What's your favorite (bogus) college major?

[TommyVercetti]

Originally posted by: OulOat
Library Studies.

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There is a whole science behind how a library is arranged, and organized.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: TommyVercetti

Originally posted by: OulOat
Library Studies.

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There is a whole science behind how a library is arranged, and organized.

It doesn't just center around that. Information access, how information is categorized; want to know more than you ever did about human psychology/graphics design? Study the iconography behind Microsoft Office Applications. There is a a surprising level of effort put into making all those little icons we take for granted.

 

[nrg99]

english/english lit

 

[TommyVercetti]

Originally posted by: grrl

Originally posted by: brxndxn
Physical Education.. WTF is that.. Why the hell does someone who got a 3.9 GPA in high school (average for UF) and a 1250 on the SAT (again, average) decide to get a degree in physical education from UF?!

A friend of mine sent me this accepted PE PhD dissertation proposal:

Title of Dissertation: Examining the Design of Collegiate Athletic Web Sites

What the hell? Like there is actually some science behind designing a college website, let alone a dept website. I don't know about other schools, but at my school the main website was made my a professional web designer. But all the other departmental websites (including Athletic dept) were made by students. They just hire some student who shows promise, and ask them to build a website. I am sure the student being paid $7.50 / hr actually addresses the "Atheletic" needs of the website.

What moron approved this dissertation?

 

[whaleskinrug]

Originally posted by: TommyVercetti

Originally posted by: OulOat
Library Studies.

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There is a whole science behind how a library is arranged, and organized.

Most library science programs include a highly technical track as well -- some are part of computer science departments and require ics courses

 

[AreaCode707]

:| Those of you who say English and Communications can just STFU.

I double majored in English and Communications. If that seems easy to you, I did it in two years, taking 20 and 24 units a quarter. My current job is in recruiting, so don't you whine your bitchy smart arse science elitism at me or I'll flush your resume down the toilet.

 

[cdan]

I heard colleges in China have a Kung Fu major

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: HotChic
:| Those of you who say English and Communications can just STFU.

I double majored in English and Communications. If that seems easy to you, I did it in two years, taking 20 and 24 units a quarter. My current job is in recruiting, so don't you whine your bitchy smart arse science elitism at me or I'll flush your resume down the toilet.

pwned!

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: Axon
Well, this bogus English major pulled in 73 k last year. Granted, part of it was overtime. 🙂

No question that science majors require more work, though. The elitist attitude is relatively comical though. My roommates in school were engineers, and I never let 'em forget who's making the most money 18 months post graduation. 😉

blah, most of the enginerds saying L.A. lack social skills and a sense of culture

 

[TommyVercetti]

Originally posted by: HotChic
:| Those of you who say English and Communications can just STFU.

I double majored in English and Communications. If that seems easy to you, I did it in two years, taking 20 and 24 units a quarter. My current job is in recruiting, so don't you whine your bitchy smart arse science elitism at me or I'll flush your resume down the toilet.

Word to that. I have seen the papers, and the research some of these classes required. My God, I could never do that. It definetly takes lots of hard work and dedication to study these majors.

 

[whaleskinrug]

Originally posted by: TommyVercetti

Originally posted by: HotChic
:| Those of you who say English and Communications can just STFU.

I double majored in English and Communications. If that seems easy to you, I did it in two years, taking 20 and 24 units a quarter. My current job is in recruiting, so don't you whine your bitchy smart arse science elitism at me or I'll flush your resume down the toilet.

Word to that. I have seen the papers, and the research some of these classes required. My God, I could never do that. It definetly takes lots of hard work and dedication to study these majors.

not to mention they produce better critical thinkers and employees who can actually read, write and communicate!

 

[DXM]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Chemical Engineering.

Oooh, look at all of the 'C's and 'H'es. Glorified connect the dots.

As an aspiring chemical engineer if all my upper division classes are glorified connect the dot, glorified plumbing, glorified anything simple I'll be a happy man. 🙂

EDIT: On topic, I don't believe I've ever heard of a "bogus" college major, except maybe janitorial engineering, if one exists. 😀

 

[Dragnov]

EE and CS.

 

[CanOWorms]

Originally posted by: HotChic
:| Those of you who say English and Communications can just STFU.

