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Most of us have had the 'what are you studying?' conversation, so much so that it has become a rehearsed dance where you get the same responses over and over again. Twitter user @hannahleidazle decided to poke fun at these groan-worthy conversations with the "what's your major" thread which has since evolved into "what's your degree in." In the viral hashtag thread, people have sarcastic fake conversations that answer questions about their college degrees, however, if you read some of them you'll see there is a little too much truth so you know some of them are based on real interactions. Scroll down to read these hilarious back-and-forths and maybe you'll even see a relateable convo about your major. Don't forget to upvote your favs!
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T Rex King 6 years ago
noun 1. matter, material, articles, or activities of a specified or indeterminate kind that are being referred to, indicated, or implied. 2. the basic constituents or characteristics of something or someone. verb 1. fill (a receptacle or space) tightly with something. and yes, that is the real definition of stuff, straight from a dictionary
The old college track of four years seems to be an outdated mindset. According to Pew Research only about 56% of students ear degrees within six years. The completion rate showed that students who started at a four-year, private, non-profit school had the highest completion rates at (72.9% and students who started at two-year public institutions had the lowest completion rates at only 39.9%.
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Vic 6 years ago
Couldn't agree more. Once an Uncle asked me to fix his calculator. I got a condescending look when I said I can't fix it.
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Hard 2 Guess 6 years ago
When was the last time you used it? And when you used it did you REALLY REALLY REALLY needed the printer?
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Vlad Horobet 6 years ago
I have a degree in management, I work as a hardware technician, mainly printers and I know jack s#it about computer science.
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Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
I'm lucky - I discovered in my 40s that I'm actually not bad at math, and its's even kind of fun!
Felipe Berón 6 years ago
Physics and Mechanical Engineering here, at this point is funny to their reaction
Rebecca Olberding 6 years ago
I'm an English graduate. I'll say this anytime someone asks me something in math.
Choosing what you want to study can be a difficult choice but it turns out that business degrees are the most common major, according to research. Business has managed to hold on to this title since 1980 and before that education majors held the lead. The other most popular majors are health profession programs, social sciences and history, Psychology and Biological and biomedical sciences. On the flip side the least common bachelor degree was in library science.
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A panda-gineer 6 years ago
The way I remember: Astrology has an “L”, and that’s the first letter in Loser.
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Frozengeckolover 6 years ago
I'm sure there is a college, somewhere, that offers astrology as a degree.
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Analyn Lahr 6 years ago
I took a semester of astronomy once and the teacher ranted about people making that very mistake.
While there is overwhelming proof that college graduates have better job prospects, not all majors are created equal when it comes to securing a degree after graduation. According to U.S news outlet the degrees with the best job prospects are mechatronics engineering, business, computer science, data science, cognitive science, nursing. pharmaceutical sciences and human resources. Four in five undergraduates choose their major based on its job outlook.
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debrina blackmoon 6 years ago (edited)
i do canyons-widest to narrowest. but i was NOWHER NEAR the Grand Canyon...ask Doc, Addy, Murphy, 10K, and Warren
Hard 2 Guess 6 years ago
HAHA... I am watching that now. Just started season 3.
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Monika Świrydo 6 years ago
Haha I had the same though I'm a geomorphologist but the general study was geography so I was saying "geography" to avoid confusing people more. Whenever I admitted that, people were like: I'm doing a crossword, what's the capital of Burkina Faso? Dude omg...
mild anxiety! at the disco 6 years ago
lol another poor soul who missed the joke
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Lyrica Silvan 6 years ago
"Oh, neat. Can I pay my rent with exposure? Can I feed myself with exposure? If my power gets shut off, can I offer the power company exposure to get my lights turned back on??"
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Lars Lasersson 6 years ago
Les Claypool once said something along the lines of "the moment I can skip paying for my groceries by saying "it's ok, I'm an artist", I'll be fine with my music being spread for free".
Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
It also seems that if you fix computerproblems "undying gratitude", "sincere appreciation" and "immense respect" are new currencies.
