How many majored in science?

[nexion]

How many of you guys majored in science? Since science could be fairly liberally defined, I will say anything which has to do with the study of chemistry, physics, or biology, extending it also to math and computer science.

Basically: if your major requires a shitload of biology, chemistry, physics, or math, I will consider you a science major. If you didn't/aren't majoring in a science, what are you majoring in? If you did/are, what branch?

 

[bloozie]

Couldn't you have simply asked what everyone's major is and that you were specifically looking for people who have majored in Science?

 

[nexion]

Couldn't you have simply asked what everyone's major is and that you were specifically looking for people who have majored in Science?

I suppose so, but where would the defining have been? In the hands of the individual. Which, of course, I am fine with people defining things themselves, but I wanted it to be in a particular context.

 

[Wish]

About $20,000 from a B.S. in Biochemistry

 

[Melllvar]

Never graduated, but had 300-400 credit hours mostly in physics, mechanical engineering, and chemistry, with the rest being gen ed stuff and other sciences. 6 years and 4 colleges later and all I have is an associate's. I voted yes anyway.

One of my greatest regrets in life is not having dropped out of high school (or earlier) and done something else with all that time and money.

 

[giaduck]

would you consider psychology a science? If yes, then yes. If no, then yes. I started on a double major biology/psych but have since put that down to pursue....other things

 

[Lex]

For a brief, shining moment I was majoring in Chemistry at UCSD. Then I dropped out for a few good reasons and now I've joined the Navy. They're going to be sending me to Nuclear Power School, which is nice, and I'm hoping I can get a bachelors degree through one of their super-special programs. Nuclear Engineering Technology sounds like a BLAST!

 

[Melllvar]

I'm curious Lex, you wrote in your intro thread:

And yes, the school system in the united states is a piece of shit that rewards maybe 10 percent of the kids that go through it at the expense of the other 90 percent. Intelligence is valued less than the ability to regurgitate what you "learned" before promptly forgetting it without really having understood it in the first place. (<- I hate that sentence)

Why are you so anxious to go to one of the Navy's engineering schools? I'd think that would be an even worse situation for someone who, like me, thinks this way. Wouldn't it be just more of the same, except with an extreme militaristic and authoritarian bent where you have even less personal freedom to explore and be creative? I'd imagine something like me doing badly in a class because I got side-tracked by [insert complicated subject] for a month or two, so they put me in the infantry and ship me out to [insert third world hell-hole] and replace me with someone a little more "normal." How is school for the military going to be any better than the regular US educational system?

 

[Tyria]

Biology.

 

[Latro]

In undergrad I am majoring in chemistry and mathematics. At the moment (I'm a junior now, so this is a ways off) I am looking closely at a PhD program at the same university in *deep breath*:
Computational Sciences and Informatics with a concentration in Materials and Chemicals Science

 

[Lex]

I'm curious Lex, you wrote in your intro thread:



Why are you so anxious to go to one of the Navy's engineering schools? I'd think that would be an even worse situation for someone who, like me, thinks this way. Wouldn't it be just more of the same, except with an extreme militaristic and authoritarian bent where you have even less personal freedom to explore and be creative? I'd imagine something like me doing badly in a class because I got side-tracked by [insert complicated subject] for a month or two, so they put me in the infantry and ship me out to [insert third world hell-hole] and replace me with someone a little more "normal." How is school for the military going to be any better than the regular US educational system?

I was a 10% kid. Just because the system was one I could deal with and thrive in doesn't mean that there aren't more intelligent people out there with different learning styles who get shafted by said system. I'm anxious to go to the Navy's engineering schools because it is a first class education and its presented with the underlying idea that you are actually going to be using everything they teach you when you go out to the fleet- you can't just memorize/regurgitate/forget what you're supposed to be learning.

 

[Nerd.]

As an undergrad, I majored in Biology and minored in Geology and Chemistry. I couldn't decide. I was a semester away from a Biology/Chemistry double major and second minor, in Physics. But things came up and I had to take my degree as-is. Now, I'm getting an MS in Psychology. I'm only half finished. Did I mention that I'm a nerd? Nerd.

 

[jachian]

BSc Computer Science if that counts....... but also did some heavy courses in chemistry, which was why I originally went to uni for but changed to CS.

 

[babrock]

I ended up w an enginering tech degree. basicly this is like a general engineering degree w a focus on drafting.

More to t point tho, I heard and accept t definition of engineering as being t science of applying t basic sciences towards t practical benifit of mankind. So i have always considered engineering to be more like science than business.

Also, while i admit this to be only a judgment call opnion, it is my opinion, at least, that that is as noble a profesion as any that exist.

 

[dark]

I started off as a mechanical engineering major, but decided after a year of that, that I prefered philosophy better, so Philosophy is my major.

 

[nexion]

I started off as a mechanical engineering major, but decided after a year of that, that I prefered philosophy better, so Philosophy is my major.

What do you plan to do with a philosophy major?

 

[EyeSeeCold]

My plan is Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering. It requires some Chem and some Bio and of course a ton of Math.

Though, I'm only cracking the surface in terms of coursework, so I don't think saying "I'm majoring in Science" is appropriate.

 

[dark]

What do you plan to do with a philosophy major?

Hopefully plan on getting a PhD, with all that knowledge, I would want to teach, not just advanced classes but teach the entry level things, that way I could introduce the idea of thought to those, which so far I have seen so many, who don't like to or don't know how to think things through for their selves. Such as in my Religious Studies class we discuss how people come to believe in what they believe, and about 90% of the class fall into the "because that's what my family" type deal thing. And again I went off topic, So in simplicity I want to teach to "try" to make the future better, the only way to change things is to change the minds of those who haven't yet been corrupted. Atleast that's my view.

