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Post by tremulant on Apr 19, 2005 2:04:12 GMT -5
Hello friends. I will be attending school this year after summer, and I am screwed because I have no idea what to study. But my first year is University 1, which allows me to take a bunch of different courses so I can figure out my major. Still, I dont know where to start. I know guys don't really know much about me, but what are some cool things to study? Seriously I'm open to suggestion, I want ideas. Basically I'm looking for something that will allow me to make a decent living someday. Thanks in advance, folks.
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Post by motherprussia on Apr 19, 2005 2:15:31 GMT -5
i am an english major which means i study literature...it's fun and easy for me...well, as fun as school can be
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Post by DigitalDwarf on Apr 19, 2005 10:20:05 GMT -5
physical therapy at some universities, it can be up to seven years in school, but when you get out, you get paid really well for easy ass work. My therapists don't do shit for me and they always to seem to have their hand in my ass, scowering for money
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Post by hotpants on Apr 19, 2005 13:38:46 GMT -5
im in my 2nd year and i dont have a major, i think im gonna transfer after this quarter to bowling green next fall. im going into communications or something like that dealing with filming and editing producing and all that good shit
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Post by Rubberneck on Apr 19, 2005 14:20:23 GMT -5
i also entered my first year of university (this school year) without knowing exactly what i wanted to study. basically, what i did was grouped together several majors that potentially interested me and found all their common required corses and started there.
as far as what you should major in, think about what interests you most. is it more important for you to make a very comfortable salary or for you to have a positive impact on the world? you have to be interested in what you wish to major in, and as i have always been told, don't make selecting your major into too big of a dificulty, as you will more than likely change your mind a few times while you are in school and then likely will get a job that isn't really related at all to your degree.
the best advice i have been given is to focus on the courses that interest you and make a degree from them. i guess that is why i will be transferring schools for the fall 2005 semester.
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Post by tremulant on Apr 19, 2005 16:27:32 GMT -5
Well, since I skateboard, I have a bit of film editing experience, so that kinda interests me. But I just dont see a career in that. I've been looking into engineering though, I bet you can make a shit load of money in that field.
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Post by CoKeS on Apr 19, 2005 17:59:51 GMT -5
you don't need money to be happy.... all i need is music, a cottage on the beach, my best friends, and an awesome girlfriend.
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Post by tremulant on Apr 19, 2005 18:14:08 GMT -5
haha, I really dont have anything. I've lost it all.
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Post by motherprussia on Apr 20, 2005 1:41:09 GMT -5
i also entered my first year of university (this school year) without knowing exactly what i wanted to study. basically, what i did was grouped together several majors that potentially interested me and found all their common required corses and started there. as far as what you should major in, think about what interests you most. is it more important for you to make a very comfortable salary or for you to have a positive impact on the world? you have to be interested in what you wish to major in, and as i have always been told, don't make selecting your major into too big of a dificulty, as you will more than likely change your mind a few times while you are in school and then likely will get a job that isn't really related at all to your degree. the best advice i have been given is to focus on the courses that interest you and make a degree from them. i guess that is why i will be transferring schools for the fall 2005 semester. you're going to IU aren't you?
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Post by tremulant on Apr 20, 2005 2:04:33 GMT -5
who you talkin about willis?
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Post by Rubberneck on Apr 20, 2005 2:22:00 GMT -5
haha...yeah, i'm moving back home. trust me, it is not for the fact that it is home, or the fact that my girlfriend is still in bloomington. i was interested in engineering, so i went to purdue to check out my options, but i eventually decided that environmental sciences interest me more. i was so eager to get away from home, that i didn't even look into IU to find that they have one of the most nationally reknown programs available.
so it looks like i am shopping for a studio apartment to expand my recording setup hopefully with the friuts of this summer's labor.
and tremulant, engineering is a very secure, profitable job...the national graduation rate of engineers is way behind that of competing nations and declining as a general trend. however, i will warn you now, if you want to be succesful as an engineer, you better have more interest than the money. depending on your discipline, you are going to be hit hard with advance mathematics, physics (not just your highschool drabble...electrostatics, wave-particles, digital signal processing, etc), probably chemistry...it is not a program that appeals to many people except for the die-hard academics out there. i know several people who are upper classmen in engr, and they seem to complain a LOT about their major, so do your research before you make up your mind.
some other topics to look into, if you are considering engineering, are nanotech and for some reason, a lot of engineers who don't make it through transfer to business/management.
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Post by motherprussia on Apr 20, 2005 6:06:21 GMT -5
hotel management is comman and supposedly the easiest major here
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Post by tremulant on Apr 20, 2005 15:25:10 GMT -5
thanks guys, appreciate it.
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Post by nastia on Apr 21, 2005 6:53:39 GMT -5
haha, I really dont have anything. I've lost it all. i'm so sorry.... it's terrible
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