Luna Rose 6 years ago
I get this all the time as an artist. If you do this drawing for me I'll pay you with exposure or I'll give you some of my products. Exposure ain't going to pay the bills Susan ugh
Broken Bay 6 years ago
Real barter is a different thing. It can be great if you happen to run into the most amazing coincidence ever.
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Jennifer Nation 6 years ago
I'm a Graphic Designer and whenever anyone offers to pay me with "exposure" I send them a picture of a large, fuzzy butt. I haven't gotten any offers in a while. Hmm.
Paola Martz 6 years ago
As a digital illustrator I can confirm this happens ways too often, alongside with the well-known "but it is just a drawing. Why would you charge me so much!?" -.-.
Chris Sprucefield 6 years ago
I can draw for you if you can exchange the exposure bucks for $ for me?
Hugo Raible 6 years ago
If you are the editor of a large nationwide magazine and write an article about me, that might be enough exposure for a small drawing.
You might be shocked to find out that one study showed some of the highest-paying post grad majors reported some of the highest amounts of relaxation time in college. In the survey the researchers measured computer time as down time which might explain why software engineering and computer science held the top two spots. The other most relaxing majors included astronomy, public relations and advertising, economics, marketing, zoology, materials engineering and physics.
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Dinetk 6 years ago
I’m a clinical psychologist in private practice: most people ask where my couch is
Paul K. Johnson 6 years ago
I was an Army mental health tech. It was unbelievable how many infantry guys actually believed we could read their minds. At first I thought they were joking but I found out that they weren't.
Zenozenobee 6 years ago
That's a weird question... when did "psychology" became a synonym for "telepathy"
Analyn Lahr 6 years ago
This one always bugs me. I'd be like "In what world does psychology sound like telepathy?"
Frozengeckolover 6 years ago
She should have responded with, "You're thinking you know what psychology is."
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Ozacoter 6 years ago
'So you spend all the time playing with dolphins?' 'No i mostly study the sea currents and disect dead animals to study their parasites' '....'
Andres Tejeda 6 years ago
If I were a Marinebology major, I would say "no, I am training to learn how to talk to fish like Aquaman."
Ian Osmond 6 years ago
My sister was a marine biology major. When she got to school, people asked her if she wanted to study dolphins. She was like, "well, sure, but I'm more interested in bacteria growth on reefs". The actual marine biology grad students and professors then decided SHE was worth talking to.
Marnee DeRider 6 years ago
Dear Prof Alex Ford, please read "A Ring of Endless Light" and tell me what you think.
Physics and astronomy may be the majors with the most downtime but they still made the list of the most difficult majors you could choose for your college career. The hardest majors in order are architecture, chemical engineering, aeronautical and astronautical engineering, biomedical engineering, cell and molecular biology, physics, astronomy, biochemistry, bio-engineering and petroleum engineering.
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StealTheFruit 6 years ago
A friend of mine never went to college, yet started their own business! <3
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SpazzyCoolKid13 6 years ago
Um... so... *clears throat and shuffled around preparing to ask stupid question* what is meteorology?
Ivy D 6 years ago
Weather. It's weather. Now go impress someone with your newfound knowledge.
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"What? No. How do you not even know what a meteorologist studies?" y i k e s like bruh i hardly know how to spell it
Grumble O'Pug 6 years ago
Talking about the weather....you will never have an uncomfortable silence in your life.
PandaLover 6 years ago
Me after seeing this tweet: **goes and googles the definition for meteorologist**
Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
Random man wearing a red cap: "Oh, You are one of the people that invented Climate Change and Global Warming. It was very cold this winter. We sure could have used some of your Global Warming."
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Антон Христов(Anton Hristoff) 6 years ago
Actually this is great and they are wrong! Dead languages keep a lot of mistery in them and they are the beggining of modern literature. Same goes with Ancient history, first society, first goverments, ancient science and etc. So your degree is exploration!
Jonathon Smith 6 years ago
Might be a wonderful subject to study, but there are very few jobs that require you to know a dead language.
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better version of alex 6 years ago
i LOVE dead languages! It's so cool to learn about them and even how they 'died'. Ancient history is so interesting too. Not American history, as much... but literally anywhere else is intriguing. I'm taking Latin next year!
