biology degree and specialise in topics that interest you as you progress - and that allows you to change direction if you discover ethology isn't really for you.

 

[Tailsy]

english isn't useless!!!!!!! it's fun and cool and versatile and it can kick ur degree's butt in a fight ok.

 

[Harlequin]

Biology. No idea what I'm specialising in yet. :D

Which bits are you interested in, anyway? I think I may be biased towards the genetics/molecular area just because of how Cardiff's School of Biosciences works at the moment. There's a strong focus on genetics/molecular/cell biology here at the moment and those modules tend to have the better lecturers and planning an all that jazz (but those things are cool though0.

There's no need to get a degree specifically in ethology. It's much easier, and probably more helpful, to do a general biology degree and specialise in topics that interest you as you progress - and that allows you to change direction if you discover ethology isn't really for you.

Seconding this! I think if you did a more general biology course you'd be able to experience more of biology, and because of your more general study of biology you'll be able to look at and explore more fields (including ethology if you want!), which could lead to interesting job opportunities. Plus other disciplines can be very interesting if you take a little time to look into them!

 

[opaltiger]

Which bits are you interested in, anyway? I think I may be biased towards the genetics/molecular area just because of how Cardiff's School of Biosciences works at the moment. There's a strong focus on genetics/molecular/cell biology here at the moment and those modules tend to have the better lecturers and planning an all that jazz (but those things are cool though0.

Anything with strong links to evolutionary theory; evo-devo looks interesting, and I'm doing something vaguely related this summer, but then I also like straight-up whole animal biology like behavioural ecology. So I'm really not sure. :P

 

[Adriane]

Double major in music therapy and psychology (seeing as how majoring in psych is a requirement for music therapy).

If I had any sense, I'd be doing music therapy.

 

[Dannichu]

english isn't useless!!!!!!! it's fun and cool and versatile and it can kick ur degree's butt in a fight ok.

I forgot, of course.

 

[Vipera Magnifica]

I'll be starting my Physics undergraduate studies in August. I'm particularly interested in research and theory, so I'm definitely going on to get my Master's and Ph.D.

 

[Blastoise Fortooate]

There's no need to get a degree specifically in ethology. It's much easier, and probably more helpful, to do a general biology degree and specialise in topics that interest you as you progress - and that allows you to change direction if you discover ethology isn't really for you.

Seconding this! I think if you did a more general biology course you'd be able to experience more of biology, and because of your more general study of biology you'll be able to look at and explore more fields (including ethology if you want!), which could lead to interesting job opportunities. Plus other disciplines can be very interesting if you take a little time to look into them!

yay advice! :O This actually makes a lot of sense and I'm not sure why it did not occur to me sooner.

 

[Datura]

That sounds so cool :D

It really is! I had actually declared Geography (with an urban concentration) prior, but after meeting with my Geography advisor I realized that there were far too many required environmental science courses for my liking, so I browsed the undergraduate catalogue for something else. The major is perfect, because I can really just take whatever kind of social science course I want. I've already taken courses on urban environmental problems, queer migrations in cities, general urban geography, and the history of Olympic cities. Next fall I'm taking a course that lets me volunteer at either an LGBT community center or women's center/Planned Parenthood type of deal. It's so awesome. :D

And to top it all off I'm in the process of applying to study abroad in Frankfurt a year from now. I get to take urbanism classes auf Deutsch!

 

[sovram]

Double major mathematics and computer science. I was doing computer engineering, then decided I wanted to do maths forever while taking a history of mathematics course. Which was incredible.

 

[glitchedgamer]

Started my Computer Science major this past spring. Off to a very... rough start, but honestly I never thought I'd be starting any major.

 

[Dannichu]

It really is! I had actually declared Geography (with an urban concentration) prior, but after meeting with my Geography advisor I realized that there were far too many required environmental science courses for my liking, so I browsed the undergraduate catalogue for something else. The major is perfect, because I can really just take whatever kind of social science course I want. I've already taken courses on urban environmental problems, queer migrations in cities, general urban geography, and the history of Olympic cities. Next fall I'm taking a course that lets me volunteer at either an LGBT community center or women's center/Planned Parenthood type of deal. It's so awesome. :D

And to top it all off I'm in the process of applying to study abroad in Frankfurt a year from now. I get to take urbanism classes auf Deutsch!

That's amazing :D My university's pretty cool because it's good a really good Social Sciences department, and every lecturer there gets to run a module on one or more of their specialties (in addition to a few compulsory modules like Research Methods, which nobody really enjoys), so I've taken modules in the sociology of: religion, the body, race and ethnicity, food, work, gender and more I'm forgetting about. Sadly we don't get to do stuff like volunteer work as part of the course, although that's the uni's bureaucracy rather than the department.

 

[Tarvos]

Frankfurt? Wonderful!

 

[Butterfree]

I'm formally graduating with a B.S. in computer science next Saturday, and then I'm off to work full-time because monies. :D (Technically I'm already working full-time because my exams finished ages ago.)

 

[Autumn]

(Technically I'm already working full-time because my exams finished ages ago.)

What do you do?

 

[Tailsy]

I forgot, of course.

Exactly. English gets you all the shit!!!!!!! So obviously the way to go if you want people macking on ya.

 

[bobandbill]

I'm into the third year of a science advanced degree (majoring in Physics and Computational Science). If all goes well I'll have my bacholars by the end of the year, and will probably do honours after that (another year). Undecided if I'd then go on with a Master/PhD after that or just go straight into industry though... I guess it will be something I will figure out in due course though, hopefully.

 

[Harlequin]

Anything with strong links to evolutionary theory; evo-devo looks interesting, and I'm doing something vaguely related this summer, but then I also like straight-up whole animal biology like behavioural ecology. So I'm really not sure. :P

That's fair! Our school is really biased towards non-ecological/zoological areas of biology (which is something I hadn't noticed until this year) so that's possibly coloured my choices. Still, I am going on a tropical ecology field course in Kenya next week so at least I'm not entirely locked into genes and genomes and ions and blah! Evolutionary biology is fascinating but Cardiff really doesn't have anything like that on offer, which is really sad.

yay advice! :O This actually makes a lot of sense and I'm not sure why it did not occur to me sooner.

I thought the same thing. Originally I wanted to do a genetics degree because I Wanted to Do Genetics, but then I was like "but a biology degree is so much more versatile..." and then I didn't regret my decision. So!

 

[Butterfree]

What do you do?

Backend programming for an upcoming iPhone game.

 

[Murkrow]

Backend programming for an upcoming iPhone game.

That explains the annoyed tweets about facebook integration then :P

Double major mathematics and computer science. I was doing computer engineering, then decided I wanted to do maths forever while taking a history of mathematics course. Which was incredible.

I'm the other way around. I started off intending to do just maths, but now I've decided to a bit of computer science with mine.