What was/is your college major?

[XPac]

Originally posted by: Geekbabe
Bio major,chem minor

Hmmm, a woman after my own heart. I too was a bio major, with a minor in chemistry.

 

[JSClark]

When I go back to school, I will be a CompSci major at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Brighton, MA.

 

[RaymondY]

Mechanical Engineering

 

[dighn]

comp eng

 

[psianime]

CS... but I was a business major before... I'm behind about 2 qr.

-psianime

 

[Rio Rebel]

B.A. in History
M.A. in Philosophy
M.A. in Education and Instruction

I am a Systems Analyst for a major pharmaceutical company. I love what I do and respect this field, and wish I had studied more computer systems/programming in college. That being said, I wouldn't trade my studies in Philosophy for anything. No way would I trade that for multiple degrees in CIS/MIS/Computer Engineering.

By the way - those of you who believe a degree's worth is measured strictly in its marketability may be in for a rude awakening when your beloved IT position is outsourced to a company out of India. All those "worthless idiots" who bother you and waste your time, BUT WHO KNOW HOW TO COMMUNICATE IN A BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT, will certainly be sorry to see you go.

And don't take this as an endorsement of multinational outsourcing of IT services. I hate this movement. But it's here, and it's real, and some of you might not want to make enemies on your way up, because they may still be here on your way back down.

 

[rh71]

Communication.

It's not important enough to be on this poll eh? Well I think Communication is kind of important on an internet message board. MUHAHAHAHAHAHA. Yeah.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Rio Rebel
B.A. in History
M.A. in Philosophy
M.A. in Education and Instruction

I am a Systems Analyst for a major pharmaceutical company. I love what I do and respect this field, and wish I had studied more computer systems/programming in college. That being said, I wouldn't trade my studies in Philosophy for anything. No way would I trade that for multiple degrees in CIS/MIS/Computer Engineering.

By the way - those of you who believe a degree's worth is measured strictly in its marketability may be in for a rude awakening when your beloved IT position is outsourced to a company out of India. All those "worthless idiots" who bother you and waste your time, BUT WHO KNOW HOW TO COMMUNICATE IN A BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT, will certainly be sorry to see you go.

And don't take this as an endorsement of multinational outsourcing of IT services. I hate this movement. But it's here, and it's real, and some of you might not want to make enemies on your way up, because they may still be here on your way back down.

The degrees a person holds are important only up to a certain level. If you have the skills, you have the skills. You can be a very effective communicator without being a COM or Marketing major. My colleague who didn't even have a degree until last year is 10x better than me at communicating in the business world... he's better than all my higher-ups... that's for damned sure... and he also happens to be the biggest tech-head I've ever come across.

 

[Rio Rebel]

The degrees a person holds are important only up to a certain level. If you have the skills, you have the skills. You can be a very effective communicator without being a COM or Marketing major.

Absolutely agree.

My point is that many people here are rather narrow in their view of what skills are "important" in the world. If you have solid technical skills and good communication skills, and a decent work ethic, you will probably go far. If you are a fantastic programmer, but have the utter lack of social skills that some of our members here display, you will be lucky to even hold onto the current job very long.

Unless a person works in a corporation that is actually in the IT industry directly, the company most likely does not care whether their technical solutions are coming from internal or external sources, and the bottom line is going to be cost+quality of the solutions. I'd love to see our company maintain skilled developers in-house, and provide those developers with legitimate career paths. But what I'm seeing, and from what I'm reading about others in the industry, is that development is moving more and more towards companies who can farm the work to India (or other 3rd world nations) and bring back a finished product at a fraction of the cost. In the long term, I believe this business model will be problematic. But the short-term savings are making middle managers scurry to jump on the bandwagon so they can show immediate savings and pump up their "impact portfolios"

 

[jayglick]

I don't think anybody's said nursing

 

[jayglick]

Originally posted by: SubZeroX
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, UCLA

Now in med shcool...I mean hell

and you have time to be herer?

 

[isaacmacdonald]

philosophy. yeah.

 

[LucJoe]

Biochemistry, taking MCAT this April.

 

[dionx]

chemistry

 

[ohtwell]

Originally posted by: Storm

Originally posted by: ohtwell
Elementary Education


: ) Amanda

Comp Engineering...

So thats how you're going to convert the masses to the Gamecube? Use it as a teaching tool?

Hmmm..... I might just do that!


: ) Amanda

 

[oboeguy]

Amusing how many are/were math majors and that wasn't an option.:disgust:

I was a math major. My Ivy didn't have official minors, but I would have had them in CS and OR and maybe even linguistics.

 

[dquan97]

Managerial Econ

 

[Piano Man]

Music Education with a Jazz Minor

 

[uclafreako]

Originally posted by: jayglick

Originally posted by: SubZeroX
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, UCLA

Now in med shcool...I mean hell

and you have time to be herer?

finals week... yum

 

[cchen]

BS Operations Research, minor in Economics
Contemplating a MS in Financial Engineering

 

[Riskhk]

B.S. Biology
B.A. Political Science

Hopefully I ll get into a PharmD/JD program next year.