M O'Connell 6 years ago
I took Latin in high school, and while I've never used it except to insult people, it is extremely handy for making sense of scientific and technical terminology because of the way words are assembled in English.
Blue Cicada 6 years ago
I would LOVE to sit next to you at a dinner party! Or on a long flight.
Marnee DeRider 6 years ago
Dead languages have a lot of information regarding culture. It can be used to study the spread of peoples over land over time, the evolution of cultural norms and technology, etc.
Marnee DeRider 6 years ago
This is the kind of information that I am already grieving over because it will be lost when civilization collapses due to climate change, pollution, overcrowding, and species lost over the next 20-50 years. It's all in computers now. And it's not as if people in the future will be able to go back in time and find this stuff if they don't have access to the written documents or digital documents. Same with all of the fossils, etc. Can only dig it up once. I fear all the knowledge that will be lost forever.
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Ozacoter 6 years ago
The first time that I head that we needed to lick rocks in the geology lab I tought the teacher was kidding (he was a very funny guy). I needed some time to believe that it was an actual determination tool...
Ozacoter 6 years ago
I will never forget him reminding us to lick the stones Before using clorhidric acid and not After xD
Load More Replies... Ben Steinberg 6 years ago
I always thought the term Martian Geology was funny since the word 'geo' means Earth.
Lyrica Silvan 6 years ago
I'd imagine the reactions to "I mostly lick rocks" were very entertaining. XD
Jodi Moreno 6 years ago
I work for a petroleum company and we call our Geologists - Rock Lickers.
M O'Connell 6 years ago
Archaeologists do it, it's an excellent way to discern if something is rock or bone.
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Bored Fox 6 years ago
Film production. It is totally different job than actually making films.
Load More Replies... Inflatable Lunchbox 6 years ago
He's a science YouTuber. He reminds me a bit of a mix between vsauce and myth busters
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John Kamau 6 years ago
Maybe you should have asked his nationality. Some people say No whey they mean Yes.
Bored Fox 6 years ago
Captain Disillusion was born in Latvia and he has lived in the USA many years. In both Latvia and USA 'no' means 'no'.
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Grumble O'Pug 6 years ago
Clearly you've never been a wedding videographer/photographer and were to drunk at the last wedding to pay even the slightest bit of attention.
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Kaisu 6 years ago
Teachers get paid a really ridiculously tiny amount of money, considering the amount of work they have to do both during and after working hours
Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
Up to this day all the "president"'s golfing trips have cost the taxpayer 100 million US Dollars . August 2016 ""I'm going to be working for you. I'm not going to have time to go play golf."
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Ashley Say Wha?!? 6 years ago
I've always said and strongly believe that teachers and cops are very under paid. I have friends and family in both professions. I can't believe the amount of work teachers have to bring home to catch up. I mean teachers are only educating our children and preparing our future generations and cops are only risking their lives to keep us and our communities safe, so yea, they don't need to get paid much money. What logic is this!?!
Niffler_13 6 years ago
I feel this applies to almost every education degree, unless you have one in a really in demand subject/grade level in a state that pays really well, which rarely happens. Usually the ones most in demand are in very low income areas.
Carole Reid 6 years ago
I remember family and friends sitting around the kitchen table in the late 1940s talking about things like teachers not getting paid enough.
Amy Pattie 6 years ago
Sucks to be American. Yay my country and being able to rent an appartment by yourself on teaching wages, woo!
Crazy 6 years ago
I really don't see that the same way. At first teachers get paid next to nothing when you figure in education expenses. Take my family for example my dad was a janitor for a elementary school 15 years later my aunt starts at that school and she didn't meet his pay for 5 years. She's been there 23 years now and makes 180k a year. But at the cost of several masters. Where my dad retired after 35 years he was making just shy of 85 grand a year. It's like any other job. They want to see if you work out first. Your not going to start at top rate with no experience. And another factor is school funding. You can't pay with funds you don't have or you'll go in the hole
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Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
Growing weed is the easiest thing in gardening.
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Elisa Heilmann 6 years ago
”What’s your major?” ”Biology.” ”There’s this grey bird that comes to my yard, what is that?” What if I told them my interest is in different plant processes, their ecophysiology and chemical communication? (Although I do know the basics about birds, too.)
