>>2315717
>Religious studies / English - Psychology
inb4 shitstorm

I do.
I'm a sophomore but more undecided than when I started.

Visual arts here.

English major.

I am terrified for my future.

math

ITT burger-flippers, bartenders, and baristras

>>2315732

you mean >*baristas ?

I'm going into the maritime academy for merchant marine engineering in the fall. taking prereqs in the summer. I'll be on a 60 day internship at sea summer after next (it's a year program for a certificate)

fuck going to school for an "education" and not for a job is how I feel in this economy and with these future prospects.

Yes I go to a university

I'm studying industrial and systems engineering, i don't have a minor but I plan on getting a certificate in finance

>>2315722
Perfectly normal for a sophomore.

>First year
>Fuck yeah, I got in this exciting new world
>Second year
>Not what I expected, what the fuck is this? Maybe I should just give up
>Third year
>Well, now that I'm here, I'll have to fucking finish this shit anyway or else it will only be worse
>Forth year
>I can't take it this shit, I should have given up when I was a sophomore...
etc.
>Graduated
>Make fun of everyone else for being stupid, praise yourself like you went to the moon, say it was worth it
>Working
>Nostalgia for your college days, eager to retire
>Retired
>Missing having something to do
>Dead
>Wishing you were alive

>Then you reincarnate and samsara hits you again because you are an idiot

Computer Science / Film Study

Hopefully I'll get a job out of the first one.

>>2315717
law

working on my masters in English of course. then? my phd

Public Health.

School is for diplomas, not for education.

Are you a believer? trollface.jpeg

>>2315745
That's pretty much what my advisor told me.

English is my major and I don't have a minor.

Journalism

>>2315752

Not in the slightest

Though not with an adamantly insensible god debunking attitude

I'm thinking about doing religious studies, OP. Is it worth it? I'm not concerned about being able to find a job with my degree. I have no obligations to no one and I'm more than happy making shit pay.

>>2315781

Incredulously hard to say
For me it seems to be worth it

A lots of cross-scientific studies, cultures, the basic deal

Biology, and going into medicine if I can get my marks high enough.

>>2315796
>incredulously
Although, on reflection, your comedy misuse is probably less annoying than
>incredibly
would have been.

English major and haven't decided on a minor yet.

>>2315765
That's a shame. You're a fool not to believe in god. God exists. Logically it's irrefutable. Leibniz, Aquinas and Spinoza all show this quite clearly.

Although I couldn't possibly say anything about God other than being reasonably certain of existence.

>>2315813

You do realize I've had quite a lot of practise not jumping on that train?

First year

Philosophy
English
Computer Software Design

All in preferential order.
Too bad I'll have to major in Comp studies and Minor in English.

>>2315813
>aquinas

troll out of 10

>>2315803

Incredibly annoyed me as well,
used a lot, it seems

Threw the first thing off the top off my head

And misused it.

>>2315803

But because I have to be offended as said in the internet etiquette article 334

I will have at least a good reason why I misused it and so avoid any blame at all

because of the italian verb 'Credo
and the prefix -in

English is such a stupid language etc.

>>2315890

the infinitive seems to be credere
to be precise

and to be more credible and grand I should referred to latin

University of Reading (UK), Classical Studies (second year).
Flirted with dropping out and going on a journalism course but never got my shit together.

Politics.

Also studying Scottish Literature on the side but it doens't affect my degree grade.

>>2315717
That's Professhoer McShoeston to you.

computer engineer here

18 people by fast count

Not to offend, but it's hard to see anyone going for Religious studies. I mean, if you don't believe, why even go for it? And I like the history of religion... but really?

And if I believed, I would become a priest or a monk and study by other means other than college. This is just me, but I just can't wrap my head around religion studies.

Chemistry PhD, 2nd year, Edinburgh uni. I fucking love getting paid to be a Student.

>>2315947

How about a bigger head?

