What made you choose your major?

<p>I just always liked political science, government and policy classes were always my favorite in high school.</p>

<p>I took a religion class on the relationship between Church and State first semester of my freshman year and loved it, tried out another, more typical, religion class to make sure I didn’t just like the state part, loved it as well, hence double majoring in religion. </p>

<p>I’m picking classes in both areas so I’m basically doing a giant major on the relationship between church and state and how religion influences society worldwide.</p>

<p>I like people who regurgitate what their professor told them and then pat themselves on the back.</p>

<p>No one likes a negative nancy, Plattsburgh … ;)</p>

<p>I assure you, I was being quite the positive Polly… ;)</p>

<p>Psychology: I wanted to find out what “common sense” was in Latin.</p>

<p>I plan to go into either neuroscience/ cognitive science or aerospace engineering</p>

<p>I want to understand how I think and how it is processed in my brain, thus explaining the brain stuff. For engineering, I’ve aalwats wanted to be part of something that sent something into space and I love physics and math.</p>

<p>With both of them I want to study the “final frontiers” of what we know and maybe help expand what we know.</p>

<p>Toby Ziegler and Josh Lyman forced me to pick my major…</p>

<p>i like to play video games</p>

<p>computer engineering</p>

<p>easy for me and apparently useful?</p>

<p>applied math</p>

<p>I love work with computers and I’m very good with computer hardware.
My best/favorite/most interesting classes are math classes and physical science classes (physics and chem).</p>

<p>So I will be majoring in Computer Engineering.</p>

<p>& lol @ awill430’s post at the top of the page. I’m sure a lot more guy would major in that if they knew about it.</p>

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Since when does Freud = psychology? It’s kind of funny to me how many people I actually encounter who don’t give the field any credibility. Where does the prejudice come from? It just seems kind of random.</p>

<p>I love traveling, languages, reading the newspaper/The Economist, learning about current events…I also am fond of analyzing data, researching and writing…hence I major in</p>

<p>International Relations/Economics</p>

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<p>For one, I did give psychology a chance… and I actually like it; I’m giving you a hard time.</p>

<p>And for two, you’re NOT being serious are you? Freud is only considered like the grand daddy of psychology, that’s all. About 95% of what he theorized has been completely debunked, but you can’t say he isn’t a part of psychology, that’s ridiculous. In fact, come to think of it, I can’t really think of any other field where the main granddaddy/mommy was sooooooo wrong… maybe that’s why so many people think the field is ■■■■■■■■…that and it’s a fairly sketchy science.</p>

<p>My point is that psychology has evolved far beyond Freud’s theories, so why would they be used against modern psychologists? Science used to claim the world was flat, but I don’t discredit modern beliefs because of that. You say you can’t think of a field where the original big-named pioneer was so wrong, but honestly, probably almost every field is exactly the same. For instance, physiology…</p>

<p>I don’t think psychology is a sketchy science, but I think psychologists often take the science out of it and do their own unscientific thing. Maybe they are the ones who give the field a bad reputation?</p>

<p>No, the ones that give the field a bad reputation are the sports kids etc that think “oh, psychology, easy major” and then they all take it. They don’t take it seriously and do poorly in it but most people don’t care about that, they just care about “oh the dumb kids are all doing psychology”. However, a lot of schools have hard psychology programs, and the people that are majoring in psychology with intent to go to grad school for psych are actually usually very intelligent dedicated students that could succeed in probably any major they choose. It just happens that there are a lot of dumb kids that choose it because they think it is easy.</p>

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<p>Excellent post. </p>

<p>Psychology is actually a more difficult major than most would presume. I know some of my fellow high school friends who took psychology classes in college and realized that they were some of the most difficult classes they had taken. One girl related to me how she got a C+ in her psychology class.</p>

<p>Well the beginning of physiology was about 500 years before christ, while Sigmund Freud died just around the dawn of WWII.</p>

<p>maybe I should have restated that as, I don’t think there is any other field out there that was first pioneered so recently that was so wrong. It’s not like he’s totally dismissed, there is still a decent amount of psychologist that employ some of his methods. No one looks at the physiology textbooks of 342 B.C. for pointers…</p>

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<p>Yes. The psychologists ruin the field’s name quite often. They can’t do basic logic, and think silly, romanticized things like “I’m majoring in psychology because I’m fascinated by the human mind” - BIG DEAL. Every intellectual is fascinated by the subtleties of the human mind, and reading a bunch of statistics and passing some exams hardly gives one the right to think one knows anything at all. </p>

<p>Life experience and a broad appreciation of: logic, sociology, linguistics, psychology, philosophy literature as a combo will probably do much better for someone who wants to gain insight. One must also ponder why these things are worth studying deeply to gain insight about the mind. </p>

<p>You see joke psychology majors doing the major and claiming they hate math, physics, etc. A lot of these people don’t really know enough to say what they hate and what they like, and just want to feel good about themselves and their abilities, and let’s face it - one can slack a lot studying psychology at most places. Not that tough.</p>

<p>There are <em>real</em> psychology majors out there too, and I feel for them, as they have to take extra care to be taken seriously given the reputation their cohorts may have.</p>

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<p>Truth, I think.</p>

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So you are discrediting the psychology curriculum? I’m just making sure I understand you correctly.</p>