Someone asked me this earlier and it got me thinking. These days education seems so hard wired to graduate positions that it feels odd to even discuss education for education's sake.
If degrees had no bearing on jobs and you had to get a degree, what would it be?
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EDIT: Misread question.
If I could do it all over again, I'd go for psych, philosophy, or history of science.
EDIT2: If I could go back to Harvard, I'd go for history of science and not drop out.
?? degree, not institution.
Still think Econ is great. Math and physics is awesome.
Poli Sci, Philosophy, and Rhetoric (not real degree, but fascinating to me)
I will get a degree in extra terrestrial studies. No joke.
I'd get a history degree with a focus on military history. I don't really care where, someplace warm.
Philosophy / History / Math
Piano / guitar classes
Something that incorporates philosophy, history, and space.
History
Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxbridge, with a year abroad learning a new language and culture (possibly with a period living with poor communities, urban and rural).
I think that would be a cool way to get educated and learn about the world.
Architecture. I want to design buildings.
So you want to be... Ted Mosby?
Hustlin & Ballin
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Chemistry & Pharmacology
Then go work for Alexander Shulgin
If I was able to get a degree I wanted with no bearing on job prospects or anything - I'd get pursue a dual major in Bio-Organic Chemistry and Hospitality (think something like Cornell's School of Hotel Management or Penn State's School of Hospitality Management) and minors in marketing and philosophy. Strange set up but that's what I'd do. If anyone cares to take a stab at why those, I'll gladly hear the list of possible job careers.
I know someone who's doing a hospitality degree at a top swiss school. He has lived in 4 continents and he s 20 years old.
Is this typical? Or are they just lucky? Also, do either of you know how much these types of degrees cost, and whether or not one can break into the industry without the degree? Thanks in advance.
Pretty sure Cornell's School of Hotel Management looks good in the RE investment/ management area http://www.prei.prudential.com/view/page/pimcenter/6703
Future Predicting
I wudda done the medicine route imo. A) more mentally stimulating imo, B) much more transparent career progression imo C) the self-fulfillment of doing a job which tangibly helps others imo....imo
Ever considered a one year bridge program?
I hung out with an ex Goldman guy who's in his second year of Med School. He's around 33 with a wife and two young kids. Not sure how far he was up the ladder, but he'd spent at least 3-4 years beyond associate. I think he did a one year bridge program at Penn after he quit.
Safe to say he gave up several million, but he's happy with the decision.
If I could do it again, I'd stick with math but at a university like MIT, Princeton, Berkeley.
If I could do it all over again, I may not go to college at all. Anything really worth learning can probably be taught to oneself.
Assumption:
We go communist and give everyone a stipend of $100K/year because the US economy has been replaced by computers and machines. College is free everywhere. Life skills are important, but work competencies aren't.
Music (Piano) & Philosophy @ Northwestern.
I'll give IP an SB for mentioning Music. Definitely something I would like to learn more about, but not sure if I'd pursue it at a higher level... I suppose an MFA would be an option. Creative writing, Film-making and Theatre.
I really love my Econ major. I would do the same again.
Puppetry.
http://www.drama.uconn.edu/Puppetry/Puppet_home.htm
[quote=luccabananas]Puppetry.
http://www.drama.uconn.edu/Puppetry/Puppet_home.htm[/quote]
wanna be john malkovich?
I would have to say my top choices would be mathematics, philosophy, history, and languages.
Astrophysics and psychology
Hmm. Someone must have it out for IP if we're tossing MS. Not a piano fan?
History and Poli Sci
Art + design, maybe with a little architecture thrown in there.
Anything technically rigorous.
Physics; Applied Mathematics, etc.
Would be cool to have an intuitive understanding of these subjects.
I like my business master degrees. However, if I could I'd definitely try doing without that marketing, HR, organizations crap and some of the microeconomics classes I had to take. Would've picked a different school, 'tho.
As regards a completely different degree... would've loved to do something with sport sciences and then TA for kickboxing, grappling, nutrition or lifting classes. Damn that would've been awesome.
DFA...Stephen T. Colbert style
I don't think schools offer a degree for kickboxing. But it does get me thinking. Maybe I would have done aviation. Naah, can't afford an L39 on $100K/year.
