<p>Drew00: </p>
<p>i'm going to major in philosophy for sure (high school seniors as of the moment), but i'm still undecided on whether i should double with english as well... is an english major very discussion oriented - or is it more technical?</p>
<p>do you know of any schools where double majoring like this would work out really well?</p>
<p>thanks!!</p>
<p>I'm studying Chinese and Tibetan, and the reactions I get when I tell people that are just... scary! Chinese is apparently acceptable, but Tibetan is "just weird - why the hell did you want to study something so useless?"</p>
<p>Well yeah, I suppose it's useless if you ignore the fact that practically all of South Asia has been affected by Tibetan culture, not to mention the entire Western half of China... </p>
<p>Btw, both my parents went to law school. Half way through they both decided it sucked and now neither works as a practicing lawyer (and my dad doesn't even work in a law-related field). Way to go useless majors!</p>
<p>This is kind of relevent, and kind of not :)</p>
<p>I'm a senior this year, and I'll be applying to colleges this fall. I really, really want to major in International Relations and/or Economics and work for a think tank or something of the sort. However, my parents are adamently against my majoring in a field other than finance, engineering, medicine, and law. My dad literally threatened to disown me for doing otherwise (he's a bit excitable/impulsive/crazy). Did any of your parents act similarly, and how did you convince them?</p>
<p>I hate how my parents only care about how much money I'll make. They don't view college as a learning experience so much as a stepping stone to becoming a software engineer/pediatrian, making lots of money, supporting a family, blah blah blah.</p>
<p>volteface,</p>
<p>I must say that International Relations and Economics are both quite useful in the real world. They are not purely academic majors, and both will make you money in the future, especially if you decide to go on to business school after you graduate. And a PhD in Economics from a highly reraged university will make you much; I know a PhD student in Econ from Chile at the University of Chicago, and he no doubt will run his country after he graduates. </p>
<p>Since your parents are worried about your making money, they shouldn't even hear about one of my prospective majors: Classics. It's a dead end in terms of money--and my interest happens to be in <em>the</em> most useful dead language, Greek. Utterly useless, but addictive. It's a good thing that my parents don't care about the area in which I major, as long as I am happy with my decision and I don't pursue "fluff" majors like gender studies.</p>
<p>"Drew00: </p>
<p>i'm going to major in philosophy for sure (high school seniors as of the moment), but i'm still undecided on whether i should double with english as well... is an english major very discussion oriented - or is it more technical?</p>
<p>do you know of any schools where double majoring like this would work out really well?</p>
<p>thanks!!"</p>
<p>Well, I'm an English Literature (along with Philosophy) major and literary analysis tends to be very discussion based. I'm not sure what you mean by technical? But, most schools make it so double majoring isn't that hard.</p>
<p>hmmmmm......... looks like I got schooled by Tiberius. I'm gonna go slink off to that dark corner of the earth reserved for people who unwittingly engage in the improper use of high-level words. Hopefully I won't tarnish the image of too many classics majors in the process.</p>
<p>And while you're at it, why don't you just print out my original posting, proofread it in red pen, and fax it to me. I'll correct it and have on your desk within the week, Mr. Chips!</p>
<p>dont revive superdead threads</p>
<p>Mathematics major here and I have to explain why I love math and its implications of a priori facts >_<</p>
<p>Was wondering when herodotus53 would retort...</p>
<p>If it's any consolation, herodotus53, I didn't see any misused words. =)</p>
<p>I'm usually met with an intense look of concentration as the other party tries to figure out what, exactly, my major IS if it isn't any of the other two they just tried associating it with. I enjoy it, it gives me approx. 10 minutes of free monologue-about-things-I-love time.</p>
<p>why the double negative when you coulda just said, "I do get respect".</p>
<p>Because "I don't get no respect" is a famous saying... Duh...</p>
<p>Wow, I seriously underestimated the number of people who would recognize my Rodney Dangerfield allusion. That's too bad--- Caddyshack is pretty funny, but I guess a lot of the posters here would never stoop to such proletarian comedy. That's fine. They can go on discussing Proust or whatever it is they do in the hours between making perfect grades and working for world peace.</p>
<p>I'm surprised, too, that so many people jumped on my so-called grammatical errors. Seriously, like someone posting in a (pretentious) forum like this in the first place would NOT know about avoiding double negatives? I guess an easy opportunity to feel so superior doesn't come around very often-- especially given the level of talent and intelligence I've seen around here from other posters-- so I can't blame you for carpe-ing the diem. </p>
<p>And yes, I should know how to make that into a gerund phrase, but I'm taking Greek right now, not Latin. I'm not in the mood for a classical philology death match, anyway.</p>
<p>In my opinion, most majors are pretty useless until you get relevant job experience...</p>
<p>lol if they’re too dumb to know what it is, just tell them to look it up if they really care.</p>