One of those giant dinosaur heads, should be able to wrap it nicely

>>2315953
And as you can see from the misplaced capital letter, my head is still stuck firmly in that groove.

>>2315953
There seems to be a fuck-tonne of you Edinbuggers here.

Am I the only one representing Weegie University?

>>2315966
My dad went to Strathclyde.
(Readingfag reporting).
I was in Glasgow over new years visiting the family.

>>2315972
Ah good. Hope that you were treated well by us Scots.

>>2315920
As far as I can tell, most actual journalists have degrees in English or History. You should be fine.

>>2315979
I think these days you're expected to either have a journalism degree or a postgrad journalism course unfortunately.

>>2315975
Yeah it wasn't a bad stay. Went to the drovers for a braveheart burger (gutted there wasn't any skiing on at Glencoe though), had a good hogmanay party at my dads mates and that. Shame about the fucking awful weather though, didn't get to go walking or nothing.

finished a few years ago, economics, want to go back for a masters so I might use it for something.

In the mean time I am well on my way to move up the ranks in the insurance underwriting company I work at, not really sure if want promotion :S

Applying for a marketing management course in Edinburgh Napier. Germanfag here. Am I doing something wrong?

marine biology

I study business and am still undecided on my minor(s).

I feel terrible about this and wish I never went to a university and had become a dishwasher.

>>2315996
I think I speak for almost everyone in this thread when I say we've all known that feel at some point.

>>2315966
My sister is going to Glasgow next year for English Lit or something similar, and I strongly suspect she visits 4chan. So there's that.

Majors: English Literature and Writing (not creative writing)
And I'm thinking about a marketing minor.

>>2316002
Good on her. I originally started studying English but later switched to Politics. The course is good but you've got to be disciplined about reading books that you're not that interested in. I never could do that. In Politics there's more leeway to focus solely on what you find interesting.

>>2316006
>>2316002

I would almost kill for a chance to be a native and an english major

have to bet on that samsara bussiness this round

Mathematics and Economics

>>2316003
I'd go for it. If nothing else, marketing teachers really know how to present their lessons (because,well, obviously)

American at a UK University.

first year physics major (we choose our majors when we apply).

>>2316015

Do you ever find it deceptively sexy and totally underrated?

Journalism and history

>>2316038
Um... sure.

Behaviourscience, psychology, sociology and pedagogy.
Havent decided which one to pick for my major yet.

Dairy Herd Management.

Laugh all you like, you're pretty much guaranteed a good job after it and the course is really fucking easy so I have all the time in the world to read.

Computing Science. I'm planning on dropping out and joining the circus though.

>>2315717
Molecular biology/philosophy double major.

Human Resource Management

I swear I know you....

>>2316195
FUCK YOU CUNT. Ungulate Meat Studies is where it's at!

>>2315844
god as the ultimate is irrefutable. it exists. there is not reason not to believe it. of course you can take issue with others closer conceptualisation of god but logically you have to accept existence

I study English Literature.

>>2316260
>gives credit to aquinas
>wants to be taken seriously

>>2315826
i know but i expected you to be a believer and we could argue. when you said you weren't i was disappointed and in response I twisted it round to make me the believer. however since i dont believe and value intellectual honesty, i dont make a very good fraudulent believer so I could only espouse the most fundamental circumstances of god (nothing even as specific as the basis for morality)

>>2316260
>Logically you have to accept existence.
>Logically.

Logically you have to accept that you cannot prove nor disprove his existence you fucktard.

>>2316002
im at glasgow. if i give you my facebook will you tell her to look me up so i can bang her?

>>2316269
I bet you're at Glasgow Caledonian studying Bicycle Repair Science.

Mechanical Engineering

>>2316268
logically there is a proven 'ultimate' or fundamental thing.

god is frequently defined as this thing.

so yes god is the ultimate and it does exist.

as far as anything less ambiguous goes, then yes your response comes in handy: you cant prove disprove, theres no reason to believe it. its all moral values and speculation.

