Majoring

[piersk]

With one more exam to go tomorrow afternoon before the end of my second year at uni, I am bored out of my skull. I'm getting so fed up with revision and am really looking forward to my placement (starting 2nd June :D).

Anyway, I was just wondering, what did you all major in at uni? Please bear in mind that I'm in the UK and have no idea about the US/anywhere else college/uni system, so when I say major I mean what is main subject of your degree.

To start the ball rolling, I'm doin a BSc in Computer Science and Engineering (posh title!).

What about the rest of you?

[Norman Graham]

What a numbskull I was in the 80s. I should have realised that computers were my thing. I joined a computer club at school but couldn't see the potential of Sinclair ZX 80s. I did English literature and politics at university (Glasgow, double-honours deal), but I wish I now had the time and money to study computer science and get some of those fundamentals fixed in my little head.

Norm

[goldbug]

I majored in architecture (buildings, not software/hardware). Now I'm a web developer. Go figure.

[Elizabeth]

I majored in Organizational Behavior (also totally non-computer related :) ) but I am planning to get my Masters in Computer Science.
Norm, I have no time or money either, but where there's a will, there's a way! ;) Perhaps you should look into it.

-Elizabeth

[goldbug]

Originally posted by Elizabeth

Norm, I have no time or money either, but where there's a will, there's a way! ;) Perhaps you should look into it.
-Elizabeth

hrmm,.... sounds like a decent poll. :)

[blitzwing]

I'm an MIS major at school. It's got more business core classes and less programming core classes than a traditional CIS degree program I guess. I figure I'd go for a more broad computer degree, and sort out the specifics on my own(certifications and the like). That way, I'll hopefully have more flexibility down the road if I decide I want to be a suit.

[piersk]

What's CIS and MIS?

[blitzwing]

At least at my school...

CIS = computer information systems
MIS = management information systems

CIS is more programing intensive, while MIS takes a look at more subjects of the computer world(programming, networking, project management), but not in any particular depth. It's more to make you into an IT manager.

[jllydgnt]

Modern Dance

[ahundiak]

You mean they actually offer classes at university? I thought they were all just tax payer funded training camps for professional sports and life insurance companies.

[Sxooter]

Electrical Engineering.

[Weedpacket]

Mathematics. Tended to do a fair few experiments and simulations; ended up becoming some sort of programmer that way.

[Sxooter]

There's a girl I used to work with who was a math major, and one day went out to lunch and she ordered a Guiness stout. If she had told me she was a highly proficient sword swallower at that point I would not have been surprised. Dammit, why did I have to be married at the time? She's even a red head.

[dartcol]

Italian and Bob Dylan.

[the_myth]

I'm actually a tad bit younger than you guys, I'm a senior in high school. However, I'm trying to decide if I want to get a master in computer science or managing information technology. Anyone have a recommendation?

[dalecosp]

Me: music education, 80's
My brother: aerospace engineering, 1990, downed the Wall, canceled the B-2

He's now MIS (Manager of Information Services) for one of Missouri's mid-sized cities, and I have a small computer repair/consultant/web hosting & development business.

[Wok]

Having only been in high school for two years, university seems a long, long way off...

[barand]

Maths in the days when the uni (Birminham,UK) had one steam-powered computer that filled a large room. Found out I had an aptitude for programming and joined ICL in 1968 (not a typo!)

PS university seems a long way off for me too.

[jllydgnt]

I like the way all UK peeps call it "university." It sounds better than the American equivalent "college." Pass the HB sauce, will ya?

[barand]

Pass the HB sauce, will ya?

It's 'HP' sauce, a great British delicacy. Wouldn't eat a bacon butty without it.

[jllydgnt]

Right, right, HP. What on Earth is a bacon butty?

[barand]

Up inth' north of England where I am :


$butty === $sandwich;


Darn sarf ( 'down south'), them Londoners call 'em 'sarnies'

[jllydgnt]

Interesting - like the grinder vs. hoagie thing over here.

[outraegis]

BSCS, graduated in early 80s.

Never really regretted it, although years later, I have regularly thought other areas might be interesting:

Politics: I fib well and like the intrigue.

International Relations: I don't like foreigners or French people, so I think I could get a job in D.C.

Civil Engineering: Now this one I regret. Civil seemed boring to me in college, but these guys not only get to spend bajillions of bucks on heavy machinery, they get to blow stuff up. I shoulda taken this as a major. No question.

Hotel and restaurant management: Can't cook. Don't want to cook. But it's hard getting funding to open a strip club in Cancun with a CS degree. It'd be easier with a long-winded waiter-sounding degree.

Psychology: I'm screwed up. Everyone I know is screwed up. This has gotta be a growth business. And speaking of "growth" businesses...

Human Sexuality: I mean, can you imagine having to study boinking and doinking as a major. Trust me, major in CS and you'll have a lot of Saturday nights (really, Sunday dawns) debugging, and thinking about why you're not majoring in boinking and doinking.

Animal Husbandry: Ok, well, that's really more my best friend who's into that. But he's seeing a shrink. He scares me.

Good luck, kid. Remember, once you leave college, you're in the real world. And that's not a TV show.

Doc Raegis

[matt_4013]

I did network engineering at TAFE (It's like a technical college thingy), which had absolutely no programming in it. A lot of Cisco, Linux, Novell, and physical data networking technologies. Then I got bored one day and decided to learn PHP, so now I'm a web developer ;) I'm hoping to get into University next year doing a Bachelor Degree in Astronomical Sciences, the course guidance counsellor tells me that with my scores on the stat test, it shouldn't be a problem :) Space absolutely fascinates me :)