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notfred

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Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, African-American studies, any other "minority studies". Philosophy may not be particularly useful for making money, but at least it's interesting. All these minority studies majors are, are degrees in bitching about how hard you (or some other ethnic/social group) had it in the past, and why that entitles you to special privileges in the present.
 
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Originally posted by: notfred
Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, African-American studies, any other "minority studies". Philosophy may not be particularly useful for making money, but at least it's interesting. All these minority studies majors are, are degrees in bitching about how hard you (or some other ethnic/social group) had it in the past, and why that entitles you to special privileges in the present.
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Hear, Hear!!!!!! A :beer: for the man.

i'm ok with philosohy as a major, just not with the people who take it. most are just potheads and idiots.

add to the list:
art history: you can't make anythin nice so you learn why other people like art??? wtf
music appreciation...same thing
antropology...who finds this interesting and/or who does this help?

I am annoyed by all majors that contribute nothing to society. ie non scientists/engineers/people who actually care about their major
 
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Originally posted by: notfred
Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, African-American studies, any other "minority studies". Philosophy may not be particularly useful for making money, but at least it's interesting. All these minority studies majors are, are degrees in bitching about how hard you (or some other ethnic/social group) had it in the past, and why that entitles you to special privileges in the present.
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:beer::D
 
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Religious or women's studies..

So is political science..

You learn something from all of them, but in the end it's just a gateway to a masters degree, since you know that there really isn't anything you can do with those alone.
 
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Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Studio art... Unless you're damn good. I've noticed too that studio art majors are the ones who are always complaining about not having money. Wait until they graduate.
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Bleh my dad got into an argument with a married couple that are studie artists, they were complaining about how they didn't make enough money, and that the tax systems let the rich get off easy (this is Canada not the US, so the rich aren't getting off easy at all)

Suffice to say when the ammount of money my dad paid in taxes exceeded what they made total, they shut up.
 
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Well, I was physics, it was a small school so math & physics students were pretty chummy, and we & the engineer types liked to mock the 'Humanities' students. As in, if you did poorly on a test and reflected out loud on your future, you might say something like "well, there's always Humanities." We were (pretty much) just kidding though!!!
 
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Philosophy is useless for getting a job but is probably one of the more interesting majors. It's basically the ultimate study, but because most of it is just guesses it has little practical use.
 
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Alot of you should get off your high horses. There is no 'useless' major. If there's anything any of you learned in college it's that what you learned in college isn't whats important, it's all about learning how to learn. Most of the details and facts you forget in a few months, but you learned new ways of thinking, incorporating ideas, and being able to research anything you don't know. You take these skills you learned into the working world. Everyone knows it's experience and networking that gets you jobs and not the title of your degree, and these are two thigns that college can also give you.
 
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Originally posted by: Turnpike
Alot of you should get off your high horses. There is no 'useless' major. If there's anything any of you learned in college it's that what you learned in college isn't whats important, it's all about learning how to learn. Most of the details and facts you forget in a few months, but you learned new ways of thinking, incorporating ideas, and being able to research anything you don't know. You take these skills you learned into the working world. Everyone knows it's experience and networking that gets you jobs and not the title of your degree, and these are two thigns that college can also give you.
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Thank you!
 
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Originally posted by: Turnpike
Alot of you should get off your high horses. There is no 'useless' major. If there's anything any of you learned in college it's that what you learned in college isn't whats important, it's all about learning how to learn. Most of the details and facts you forget in a few months, but you learned new ways of thinking, incorporating ideas, and being able to research anything you don't know. You take these skills you learned into the working world. Everyone knows it's experience and networking that gets you jobs and not the title of your degree, and these are two thigns that college can also give you.
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yes, i would like fries with that



anything in the arts and letters department, anything in the arts department, anything that ends in 'studies'
 
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amol

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Originally posted by: Turnpike
Alot of you should get off your high horses. There is no 'useless' major. If there's anything any of you learned in college it's that what you learned in college isn't whats important, it's all about learning how to learn. Most of the details and facts you forget in a few months, but you learned new ways of thinking, incorporating ideas, and being able to research anything you don't know. You take these skills you learned into the working world. Everyone knows it's experience and networking that gets you jobs and not the title of your degree, and these are two thigns that college can also give you.
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:thumbsup:
 
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Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
Originally posted by: Turnpike
Alot of you should get off your high horses. There is no 'useless' major. If there's anything any of you learned in college it's that what you learned in college isn't whats important, it's all about learning how to learn. Most of the details and facts you forget in a few months, but you learned new ways of thinking, incorporating ideas, and being able to research anything you don't know. You take these skills you learned into the working world. Everyone knows it's experience and networking that gets you jobs and not the title of your degree, and these are two thigns that college can also give you.
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yes, i would like fries with that



anything in the arts and letters department, anything in the arts department, anything that ends in 'studies'
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Hehe. Too true. You are right in that college should be about thinking critically, but many of these non majors let people slide w/o ever thinking.
 
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notfred

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Originally posted by: Turnpike
Alot of you should get off your high horses. There is no 'useless' major. If there's anything any of you learned in college it's that what you learned in college isn't whats important, it's all about learning how to learn. Most of the details and facts you forget in a few months, but you learned new ways of thinking, incorporating ideas, and being able to research anything you don't know. You take these skills you learned into the working world. Everyone knows it's experience and networking that gets you jobs and not the title of your degree, and these are two thigns that college can also give you.
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That's very ideallistic of you. There are plenty of people who go through college and don't learn any of that.
 
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tami

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Originally posted by: notfred
Originally posted by: Turnpike
Alot of you should get off your high horses. There is no 'useless' major. If there's anything any of you learned in college it's that what you learned in college isn't whats important, it's all about learning how to learn. Most of the details and facts you forget in a few months, but you learned new ways of thinking, incorporating ideas, and being able to research anything you don't know. You take these skills you learned into the working world. Everyone knows it's experience and networking that gets you jobs and not the title of your degree, and these are two thigns that college can also give you.
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That's very ideallistic of you. There are plenty of people who go through college and don't learn any of that.
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i majored in computer science. it was useless to me.

many people who major in the "useless majors" that you mentioned (ethnic studies, african-american studies, or any other "minority studies") end up getting very good jobs abroad and using their degrees to that advantage.
 
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