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18 Apr 2007, 12:34 am

RedMage wrote:

What's a major?

It's your main area of study in college. (Usually something related to the job you'd like to end up doing afterwards.)

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18 Apr 2007, 12:51 am

Oh, nothing then. We don't have colleges here. We have universities instead.

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18 Apr 2007, 10:20 am

RedMage wrote:

Oh, nothing then. We don't have colleges here. We have universities instead.

Same thing. That is, if/when you go to university, you will choose what your main area of study will be, and that will be your major. Unless you're lucky and the system in your country is substantially different from that here in the USA, and you will not be required to take any classes outside your main area of study (i.e. classes that don't interest you). You would then have a sole area of study, namely the one that interests you most, and there would be no distractions from that.
I am currently attending an institution that calls itself a "college" and in autumn I'll go to an institution that calls itself a "university", but I could also have gone to that "university" earlier and do the exact same things there that I've now been doing in "college". If there is an important difference between the two terms (other than the apparent circumstance that you can go further at a "university" and it offers more classes), maybe someone can explain that?

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18 Apr 2007, 5:08 pm

Well then, I won't be going to uni because I never passed high school.

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21 Apr 2007, 1:22 am

I'm studying electronic engineering, majoring electronics and math.

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22 Apr 2007, 9:16 am

I'm not sure which but it's ethier Forensic's Chemistry or Forensics Biology , i'm good at both!

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22 Apr 2007, 11:26 am

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I chose Sociology. I don't think it's a good major for aspies, but it is an interesting subject. I don't know what the hell I'm going to do with it when I get out.

It's definitely a bad major for undiagnosed aspies. I'd initially declared it my major, but at the time it just didn't click. I used to yell at my sociology professor constantly because the theories he was teaching certainly didn't apply to me! I drove him crazy. I ended up getting a BA in Religion, which was a hoot because I was an agnostic at the time! The Religion degree did help me learn to be more tolerant of other people and their viewpoints. I still enjoy studying world religions, but they're no longer a special interest.

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22 Apr 2007, 1:31 pm

Right now I am majoring in Liberal Arts, but I want to get a degree in Library and Information Sciences (or something like that) eventually. I am very interested in working at a library in my hometown.

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22 Apr 2007, 3:09 pm

film and video studies

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22 Apr 2007, 4:19 pm

well i am either going to do a degree in computer systems and software engineering or a degree in electronic and computer systems engineering (both MEng) .
i am currently finding it so hard to decide between them and yet i am being told i have a deadline to decide by.

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23 Apr 2007, 8:53 pm

Pure Mathematics & Theoretical Physics [a UK system] [Admissions Decision Pending]

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25 Apr 2007, 1:34 am

unnamed wrote:

ghostgurl wrote:

I chose Sociology. I don't think it's a good major for aspies, but it is an interesting subject. I don't know what the hell I'm going to do with it when I get out.

Sociology pissed me off because they tried to teach us so many lies. The class was full of idiots too.

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