I double majored in English and Communications. If that seems easy to you, I did it in two years, taking 20 and 24 units a quarter. My current job is in recruiting, so don't you whine your bitchy smart arse science elitism at me or I'll flush your resume down the toilet.

Calm down. They're just stereotypically viewed as easy and/or useless majors. Science and engineering people are stereotypically viewed as nerds. It's not like this should be a surprise to you.

 

[opticalmace]

Originally posted by: Staley8
Underwater Basket Weaving

LOL!

 

[datalink7]

Originally posted by: ScottyB

Originally posted by: datalink7

Originally posted by: ScottyB

Originally posted by: datalink7

Originally posted by: ScottyB

I would have to say out of these, I would choose Military Science-Army.

Pretty sure Military Science is a minor and not a major.

We don't have minors.

How is that possible? Considering there is only about 40 or so credits worth of Military Science classes to take... do you then take 140 credits of "random" classes?

Your school is messed up.

120 credits to graduate. You take a sh!tload of required classes and then are required to take like 12 classes of credits with two Colleges and 6 have to be 300 or 400 level or something like that.

Well, where I go to school it is 180+ credits to graduate, and MS is only a minor so you have to major in something else to graduate.

edit: Now that I think about it, 120 credits is probably correct for you as I am on the quarter system and you are probably on the semester system.

 

[RabidMongoose]

Originally posted by: HotChic
:| Those of you who say English and Communications can just STFU.

I double majored in English and Communications. If that seems easy to you, I did it in two years, taking 20 and 24 units a quarter. My current job is in recruiting, so don't you whine your bitchy smart arse science elitism at me or I'll flush your resume down the toilet.

The fact that you finished both of those majors within two years has to mean something... 😉

I would guess that people are mentioning them as 'bogus' b/c they're 'easier'.

 

[KEV1N]

I'm a traitor! I have a BS in Computer Science... minored in English 🙂. Favorite bogus major? Communications!

 

[Ranger X]

Originally posted by: HotChic
:| Those of you who say English and Communications can just STFU.

I double majored in English and Communications. If that seems easy to you, I did it in two years, taking 20 and 24 units a quarter. My current job is in recruiting, so don't you whine your bitchy smart arse science elitism at me or I'll flush your resume down the toilet.

So based on your "success" story we're supposed to change our minds about which majors we think are worthless? Right .... so why don't you enlighten us and tell us of the ones graduating with either English and/or Communications, how many now hold good jobs BECAUSE they majored in that?

I mean, who are you trying to kid here? It's well known that communication is a BS major. Why do you think a lot of athletes major in that? Let me guess, because they know something we don't?

On that note, another vote for English and Communications.

 

[Whisper]

You know, I think remember hearing in a class one time that there are more English majors in the upper-level executive positions in fortune 500 companies than anything else. Something about the way that it teaches you to constantly think critically, analyze, reason, and communicate your ideas to others effectively and coherently.

 

[fumbduck]

Float Making

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: RabidMongoose

Originally posted by: HotChic
:| Those of you who say English and Communications can just STFU.

I double majored in English and Communications. If that seems easy to you, I did it in two years, taking 20 and 24 units a quarter. My current job is in recruiting, so don't you whine your bitchy smart arse science elitism at me or I'll flush your resume down the toilet.

The fact that you finished both of those majors within two years has to mean something... 😉

I would guess that people are mentioning them as 'bogus' b/c they're 'easier'.

Hey she fraking took 20-24 units a quarter- HELLLOOOOOOOOOOOOO


I'm a biomedical engineering major (first year w00t w00t!) @ uci and you don't see me going around bashing other majors.

Other majors may be more difficult, such as the engineering ones, but 1/2 of you act like you have rocks stuck up your asses because you guys are turning the issue of majors into a freaking penis envy contest.

If you think English is easy why don't you actually go and DO IT. Go read a book every few days and be asked to analyze it and then write some ungodly paper. My friend has a sister @ berkely who wrote a 5 page paper on a SINGLE WORD IN A POEM. You may think "who cares - That is just such a waste" but she is going to be the ones to make big decisions- at best all of you engineers are tools and they, the people with "pansy" majors will influence others because they can command language and effectively use it to argue their positions, will make the decisions

Amazingly many people in college, including me, pick a major based on WHAT THEY ENJOY! IF they LIKE drama, wh
y the hell should they be a chemical engineer (on average they make the most out of college @ 80k) or something else!