Lyrica Silvan 6 years ago
I want to know what kind of life this person has had, that they hear "I study botany" and their first thought is "oh so you want to grow drugs."
Frozengeckolover 6 years ago
People are just stupid. My husband and I were in a gardening store looking for perlite (a soil aerator) and a guy asked us if we were growing weed. My husband said, "No. It's for our herbs." The guy said, "Like weed?" I said, "No, you idiot. Like basil and oregano." He stared at us for a minute, then said, "Oh, so you don't want people to know you grow weed." We just left.
Load More Replies... John Kamau 6 years ago
Yes... Of course I can't survive all what I just explained to you without weed, you Moron ....
Άρης Παπαδόπουλος 6 years ago
"Sorry, I wasn't paying attention... How much the weed was again?"
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Niffler_13 6 years ago
One of my coworkers told me how she had a math teacher in high school that told her she could always fall back on Math. She majored in English and now is a high school Math teacher.
Uwe Theiss 6 years ago
Is english really harder then math to study or can you teach math without studying it in your country?
Load More Replies... Les🐝an 6 years ago
Because there is a social concept that writers are poor.
Load More Replies... Zoey Fraire 6 years ago
I went to really small high school (my graduating class was about 18-20 people) but the school was having a bad time with keep teachers because they were preparing to protest by not coming to school for 2 weeks so they could get better pay and some of the teachers just left to look for higher paying jobs including my math teacher those 2 weeks we were off school they tried to get us a new math teacher but no teachers wanted to be hired by this school because my school had one of the lowest pay rates for teachers so they literally took a substitute teacher that used to be a history teacher and just made her teach us and she literally knew nothing about algebra so we could never ask her for help. I was lucky that I passed that class because I had one on one section with I’m special ed teacher (I had bad social anxiety problems) but I won’t be surprised if this school is shut down pretty soon
SnowyLynx 6 years ago
What mistakes? It’s literally a grammatically correct sentence. Punctuation and all
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Vlad Horobet 6 years ago
Takes the pen, pulls up a sheet of paper: "sure, but before, I need your signature here to prove that you'll take it seriously. Uhm....ok, can I get the pen back to sign it? Sure, 5$."
Luis Milian 6 years ago
I always thought that Marketing was saying how much the pen would cost.
Rosie Hamilton 6 years ago
It's making you believe that this is a pen you need and that only this pen will do. Price is one aspect.
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C Hypercube 6 years ago
I don't know about the pen, but I once sold a pencil to this guy, John Wick.
Broken Bay 6 years ago (edited)
That should be easy if it's their pen, because that proves that they like to own pens.
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Elizabeth 6 years ago
As a species we are going to burn every last drop of petroleum this planet will give us, it makes perfect sense to develop the science around it so that we get as much as possible from it.
Reilly Beryll 6 years ago
The more we know, the better we can manage things. Maybe, if we study it, we might be able to come up with something that’ll work well as an alternative.
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Jodi Moreno 6 years ago
I preclude telling people what I do, with "I work for the enemy." *shrug* It pays the bills.....really well.
jovas rifa 6 years ago
More like making a better way for you to go and get some band aids for that thin skin cut
T Rex King 6 years ago
when he got his major, half of all plant life were deleted form the server XD
Kevin Camp 6 years ago
The corect answer... No, I like a job that actually pays. Unlike teachers, psychologists and marine biologists.
Wyomudder 6 years ago
Make sure you find your flock and follow your shepherd into the world of misguided information.
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Anna Dukeson 6 years ago
Yep. Conversation killer every time. My mum started telling people I was 'doing a science degree' because it was too awkward otherwise.
Jodi Moreno 6 years ago
I'm an analyst. I get blank stares when I mention it. Or "What do you analyze?" Me: "Numbers." More blank stares.
Donna Cheung 6 years ago
This has happened to me many times... I mean accidentally talking to people who do maths. I find it hard to find common ground to talk to them...
M O'Connell 6 years ago
So... What's your opinion on the pattern of non-randomness in "A Million Random Digits"?
