<p>sandkicks, but in the gap in education part it says "are there any gaps in your education" and there technically isn't yet. should i write it in anyway explaining next semester, or is it just for past semesters?</p>
<p>sarcasmgirl-what prereqs have you done for phil?</p>
<p>And guitarshark--sandkicks is right. You can put it in the gap section if you'd like--starting with the mention that it will be during the upcoming spring.</p>
<p>yea, im going to go back and put it in. does a gap in your education hurt your application though?</p>
<p>gabew42: Embarassingly enough, I've only completed Intro to Logic and I'm working on Intro to Philosophy (amazingly boring) right now. It probably sounds a bit (maybe a lot) on the ridiculous side, but I'm only slightly interested in this major and very nearly know nothing on the subject. The only reason I'm picking this one is because my sister was going to be a Philosophy major and has talked a lot about it, and from the sounds of it, sounds like it would be a good fit for my personality type.</p>
<p>In fact, I hold no interest for any other majors period (I liked graphic design for a long while, but I'm not quite passionate enough towards art as I'd like to be), so I've decided to do something that'll make me a decent amount of money. Specifically: getting into a good school with a major I'll be admitted into and taking lots of business classes. I'll leave the "happiness" factor for things outside of my career.</p>
<p>Sorry for rambling on about things outside of the parameters of your question. :(</p>
<p>i have heard it doesn't hurt your app whatsoever.</p>
<p>You think intro to philosophy is boring!? :{</p>
<p>I think the material itself is interesting. I don't like the format of the class, nor do I like history classes in general. I mean, all you're doing in intro to philosophy is learning tidbits about Pre-Socratic to Modern philosophers in a span of 16 weeks (4 to 8 for some) and end up leaving the class not really knowing anything about anyone.</p>
<p>Well it is an "intro" after all. And you are supposed to be analyzing the tidbits you do read...which should be cool. I enjoyed just being introduced to epistemology and metaphysics; it's a nice start.</p>
<p>It might be because of the teaching style of my instructor. All she does is spit out information from the textbook (with her opinions--though I agree a lot with her) and we go home, read over everything and come back to take a multiple choice test on definitions and who's who. I think one of the most interesting chapters was religion (which we haven't covered yet), though.</p>
<p>Seriously, philosophy courses were my favorite.</p>
<p>Not that I was saying I dislike philosophy itself. I actually liked the Intro to Logic class I took this past summer.</p>
<p>I'm thinking about taking Intro to Logic next semester (my Intro to Phil professor highly recommends it). How is the class, sarcasm?</p>
<p>LOGIC IS THE BEST THING ON EARTH!</p>
<p>Intro to Logic courses vary, but I highly recommend any of them! A lot of people have issues with it though--I can't understand why really.</p>
<p>I'd say if you're decent at math and learned most of the fallacies from your freshman composition class, then you're set.</p>
<p>I took it as an 8 week summer course, bought an older edition of the book and only used it for the first week, hah. The professor was rather hard to understand, too, but if you tend to think rationally also, that'll help.</p>
<p>Average gpa for philosophy at UCLA is on the low side. I try not to make any generalizations, but a 3.8 should be a shoe-in. The only thing I think would change that is the lack of major requirements. But I forget how many philosophy even has and if your school doesn't offer many, this isn't a big issue anyways. Anyways, I think your chances are pretty good.</p>
<p>*oh, and I have a friend who's a recent philosophy transfer to LA. So far, he really likes it, but apparently it's really, really hard. But he may just be used to being the smartest kid evar and being around other people like him is jarring [philosophy majors are usually really interesting, really smart, and really different].</p>
<p>Oh and I took intro to logic. Was my first CC class at age 16. My professor was incredibly difficult, but I managed a B+. One of the only Bs I got at that school. Sigh. </p>
<p>Symbolic logic isn't fun, says I.</p>
<p><strong>allie</strong>, if one did well in Intro to Logic, would the same go for Symbollic Logic...?</p>
<p>But he may just be used to being the smartest kid evar and being around other people like him is jarring
That's what I'm worried about. Though not necessarily the "smartest kid [ever]" part. But still, I like feeling all superior around dumber people. :)</p>
<p>I'm not sure...we actually covered symbolic logic within the intro class, and the little bit that we covered wasn't fun. But I'm not a math kid, I like words. So symbols and crazy little combinations didn't sit well with me. </p>
<p>And yeah. He's not the smartest kid ever either, he just really likes to think so. It's definitely different to go from being THE "really smart successful" kid in CC to being one of tons of really smart successful kids. Although, honestly, there're tons of stupid people here, too. Tons. Everywhere. You will not escape them. So it isn't hard to at least feel a little superior all the time. </p>
<p>Philosophy majors are a little different though. Because instead of their intelligence being like concretely displayed with math problems or decent writing or whatever, you guys get to like sit around and think about how brilliant you are. And then talk about it, and then fight with people about it. It's great. And in that aspect (lots of smart people trying to prove they're the smartest or have the best theories or whatever amongst eachother), philosophy is a little different. Like, a bio major can be like, oh south campus is so much smarter than north campus cuz we have numbers and diseases. But that's usually the extent of their argument. Phil majors are mega skilled in argument and usually have better reasons to prove why they're smarter. And, I assure you, they use them. A lot.</p>
<p>Your post was hilarious. :)</p>
<p>What also scares me is how well-read a lot of people are (well, same for the opposite). I wish I didn't waste my time doing nothing and actually read more, especially philosophy. I could do that now, but I like being lazy better. :(</p>