<p>I went to see my dean yesterday to discuss some issue concerning my major.</p>
<p>Before I was allowed into my dean's office, the secretary asked me to state my business. I don't remember exactly how the exchange between the secretary and I went, but I said something along the lines of wanting to discuss something with the dean concerning the uselessness of a math major if it isn't combined with something else. When the secretary asked me to explain further, I revealed that I don't do extracurriculars. The secretary wasn't very pleased when she heard that answer, and told me, in an angry tone, that the school expects me to do extracurriculars. I told her that I didn't sign any legal document saying that I was going to do extracurricular activies while I was a student at the school. She told me that I did, when I accepted my admission to the school. I asked her to produce the paper.</p>
<p>Luckily, at that moment, the dean opened the door of her office and asked me to come in. I did not tell the dean anything about my not doing extracurriculars, in the interest of avoiding another unpleasant exchange.</p>
<p>Can someone tell me if there normally is some type of binding agreement between a school and its students saying that the students are required to do extracurricular activities during their tenure at the school?</p>
<p>Of course you are not required to do extracurriculars at college. However, most colleges would like their students to “give back” to the community in some form or another, whether by playing a sport, participating in music, getting involved in student government, or just serving on a committee. It makes for a better campus environment if students do something to make the campups better, rather than just doing academics. Even tutoring would help.</p>
<p>Why would anyone speak with the Dean about an opinion as to whether or not being a Math major is useful? Why would anyone waste the Dean’s time on something this ridiculous?
If you feel that being a Math major will not serve you well once you graduate and move on, then change your major. Rather than take this up to the Dean, you should have made an appointment with the Career and Development Center and discussed ideas on future employment related to your field.</p>
<p>Are we going to see a “Secretary treated me condescendingly” thread?</p>
<p>Almost identical posts and threads. Moire states that he/she is a college graduate. A year later, pmd is still posting as if currently attending undergrad. Yet pmd=Moire.</p>
<p>Has anyone brought this up to the CC moderators?</p>
<p>I think Lakrosse is a real person, unfortunately. Apparently, a user on here went to high school with him. I read it in one of his many threads.</p>
<p>pmvd, take it as a warning if you’re not Moire; you’re definitely heading in that direction if you aren’t willing to take anyone’s advice. Sure it’s a good idea to combine math with a more specific major like business or econ, but I think you top priority right now should be improving your social situation. Introduce yourself to people, get counseling, join math club if you’re like math etc. But please don’t waste more time on the Internet thinking your situation will change magically. If you get desperate for advice again at least go to the parents section; people there tend to have more experience and background knowledge on how to treat social problems that just us college students.</p>
<p>Lol. That’s creepy. It’s kind of obvious already that you’re also Moire. It’s not just a mere coincidence ya know. Are you a ■■■■■ or are you mentally ill (srs)? Or do you have nothing else better to do…?</p>
<p>Post #5 is really important to this topic. nice find. i did some Moire research (pun intended) and found out that last year when he was using the Moire username, he was being accused even then of having other aliases;</p>
<p>"i think this is some sick joke. a while back, someone under a different name posted the EXACT SAME FIRST 2 PARAGRAPHS! i don’t know what kind of prank you’re playing, but you’re really wasting people’s time by reading your excessive posts. go become a hermit if you want then. "</p>
<p>^That was to Moire in 2008. Now we’re saying the same thing to pmvd in 2009. The thing is, any sympathy or interest I had in the topic goes out the window when I understand that this is a multiple alias attention ■■■■■. This same topic has been posted by this same human (under many different names) multiple times for YEARS now. I also see that tons of what he writes is fiction, because he constantly goes back and forth between claiming he’s graduated and out of college (making $16/hr in one topic) or that he’s still in college- among many other blatant contradictions.</p>
So it seems like decent computer science jobs are out of my league. (If it weren’t because I was specifically told that I could still go into computer science jobs with a degree in math, I would have been a CS major.)
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They are going to ask me math questions, and if I don’t know the answers they’ll probably chuckle and send me on my way.
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<p>This is so PMVD.
Math guy who’s not “good enough” to do anything.</p>
<p>This is what procrastinating in studying for my finals earns me.</p>
<p>I’ve been accused of being so many different people I am waiting for someone to claim I am a mom posing as her college-bound socially inept child. lol</p>