University Majors

[Jolty]

in september i will be starting a BSc in computer animation

i forgot how majors and minors work over here so. that is all.

 

[goldenquagsire]

Coming up to the end of my first year doing a BA in History! Enjoying it a hell of a lot, panicking slightly because I still don't know really what my specialism should be (I honestly find most history interesting, and I really liked the fact that my uni does 'survey courses' for the first year covering everything from 400AD onwards as well as various themes and historiography), but I have a mild preference for Medieval European or colonial history. I can very seriously see myself doing a postgrad in history if only so I don't have to enter the real world for an extra year but it's a little early to be thinking about that...

 

[Datura]

High fives for all of the liberal arts majors. We're the minority here, apparently.

 

[Shiny Grimer]

Psychology, particularly abnormal psychology.

 

[-Chris-]

I have a degree in communications. It was a really easy major.

 

[surskitty]

I think I'm like halfway to an art degree. :|a

 

[Espeon]

I am doing BioVeterinary Science; it's like Veterinary Science and Biology's unwanted mongrel crossbreed. Doesn't let you be a vet but at some point in the future I will take the surgical world by storm! >:D

 

[sovram]

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.

There's definitely no shame in that. How far are you into the maths degree?

And computer science -- what are you interested in? I pretty much know nothing about computer science right now, I can just kind of program in a very mediocre fashion in C++. But I made friends with a cool professor who works with robots (specifically robot vision I think) and I'm very passionate about AI, so I think that's where I want to go!

 

[Murkrow]

There's definitely no shame in that. How far are you into the maths degree?

And computer science -- what are you interested in? I pretty much know nothing about computer science right now, I can just kind of program in a very mediocre fashion in C++. But I made friends with a cool professor who works with robots (specifically robot vision I think) and I'm very passionate about AI, so I think that's where I want to go!

Only just finished my first year. I'm about the same, very mediocre with C++ :P
The only CS options I could chose from next year were computer architecture and a course about the limits of computation. I took the latter because I'm interested more in the mathematics and programming rather than the logic behind why computers are built the way they are. I'm a bit bummed that there weren't any programming options though, since that's what I'd most like to do.

 

[sovram]

Only just finished my first year. I'm about the same, very mediocre with C++ :P
The only CS options I could chose from next year were computer architecture and a course about the limits of computation. I took the latter because I'm interested more in the mathematics and programming rather than the logic behind why computers are built the way they are. I'm a bit bummed that there weren't any programming options though, since that's what I'd most like to do.

My professor spoke briefly about computation in that history of mathematics course I was talking about -- it seems really interesting. Good choice, I'd say!

 

[-Chris-]

I should add that what you major in doesn't necessarily define what you are going to do once you graduate. Currently, I'm in graduate school in a completely different field from what I majored in.

 

[shadow_lugia]

I'm only starting junior year of high school next school year, so I haven't exactly formed detailed plans for college yet. I have been looking around through the things that come in the mail, though, and I think that I would want a double major in Astronomy and Linguistics. Not sure what minor I would have, but probably something else interesting to me like Biology or Psychology.

The thing I'm mostly hesitant about with a Biology minor is I'm not sure if some sort of animal lab class would be required. We got to tour the animal labs at CSU for a field trip last year, and while the actual material was pretty interesting, and I'm not very grossed out by bones or plasticized organs, the smell in the main classroom was awful, not to mention the room with the beetles where the bones are cleaned...

 

[Silverwing]

Right now I'm an intended Economics major but I haven't completely ruled out Computer Science yet, as either my only major, or a second major, or just a minor.

But then again, the CS department at my school is super competitive so I might get my self esteem destroyed with the first sequence CS class and back out of any further consideration. :D