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The CS degree plan I chose happened to have a Math minor built in.

I figure it might come in handy. If not, whatever...
 
my major is MIS and i have two minors...one in CS and another in Japanese.
i'm only doing the CS minor because its two more classes and i really need to know how to program for what i want to do. that and anything that can expand my computing knowledge cant hurt. i dont plan on my Japanese minor helping me out at all, but i do hope to one day work in Japan, so if i do, itll look very good assuming i will be fluent. However, i'm doing it more because i like it so much. I would change my major to Japaneses but my school only offers a minor. after not passing a few classes this summer i'm kinda down on my major because the math is so hard for me. i suck a math and i'm being forced to take 3 very hard math courses at the same time because the way our stupid business school works. if it weren't for japanese i might have lost hope.

you need to major in something that you and that you are good at, but i think it is important to balance the load with some other classes that are purely interesting to you. i kind of wish i had more money and could take 6 or 7 years for my undergrad because there are a lot of courses i really want to take but cant because of the freaking business school.
 
Originally posted by: Rockinacoustic
Sure everyone talks about their Bachelors, but did you/do you plan to minor in anything? Does it have anything to do with your major?

And for those who have completed undergrad, did it help further your school/career-path, or did you do it out of pure interest in the field?


Personally, I am a Sophomore Majoring in Biology and planning to Minor is Computer Science for:
1). Sheer interest.
and
2). Leading to a possible graduate path in Bioinformatics.
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if you want to go for bioinformatics, minoring in Math is a lot more helpful.
 
Originally posted by: mugs
I majored in Computer Science, and if I had realized earlier that I'd only need a few more classes to minor in Mathematics I probably would have done it. I started out majoring in math, but never took any classes in the major... switched to Computer Science which had a lot of overlap with math.

Interesting side note - I always thought it was odd that O'Reilly has a book called Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics. They usually don't do books for such specific fields. They have Programming Perl, Intermediate Perl, Advanced Perl, Perl Cookbook, Perl Best Practices, etc... and then they threw in Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics. If you ever find yourself using Perl in your future bioinformatics career, don't be one of those Perl programmers who like to write unreadable Perl. Perl has a lot of "punctuation variables" and strange coding constructs. Avoid using them.
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Thats odd about O'Reilly. FTR, i hate perl and perl mongers. :|

On topic, I was an english lit minor. It definitely helped my writing skills, but nothing career wise.
 
Originally posted by: Rockinacoustic
Originally posted by: TallBill
What does a minor look like on paper? I don't understand the point.
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I'm interested in this myself. Is there any certificate/recognition for a minor?
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My school has a lil line saying you minor in xxx. But personally, I dont believe in minors
 
Electrical Engineering major with math minor. Ended up only being 2-3 extra classes on top of what I was already taking.
 
Originally posted by: homercles337
Originally posted by: mugs
I majored in Computer Science, and if I had realized earlier that I'd only need a few more classes to minor in Mathematics I probably would have done it. I started out majoring in math, but never took any classes in the major... switched to Computer Science which had a lot of overlap with math.

Interesting side note - I always thought it was odd that O'Reilly has a book called Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics. They usually don't do books for such specific fields. They have Programming Perl, Intermediate Perl, Advanced Perl, Perl Cookbook, Perl Best Practices, etc... and then they threw in Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics. If you ever find yourself using Perl in your future bioinformatics career, don't be one of those Perl programmers who like to write unreadable Perl. Perl has a lot of "punctuation variables" and strange coding constructs. Avoid using them.
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Thats odd about O'Reilly. FTR, i hate perl and perl mongers. :|

On topic, I was an english lit minor. It definitely helped my writing skills, but nothing career wise.
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I :heart: Perl. It has some great features. It's not a language that I'd use for everything, but it's great for some stuff. I have never bothered to learn some of the more powerful features of MS Excel, so when I want to do something and I don't know how to do it in Excel I usually just write a quick Perl script. 😱 It also gives the programmer the ability to write very unreadable and obfuscated code, which leads to problems.
 
Originally posted by: potoba
Originally posted by: Rockinacoustic
Sure everyone talks about their Bachelors, but did you/do you plan to minor in anything? Does it have anything to do with your major?

And for those who have completed undergrad, did it help further your school/career-path, or did you do it out of pure interest in the field?


Personally, I am a Sophomore Majoring in Biology and planning to Minor is Computer Science for:
1). Sheer interest.
and
2). Leading to a possible graduate path in Bioinformatics.
Click to expand...

if you want to go for bioinformatics, minoring in Math is a lot more helpful.
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How so? Granted Computer Science is basically math but what could I gain from taking something like Calc IV?
 
I majored in Psychology and minored in English/Linguistics. I wouldn't say that it helped me in any way other than securing my role as proof-reader in my circle of friends, but I did enjoy the coursework, and I would've taken the same regimen of classes had the minor not been an option.
 
I am going for a Chemical Engineering Major w/ a minor in chemistry, minor in Bio-based products engineering, and a minor in stats... lets see if I can do it.
 
I majored in CS, but one of the really great profs at my school was the head of the Classics department - I didn't know any Greek but I had latin in HS, so i took one of his classes because people said he was amazing. He was, so I took a class with him every semester, and accidentally ended up minoring in Latin.

It's been really useful for crossword puzzles.

And nothing else.
 
a minor is something to put on your resume, ideally either having to do with the field you plan to go into or that compliments your major.

I dual-majored in english and sociology... a lot of the english majors who I knew wanted to go into advertising or something minored in business (others minored in history or philosophy to compliment the English major). seemed like most sociology majors either paired it with a minor in education (those who were planning on going on to teach) or minored in criminology, with the hopes of somehow parlaying that into a career somewhere in the justice system.

personally, I took the soci major simply because I found it super interesting, and I used it more to compliment my english major. I was really one of the only people in my english department looking at literature from a sociological perspective (what lit said about the culture it was created in, how it was impacted by the sociological theories of the day, and how it impacted future society).
 
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