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What was your major?

         

Vastio

4:24 am on Mar 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I'm curious to know... What was your major in college?

I'm declared Accounting right now, but I really enjoy web design/programming. The only options I really have if I wanted to major in something web-related would either be Computer Science or Telecommunications. Looking at the different programs, though, it doesn't seem like there is much in the way for web development.

I like the Accounting from a business standpoint, but I'd like to learn more about the other aspects. I'm a Junior right now, so it's kind of late for me for me to change, but I'm just looking for a little input.

RonPK

5:18 pm on Mar 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Urban geography.
That was ages before I got to know the WWW.

BarryStCyr

7:09 pm on Mar 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

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KingKong wrote
Got a degree in Computer Science, learnt absolutely nothing of use. In fact it was a good 6 months after I left that I realized the things worth knowing are the things you must teach yourself.

I agree with this in part. You don't learn useful skills in a college or university with the exception of "how to learn."

Also, while a lot of people ask the question, "Why do I have to take English and History if I am going to be ...?" The answer is to make you a more well rounded human being. Besides, it makes it much easier to answer the questions when you watch Jeopardy.

Barry

dauction

7:15 pm on Mar 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

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School of Hard Knocks .. never graduated , still getting beat up from time to time (like easy on the keyword density.. what was important yesterday may be a penalty today ) ;)

High school grad with a 1 year at a Business Tech school ..

ronin

11:49 pm on Mar 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Four years of Russian and German, all of which was great fun and two languages which I still find quite a lot of opportunities to use today. Then I flew out to Japan for a year and a half to teach English in two schools and take a conversion postgrad in Japanese. Unfortunately I've forgotten 90% of the Japanese I learned in Japan. (But, for anyone who is curious, a rounin is a samurai with no master).

DrDoc

5:47 am on Mar 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Grad: Electrician
Post Grad: Electrical Engineering
Post Post Grad: Computer Science/Information Systems/Small Business/Project Management combo

Loans for Above: $0
Total Cost: -$1000 (Got paid $1000 to take the latter in 25 weeks as part of a pilot program. It was a nightmare!)

AWildman

1:13 pm on Mar 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Got a B.A. in History.

Got married.

Got rid of husband.

Got B.S. in M.I.S.

Got married.

Got great job.

Living happily ever after.

Mostly.

httpwebwitch

5:02 am on Apr 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

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B.A., honours major in Fine Art, honours minor in Music, spec. performance (piano), electroacoustics, theory and composition.

I used to say that my career was distantly related to my education, but let's face it painting in oils and performing Chopin etudes has almost nothing in common with XML and XSLT

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