 

[CanOWorms]

Originally posted by: magomago

Originally posted by: RabidMongoose

Originally posted by: HotChic
:| Those of you who say English and Communications can just STFU.

I double majored in English and Communications. If that seems easy to you, I did it in two years, taking 20 and 24 units a quarter. My current job is in recruiting, so don't you whine your bitchy smart arse science elitism at me or I'll flush your resume down the toilet.

The fact that you finished both of those majors within two years has to mean something... 😉

I would guess that people are mentioning them as 'bogus' b/c they're 'easier'.

Hey she fraking took 20-24 units a quarter- HELLLOOOOOOOOOOOOO


I'm a biomedical engineering major (first year w00t w00t!) @ uci and you don't see me going around bashing other majors.

Other majors may be more difficult, such as the engineering ones, but 1/2 of you act like you have rocks stuck up your asses because you guys are turning the issue of majors into a freaking penis envy contest.

If you think English is easy why don't you actually go and DO IT. Go read a book every few days and be asked to analyze it and then write some ungodly paper. My friend has a sister @ berkely who wrote a 5 page paper on a SINGLE WORD IN A POEM. You may think "who cares - That is just such a waste" but she is going to be the ones to make big decisions- at best all of you engineers are tools and they, the people with "pansy" majors will influence others because they can command language and effectively use it to argue their positions, will make the decisions

Amazingly many people in college, including me, pick a major based on WHAT THEY ENJOY! IF they LIKE drama, wh
y the hell should they be a chemical engineer (on average they make the most out of college @ 80k) or something else!

I think the important thing is that she did finish in 2 years no matter how many credits you take in a certain period. If being able to finish all the courses including the advanced level courses (especially if they're supposed to build off each other) in 2 years for 2 majors is possible, either the institution is easy or the program is easy.

I think that a lot more people would be able to graduate in English than biomedical engineering, therefore English is classified as the easier major even though some BMEs could have problems with it.

As for decisions, if that's what you believe, good for you. I think the average engineer/scientist would make more and more important decisions than the average English/Communications person.

By the way, you're only a freshman in BME. You don't know anything about BME 🙂 Chances are you're going to change your major anyways!

 

[RabidMongoose]

Originally posted by: magomago

Originally posted by: RabidMongoose

Originally posted by: HotChic
:| Those of you who say English and Communications can just STFU.

I double majored in English and Communications. If that seems easy to you, I did it in two years, taking 20 and 24 units a quarter. My current job is in recruiting, so don't you whine your bitchy smart arse science elitism at me or I'll flush your resume down the toilet.

The fact that you finished both of those majors within two years has to mean something... 😉

I would guess that people are mentioning them as 'bogus' b/c they're 'easier'.

Hey she fraking took 20-24 units a quarter- HELLLOOOOOOOOOOOOO


I'm a biomedical engineering major (first year w00t w00t!) @ uci and you don't see me going around bashing other majors.

Other majors may be more difficult, such as the engineering ones, but 1/2 of you act like you have rocks stuck up your asses because you guys are turning the issue of majors into a freaking penis envy contest.

If you think English is easy why don't you actually go and DO IT. Go read a book every few days and be asked to analyze it and then write some ungodly paper. My friend has a sister @ berkely who wrote a 5 page paper on a SINGLE WORD IN A POEM. You may think "who cares - That is just such a waste" but she is going to be the ones to make big decisions- at best all of you engineers are tools and they, the people with "pansy" majors will influence others because they can command language and effectively use it to argue their positions, will make the decisions

Amazingly many people in college, including me, pick a major based on WHAT THEY ENJOY! IF they LIKE drama, wh
y the hell should they be a chemical engineer (on average they make the most out of college @ 80k) or something else!

Yes, I said that b/c she took 20-24 credits per quarter...that may mean something about the difficulty of the majors.

You have no idea if you like BME - you're a freshman.

Chemical Engineers do not, on average, make $80k out of an undergraduate program.

Also, the average Communications/English major does not make 'big decisions' over the 'tools'.

 

[Hankysmoo]

Cybernetics....what a joke!