Hard 2 Guess 6 years ago
I am just going to go ahead and ask, what is Pure mathematics and how is it different?
Hard 2 Guess 6 years ago
Ok never mind I just googled it its not what I was thinking it would be.
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Ben Steinberg 6 years ago
That's when you tell them the joke: "A plane took off from the Warsaw airport but then crashed. The investigation revealed that, there were too many poles on the right-half plane" Thank you, thank you...I'll be here all week. Please tip the waitstaff...
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Alison Bounds 6 years ago
I am in eighth grade but plan on minoring in Creative Writing as I have written two books. I want to major in Forensic Chemistry.
Paola Martz 6 years ago
I have a friend with a degree in Hispanic literature. She has some short tales and poems published internationally, and one day came a dude, who occasionally writes "deep" tweets and said to her "it's nice to meet a writer. I'm a writer too, check out my tweets". Her face was priceless hahaha
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John Kamau 6 years ago
Am an Academic Writer and that's part of creative writing... I got a Family and am a sole provider working full time in "Creative Writing"
Bored Moogle 6 years ago
To be fair, most creative writers never get their works published outside Fanfiction dot net and AO3.
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Allie G. 6 years ago
I have two degrees in anthropology! The question I get asked is "so how many dinosaurs have you dug up?" Or "does that mean you study ants?"
Ben Steinberg 6 years ago
Yes, how sad is that? Being an anthropologist means you dig up dead Yanamami and San Bushmen... /s
Load More Replies... Blue Cicada 6 years ago
"What's your major?" Religion, and anthropology. "So you want to study God and bugs?" [they never heard of anthropology, thought I meant entomology.]
Daniela Rubella 6 years ago
I had a friend's mom think that anthropology meant preparing to work at the store Anthropologie....
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Bored Moogle 6 years ago
I have a degree in Game Design, which I got just before the last videogame crash. Now it's hard to find anyone willing to hire newbies.
Luis Milian 6 years ago
now a days, game designers make a lot of money...just ask Mother's Basement dude..lol
Cheethra 6 years ago
According people who always say haram on anything they just simply don't like.
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DforDorothy 6 years ago
"Some great conspiracy theory by the government, to match the fake idea that the earth is round... " 😒
Broken Bay 6 years ago
They asked what the atmosphere was, wanting to hear about it from a true expert as opposed to the textbook they originally read about it in.
Load More Replies... Martha Meyer 6 years ago
I don't belive this one. Smeone actually that dumb would have asked "what is atmospheric" and not have used the correct noun (atmosphere) of the adjective they had heard.
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
Oh, you beat me to it! I knew we'd have to find a place for chemtrails.
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jovas rifa 6 years ago
So for the people who doesnt know atmosphere, is an oval, like an egg shape so is comes from the word, at-most- spehere, or almost sphere, or barey a sphere
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Bobbi Newell 6 years ago (edited)
I have a degree in interpersonal communication. It means I'm qualified to yell at my kids :-P
Milda Mockūnaitė 6 years ago
My story: - What do you study? - Creative industries and communication. - ...so where did you want to study in the first place?
Lynne Darroch 6 years ago
I completed graduate level studies in Communications, which is about the most poorly named discipine created by academia. Depending on what school you go to, you could study popular culture, media production, communication philosophy, the socio-history of communications technologies, organizational communications strategies, and many other things. One Communications major can analyze trends in social media usage particular to a certain demographic, another one can be an expert in emergency preparedness, another can work on systems of thought related to linguistics and group meaning, another can look at the history of fanzine culture, etc. I did my MA work on how clothing and fashion is interpreted by other disciplines and how it gives meaning, and in my PhD studies I looked at the history of geography as a field of study, theories of artificial intelligence, and the history of the Canadian Army Film & Photo Unit in WW2 (three separate projects, not just one... that would be confusing).
Stevie B 6 years ago
I have a degree in BS Communication :P I actually have a Bachelor of Science in Communication. I have a preference for how it is stated ;)
jovas rifa 6 years ago
Are you a salesman with a degree in bs communication ( i mean male cow dung)
Load More Replies... Lyrica Silvan 6 years ago
I used to be a real chatterbox as a kid. My parents used to tell me I could grow up to be a lawyer because I talked so much and lawyers jobs involve a lot of talking. Lol.