>>2316268
>Logically you have to accept that you cannot prove nor disprove his existence you fucktard.
Nope.
Riddle me this, brainiac;
What is 'he'?
If you can't deliver a thorough description of what you think 'might exist' you're talking utter shit.

>>2316273
nah glasgow. masters

>>2316260
That sounds a bit like what David Attenborough says about the concept of god. I love that man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCqA9EHQDYE

>>2316277
>he still thinks prime mover is a valid argument

chortling scholars.jpg

>>2316279
I don't think that anything exists, I'm an atheist. What I'm saying is that I can't possibly prove that there is no God just as I cannot prove that there is. I go by the assumption that there is none.

>>2316281
I was thinking of it more along the lines of how camus says he doesnt believe in god but isn't an atheist though i suspect he just means he's an agnostic and doesn't affirm nonexistence

no human si
sciences among /lit/?

anthropology/sociology here

>>2316281
Shit that was the wrong link. I can't be arsed to look up the real one either

>>2316281

What a pleasant and well spoken gentleman.

Chemical engineering master race here

come at me, litfags

>>2316290
you're a cunt

>>2316296
David Attenborough is the best Briton of the last century if you ask me. He's so lovely and erudite! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndMKTnSRsKM

>>2316296
he's american. he's just lived in england for a long time. him and his brother who's in jurassic park were both born in america. but he moved to britain

>>2315962
What the hell is wrong with you, man?

>>2316289
>anthropology/sociology
>science

get out fag

>>2316303
Err, no he's not. He was born in London. His brother Richard Attenborough was born in Cambridge. You're getting mixed up with someone else.

>>2316305
This. Next you'll be telling me biology is science.

Physics master race coming through (with a minor in math)

>>2316302
That was great. Thank you.

>>2315962
thats doesnt fly. theology is just speculating on what god might be and how he responds to situations. it all comes to being what man would do and how man responds to things.

even if i were a priest i'd realise the futility of theology. i'd probably study physics or anthropology since im no good at math. in fact that might be a good idea. i hear wonder if the community pays your tuition....

>>2316308
>giving a shit about tangible reality
>2012

math was here, physics suck.

>>2316307
nah i was just lying so illicit a response ie. trolling

>>2316313
*elicit

whoops. i dun goofed big then

phd mechanical engineering - aeroacoustics research (god tier fuck yeah)

>>2316308
>>2316312
/sci/ was here

>>2316310
One more brilliant Attenborough video then I'll stop going off-topic. Really surprised you haven't seen him before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFACrIx5SZ0&feature=relmfu

Senior in high school here.

Studying English next year at uni.

Frankly, you're all scaring the hell out of me.

>>2316279
>You can't define 'he'? HA! GOD EXISTS!
>>2316277
Assumptions, assumptions everywhere.

Hey, OP, what do you think of Richard Dawkins?

>It's all a big mommy complex

Fashion Merch./ Foreign Lang. Worthless?

>>2316329
Not the OP but this particular atheist thinks he's an egotistical, pompous cunt.

First year student here. Going for a Geology degree, but not sure what to minor in, or if I should go for another major.

>>2316340
To be fair he nows how pompous he comes off as, but he does it so as to "balance" against the radical arguments which he has to contend with.
He's repeated time and again that he is agnostic.
He just acts like a dick because he has to stubbornly deal with stubborn people.

>>2316358
*knows

>>2316340
not really. he's a pretty nice guy its just that given his antagonistic position towards the religious, anything he says will obviously be highly inflammatory no matter how he says it.

however as an intellectual, i don't rate him. i watch him in a discussion between the four horsemen where they actually are quite self critical and argumentative among themselves. dennett dawkins and harris pale in comparison to the mind of hitchens. its funny actually because in hitch 22 its clear he really respects the other three to the point where he's humbled by their intellectual prowess. I know hitchens doesnt* have the expertise in their particular fields but he has always been much more insightful and on the ball in sociopolitical, even philosophical and religious grounds. personally im more enthralled by hitchens writing and presentation than of the others.

