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So what's you're college major?
2007-02-23, 8:25 AM #41
Undergrad:
Computer Science, BS, specializations in Artificial Intelligence, Programming Languages and Compilers
Mathematics, BA
Minor in Physics

Graduate:
Expecting a Master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering
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2007-02-23, 8:48 AM #42
chemistry
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2007-02-23, 8:52 AM #43
Exothermic doing chemistry?

Heh, I found this humorous.
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2007-02-23, 10:10 AM #44
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2007-02-23, 10:14 AM #45
You're majoring in Cryptography Against the Colorblind?
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2007-02-23, 10:39 AM #46
Originally posted by bobbojones:
Double in Vocal Performance and Physics

doubles in Vocal FTW!
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2007-02-23, 11:19 AM #47
Currently I'm majoring in Biology with a minor in Psych (I don't really like Psych, but it's soo easy...). I hope to abandon this plan soon and return to Nursing.

Yeah, I'm kind of sick of college. Or at least my university. >_>
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2007-02-23, 11:52 AM #48
In September I should be starting Product Design Engineering.

It's basically a masters in Mechanical Engineering, but I get all the design bits too.
nope.
2007-02-23, 12:02 PM #49
I just changed my majors.

Major: Failing
Minor: Drinking

I find the two fields to be related, and it works well.
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2007-02-23, 1:23 PM #50
Computer Science major, thinking of a multimedia minor. By the time I'm done with CS I'll be 2 classes short of a Math minor, so I might just go for that one too.
2007-02-23, 2:07 PM #51
Spent 3 years as an architecture major then after nearly flunking out I became a graphic design major.
And now with a little bit of luck and alot of grace I'll be graduating in december.
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2007-02-23, 2:23 PM #52
Originally posted by fishstickz:
I just changed my majors.

Major: Failing
Minor: Drinking

I find the two fields to be related, and it works well.



I dual in being Awesome and Drinking, and minor in Failure.

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2007-02-23, 2:37 PM #53
Pre-med/biology
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2007-02-23, 3:00 PM #54
Originally posted by bradsh:
Pre-med/biology


Ah, lovely.

I know you've heard it tons already, but get a good MCAT score, seriously. Unless you are an underrepresented minority or have family that got their MD from X, Y, or Z school.

If you happen to have any questions (although I'm sure you don't), PM me. The only reason I'm all OMGHI2U is because it's a trying process for most people, and I learned a lot myself on the way about applying and more now that I'm on "the other side" of sorts (it's also expensive so you only should do it once...). Not all people have difficulty though, especially if you do early application and get in/or have a 40+ MCAT and a GPA >3.80 in a good major (science or engineering deal) from a respectable school.

(Applies to US and Canada... Australia is way different; not sure about UK).
2007-02-23, 3:44 PM #55
I'm currently a sophomore trombone performance major. I would, however, like to switch majors as I realize that it would be much more reasonable to do something else and be able to make a living.
2007-02-23, 7:39 PM #56
Originally posted by SMOCK!:
You're majoring in Cryptography Against the Colorblind?


No, we always ask the color blind kid about whitch color to use next on our paintings.
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2007-02-23, 8:12 PM #57
Originally posted by Zecks:
I'm currently a sophomore trombone performance major. I would, however, like to switch majors as I realize that it would be much more reasonable to do something else and be able to make a living.


You can make a living playing slide trombone.

I know plenty of girls that do.
2007-02-23, 8:36 PM #58
Computer Engineering, but I want to switch to computer science for grad school. I don't like hardware :(.
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2007-02-23, 8:45 PM #59
did my undergrad and masters in straight Physics,

currently a experimental particle physics phd student...fingers crossed will be working at cern for a year come August/September :D
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Rbots
2007-02-23, 9:39 PM #60
I'm gonna go for a BS in mechanical engineering. Maybe materials science engineering, but most likely mechanical. I love engineering and have enough experience with it to know its what I want to do, even though I am a senior in high school.
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2007-02-23, 10:56 PM #61
Originally posted by Elana14:
[art]

You uh, might want to rethink that, no offense.
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2007-02-23, 11:19 PM #62
Originally posted by James Bond:
did my undergrad and masters in straight Physics,

currently a experimental particle physics phd student...fingers crossed will be working at cern for a year come August/September :D


Hey, are you participating in the search for the Higgs-Bosun? I read an article in the paper about how things are going to get started soonish and CERN is building a huge...particle accelerator? Anyways, if that is you, wow. You're famous.

