College-Age: What's everyone taking this semester?

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Biol Science Lab II
Biological Science II
Fundamentals of Chemistry
Fund of Public Speaking
Intro To Drama
Intro To Prob & Statistics
 
zesty said:
I just changed my major from Computer Information Systems to Economics in October. Do you have any job prospects lined up?
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None, I have no idea what I want to do with my degrees. I used to be a Computer Science major, changes that to CIS, then changed that to undeclared. After taking an econ course, I decided to persue that because I was good at it and I enjoyed it. Though, having talked to various counselors at school, most companies that come to the various job fairs here really aren't interested in talking to you like more than 6 months before you graduate, so I'm gonna hit up the job fairs this semester and see what I can come up with.

Poly Sci was tacked on because I'm required to get a minor in something and I really enjoy the subject, and then I discovered I was only two classes away from getting a degree in it, so I decided to persue that as well.
 
Calculus 1 (4 Cred)
Astronomy (Lab) (4 Cred)
Principles of Macro-Economics (4 Cred)
Global Literature and Social Change (Literature Course) (3 Cred)

15 Creditstststststs!!!

Spring Semester of Freshmen year...I'm going to have to pull an A in all those classes in order for me to get past the 3.5 GPA mark. Right now, I have a 3.133 and I'm up for the challenge!!!
 
zesty said:
I just changed my major from Computer Information Systems to Economics in October. Do you have any job prospects lined up?

Because I changed majors, I had to change schools within my school (so long school of business, hello school of liberal arts) and subsequently have to take some pre-reqs for the new school. My schedule is:

Biology 101 (w/ accompanying lab and recitation) 5 hrs
History of Western Civilization (3 hrs)
Intro to Econometrics (3 hrs)

And, you know, working 50 hrs a week.
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Oh what kind of math courses have you taken??? Because if you want to go to grad school for like a masters program, they find having you taken a lot of math classes impressive and if you're trying to get into a Ph.D program, you're definitely going to want to take Calc. I, Statistics, Calc. II, Calc. III, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations and maybe even Advanced Calculus would be good. But yeah, I'm an Economics major as well and I definitely plan to take these math courses and try to do as well as them as I can because they will be a surefire ticket to getting into a good school if I can keep up a B+ or A average and then get a good score on the GRE. For example, you can look at the requirements NYU has for people trying to get into their masters program:

What are the criteria for admission?

Admission to the MA program in economics is limited to students of outstanding promise. In general, we aim to admit the B+ student and above. More specifically, the type of student we are seeking to attract will meet the following minimum requirements:

* GRE Quantitative and Analytical scores > 75th percentile (@720 for quantitative and 5.0 for analytical)
* GRE Verbal > 50th percentile (@500)
* TOEFL > 260 (computer-based version) or TOEFL > 620 (paper-based version) or 105 (internet-based version)
* Undergraduate calculus and statistics -- B+ or more – and preferably more advanced mathematics
* Intermediate microeconomics and macroeconomics -- B+ or more
* GPA of 3.25 or better at the undergraduate level.

What is important is the total picture of an applicant’s competence, not performance on individual criteria. For example, we want to attract students with good grades at a good university even if they had less than fantastic GRE scores. Furthermore, we also want to attract applicants who have completed a degree in mathematics, engineering or physics but have done introductory but not necessarily intermediate economics courses.
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http://www.econ.nyu.edu/graduate/ma/faq.html#3

You see it's not that bad, actually looks pretty doable. But yeah, then the graduates of that program would go on to acquire jobs with excellent companies:

What are the career opportunities for graduates of the MA program?

Graduates from the MA program currently hold jobs in a variety of fields in the New York area, including investment banking, brokerage, management consulting and the non-profit sector. Our graduates are employed in an impressive array of businesses: AIG, Goldman, Sachs & Company, Bear Stearns, Bloomberg, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Smart Money Magazine, Time Magazine, Citicorp, the Royal Bank of Canada, Credit Suisse, Economy.Com and the IMF.

International students who graduate from the program often return to their home countries to take up important policy advisory positions.
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http://www.econ.nyu.edu/graduate/ma/faq.html#2

So what I plan to do is do best as I can in my undergraduate academic career, try to meet those admission standards like the ones set by NYU, apply to a good masters program and then eventually get a job where I can make bank like in investment banking. Then after I make enough dough, I will actually make use of my degree and actually, help in the non-profit sector and eventually, the dream is to put my skills to use in a Latin American country...but yeah, this is just a rough plan that I have.

During my undergraduate career, I plan to take my economic courses, spanish courses, math courses, and government and politics courses. And if I can, try to double major in Government and Politics. Because I still don't know if I want to pursue a graduate degree in Economics just yet, I might want to pursue a Masters in Public Policy and Maryland (the school I currently attend) has a great program in it, its especially good because its location is right near D.C..
 
Theories of Religion (which I was supposed to have tonight but because of the snow here in Maine it was canceled, meaning I won't have the first class for two weeks)
Quebec Poetry
French Sociolinguistics
Capstone In Modern Languages - French

I'm excited for the Quebec Poetry class, since my Quebec Theatre class was really fun and interesting last semester.

