The School/Uni Thread

[Srontgorrth]

Went to the Psychology Major/College of Liberal Arts and Honors orientations on Friday which were pretty cool, plus now I have a couple UNLV t-shirts. There was some dude who double majored and triple minored in 3 years. Took 24-30 credits a semester, wtf.

 

[King Richard]

How is that even possible?

 

[sevag00]

That's not possible.

 

[The Ozzman]

That guy must not have slept. Don't all colleges limit the amount of courses you can take in a semester/quarter/whatever?

 

[unknown]

at my campus it's 18 units. you have to petition to take more

If you know how to double count (or triple count) classes and find majors/minors that complement each other, you can graduate in a reasonable amount of time

 

[King Richard]

School starts tomorrow for me. I have class 5 nights a week which means I won't be doing a damn thing during the week except work and school, and then more school on the weekends.

Who needs a life right?

 

[Srontgorrth]

That guy must not have slept. Don't all colleges limit the amount of courses you can take in a semester/quarter/whatever?

How is that even possible?

That's not possible.

Well, he was in the Honors College, and was able to petition it further, and was able to handle it all. He now has a full ride scholarship at the law school at UNLV. I had no idea taking that many was possible but I guess it is, must've had almost no life though. His brother is a freshman too, and he said that when he woke up for high school the older brother would be studying still, haha.

Crazy Indians

 

[Death Aflame]

When I finished my undergrad in Comm Studies and Film Studies I took a year off to work. I worked at a call centre for Ally, a financial institution in Canada, basically I was a bank teller, except over the phone, and more often than not, over the online chat medium. The pay was shit, the hours awful, but somehow I stuck it out for nearly a year (I think I was 2 weeks shy of a full year).

During that time I was able to save enough money to go back to school. I applied to one of the few Publishing programs in Ontario and was accepted. The programs is a postgraduate certificate course that is designed to get you into the industry with practical experience that is used in various streams of publishing: editing, design, sales/marketing, legal, etc. I just finished my first week and I think it is everything as advertised so far. For example, all of my teachers work in the industry concurrently with teaching, so it should provide a good venue to network. I also have volunteered to help out at a city wide book fair at the end of this month, I'll be working with Penguin Books which is a fairly big publisher. I think I might actually be able to wrangle a career out of this program, hopefully the rest of the year goes well.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

How the eff do you get 3 years of experience if you can't?

Did you seriously say "eff"?

Anyway, it's called an internship.

 

[False Joe]

Did you seriously say "eff"?

Anyway, it's called an internship.

Not sure if it's the same in america, but it's getting tougher and tougher for people to get internships over here. Fewer people are doing them.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I interviewed for that the week before last (Fuckers said they would get back in touch last week. Nothing yet.)

Protip: don't wait too long for them to call you back. Call back yourself after a week (or whatever reasonable amount of time has passed since you last spoke to them) and keep asking about the position. Don't let them forget about you.

Not sure if it's the same in america, but it's getting tougher and tougher for people to get internships over here. Fewer people are doing them.

Paid or unpaid? I would think plenty of companies, especially smaller ones, are open to free labor. Just depends on how much time they need to waste training you.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I'm kind of stuck in a rut with my future education. My main fear is that i'm not smart/determind enough to actually get a Masters or Doctorate in what I want to do. I'm just really lazy and extremely apathetic towards most subjects, projects, and assignments that I am assigned. There are a few things that I enjoy though.

I'd love to major in something like Mythology, but the only job that I can think of for this would be teaching (which I'd have no problem with). This would require me to get a Masters, if not a Doctorate, to teach at a college level. Now, I don't plan on being the lead professor in the subject, or to teach at a major university. But I just don't know if I can handle graduate school.


I've also thought about majoring in a more broad field like English. With an English major, there are many other jobs that I can have (basically any place that requires writing) besides teaching. My concern here is that I won't be enjoying the job that I have.

I guess I'm kinda just whining here, but I'm going to e-mail some of old professors that I had and asked them if they know of other jobs in these career fields, and other bullshit like that.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

English sounds like a good choice if you want to get into teaching. I guess there are also courses on education that you can look into.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

The thing is that I don't want to fucking teach High School english or anything like that. I don't really want to take education classes. I want to teach literature.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Literature doesn't seem to me altogether unpractical as a major. How different are the curricula between the english and literature majors anyway?

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Literature doesn't seem to me altogether unpractical. How different are the curricula between the english and literature majors anyway?

I have no idea. I think they are pretty similar. I know a few colleges have a major that is English/Literature

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Then fuckin' rock that shit br0

 

[unknown]

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AN ENGLISH TEACHER IF YOU MAJOR IN ENGLISH

sorry. I'm just really tired of people immediately throwing that one out there. here are a few career choices you can go into with an English degree from my campus's career development center :

advertising, entertainment, journalism, law, management, marketing, mass media (film, radio, television), politics, professional writing and editing (creative or technical), public relations, and publishing

I personally have known people who have worked for American Express, aerospace companies and the government. It's all in what you want to do with it (this is if you even decide to major in English).

As far as grad school goes, do not do it unless you're really ready to dedicate the time and energy to it because it will pretty much take over your life. Also, you just need a master's to teach at the majority of universities and community colleges across the nation. Obviously if you want to be a full time professor and get tenure, then you may want to consider going the phd route at some point.

I'll say the same thing I say to all of my students: take a variety of courses especially if you're in the first year. If you're into mythology, take some Classics courses. Geography. Anthropology. It's all good. Dip your toes into some pools and find something that jazzes you.

 

[wandering_taco]

I'm a creative writing major now, don't know what I want to do with it career-wise.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Become a best-selling Pulitzer Prize novelist?