Lyrica Silvan 6 years ago
Lol why are people downvoting me for this...? I was just sharing a relevant, cute story...Y'all need to chill.
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Bill 6 years ago
Historians doubt he would have survived his second term if he decided to not go to the theatre
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GlassOfWater 6 years ago
"The only thing you learn from studying history is that nobody learns from history." - my history teacher.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 6 years ago
"What's your major?" "International Relations" "Oh! How many languages do you speak?" or "Oh! So you travel a lot?" [*sigh* I wish]
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Leticya Gontijo 6 years ago
omg this happens a lot.. I'm sooo tired of people asking me to make websites and apps :P
Hellysal 6 years ago
Start answering them with "ok, I could do that, what's your budget?"
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mild anxiety! at the disco 6 years ago
1125377 if anyone was wondering, w\ the sacred calculator of course
Bonny Saxon 6 years ago
Any number over 5 digits will be enough of an answer for most people. . . when I tell people I have celebrating the 14th anniversary of my 39th birthday they look confused.
Lois Matelan 6 years ago
"The hardest majors in order are architecture, chemical engineering, aeronautical and astronautical engineering, biomedical engineering, cell and molecular biology, physics, astronomy, biochemistry, bio-engineering and petroleum engineering." BY WHOSE MEASURE?? What is the source of this ranking, please?
Ian Osmond 6 years ago
I live near Boston, and grew up around a pretty geeky crowd. We learned that, before splitting a check and working out what everybody owed, if you were with people you didn't know well, you found out who was a math major, and NEVER LET THEM CLOSE TO THE CHECK. Mathematicians at the graduate and postgraduate level deal with the CONCEPT of numbers, sometimes, in passing, but they have no actual clue what to do with an actual, y'know, number.
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Kjorn 6 years ago
sadly but true. teacher should makes more money. they're more important than Professional athletes
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best procrastinator 6 years ago
I'm majoring in elementary education as well. I can say this is very accurate. Everybody comments on the low salary, some even start suggesting differnt carrer options like all of a sudden I'll have an epiphany of how little teachers make an change my entire life plan
Kaladin Surgebinder 6 years ago
for some people, it's always just about the money... I pity them! My major is elementary ed too, bc I love working with kids :) and a happy job is a big big milestone on the road to a happy life
Alison Bounds 6 years ago
I love teaching kids. I am in eighth but my mom is a teacher and I go to her classroom and help all the time
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Daria B 6 years ago
I don't get any reactions to my majors (guess I'm not that special), but I did get a cute one once in a public chatroom. Question: "What's your major?" Answer: "English Linguistics and Italian Language." Reaction: "Wow! Internet must be annoying as hell to you!"
Carol Emory 6 years ago
I do..when I say that I have a degree in Forensic Anthropology, Law Enforcement and Pre-Law everyone is like "You want to be a police officer?" Uh No... not only am I too old, I really wanted to become a CSI tech. But I didn't find out until after graduating that the two parts I missed was a minor in either Chemistry or Biology and an internship which I missed by 24 hours (doing work with NCIS in San Diego.) Now I'm back in school for Accounting with the hopes of eventually becoming a Forensic Accountant. (A person that tracks down criminal activity by reviewing and auditing financial records.)
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Esca Sav 6 years ago
Whenever I say my major is Applied Physics, 10/10 times the person silently walks away. Didn't take long to find out it is because it's one of the hardest majors out there. Issue is, when a person asks for help with a physics assignment, I usually can't answer because I'm so deep into physics that I'm too aware of how wrong elementary physics is. A blessing and a curse. I'm graduating this May, wish me luck guys (Also, I'll take recommendations for what I should do for my Master's, definitely don't want to continue in physics).
Marketa Podlesakova 6 years ago
Why walking away, physics apparently can be fun (since BBT) :-)
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Marnee DeRider 6 years ago
I am a tiny, baby-faced 51-year-old woman with a degree in Computer Science and am a Principal Software Developer (similar to software architect). I look like white trash, usually have a hole in my jacket, messy hair, and a hubcap missing. I am not good at communicating. If I tell someone my degree or what I do, they look at me like I'm a homeless person with no shoes on lying and saying they are the CEO of Facebook.