*didn't. ;_; fuck. it hurts.

>>2316340
He is a nice guy. I think religious people and anti-atheist-atheists paint him as a very evil man.

Arrogant as in "arrogant because he does not aproove religion in schools and fights against it" and other sorts of things. C'mon...

>>2316364
I agree, though I think Dennet comes off nice as well on that level.

If I'd do a typical simplistic 4chan rank system it would be

Hitchens > Dennet > Dawkins >>> Harris >>>> Stephen Jay Gould >>>>>> all the dumb religious cunts

I really like the prospect of being an English major, but I'm a bit afraid of my future. Chemistry and Finance interest me. Should I just study in a more secure field and take Creative Writing or English as a minor?

>>2316380
Nah, man. English major all the way

Second year computer scientist. Looking forward to my future career in the fast food industry.

>>2316358
>He just acts like a dick because he has to stubbornly deal with stubborn people.

Well, televangelists aren't the only religious people out there.

>>2316383
the fuck? your image broke

Film Production major. Should I shoot myself in the face now? Is this inevitable?

>>2316388
i can see why they dont debate moderates. for one thing they dont disagree all that much. but i would also say its because moderate religious people have set up their position so that their god is piss easy to defend against. their god is highly ambiguous, doesn't affect anything, they accept everything science says and maintain thats all it all matter of faith simply because they dont want to let go. moderate people will never be convinced. when you sit across a table with a moderate and highlight everything you know in relation to the world they think god created and they still maintain that they ' just believe it' (actual quote) you know there's no point in engaging with them.

you cant discuss existence of god with them or belief but you can refute their points on morality and for the most this s easily accomplished with secularism by keeping church and state separate, we've largely achieved it

>>2316413
you seem to have a really specific conception of 'religious moderate' in mind

>moderate people will never be convinced
convinced of what?

Journalism and economics double major.

We dont ues dhe major/minor system here.

I study filosofy.

Why are people so pessimistic about their own careers? Looks like the physic majors are winning the war and you actually belive you made a bad choice with English, Film or even Sociology, Philosophy.

Each of you had your reasons to choose your course and I assume you are (or shouldn't be) not naive to think you got something completely different. "Oh I hate to read and think about stuff, I just want to get some money, that's why I'm a philosophy major". Not realistic. But with the highs and lows of every course, either be proud of it like a boss or admit you made the wrong choice and change. Don't stop in the middle of the way complaining like a fag.

>>2316413
You are right about that on Dawkins. But I think that people should understand even though Dawkins defend his atheism openly, by saying things like "there is probably no God", he is not doing a preacher's work, his goal is not really to get people to his side, but to make things work. And by making things work I mean, without religion as an institution getting in the way. He doesn't get to the deep metaphysical discussion of theism vs atheism as a philosopher would get. He is practical in that sense, only talking about the God of religion, the God of the bible, the coran, that one interpretation of God extremists have, either for being naive, either for money or something in between, harming science and individual thought.

>>2316358
In the videos I've seen of him, I haven't noticed really any dickishness. True, he will ask questions of people such that the answers they will probably offer will surely make them look like idiots. One example that comes to mind was an interview he conducted at a school for Muslim women. One student told him that she'd been fully informed about natural selection (or something similar) and had independently decided to reject it; he asked her to describe natural selection (or whatever it was) and she had no clue what it was. So he made her look like kind of an idiot, but she'd essentially laid the trap for herself. I'm not sure I've ever seen him being an outright dick. Maybe you're right; I'm actually just curious why he has this reputation.

>>2316383
Can I get at least a serious reply?