My Capstone (which is what we call a senior project/thesis) will probably be a linguistic study of the French spoken in the St. Jean river valley, but I don't know what I'm going to focus on yet, and probably won't 'til I've done some interviews.

This is my last full semester as an Undergraduate, and I'm pretty psyched.
 
Currently a sophomore at DigiPen:

- CS250 - Computer Graphics II, basically writing a 3D graphics API
- CS260 - Networking, create all the networking code for a 2D game
- MAT250 - Linear Algebra II
- PHY250 - Waves, optics, and aerodynamics
- GAM250 - The continuation of GAM200. The second semester of building a 2D game from scratch with teams of 4-5 sophomores.
 
Ketchup Boy said:
Oh what kind of math courses have you taken??? Because if you want to go to grad school for like a masters program, they find having you taken a lot of math classes impressive and if you're trying to get into a Ph.D program, you're definitely going to want to take Calc. I, Statistics, Calc. II, Calc. III, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations and maybe even Advanced Calculus would be good. But yeah, I'm an Economics major as well and I definitely plan to take these math courses and try to do as well as them as I can because they will be a surefire ticket to getting into a good school if I can keep up a B+ or A average and then get a good score on the GRE. For example, you can look at the requirements NYU has for people trying to get into their masters program:
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I don't really have any interest (right now) in getting a Master's or anything beyond that, but I do plan to focus on the math/quantitative track for my degree if it won't slow me down any. I was one of those kids that decided to "take a year off" after HS, which eventually turned into six years. Couple that with semesters off here and there and useless credits lost to major changes, I just want to be finished with my bachelor's and be done for awhile.
 
CAS-327-A - Rhetorical Criticism
REL-295-A - Christianity and Culture
PHIL-340-A - Contemporary Continental Philosophy
PHIL-383-A - Metaphysics
PHIL-371-A - Epistemology

This is my last semester. My brain will blow up with that load. I might drop "Christianity and Culture," though it seems interesting.
 
BUS 237, Computers/Information Systems
BUS 251, Financial Accounting I
ECON 103, Principles of Microeconomics
PHIL 110, Logic and Reasoning
PSYC 100, Intro.Psychology I
 
Trimester Schedule!

Developmental Psychology
Environmental Studies
Freshman Studies -- basically English but insane (have you ever tried writing a 7 page paper on the Beauty of Einstein's Theory of Relativity?)
 
Quarter Schedule bitches.

Introduction to Feedback Systems
+ Lab
Circuits
+ Lab
Japanese II
MicroEcon

+ 12 hours work/week @ IT

Junior studying Electrical Engineering.

Was studying both Piano Performance and Computer Engineering.
 
IAT 206, Media Across Cultures
IAT 222, Interactive Arts
IAT 235, Information Design
IAT 244, Digital Photography I
IAT 267, Intro to Technological Systems

Second year of Interactive Arts & Technology
 
dasein said:
CAS-327-A - Rhetorical Criticism
REL-295-A - Christianity and Culture
PHIL-340-A - Contemporary Continental Philosophy
PHIL-383-A - Metaphysics
PHIL-371-A - Epistemology

This is my last semester. My brain will blow up with that load. I might drop "Christianity and Culture," though it seems interesting.
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+1 for this dude. I'm a Molecular Biology and Microbiology major, but you're doing all the things I'm genuinely interested in.

Courses (making this semester easy):

Molecular Immunology
Molecular Biology 2
Intro to Pharmacology
Neurobiology
 
102 ENGLISH: INQUIRY INTO WEALTH AND MONEY
113 MATHEMATICAL REASONING
151 JOURNEY THROUGH SOLAR SYSTEM
120 HISTORY OF ROCK
242 CONTEMPORARY MORAL ISSUES
 
Politics and Film
War, Revolution, and Terrorism
International Relations
Physical Anthropology
Financial Accounting

I took the accounting course as a reprieve from the writing intensive courses I'm taking.
 
Stridone said:
I'm kinda interested in Japan too, but what kind of job are you going to get with this? I don't want to be a teacher or something like that.
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Well, my real dream is to become a teacher in japan of my language(italian):D
Honestly there aren't lots of jobs you can get if you take these studies:I have the fortune to live near Venice(a typical turistic place to visit for japanese people), I guess i could at least become a Guide:lol
 
CE major/math minor - Focus Hardware Computer Security

Senior CompE Design(capstone)
Electromagnetic
Analog/Digital Communcations Lab
Intermediate Spanish
Chemistry 101

Last real semester. My next semester is all social sciences and art and humanities classes for graduation requirements. I am done all my major classes.
 
Multiplatform news delivery (Capstone)
Jiu-Jitsu as taught by Klay Pittman
Abnormal psychology (My only normal lecture-type class!!)
Editing (for news-type of stuff)
Senior Portfolio (capstone for my other major photocommunications)
 
I'm taking baby-birthing 101, i.e., taking a semester (maybe two) off. :( I'm happy that we're having the little one next month, but man, we would have to get pregnant after a couple of years of half-trying as soon as I went back to school and was doing well.

