Major Generalizations
Let's go back in time to when I was 17 years old at my first year in Rutgers College. I had NO idea what I wanted to major in. I was good at, and interested in, biology, physics, singing, art, political science, history, and psychology. What a mix. During my first blurry year of college, though, I managed to chose a major and minor that I stuck with for the whole four years. I chose political science as a major, something that to this day I never ever regretted as it was the greatest education experience I could have asked for, and for kicks I had a film studies minor. The film studies minor was also the perfect minor - I got graded for watching awesome classical and foriegn movies. What beats that?
Just for fun, I took a quiz on the website My Majors dot com to see what their system recommended I major in, if I was 17 again. It asks you pretty obvious questions like which subjects you are good and which ones you like, but it also asks more esoteric questions like "Is power important to you?" "Do you want to work with children or adults?" "Do you like to education large groups of working people?" The questions aren't yes or no either; they are more on a sliding scale of like versus dislike. I was fascinated at how accurately the system described me and my choices in life. Here are the top six majors that were recommended for me:
1) Political Science (wow! Bulls-eye right out the cannon!)
2) History (and I didn't even give historical types of subjects very high rank in terms of liking)
3) Geography (cool!)
4) Environmental Studies (this is a subset of the science of physics. I took a few environmental science courses in high school and college and always posted the highest grades, even if I wasn't that great in other science and math fields.)
5) Urban and Regional Planning (all those years of obsessively controlling my denizens of SimCity2000 are showing for something!)
6) Public Administration
It looks like I majored in what I should have majored in. Makes me wonder now why I'm working in management for a straight-up business environment. I could be a political historian map-drawing environmentalist!
Just for fun, I took a quiz on the website My Majors dot com to see what their system recommended I major in, if I was 17 again. It asks you pretty obvious questions like which subjects you are good and which ones you like, but it also asks more esoteric questions like "Is power important to you?" "Do you want to work with children or adults?" "Do you like to education large groups of working people?" The questions aren't yes or no either; they are more on a sliding scale of like versus dislike. I was fascinated at how accurately the system described me and my choices in life. Here are the top six majors that were recommended for me:
1) Political Science (wow! Bulls-eye right out the cannon!)
2) History (and I didn't even give historical types of subjects very high rank in terms of liking)
3) Geography (cool!)
4) Environmental Studies (this is a subset of the science of physics. I took a few environmental science courses in high school and college and always posted the highest grades, even if I wasn't that great in other science and math fields.)
5) Urban and Regional Planning (all those years of obsessively controlling my denizens of SimCity2000 are showing for something!)
6) Public Administration
It looks like I majored in what I should have majored in. Makes me wonder now why I'm working in management for a straight-up business environment. I could be a political historian map-drawing environmentalist!
posted by The Semi-Pro Chef at Wednesday, November 30, 2005
2 Comments:
we're all runts, baby. all of us.
i have a film degree...with which I wipe my arse every damn day.
cheers!
i came here at Bwana's recommendation. i likes, i likes.
My first major was Petroleum Engineering; one semester of geology convinced me I was in the wrong field, and I switched to Computer Sciences.
(found your blog while blog-surfing. I like :) )
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