Melanie Peapell 6 years ago (edited)
"What are you studying" "Epidemiology" "So you are studying skin"
Helenium 6 years ago
I got my degree in my photography. Oh what's the point. You need help to point a camera and press a button. No. When it was real photography no t the digital s**t you get now there used to be technique in it. It was also a science.
Daria B 6 years ago
Even with the "digital s**t", it still takes knowledge to take a good picture, though....
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Yana Makarevitch 6 years ago
When I told people I worked in a bank, they always assumed I must be insanely rich. Even when I explained that I was just a cashier, they seemed to think that as a bank's employee you can just walk into a bank vault and take whatever you want.
Ryo Bakura 6 years ago
You can, but the chances of leaving, and not being caught, are very slim. Almost nil, really.
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Wina Jackson 6 years ago
My degree was political science. A lot of them reacting by saying "You must be excellent at lying and manipulating other people.." Well, here's the thing.....
Lizzie the Crayon 6 years ago
Whenever I say my major is in nothing beacause I am still in Junior Year in high school they always say "dont die in college." Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Daria B 6 years ago
I don't get any reactions to my majors (guess I'm not that special), but I did get a cute one once in a public chatroom. Question: "What's your major?" Answer: "English Linguistics and Italian Language." Reaction: "Wow! Internet must be annoying as hell to you!"
Carol Emory 6 years ago
I do..when I say that I have a degree in Forensic Anthropology, Law Enforcement and Pre-Law everyone is like "You want to be a police officer?" Uh No... not only am I too old, I really wanted to become a CSI tech. But I didn't find out until after graduating that the two parts I missed was a minor in either Chemistry or Biology and an internship which I missed by 24 hours (doing work with NCIS in San Diego.) Now I'm back in school for Accounting with the hopes of eventually becoming a Forensic Accountant. (A person that tracks down criminal activity by reviewing and auditing financial records.)
Load More Replies... Esca Sav 6 years ago
Whenever I say my major is Applied Physics, 10/10 times the person silently walks away. Didn't take long to find out it is because it's one of the hardest majors out there. Issue is, when a person asks for help with a physics assignment, I usually can't answer because I'm so deep into physics that I'm too aware of how wrong elementary physics is. A blessing and a curse. I'm graduating this May, wish me luck guys (Also, I'll take recommendations for what I should do for my Master's, definitely don't want to continue in physics).
Marketa Podlesakova 6 years ago
Why walking away, physics apparently can be fun (since BBT) :-)
Load More Replies... Marnee DeRider 6 years ago
I am a tiny, baby-faced 51-year-old woman with a degree in Computer Science and am a Principal Software Developer (similar to software architect). I look like white trash, usually have a hole in my jacket, messy hair, and a hubcap missing. I am not good at communicating. If I tell someone my degree or what I do, they look at me like I'm a homeless person with no shoes on lying and saying they are the CEO of Facebook.
Melanie Peapell 6 years ago (edited)
"What are you studying" "Epidemiology" "So you are studying skin"
Helenium 6 years ago
I got my degree in my photography. Oh what's the point. You need help to point a camera and press a button. No. When it was real photography no t the digital s**t you get now there used to be technique in it. It was also a science.
Daria B 6 years ago
Even with the "digital s**t", it still takes knowledge to take a good picture, though....
Load More Replies... Yana Makarevitch 6 years ago
When I told people I worked in a bank, they always assumed I must be insanely rich. Even when I explained that I was just a cashier, they seemed to think that as a bank's employee you can just walk into a bank vault and take whatever you want.
Ryo Bakura 6 years ago
You can, but the chances of leaving, and not being caught, are very slim. Almost nil, really.
Load More Replies... Wina Jackson 6 years ago
My degree was political science. A lot of them reacting by saying "You must be excellent at lying and manipulating other people.." Well, here's the thing.....
Lizzie the Crayon 6 years ago
Whenever I say my major is in nothing beacause I am still in Junior Year in high school they always say "dont die in college." Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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