[Kazan]

for the college chicks, that is.

Send the phone numbers of any of them you scare with religious diatribes my way, and I'll send you the contact info of the fundie women who stalk me, k?

 :

Fundie stalkers?  What do they do, ask you to abstain from shagging them until marriage?

no you just forget that all christians are hypocrits

[Polpolion]

As I said in that same post, college is not job training. I'm studying these things because they're my areas of interest. I have no idea where I'll end up career-wise. That's not what I'm thinking about right now.

Sorry. Didn't read that far in.

[Nuclear1]

for the college chicks, that is.

Send the phone numbers of any of them you scare with religious diatribes my way, and I'll send you the contact info of the fundie women who stalk me, k?

 :

Fundie stalkers?  What do they do, ask you to abstain from shagging them until marriage?

no you just forget that all christians are hypocrits

Alright, I've just gotta ask. Do you just read through threads until you can find some reason to bash Christians or organized religion in some way?

Can we just have one thread where we don't have to hear it?

Have fun. Uni rocks. Whats the career plan?

Who says he needs a career plan? College can be a place where people discover new interests and find out what they want their career to be. I think it's a mistake to look at it as job training.

(Of course, I'm a philosophy major and a music minor, so I might be saying that because I'm afraid I'll have no career.)

Yeah for music! My brothers a music major. How on Earth are you going to get a job in philosophy? The only thing I see them doing is teaching philosiphy. No one hires people to "think" for them (in the philosophy way).

Awesome, my sister's planning to go music major herself. Where does (or did) your brother go, by chance? My sister's still looking around for somewhere with a good music program.

[Ulala]

no you just forget that all christians are hypocrits

That means I can say all users with the name 'Kazan' are always wrong all the time. Always all all ways always every way all possible ways all all all. Yup.

Back on topic, I agree with Ford Perfect. I know few people aside from doctors and lawyers that actually get a job specific to their major. I've found college to be a place where you can learn what you want (or don't want) to do with your life, and then how to do it well/educated.

[edit]Due to the true, yet volitile nature of my post, it will be the last I post in this thread as to keep from starting a flame war and derailing the thread. There will be no exception. Go ahead, try insulting my mother!  Thank you, we will now return to regularly scheduled programming.[/edit]

[Flipside]

Well, I starty my foundation Degree in IT and Multimedia computing on the 18th Yay for mid-life career changes

[CP5670]

As far as I'm concerned, college is primarily a place to get a piece of paper that certifies your degree. Maybe grad school will be better, but I don't have high expectations.

Any other math majors here? I'm finishing up with my math degree and am planning to going into applied math for grad school next year. If I do a pure math Ph.D. I am pretty much locked into an academic career track (which I've decided I don't want to do), but in applied math I can do basically the same stuff while having a lot more job options in industry and finance.

[Kosh]

Look a couple posts up. I've linked to one of my own posts from about a year and a half ago. It's quite ironic.

I just saw you rambling on about "Aggies"........

[perihelion]

@ Redsniper:  Eh, buck up.  All of the more ludicrous stuff that goes on at A&M is surprisingly easy to abstain from.  That's really just the Corps' doing anyway.

While I agree with Kosh that you are going to be hard pressed to find employment outside of academia, A&M does have a top notch physics program.  Who are some of your profs?  I might know one or two of them.  If you wise up (joking!  joking!) and decide to go engineering, let me know.  My wife and I have a lot of contacts in the Mechanical and Civil engineering departments.

@ Ford:  To each his own, but I for one had limited funding that meant I needed to pick a career and run with it if I didn't want to end up buried in debt for the rest of my life.  That, and I think I've always known I wanted to design new technology, so engineering was the logical choice.  The decision wasn't hard.  In a way, though, I kind of envy the approach you are taking.  There were a lot of courses unrelated to my "career" I didn't have time to take.  Still, that has not stopped me from learning about them on my own.