Think again.
http://www.bridgeport.edu/academics/undergraduate/martialarts
Definitely my pick.
I'd get a degree in sarging from university of pickup
edit: wait no, I'd get training in massage therapy
How do you use it though?
Seriously. "Want to come back and watch a movie" is for amateurs. "You're really tense, when I was taking some time off from the work place I studied shiatsu, let me help you out."
You would put Mick Jagger during his slaying prime to shame.
Strange, no one said...religion or engineering...why is philosophy a more interesting degree over religion?
No. Going by its roots philosophy is "love of wisdom" that is concerned with discussing, knowledge, and debating on principles. Religion involves reverence. Generally religion generally involves a connection or reverence for something greater than humanity or mundane experience. That can be God, gods, spirits, an impersonal supernatural force. Not to say Religion is anti-intellectual because some of the worlds greatest scientist are religious to one degree or another. Also, if your Muslim than maybe your religion can be a political system as well because Islam more closely regulates a Muslim's social and domestic life, legal system and politics i.e. total life than say Judaism or Christianity.
So my question still stands why are people here more interested in philosophy over religion as a field of study?
I am religious. I am also an engineer
WHY NOT RELIGION: 1.) Religion would be a graduate degree- typically an MDiv, not an undergrad. 2.) I do enough preaching on the value of thrift, the fact that you find smart folks just about everywhere, and that money and prestige are probably not at the top of life's priorities. I have no further interest in telling people how they ought to live, and I would probably drive everyone around me even crazier than I currently do. 3.) I believe the religion I follow has the power to make peoples' lives better. I don't believe you need a three year degree and an expert knowledge of Koine Greek and Ancient Hebrew to share that with other folks and help them out.
WHY NOT ENGINEERING: 1.) I did engineering because I'm good at it, I wanted a job, and my parents demanded I study something practical. 2.) Engineering is almost as dismal a science as econ. It is about mathematics, physics, and (for us CS and CompE guys) logic. There are no people. People are a lot more interesting than electrons. 3.) It's always fun to understand how things work, but you don't need an engineering degree to do that. Just a few physics and statics courses.
In econ, we treat people like electrons, which is probably even more dismal lol.
Joint MBA at Yale with School of Forestry
Also, I've always found the MFE at the University of Hawaii to be rather interesting. "Weather Derivatives" could be a cool class.
@ RGE
i think philosophy and religion both get at the same point (i.e. why are we here? what is our purpose? etc.) but go about doing so in different ways. I feel like philosophy attempts to answer the questions while religion merely installs stories that do it for you. So like philosophy would be "is there a God", religion would be "God is X". Philosophy would be "how did we get here?", religion would be "We got here by Y". For that reason, I could see why "thinkers" would be more attracted to philosophy.... just my $.02
Decent answer, I can dig it.
MFA in Dance and Choreography. and maybe a BS in Astrophysics.
Massage Therapy from the Aroma Institute of Sensual Healing
Minor in Happy Endings
EECS with Minors in Design and Accounting.
Then I'd just go wreck shit in SV.
muff diving?
Ob/Gyn
African American studies
Theoretical Physics.... and that's exactly what I'm doing now!
...theoretically?
I have a friend who went to a not-so-prestigious school here in SoCal that allowed individuals to design their own majors. He said he knew someone that majored in Sunshine. That sounds nice
Oxford PPE
definitely architecture
anything but engineering.
Seriously I'd do the Pre-Reqs and start the haul to an MD (not managing director).
History, Poli Sci, Law, International Studies, Business
Photography hands down. Something artsy, or maybe chemistry/physics out of interest
Still in college doing Engineering and Business but I would love to just do some combination of Philosophy, Psychology and Statistics. I would then use this combination of degrees to become a professional poker player. (Thats my dream job but I feel that finance or engineering is more realistic)
Physics and Philosophy.
Nutrition, philosophy, maybe sociology?
Anything to do with space. Astronomy or astrophysics anything like that.
I do believe there is a Harry Potter degree on the horizon. That has my vote.
Culinary Arts, Philosophy, or Business.
music
Undergrad: Linguistics and architecture
Later, Doctoral in Linguistics and cognitive science
A family member of mine majored in glass blowing.
I would pick something related to agriculture.
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