I hope next semester to at least be able to pick up my one-night fiction class, and then back to a part-time schedule after that, but it depends on baby_monkey.
 
StaircaseOfSatan said:
Quebec Poetry
French Sociolinguistics
Capstone In Modern Languages - French

I'm excited for the Quebec Poetry class, since my Quebec Theatre class was really fun and interesting last semester.
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Wow, really? As a Quebecer, I have no idea how that stuff could be of the slightest interest to a foreigner. :lol
 
Double major: CIS + Marketing

Business to Business Marketing (gonna be easy as hell)
Web Application Development (tough...i hate sql)
Strategy and Policy (tough, foreign dude, cant understand him)
Project Management (easy, one entire page of notes for every test :))

Senior at EIU. One more year. And I dont want it to be over just yet (i think i will by then though)
 
CE Major:

ECE 265- Introduction to Logic Design
Math 220- Introduction to Differential Equations
CS 201- Data Structures and Discrete Mathematics I
ME 205- Introduction to Thermodynamics

It shouldn't be too bad.
 
First day of class! Last semester!

Japanese Tales and Songs
Japanese Concepts of Body/Self
Japanese Foreign Policy
Computer Systems Architecture
Intro to Operating Systems
Computer Programming: Python
Aerobics: Step

Trying to trade Step for Power Yoga and add Body Works. F5 F5 F5!
Python will only go up to spring break.

If I'm doing well in the first two Jpn classes by the first drop date, I'm probably gonna drop Foreign Policy (I HATE history/govt classes).

I know Architecture + OS is pushing it, but this is actually my second time for Architecture >_>
 
Microeconomics
Biology 1108 (Basically Biology II)
Anatomy I
SERV 1000 (Service Learning...some kind of bullshit prerequisite I need to graduate)
PHED 1000 (Lame online health class required to graduate)
PHED 1120 (Lame health class required to graduate)

I'm quite burnt out with college right now. I look at that list of classes and I'm fucking disgusted; only one of those classes has anything to do with the type of careers I'm interested in. The rest are just lame classes that have been deemed necessary.
 
I feel you. I fucking hate the required bullshit. Example: even though I already have an established career doing something that relates to my major, I have to take some seminar in career perspectives. Sometimes, when I look at the list of what's "required," I wonder who really makes these decisions and why they're designed to be as boring and useless as hell.
 
I'm starting college this year but I don't have an outline yet of what I'm doing exactly, so the following will have to suffice:

Bachelor of Design, majoring in Graphic Design.

I plan to be an Illustrator amongst other things.
 
Man, my classes have been boring as hell so far. Yeah, we haven't done anything yet. But you can sorta tell how interesting a professor is going to be right away.

English 102 and CSCI for me tomorrow. Both should be a breeze...god, these required classes just bore me to tears. I'm not one to hate on an easy A, but I swear to god I almost fell asleep with my eyes open in my Bio class. :lol
 
I was registered but then I unknowingly missed the payment deadline and was dropped. Registered for my classes again first day of school with slim pickings and a late fee. I kick myself. :(

English: Survey of Later American Lit
Physical Geology + Lab
Intro to Philosophy
Integrated Software Apps

Also taking a remedial math class outside of college because I can't pass college algebra even though I aced all of the remedial classes at the school.

I don't understand how some people enjoy school. I get all depressed around the start of the semester, midterms, and finals. Dreaming of summer already...
 
YESYESYESYESYES, my architecture class is going to be more programming focused than hardware! /does the happy jig

That really pisses me off though how classes with the same listing can be so different in content, especially when it's a required course. And there's never anyway to find out which one you would be better suited for since all the professors wait until the first day of class to release any details.
 
taking
Intermediate Guitar
Certification Course for Wireless Networks/Security

I already have my degree in information systems. I'm just taking these for fun, and to expand my current resume.
 
AAS 330 - Language & Society: South Asia
ANP 300 - Human Anatomy
HIS 264 - The Early Republic
HBM 321 - GEN MICROBIOLOGY LAB
HUI 234 - Intro to 20th-Century Drama
WST 103 - Women, Culture, and Difference

Just a bunch of requirements, really.
 
Litterature and Composition II Drama and Poetry
Introduction to Canadian Politics
Introduction to Political and Social Thought
Modern Political Thought I

Second year Political Science. Can't wait to be done with that general bullshit.
 
External Auditing
Advanced Management Accounting
Advanced Corporate Finance
Accounting Theory
Management Information Systems II

What I'm taking should be obvious.
 
Second semester of Freshman Year & I'm taking:

CHM 115 - General Chemistry
PHYS 172 - Modern Mechanics
MA 161 - Plane Analytic Geometry and Calculus I
COM 114 - Fundamentals of Speech Communication

16 credit hours. All required classes. They're ok so far.
 
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