 

[babrock]

Hopefully plan on getting a PhD, with all that knowledge, I would want to teach, not just advanced classes but teach the entry level things, that way I could introduce the idea of thought to those, which so far I have seen so many, who don't like to or don't know how to think things through for their selves. Such as in my Religious Studies class we discuss how people come to believe in what they believe, and about 90% of the class fall into the "because that's what my family" type deal thing. And again I went off topic, So in simplicity I want to teach to "try" to make the future better, the only way to change things is to change the minds of those who haven't yet been corrupted. Atleast that's my view.

Do you consider that a branch of science? Someone earlyer was asking that about pchycolgy and i think philosophy can be considered even more questionable on ocasion. Interesting questions, but idk if it all qualifies as science. For instance, intelegent design is not considered actual science as none of its claims are falseafyable and t same can he said for plenty of t questions container w/in philosophy. I understand that nothing related to string theory is falsafyable either tho they are working on that as best they can and dmaybe in a few years some tests can be set up that will be able to give an answer one way or t o

Some philosophy borders neuroscience and that is falseafyable but I am thinking that plenty of philo questions donot lend themselves to that.

You probably know more about it than I do is why i am asking.

Also t book i am curently reading is "Breaking the Spell" by Dan Dennette. I understand he is a rather respected philosopher. He has a thing on utube about free will that i think is good.

 

[nexion]

I wouldn't consider philosophy a science because none of the theories it posits can be regularly tested and there is no real evidence for the theories. But it still holds a special place in my heart.

 

[Dansk]

I did a double major in history and philosophy in my undergrad, so I'm the polar opposite of a science student. (Although I most definitely know more about astronomy and quantum physics than the average member of the population, despite what I chose to study.)

I would say philosophy is by far the most useful thing I've ever studied in terms of personal relevance, but I have absolutely no desire to study it at a higher level, and it definitely won't help you get a job. I found that the deeper into philosophy you get, the more specialized, dense, and pointless it gets. I have immense respect for Aristotle and Plato. Those two baked the pie, and everyone since has just been cutting it into smaller and smaller slices that make less and less sense. Modern philosophy is just a bunch of professors who have carved out increasingly tiny niches that they defend to the death, however irrational their positions may be, just because it's their own piece of intellectual turf that no one else owns yet.

The $20,000 I paid in tuition was worth it just for having introduced me to the Nicomachean Ethics, which is what my entire personal philosophy of life is based on. But in practical terms, in terms of getting me employed, I would have been better off without the degree.

 

[Puffy]

I major in history so I enjoy a relatively open timetable which has given me a lot of time to probe into other areas of interest. Given my own personal focus on historical theory it is open to introduce areas of psychology, philosophy and linguistics.

 

[Ver]

Economics undergrad. Biochemistry grad. Just could not decide.

 

[NiMur90]

I'm currently in second year Biomedical Science for Undergrad. I live in Ireland which sucks a lot of balls. I won't go as far as saying 'hate', but I intensely dislike a lot of the people here. 99% of them are extraverted and just go drinking all the time, if you don't - you're known as a weirdo. Anyway, I digress, I am an American citizen and I am looking to study medicine as a graduate course over there, but I have absolutely no idea where to start. I am currently in my second year out of four. I am hoping you guys can help me.

 

[Itchy Feet]

I'm doing a degree in Biochemistry. I really enjoy it actually. But I also interested in other subjects; philosophy, maths and psychology. I think I like science because I like the complexity and the calculations (I'm not brilliant with maths but I really enjoy it) However, science only gives me one perception; deductionism. Philosophy and humanities seem to give me another perspectives and give me interesting answers. I think I like to "think"(and "dream"?) and in the same time, I want to embrase life and being "Human". I think I'll be a full time scientist and part-time philosopher.

 

[Amerally]

Bachelor of Engineering. Industrial Math. Should be useful, but I am looking for a job..

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Bachelor of Engineering. Industrial Math. Should be useful, but I am looking for a job..

Government should be helpful.

 

[_whispers_]

Second year Marketing Management Bachelor. Anyone else? :smiley_emoticons_mr

Was never interested in studying engineering, biology, math or anything of the sort. On the rare occasions I had to learn something on the topic I was very excited that my little brain could comprehend it, but never really got into it.

My high school majors were Literature, Spanish language/culture/history/literature and English language.

So as far away from science as you can get.

 

[Amerally]

Government should be helpful.

EU is probably helpful. It gives industial math student (and computer science, mechanics and machine construction, mechatronics students etc.; it's called specialties ordered by the Polish government) money during studying (for even 50% of the best students). Montly about 500 Euro, it's enought to study here. But this starts one year after I started math. It's not ok. I "study" a half year computer science to get money. Effortless.
So I should be useful, needed in job market.
But to find job I need to decide what I want to do. I finished study one half year before it is planned so I could think now and try working in something interesting.
My faculty is a pure math plus statistics. Maybe I could use it to social science. With doctorate it would be easier to succeed . The most theoretical faculty. To don't limit myself.
I found math on list of occupation for INTP, that's why I chose it.

 

[s0nystyle]

i was doing business, but decided to switch over to biochem because business was BORING, which added another year or so to my transfer req :/

 

[MaxP]

I started in Environmental Sciences but my heart wasn't into school at all at the time so I've now switched to Commerce. I'm starting to really see the appeal of the sciences now though... too bad I'm already in 3rd year but I still may switch

 

[Moocow]

"Biopsychology" here. It's the same as neurology, or physiological psychology.

I used to be an art major and it was hell. Studying sciences is so much more substantial and satisfying.