If you could go back, what major, minor or other classes would you take in college?

[SoonerInTN]

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[olevetonahill]

Wouldnt change a thing
Loved all My Hall classes. Ya Know Beer Hall, Dance hall, Pool Hall

[badger]

I wish that I took more foreign language classes. Even if I didn't learn/retain the language speaking/writing/reading ability, it's fun to learn about other cultures.

[hawaii 5-0]

I figured there were only a handful of posters here that actually went to college.

I wouldn't change much. Maybe just applied myself better.


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[olevetonahill]

I figured there were only a handful of posters here that actually went to college.

I wouldn't change much. Maybe just applied myself better.


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Why does this not surprise me?

[badger]

Why does this not surprise me?

It'd be an interesting question to pose to the board. It's offseason after all :)

[delhalew]

Journalism. Clearly, there are really no standards of performance or ethics anymore. How could you not make a good living.

My major was Psych. I discovered very quickly that was useless for a person with my mindset.

[olevetonahill]

It'd be an interesting question to pose to the board. It's offseason after all :)

My point was Badj, Him and Mid seem to think they are the smartest ones here an Only a few can equal them :very_drunk:

[pphilfran]

Two years at Cameron heavy in business and math...promoted to store manager at a store in Hereford, Tx..I was 23 and making 30k a year with bonus... :)

I took a couple of classes at WT..more business....then the company filed Chapter 11...they eventually went out of business...

in 1978 I applied at Goodyear and was hired as a production worker...$6.27 an hour...went to Vo Tech and took some electrical classes and a couple of basic computer courses at Cameron...

In 85 was offered a position in Tyler for a new plant start up...stayed there till 2000...took a few classes at TJC and UT Tyler..stuff the company would pay for...

Transferred to Union City, Tn and one business class at UT Martin...

I have about 100 hours that don't amount to chit....

[Chuck Bao]

์Nuclear engineering so I could satisfy my life-long passion for blowing things up and things that glow in the dark.

[SicEmBaylor]

I haven't had a desire to do anything else since I chose Political Science in 5th grade. I was also a History major, but that is more of a hobby.

If I had no interest or desire to work in politics then I'd probably have combined my History major with Museum Studies.

[Frozen Sooner]

Engineering or science.

[hawaii 5-0]

My point was Badj, Him and Mid seem to think they are the smartest ones here an Only a few can equal them :very_drunk:


I just love it when others try to tell me what I think.

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[hawaii 5-0]

It'd be an interesting question to pose to the board. It's offseason after all :)


I don't think it would prove much.

You don't have to have attended OU to be a fan.

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[hawaii 5-0]

I would have taken more History courses for fun.

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[cleller]

I would have taken some finance and maybe economics classes.

[yermom]

i would have taken more math and astrophysics courses, maybe CS and/or stuck with Electrical Engineering

[GDC]

More microbiology, especially virology

[delhalew]

I would have taken more History courses for fun.

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They can't teach you anything you can't find on your own. Start a new hobby.

[GDC]

They can't teach you anything you can't find on your own. Start a new hobby.

But a good history teacher, or any subject for that matter, can help you develop your critical thinking and analysis skills.

[SicEmBaylor]

But a good history teacher, or any subject for that matter, can help you develop your critical thinking and analysis skills.

Exactly. Honestly, the Political Science department at Baylor is nothing to write home about. The professors are typically good, but there's nothing particularly special about them or what they teach.

However, the History Department at Baylor is phenomenal. I don't know what the faculty gets paid, but it isn't enough. My history profs were just phenomenal, and I could spend all day singing their praises. The College of Arts and Sciences, in general, prefer to teach using the Socratic method and nowhere is that more true than within the History department. I had a Dr. Smith whose lectures were an absolute treat to sit and listen to each day.

[hawaii 5-0]

But a good history teacher, or any subject for that matter, can help you develop your critical thinking and analysis skills.


Exactly.

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[olevetonahill]

I just love it when others try to tell me what I think.

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I wasn't Telling YOU anything ,Plus I said "Seem To Think". nothing definitive there :smiley_simmons:

[Frozen Sooner]

Exactly. Honestly, the Political Science department at Baylor is nothing to write home about. The professors are typically good, but there's nothing particularly special about them or what they teach.

However, the History Department at Baylor is phenomenal. I don't know what the faculty gets paid, but it isn't enough. My history profs were just phenomenal, and I could spend all day singing their praises. The College of Arts and Sciences, in general, prefer to teach using the Socratic method and nowhere is that more true than within the History department. I had a Dr. Smith whose lectures were an absolute treat to sit and listen to each day.

You LIKE Socratic? Bleah.

[diverdog]

I got a BS in Psych, but it has very little relevance with my career. In retrospect, I would have taken some finance courses or business courses. Doubt I would major in psych again.

What would you different?

I wish I had become a marine biologist or gone on to be a nurse practitioner. Instead I am a banker.