Also, nowI understand what they were talking about in the George Clooney version of Solaris.

Edit: I'm a dork.
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2007-02-24, 12:29 AM #63
That CERN thing kind of frightens me.
2007-02-24, 3:31 AM #64
Originally posted by James Bond:
did my undergrad and masters in straight Physics,

currently a experimental particle physics phd student...fingers crossed will be working at cern for a year come August/September :D
I'm so jealous of you. Can I come visit you at CERN?
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2007-02-24, 6:32 AM #65
I don't get it. What's frightening about the LHC?

(Music majors ftw.)
2007-02-24, 8:00 AM #66
Originally posted by Tracer:
Hey, are you participating in the search for the Higgs-Bosun? I read an article in the paper about how things are going to get started soonish and CERN is building a huge...particle accelerator? Anyways, if that is you, wow. You're famous.

The work I'm doing will relate to the Top Quark, which is an important particle none the less and which hasn't been studied all that much. It's mass, which I hope to be measuring (more accurately than is currently known) plays an important role in determining the mass of the Higgs (if it exists) and so hopefully my work will be of help in discovering the Higgs by narrowing down the search range.

The LHC is set to start running around November of this year, if things go according to plan, but it won't start at the full 14TeV energy, the first few runs will be at around 450GeV, per beam for 3-6 months as the detectors are calibrated and we get to know how they actually operate, instead of just in theory.

As for why people are scared of the LHC, I'm not too sure, the media love to point out that there is the chance we will create black holes during its operation and well, we probably will once in a blue moon, but they will disappear way before they can even do any slight form of damage, I'm talking pico/nano seconds that they survive here, but I'm not expert on this side of things.

Also Dan Brown and his bloody book Angels and Demons, although making cern known to the wider populous has also made them scared of it by pointing out that anti-matter is created there during the operation of the beam. When anti-matter and matter say hello to one another you get big boom....well, don't worry, we currently don't have any means of storing it (other than in an accelerator beam) and any that we do create won't leave the detectors, well, anti-neutrinos will but they don't do anything so you don't need to worry about them.

Anyone will be welcome to visit, but please bare in mind, I'm not even there yet :P and won't be for about another 6 months.
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Rbots
2007-02-24, 8:42 AM #67
Right, then it's settled. I'm going to visit you and we're going to make black holes.
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2007-02-24, 9:10 AM #68
Originally posted by tinny:
Computer Engineering, but I want to switch to computer science for grad school. I don't like hardware :(.

I don't blame you, I was required to take a computer architecture class and wanted to end my life.
2007-02-24, 11:52 AM #69
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2007-02-24, 12:12 PM #70
Biophysics/Pre-med
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2007-02-24, 2:14 PM #71
Originally posted by SMOCK!:
Right, then it's settled. I'm going to visit you and we're going to make black holes.


I would totally drop in on the black hole machine if I had any means of getting to Europe.
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2007-02-24, 6:32 PM #72
Originally posted by tinny:
Computer Engineering, but I want to switch to computer science for grad school. I don't like hardware :(.


If you don't mind me asking. Why the hell would you go for Computer Engineering if you don't like hardware?
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2007-02-24, 6:35 PM #73
I think he implied that he found out he didn't like hardware only after taking CE courses.
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2007-02-25, 10:10 PM #74
Originally posted by Aglar:
I don't blame you, I was required to take a computer architecture class and wanted to end my life.


Why does every one dislike computer hardware? I enjoyed it just as much as the software side of computers.
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2007-02-25, 10:16 PM #75
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2007-02-26, 2:02 PM #76
Well I'm going to shake up the rather one-sided number of math/science majors:
I'm going to start a BFA in Acting Major in the Fall.
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2007-02-26, 2:12 PM #77
English with an emphasis in creative writing.
2007-02-26, 2:50 PM #78
I used to be a creative writing major too.

Painting/philosophy dual major now, but might get English/CW as a minor if I have the right courses for it. If I had it all to do over again, I'd just take whatever appealed to me and not declare a major until my last semester when the patterns started to really reveal themselves in what degrees I'm qualified for.
2007-02-26, 3:40 PM #79
Fisheries and Wildlife. I'm still not sure what exactly I'll do with it, but being in the College of Agriculture has its benefits: my AP work in highschool took care of all my math and English requirements.
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2007-02-26, 4:02 PM #80
Double Major in: Secondary Education/American History
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