Any political science majors here?

[Syringer]

I mean if college should be about anything, it should be about learning something that is useful in the real world.

Are you retarded?

You're really disillusioning yourself if you think calculus/diff eq or higher math has ANY use in the "real world"...unless you're working for Lockheed Martin.

/spoken from a math major

 

[Dissipate]

Originally posted by: Syringer

I mean if college should be about anything, it should be about learning something that is useful in the real world.

Are you retarded?

You're really disillusioning yourself if you think calculus/diff eq or higher math has ANY use in the "real world"...unless you're working for Lockheed Martin.

/spoken from a math major

So rigorous thinking has no use in the real world? And this is coming from a math major? Wow.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: bthorny
Don't do it.....

I did and still regret it..
B.S. in Poly Sci, emphasis in IR....

Had a bunch of fun in college but, I'm screwed now....No job prospects unless you wanna move to DC, go to law school, go to Grad school, get a canvassing job for crap money, or teach HS...

I'm now basically in a fuxored position, although I didn't think it would matter at the time what my undergrad was because I was planning on going to law school.....

It's not a bad idea if you wanna dual major or something though and what mercanucaribe
said about Geography/GIS is spot on, I'm thinking about pursing that now....more school one way or the other...god I'm so depressed

Oh yeah, I forgot about statistics. Obviously you'd need a lot of statistics. Spatial analysis classes too.

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: Dissipate

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Political science is very interesting to me but I'm going to get a degree that I can use, like Philosophy.

Honestly, why do you need to go to a university to learn philosophy? For instance, Kant's "A Critique of Pure Reason" is available at Border's. Just buy it and study it on your own. I'm sure you can even get a study guide online.

Interaction with others is always a plus.

 

[Dissipate]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: Dissipate

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Political science is very interesting to me but I'm going to get a degree that I can use, like Philosophy.

Honestly, why do you need to go to a university to learn philosophy? For instance, Kant's "A Critique of Pure Reason" is available at Border's. Just buy it and study it on your own. I'm sure you can even get a study guide online.

Interaction with others is always a plus.

Join a philosophical society, or some philosophy Internet web board. Sure, it isn't going to be as good as talking with hundreds of other philosophy majors, but that is a small sacrifice.

If I were going to do something like philosophy, I would first get a degree in something like engineering/science(i.e. something that is going to get me higher pay right out of college) and then after I graduated as an alumni I would go back and take some courses here and there.

 

[shopbruin]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: Dissipate

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Political science is very interesting to me but I'm going to get a degree that I can use, like Philosophy.

Honestly, why do you need to go to a university to learn philosophy? For instance, Kant's "A Critique of Pure Reason" is available at Border's. Just buy it and study it on your own. I'm sure you can even get a study guide online.

Interaction with others is always a plus.

this is ATOT...

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: freesia39

Originally posted by: DainBramaged

Originally posted by: Dissipate

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Political science is very interesting to me but I'm going to get a degree that I can use, like Philosophy.

Honestly, why do you need to go to a university to learn philosophy? For instance, Kant's "A Critique of Pure Reason" is available at Border's. Just buy it and study it on your own. I'm sure you can even get a study guide online.

Interaction with others is always a plus.

this is ATOT...

So where is my four year piece of paper that gets me a job???!??!!?

 

[KingofCamelot]

Originally posted by: Dissipate

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Political science is very interesting to me but I'm going to get a degree that I can use, like Philosophy.

Honestly, why do you need to go to a university to learn philosophy? For instance, Kant's "A Critique of Pure Reason" is available at Border's. Just buy it and study it on your own. I'm sure you can even get a study guide online.

Heh. My High School Philosophy teacher was a political science major. Said he regretted that decision. He also taught health and psyschology, both of which I also took from him, in the same year too. Very smart man, also a very proud Irishman.

 

[ni4ni]

Poli Sci major here. I work in politics. If you want information, message me...

 

[Alkesh]

I'm poli sci and econ. There are 9 subfields of political science so plenty of stuff to learn. I find it interesting.

 

[HamSupLo]

To the OP, you can still go for consulting jobs since they take people from the social sciences, but they look for high GPAs. You should broaden your skills to include things like programming, stats, and accounting. And then there's always grad school