[Jacie]

Geology major and i would not trade that for any other. The only other one i would have considered would have been education, so i could have become a science teacher. I went for the money track instead . . .

I took some accounting postgrad, plus an astronomy class so i really satisfied my desires to see what else was out there.

[olevetonahill]

I wanted to be a Piano player in a whore house, instead i was just a John

[Midtowner]

Might have picked up a minor in music performance (violin). Otherwise, I'd change nothing. I got a fairly easy/fun/irrelevant B.A., then went to law school. I might have gone to class more.. that might have helped me get into a cheaper law school.

[Midtowner]

You LIKE Socratic? Bleah.

You tend to pay better attention when the words "tell us about ____ Mr. Frozen Sooner" are a possibility.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

I wish I had become a marine biologist or gone on to be a nurse practitioner. Instead I am a banker.Could be you could become an architect, or an importer-exporter. Hell, you coulda been a contender...

[ouflak]

I had quite a few adventures through college majors, starting off as a physics major and ending up with math and electrical engineering degrees, and took a rather long time to get myself through. If I had it do over again, I always thought one fun and considerably more practical route would have been to double major in IT and Computer Science with a minor in EE and then, on the side, take language-specific programming courses at OKCC. This combined with a bit of practical experience through an internship, which I really wish I had done, and would have if I had a do-over, would have opened all of the same doors for me that I had anyway with the exception of perhaps a couple of hardcore EE jobs, but would have made me more obviously competitive for more of those positions. Also I think I would have struggled less having to pick up the hard lessons much of my actual career field, software engineering, on the job, and would therefore probably have actually been using a lot more of what I paid a bunch of money to learn.

I also would have shortened my stay in college by a good 3 years if at all possible. I loved school, but too much of even a good thing isn't great and I unquestionably wasted a bit of time. Saying that, I would have still been an exchange student to Germany as I did my next-to-last year, even if that meant tacking on an additional semester. Being able to speak German not only satisfied a personal goal for me, it allowed me to pursue a couple of lucrative/prestigious career opportunities, and indirectly led to me meeting my wife.

[GDC]

I wanted to be a Piano player in a whore house, instead i was just a John

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[Sooner_Bob]

I have a degree in Environmental Health Science . . . if I had to do it all over again I might have went the Information Technology/Computer Science route.

[Petro-Sooner]

Wish I would have found geology WAY before I did.

[jkjsooner]

Probably not a bad idea. I didn't have to take a foreign language in college. My HS Latin counted.

I wish I would have taken a foreign language class. I now wonder if I have what it takes to learn a foreign language. I never was good at memorization so that sort of scared me away. One of these days I'm going to go back and do it.

I'm probably the youngest person in the world (not that I am young by any stretch) who has a master's degree but no foreign language courses. I went to a small high school that didn't have the resources to require anything other than what the state required. We had one Spanish class (and it was only offered my senior year) but it didn't fit into my schedule. Sometime before I graduated ('89) the state changed the requirements to require a foreign language in high school but those requirements didn't take effect until '90.

I then went to OU and studied engineering. At the time engineering didn't require a foreign language. I believe it was one of the very few majors that didn't. Had I entered a year later I would have had to take foreign language so I again missed the requirement by one year.

Then of course in grad school they don't really care. They probably would have but by then I think everyone assumed I'd had a foreign language at some point...


As for what I would change, I think the BSEE and MSCS has served me well although I always kind of wished I would have done physics or math. I would have liked to have been one of those math geniuses who made all of that money building all of those flawed financial models...

[Frozen Sooner]

You tend to pay better attention when the words "tell us about ____ Mr. Frozen Sooner" are a possibility.

I also tend to drift off when the professor stays on someone who obviously hasn't read for ten minutes trying to elicit a response.

I don't mind it personally, that's just the first time I've encountered someone saying they preferred it.

[KantoSooner]

more genetics, bio and chem.
That and Mandarin.

[Skysooner]

Not a single thing. My career has evolved as i envisioned it. Very lucky.

[MsProudSooner]

If money weren't in the equation, I might have majored in Library Science. Love the library.

Since money is in the equation, I might have taken more business courses and tried to figure out a career path that doesn't involve outsourcing.

[49r]

Pharmacy.

LOTS of hot chicks at the Pharmacy school, and access to the best drugs. Plus, there is big $$$ waiting for you when you get done.

I call that a win-win-win situation.

[WA. Sooner]

Advance Pornologist

[Soonerfan88]

I would have gotten a Masters in History and taught at a community college. Never felt the need to publish or get a PhD so no tenure for me, even all those years ago.

If I were looking at the money side, skip college and apprentice with an electrician.

[hawaii 5-0]

Pharmacy.

LOTS of hot chicks at the Pharmacy school, and access to the best drugs. Plus, there is big $$$ waiting for you when you get done.

I call that a win-win-win situation.



After college I moved back to Norman. A friend of a friend who I used to get stoned with was in Pharmacy School. He said he wanted to open a store with a nice sign that said "Matt's Drugs".


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