<p>Well there are so many posts about different majors.... im just wondering if anyone here is applying undecided.... i did.... and can someone tell me how it works? does it mean that i can take ANY courses i want for the first 2 years?</p>
<p>It simply means that you haven't chosen/committed to a major program of study within your bachelors degree. So, you can take whatever classes you want, ofcourse you can do that anyways, provided that you have met any prerequisites etc. that are required. I wouldn't suggest taking any unnecessary classes unless you or your parents are happy to pay a bunch of money for no reason.</p>
<p>I disagree with 311griff about taking classes "for no reason." If you're interested, or you love the professors, or it makes you happy, it's for a reason. Even if it's to get easy credits because you need to graduate, or you are curious as to whether or not to major in a certain field, there's a purpose. If you want to ability to do something, like logic, or calculus, there's a purpose. There can some 'no purpose" situations, but most seem to be purposeful when one is going through them, so don't be upset afterward- you just read circumstances wrong, and nobody is perfect at reading circumstances.</p>
<p>^^^ You can disagree, but my point wasn't that you shouldn't take classes that interest you, or make you happy, or that have a professor that you like... LOL, I was saying don't waste your time in college, unless you can afford it. Read: Unless your parents or you are independently wealthy, I wouldn't suggest taking every history class available, every math class available, all the time still being "undecided on a major" and then finally majoring in Biology. That's all I meant.</p>
<p>So your point is, unless your parents are "independently wealthy," whatever that means, you should know what major to major in, and take those classes, along with some other things for the reasons I mentioned? I don't think that's fair; some kids just don't know what to major in, and that's fine. It's not something I'm really concerned about, though, as in this particular argument. :)</p>
<p>LOL, you don't know what independently wealthy means? sorry. At my school you don't have to select a major until you are a Junior (60 credit hours), but at that time you have to select a major. If you haven't decided what to major in after 60 credit hours of college, then you are really indecisive, IMO. Along the way, however, (at least at my school) students take general education requirements (unless they have earned college credit towards these during HS, or clep tests), and other electives--can be ANYTHING as long as prereqs are satisfied--to help work towards the 124 hours required for a bachelor's degree (since most majors only require between 48 and 74 credit hours to complete). My point was more down the lines of while you are undecided, don't just take meaningless classes that don't help you fulfill general education, or something. Some students, with indecisiveness, end up earning 200 credit hours in college and get one bachelor's degree.... LOL, you can get a Bachelor's and Master's degree with 150 credits.</p>
<p>if you earn 200 credit hours in college for a BA degree, doesnt that mean you're getting more of your money's worth by taking more classes and learning more?</p>
<p>if your school has a cut-off of how much you pay for hours (i.e. it's the same price to take 12 credit hours as it is to take 20), then yeah, probably. Why continue to pay, and pay, and pay to get nowhere? Even schooling has an economic margin<--eventually you won't really learn much more than you could by just going to the library and reading some stuff, in fact your professor might be so old school about it that you would learn less from him/her than from a magazine/book about the subject. There comes a point where getting something accomplished by your schooling becomes more beneficial.</p>
<p>Indepently wealthy, as terms like rich, mean different things to different people. I do agree with you to some extent, 311Griff. Your point about independent learning should be reemphasized- anyone here see Good Will Hunting? So much of learning is indepent learning, although there are other beneficial types of learning that come from interaction or receiving information from peers or professors. One more thing: I think that some of the most important learning in school doesn't come from the classroom.</p>