Majoring

[piersk]

With one more exam to go tomorrow afternoon before the end of my second year at uni, I am bored out of my skull. I'm getting so fed up with revision and am really looking forward to my placement (starting 2nd June 😃).

Anyway, I was just wondering, what did you all major in at uni? Please bear in mind that I'm in the UK and have no idea about the US/anywhere else college/uni system, so when I say major I mean what is main subject of your degree.

To start the ball rolling, I'm doin a BSc in Computer Science and Engineering (posh title!).

What about the rest of you?

[Norman_Graham]

What a numbskull I was in the 80s. I should have realised that computers were my thing. I joined a computer club at school but couldn't see the potential of Sinclair ZX 80s. I did English literature and politics at university (Glasgow, double-honours deal), but I wish I now had the time and money to study computer science and get some of those fundamentals fixed in my little head.

Norm

[goldbug]

I majored in architecture (buildings, not software/hardware). Now I'm a web developer. Go figure.

[Elizabeth]

I majored in Organizational Behavior (also totally non-computer related 🙂 ) but I am planning to get my Masters in Computer Science.
[edit]Norm, I have no time or money either, but where there's a will, there's a way! 😉 Perhaps you should look into it.[/edit]

-Elizabeth

[goldbug]

Originally posted by Elizabeth

[edit]Norm, I have no time or money either, but where there's a will, there's a way! 😉 Perhaps you should look into it.[/edit]
-Elizabeth

hrmm,.... sounds like a decent poll. 🙂

[blitzwing]

I'm an MIS major at school. It's got more business core classes and less programming core classes than a traditional CIS degree program I guess. I figure I'd go for a more broad computer degree, and sort out the specifics on my own(certifications and the like). That way, I'll hopefully have more flexibility down the road if I decide I want to be a suit.

[piersk]

What's CIS and MIS?

[blitzwing]

At least at my school...

CIS = computer information systems
MIS = management information systems

CIS is more programing intensive, while MIS takes a look at more subjects of the computer world(programming, networking, project management), but not in any particular depth. It's more to make you into an IT manager.

[jllydgnt]

Modern Dance

[ahundiak]

You mean they actually offer classes at university? I thought they were all just tax payer funded training camps for professional sports and life insurance companies.

[Sxooter]

Electrical Engineering.

[Weedpacket]

Mathematics. Tended to do a fair few experiments and simulations; ended up becoming some sort of programmer that way.

[Sxooter]

There's a girl I used to work with who was a math major, and one day went out to lunch and she ordered a Guiness stout. If she had told me she was a highly proficient sword swallower at that point I would not have been surprised. Dammit, why did I have to be married at the time? She's even a red head.

[dartcol]

Italian and Bob Dylan.

[the_myth]

I'm actually a tad bit younger than you guys, I'm a senior in high school. However, I'm trying to decide if I want to get a master in computer science or managing information technology. Anyone have a recommendation?

[dalecosp]

Me: music education, 80's
My brother: aerospace engineering, 1990, downed the Wall, canceled the B-2

He's now MIS (Manager of Information Services) for one of Missouri's mid-sized cities, and I have a small computer repair/consultant/web hosting & development business.

[Wok]

Having only been in high school for two years, university seems a long, long way off...

[barand]

Maths in the days when the uni (Birminham,UK) had one steam-powered computer that filled a large room. Found out I had an aptitude for programming and joined ICL in 1968 (not a typo!)

PS university seems a long way off for me too.

[jllydgnt]

I like the way all UK peeps call it "university." It sounds better than the American equivalent "college." Pass the HB sauce, will ya?

[barand]

Pass the HB sauce, will ya?

It's 'HP' sauce, a great British delicacy. Wouldn't eat a bacon butty without it.