So, for those of you college, to-be college, or graduated kids around here, what's your major, or what are you thinking of making it?
My major is marketing. It sounds pretty boring but I could actually talk your ear off of a lot of things. It's like business meets psych/sociology. I'm hoping that when I get into it I'll be able to get a job in advertising, because that's my favorite section of it. At my school right now I have a concentration in Social Media, but I haven't taken any such courses yet and when I transfer I doubt my transfer school will have that concentration.
I thought about doing graphic design for a while but I mean... I feel like that's a profession where you have to deal with a lot of stupid people for not nearly enough money. Like, yeah, that encompasses almost any job, but I feel like its a lot of client work which can go kinda awry. I also wanted to do communications/journalism, but imo, thanks to blogs and the instantaneous way the news has to be delivered in the internet era just didn't seem much fun to me. Plus if I worked for an organization like Fox I would absolutely hate myself.
So, what kind of piece of paper do you wanna get?
something in art... illustration? maybe animation.
only thing is to do that i need to get through 5th year art + design. which i hate with a passion. perhaps ill never get to college.
though really id be getting an art degree so itd basically be like i didnt go to college either way.
Uni killed Marketing for me haha
I did Business Management for two years and then dropped out during the third. If I did Uni again I'd pick something that would be interesting to learn about rather than something I was good at.
i majored in physics, get at me
I still do, though. The professors all drive you nuts, and I'm starting to see why the professors drive you nuts now that I'm TAing. It's a strange subject that attracts strange people.
Quote from: sylar on June 19, 2015, 01:11
something in art... illustration? maybe animation.
only thing is to do that i need to get through 5th year art + design. which i hate with a passion. perhaps ill never get to college.
though really id be getting an art degree so itd basically be like i didnt go to college either way.
ps I only have a D in higher art from doing it in school and then I got no award when I reattempted it at college lmao. The sqa do not like my art haha but I don't think it's like 100% necessary? I did an nc in art after leaving school then my hnc and now hnd.
I just finished two years doing visual communication, so a mixture of graphic design, illustration and drawing. Was going to go down the fine art route but I can't stand the pretentiousness of it and I like working to a brief.
Now I'm going onto to do design and digital art, which mixes graphic design, web development and fun stuff like prototyping. It's for two years so this time next year I might have a degree and then the year after is honours which is terrifying!
I'm prepared for the fact I might not get a job after it so I'm going to do a postgrad and get into primary teaching.
Quote from: Kerou on June 19, 2015, 08:35
Uni killed Marketing for me haha
Why? As you learned more did you lose more interest? I took 3 years of marketing in high school so I think I may be set if that's the case but I'm interested in hearing about it.
I study maths at uni =) Find it to be really difficult at times, but it's a lot of fun and I'm just so happy to be doing it.
Quote from: Kpyna on June 19, 2015, 14:48
Why? As you learned more did you lose more interest? I took 3 years of marketing in high school so I think I may be set if that's the case but I'm interested in hearing about it.
Marketing was a major part of the stuff I was doing in Business for 4.5 years prior to Uni. I guess that's what it was though, Uni got more indepth about Marketing as a whole concept and it kinda killed the interest for me. I ended up really enjoying the theoretical aspects and the psychology of leadership and management more so, but there wasn't anywhere near enough of that to keep me invested unfortunately (only really did the good stuff in first year), I think I probably would have been best off doing some sort of Psychology degree.
I might get my degree in counselling studies and psychology or just straight up psychology.
I would like to by a counsellor/therapist/psychiatrist < anything along those lines but a psychiatrist would require med school (if I'm correct) and I haven't even got my foot on the first rung of the ladder.
If it goes bottoms-up I'll look at parapsychology and hopefully get employed by some shady government sector where life will be like a video game.
I think I'll be able to get a masters in psychology and religion or something which could maybe get me a job in the military depending on who we're currently invading... or in the civil service.
English Language and Creative Writing. Starts in September, need 300 UCAS points.
I have never been more excited in my life and I am always excited.
I study Zoology, first year has been general life sciences with biochemistry and cell biology and stuff like that but next year get to do more interesting modules like animal physiology and animal diversity.
I'm planning on doing Computer Science in uni (: It was originally Maths and Computer Science, but I'm finding the modules that you do in Computer Science more interesting than Maths. Cryptography and Graphics? Yes please!!
Quote from: Kerou on June 19, 2015, 08:35
If I did Uni again I'd pick something that would be interesting to learn about rather than something I was good at.
^This. Always do something you're going to enjoy, rather than something you think will get you the jobs. If they coincide, great, but don't worry about it.
For example, I did Egyptology. Remember, it's the skills you learn that get you the jobs, not /what/ you learn.
I'm hoping to do Creative Writing. A few University courses for that do see pretty cool, like UEA's course. The problem with UEA is that the grades to get in are AAA. Otherwise, Keele and Chester seem to do it too...but they're a little too close to me for my liking.
Quote from: Liam on June 20, 2015, 18:36
I study Zoology, first year has been general life sciences with biochemistry and cell biology and stuff like that but next year get to do more interesting modules like animal physiology and animal diversity.
Aw man, really? No diversity? We had diversity in first year and we're covering more specifics second and third. I get a trip to Ireland and Africa, too :D
So I'm studying biology but I'm kinda doing the splits between genetics and conservation biology/ ecology. I plan just to do a Pocahontas and see where the wind takes me~
Quote from: Spriter on June 21, 2015, 17:40
I'm hoping to do Creative Writing. A few University courses for that do see pretty cool, like UEA's course. The problem with UEA is that the grades to get in are AAA. Otherwise, Keele and Chester seem to do it too...but they're a little too close to me for my liking.
Come to UEA. It's the best because I'm there. I've heard a lot of good things about their creative courses so I'm not surprised it's AAA.
Speaking as an Old Person, I just wanna say to all the younglings out there who might not really know what it is that they want to do not to panic! I think there's a lot of pressure on school kids to know what they want to do for the rest of their lives, and the person you are when you leave school and start college or uni is going to be vastly different from the person you will be when you finish. There's no rush! I'll be 30 in a matter of weeks and still don't know what I want to do.
...though I guess if pressed I'd probably say something ~artistic~, since I really enjoyed my time at college studying Visual Communication. When I first went to college straight from school I studied Music ("Modern Musicianship") and ended up loathing it.
@Spriter. Gloucestershire Uni's Creative Writing course is THE no.1 Creative Writing course for student satisfaction in the UK. The modules are cool, the lecturers are awesome, the campus is in Cheltenham and it's 300 UCAS points to get in.
It basically has everything I want & more. I applied to Keele but then I went to an open day and the halls of residence are basically horrible & the whole place is outdated. Plus in Cheltenham there's a Literature festival every year which is great.
What I'm saying is, join my course xD
I studied music technology at the University of Wolverhampton. Involved studio recording, live sound recording, live sound engineering, studio engineering, sound system design and acoustics (which involved much physics and maths), music industry, marketing, film scoring and other stuff. Really enjoyable and lots of fun physics.
I then went to Birmingham City University to train to be a music teacher but there were no jobs around after leaving. So a summer job for a few quid during the summer turned into another career in commercial vehicle leasing. But all the business/marketing/website design/networking stuff I learned at uni has come in useful. So it wasn't totally wasted.
I was an international studies major, but I ended up changing to English with an emphasis in journalism instead. International studies sounded like it would bore me once I actually thoroughly looked at the courses I needed to take, so I took something I'd be more interested in. I'm a junior right now, and I'll hopefully be finished within the next 3 years. ;3