[Kosh]

While I agree with Kosh that you are going to be hard pressed to find employment outside of academia, A&M does have a top notch physics program.  Who are some of your profs?  I might know one or two of them.  If you wise up (joking!  joking!) and decide to go engineering, let me know.  My wife and I have a lot of contacts in the Mechanical and Civil engineering departments.

Over the last year I've been hearing all these stories from companies complaining about a "big shortage of engineers". I'm not sure how true that is though........


But I really am not so sure engineers are "a dime a dozen"......

[IceFire]

... at a University whose name I will disclose tomorrow.
Wish me luck. Oh, I'm majoring in physics btw.

Good luck redsniper.  University is a completely different experience than you've probably had before.  Its full of opportunities and pitfalls.  If I can offer some advice...focus hard on your schoolwork and do as well as you can...but try and balance that with the fun filled opportunities.  I regret passing many of those up to get my work done and while that was very important to my overall goal...I definately missed out on things that I should have done.  You always need a break from hard studying and its best to do it with friends.

Also don't worry or think about jobs at the end.  No matter what you're in (except maybe Pre-med), you're never going to end up with a job in the area that you studied in.  Whats important is your overall field of knowledge and the learning capabilities that university teaches you.

Good luck!  Enjoy yourself!

[Colonol Dekker]

Right its been a few days since "tomorrow" Got lucky yet Red?

[redsniper]

Last final = over
1st year = done
party time = now

[IceFire]

Right its been a few days since "tomorrow" Got lucky yet Red?

I'm thinking I missed out in university...but in my program I didn't really have the time/didn't make the time.  Sad thing.

Hope you enjoyed your first year redsniper.  It gets harder and easier at the same time from here on in.  Bit of an experience.  Its been two years and I'm still recovering from undergrad

[Ashrak]

... at a University whose name I will disclose tomorrow.
Wish me luck. Oh, I'm majoring in physics btw.

Also don't worry or think about jobs at the end.  No matter what you're in (except maybe Pre-med), you're never going to end up with a job in the area that you studied in.  Whats important is your overall field of knowledge and the learning capabilities that university teaches you.

Good luck!  Enjoy yourself!

i stuidy IT atm and im an it Head Specialist at a firm .... so your wrong

[Mongoose]

I'm currently finishing up the third year of a physics major that I've come to almost despise, so I certainly wish you better luck over the next two years than me.

[Wobble73]

Last final = over
1st year = done
party time = now

Right its been 8 months a few days since "tomorrow" Got lucky yet Red?

This is the question we're all dying to know, just because we are living vicariously through you! 

[perihelion]

So Red, I'm a little afraid to ask, but what do you think of A&M after going there a year?

[redsniper]

I'm currently finishing up the third year of a physics major that I've come to almost despise, so I certainly wish you better luck over the next two years than me.

Well actually, I changed my major to Mechanical Engineering near the beginning of this semester, so to whoever was joking that I should switch over, you win... something.

Right its been 8 months a few days since "tomorrow" Got lucky yet Red?

This is the question we're all dying to know, just because we are living vicariously through you! 

Sorry to disappoint, but no I haven't. Despite changing my major, I've been on a Physics major's schedule for the past two semesters (taking Honors Physics no less), which is brutal to say the least.
If you want some action you should probably try living vicariously through someone else.

So Red, I'm a little afraid to ask, but what do you think of A&M after going there a year?

I like it well enough. I've managed to find a couple clubs that are relevant to my interests (Texas Aggie Game Developers, and the Aggie Anime Appreciation Society, if you must know). The Corps seems more and more stupid the more I think about it though; it's just a bunch of guys who want to play Army but aren't hardcore enough to join the real military . But overall, yeah I like it.

[CP5670]

I can't even remember making that earlier post in this thread.

My last classes as an undergrad were today. I still need to do two final exams early next week, but they are outside my major and my grades don't matter at this point, as I've already gotten into grad schools.

[redsniper]

Last final = over
1st 2nd year = done
party time = now

years_of_college++