I recently had lunch with a professor who got me thinking about what I should do about my major. Right now I’m still going at a snail’s pace through college, and keeping up with two majors is proving to be a bit difficult, especially considering that one major does not offer enough times for any given class and the other major has too many classes with group projects where I learn nothing. It’s time for a change, indeed.
What would help me graduate faster? It turns out that I could either simply drop one of the majors, in which case I would have five classes left to graduate, or I could switch to an entirely different major alltogether. If I drop the policy major and go with Management, I would have about nine classes to go before I graduate.
The alternative major turns out to be Human Resource Management. After obtaining this sheet known as a PACE form, which gives me a hypothetical outlook of how far I need to go to graduate as a particular major, I discovered I would need only seven classes to go before graduation. The only problem is that all of the possible classes I could take next semester are already taken.
Of course, to me the real advantage is that oddly enough, the Human Resource Management major appears to incorporate elements of policy and management… or, at least the elements I was interested in to begin with… or, something like that.
I’m starting to think I should go for it. Meanwhile, I’m left with next semester to take only a couple of totally unrelated classes I’m simply interested in anyway.
Bah. Here are my quick and easy lessons on how to pick your major:
1) If you have taken enough classes in something that you are less than two semesters away from the degree, major in it.
2) IF at all possible, minor in anything that you have taken enough classes for the minor.
3) If you find yourself taking unrelated classes, find a way they relate. You’ll be amazed at the connections you can make.
4) Remember: a day without learning something is a waisted day. a day without realizing something is equally waisted.
Comment by strixus — December 12, 2003 @ 5:08 am
Stick around Joe. Patton needs more puppets after a large portion of the do-nothing suck up clique graduates.
Comment by Dominique Huff — December 13, 2003 @ 10:54 am
Nice to see you’re still an idiot, Dominique. The more things change, the more Dominique Huff stays the same. Keep on fightin’ the power, Uncle Tom.
Comment by Matt — December 15, 2003 @ 10:51 am
That was quite tactless Mr. Huff. One should consider before displaying oneÕs true personality to the public, that they do so without making an ass of themselves. DonÕt you agree?
Comment by Holly — December 15, 2003 @ 12:57 pm
Uncle Tom, how cute Matt. Its pathetic that one must attack the person rather than the issue.
As for Holly goes. This is an OPINION board, i’m sorry if you don’t like it. As Mike Pitts always said, “I am my own person, if you don’t like it then that is your problem and not mines”.
I just love it how liberals run to attack based on feelings. So typical!
Comment by Dominique Huff — December 15, 2003 @ 3:40 pm
A little reading for the Ms Matt and Ms Holly.
Will the Real Uncle Tom Please Stand Up?
[editor’s note: This article was removed and replaced with a link to the article.]
Thanks for the compliment Matt!!!
Comment by Dominique Huff — December 15, 2003 @ 3:47 pm
Wow. I didn’t know my changing majors could be so controversial!
Just as a correction, this is not an opinion board. This is my website. I can moderate this whole thing as I see fit.
Comment by Joe — December 15, 2003 @ 5:33 pm
Liberals? When did politics come into play? I am sorry Joe I did not mean for my comment to encourage the insensible. In any case the ISSUE of you changing majors, I believe is a good idea.
Comment by Holly — December 15, 2003 @ 7:11 pm
You attacked my good friend, so I don’t see how you have any place to whine about how I’m attacking poor old Dominique Huff. Besides, you ought to know that Joe has more integrity than you could accumulate, or even squander, in a lifetime.
Comment by Matt — December 16, 2003 @ 3:28 pm
Just because this amuses me, I’m posting it. I think its relevant to D.H.’s MO.
There are 10 rules to being a campus conservative:
1.) Complain how you’re shut out of every forum on campus by going to every forum on campus and using it to complain, prominently.
2.) Complain about how your professors are liberal, even though they grade your work fairly and accurately.
3.) Complain about the use of academic “buzzwords” in course descriptions without having actually taken the course.
4.) Complain about how much everyone else is complaining about your complaining.
5.) Complain about how nobody debates any ideas while strictly limiting your debate to telling everyone else that their ideas are horrible and shut out the ideas you can’t actually elucidate.
6.) Complain about how the cable system doesn’t carry Fox News, and complain when you get it but someone else signed up to watch Monday Night Football.
7.) Complain about campus oppression, and then inaccurately throw activist buzzwords at every liberal you can find.
8.) Complain about how you can’t get spaces or funds to bring conservative speakers to campus to complain about the lack of conservative ideas on campus, ignoring that the space you wanted was taken months in advance by other groups.
9.) Take Econ 101. Complain about everything in barely informed economic terms.
10.) Complain about every stupid thing done on campus in terms of liberalism, no matter how apolitical it is. Bonus points if you can blame oversleeping for your 8:30 class on Paul Krugman.
http://www.pandagon.net/archives/00002229.htm
Comment by Matt — December 17, 2003 @ 2:04 pm