What is/was your major in college?

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  • NavyKnightAh13
    NavyKnightAh13 Posts: 1,394 Member
    Currently (had to take time off in order to be a stay at home momma. Going back to college next month) Bachelor in Science in Journalism, minor in Dance.

    Journalism because I'm a sports correspondent (have been for 2 years) for my local newspaper and need degree to possibly advance. Also love writing.

    Dance because I did it when I was younger and recently (as in Feb) went back and started dancing again. Am hoping to maybe be a Dance Therapist or Choreographer or write about dance.

    ETA: had to correct grammatical errors again :grumble:
  • grimendale
    grimendale Posts: 2,153 Member
    I was a double major in Science, Technology and Culture (basically, an english degree for an engineering school) and Civil Engineering. Civil because I like statics and I love being able to point to things I designed and say "I did that". STaC because I'm a literature nerd at heart and it helped keep me sane when the engineering classes got rough.
  • cathyfowler662
    cathyfowler662 Posts: 120 Member
    Math......because I hated it and I never learned to multiply. I had to prove to myself that I could do it. I am now a general accountant (A/P, A/R, payroll) at a country club.
  • WestCoastWild
    WestCoastWild Posts: 147 Member
    Undergrad was a double major in Aquatic Sciences and Journalism, with a minor in French at University of Michigan. Probably because I am indecisive, and I love writing, traveling, and anything to do with fish. I then worked in Hawaii counting shrimp in the backcountry for a while, worked on Vancouver Island at a small aquarium, did the Peace Corps for two years, and now am back in Canada (where education is funded, whaaaat?) working on a Masters of Science in Earth and Ocean Sciences! Id love to go on to do a PhD one day if somebody wants to pay me for it, haha :)
  • Ejourneys
    Ejourneys Posts: 1,603 Member
    BA in psychology, MS in applied psychology. Was on track to get a PhD but then Life happened.
    I don't use my degrees directly (my work is in communications), but the foundations of what I've learned have helped me over the years.
  • karlschaeffer
    karlschaeffer Posts: 1,507 Member
    Mech Eng then MBA
  • cupcakegirl81
    cupcakegirl81 Posts: 2,033 Member
    B.A. in History and Religious Studies and then M.A. in Ancient History. My thesis was on eastern cults popular in the Roman Military. I loved it, but in my city...it didn't lead me anywhere. So, I'm studying romance writing via an online program. Quite the shift?! haha!
  • spectralmoon
    spectralmoon Posts: 1,179 Member
    AS in Mortuary Science. I'm a full-time mortician now, and I'm glad that I went through with the program. :flowerforyou:
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    Got my BS in Biology.
  • kdeaux1959
    kdeaux1959 Posts: 2,675 Member
    Hi! :) I'm just wondering. I hope to major in speech-language pathology (In middle school and high school people said I was quiet but that I had amazing communication skills and I love to help people out haha). So what was or is your major, and if you feel like telling me - why?

    AA - Music Education
    BA - Music Education-Instrumental
    M.MEd - Music Education with Additional studies and Master certification in Education of the Mentally Retarded.

    Had a love for music. For a period of times jobs were hard to come by in this state for band directors, so I added the Special Ed certification -- I am now back teaching instrumental Music.
  • SutapaMukherji
    SutapaMukherji Posts: 244 Member
    English Literature in college. Turns out I always had a thing or two for literature and a pathetic crush on Shakespeare and Keats; which later included Edgar Allen Poe, Chinua Achebe, Thomas Hardy, and Virginia Woolf.

    Then a postgraduate in Human Resource Management. I knew I was always popular with speaking and the Agony AUnt kinds whom people turned up to with their problems. Just didn't know that I could juggle it up with corporate jargon too... Lol!!
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    Contemporary dance and body/mind studies (that means Biology and psychology was a minor to my dance major).
  • ShelleyWatters
    ShelleyWatters Posts: 12 Member
    BA in Sociology with a focus on Women's Health Issues, Master's certificate in Epidemiology in public health

    Needless to say, I went into public health. ;)
  • MoRiv1986
    MoRiv1986 Posts: 379 Member
    Journalism. I love to write.
  • bearjr30
    bearjr30 Posts: 19
    social work and bible i went to a chritian college...that was like about 14 years ago...and graduated.
  • RN514
    RN514 Posts: 1,107 Member
    Nursing :)
  • nickyfm
    nickyfm Posts: 1,214 Member
    Journalism and am now doing a masters in Public Relations & Advertising
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    English major and speech communication minor.

    My speech comm emphasis was public speaking and rhetoric, not speech pathology.
    Communications was a very fun field though! Enjoy :-)
  • AdviDaddy
    AdviDaddy Posts: 207 Member
    PG in Thermal Engineering, & General Management from B-School.

    In reality - I end up reading cartoons and new papers from around the world at office. :P
  • CoryRedlips
    CoryRedlips Posts: 24 Member
    Social sciences and language teaching.
    Now I am doing my PhD dissertation on Pedagogy. Apparently I am a nerd.
    :glasses:
  • honeysprinkles
    honeysprinkles Posts: 1,757 Member
    I did a year in Early Childhood Education, a semester in Psychology, then back to ECE for a semester, got a job at a day care that made me realize teaching wasn't for me and switched to Real Estate and Business and I'm sticking with that. It's going to take an extra few semesters for me to graduate now after switching a few times!

    My husband is doing Industrial Engineering, he's switched his major more times than I have but he finally found what he likes, thankfully!
  • pobalita
    pobalita Posts: 741 Member
    Environmental toxicology. I am a science geek. I manage environmental cleanups now.
  • messy_Missy16
    messy_Missy16 Posts: 349 Member
    Never knew what i wanted to be so 1st I tried environmental science. zzzzz. that was a snooze, was bored out of my mind so I've switched and currently doing my prerequisites "biochem" so i could get into medical school next year hopefully. fingers crossed.
  • dynamitegalxo
    dynamitegalxo Posts: 299 Member
    I got my BA in art history last year and I'll have my MA in the same next year. I want to work in arts education at a museum/gallery/etc.
  • Baby_sway86
    Baby_sway86 Posts: 62 Member
    Business and marketing bc my grandparents wouldn't pay for law haha. Iv just started interior design - just for fun.
    Iv only ever worked as a model so wasn't sure where to go from here.
  • nikkiprickett
    nikkiprickett Posts: 412 Member
    BFA- Photography
  • theoriginaljayne
    theoriginaljayne Posts: 559 Member
    Doubling in mathematics and physics, and spending aaaaalll of my money on it.
  • michellemybelll
    michellemybelll Posts: 2,228 Member
    beer

    double majored with this and health admin; minored in la mota.
  • StrongAndHealthyMommy
    StrongAndHealthyMommy Posts: 1,255 Member
    was graphic design....
    now is respiratory therapy
  • JenCatwalk
    JenCatwalk Posts: 285 Member
    Major in college was Mechanical Engineering, because in trade school I majored in Machinist. Why? To prove to some beefheads that a female is most certainly capable of machining, welding, lifting heavy items, and figuring out trigonometry. I completed my education. However, that was my ego guiding me and I have since changed my major to Correctional Officer, for much the same reasons but more of what I really wanna do with myself.

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