>>2316445
Honestly? Your job prospects with English are pretty poor if you're not dead-set on a specific career like being an English teacher or going into academia. Yes, it's a competitive and difficult course to get onto, but you're going to struggle finding a decent job with it.

>>2316460
Is this also the case with English majors coming out of top tier colleges? (Say, ranked above 30 or 20)

>>2316479
I'm in the UK so I don't know. Here, unless you studied it at Oxford or Cambridge you're liable to end up unemployed or in an entry level job that you don't need a degree for. This says more about snobbery and elitism than the quality of their degrees. I'm at a top twenty university as are most of my friends and everyone I know who graduated in English Literature, regardless of how well they did at their degree, is unemployed or working in a call centre or restaurant for minimum wage.

>>2316329

Just ordered The god delusion

expecting it to be great piece of reading

I know he was a friend of Douglas Adams, who I heard was a wonderful personality

>>2318190

Depends on wot u ekspekt from it. It is not very filosofykal, but it is kleerly riten and does a fien job of pointing out varius problems dhat relijon kauses.

I study:

Unity College
Double major in Adventure Education Leadership and Adventure Therapy.

>>2318240
And yes, before anyone asks, there are jobs. Very different life style though.

Electronic Engineering at Sheffield, UK.

Also, people really study English at University? They must like working in bars.

Joint Physics/Mathematics degree, just reading lit for pleasure.

>>2318240

Chance for gainful employment...surprisingly possible

So I guess I'm the only polysci major on here. I don't know how I feel about this

I go to community college. It's easier, it's faster, cheaper and I can go in and out of my classes with out dealing with bros, hipsters, shitty college people in general, etc. Once I finish up my prereqs I'm transferring to a university for medical technology which will allow me to make 50-55k/year which is decent for a Bachelor's. And if I want to go into a Master's program later it's a very good program.

I read and write on my own time and have no illusions about success. I do them for their own sake. Feels good man.

>>2318981

I go to community college.

stop reading there

Law graduate, currently studying for my practicising certificate.

Wish I did teaching or something else though, but oh well...

I studied English and all I got was this collection of terrible books.

"Sorry but The Waste Land is too long so we will be doing Prufrock instead and then moving on to House on Mango Street."

"Professor, I've heard good things about Ezra Pound. Is he worth checking out?"
"Um, um, I'm not supposed to, I don't know if you, cause Pound was a... ivegottagodosomething!"

>>2319015
WTF was your English dept. focused on women's studies?

>>2319015
Dang son, you da Norton masta

>>2319015
That is the worst reading list I've ever seen. It also reeks of political correctness and forced multiculturalism. Awful.

>>2319015
Bishop's poetry
what do you think of it?
Recommendations?

apparently they found a loophole where they could justify Toni Morrison as african-american lit, women's lit, and modern lit.

I don't think it was just my school either. Check out the free online lectures from Yale, I shit you not, 2/3 of this opening lecture was the feminist perspective, influence on women writers, Milton's views on women, etc. The professor used the term "dead white European man" and for some reason mentioned (via Virginia Woolf) Shakespeare's sister was denied a chance to write all those classic plays.

>>2319055
talking bout the one class on milton or paradise lost or whatever. Cause i never had a full course on it, we just skimmed it. It's bullshit i tell you.

Bishop was actually pretty good though, i liked her better than dickenson.

Anyone here studying linguistics?
I want to study languages but haven't decided a field. I'm also considering literature, but I don't really know jobs the study makes available.
I'd hope for something other than teaching, but I wouldn't exclude it.

with all due respect if you use the phrase "political correctness" unironically you have no place on this board.

>>2319062
would you prefer "leftist ideological correctness"? that seems kinda unwieldy mr. feynmann

let's talk about fatphobic language
let's talk about cisgender-centric tumblr posts
let's establish a trigger warning
let's build a hugbox

University of Maryland

Government and Politics.

I'm into books about politics and government. In particular ones about general social and economic issues.

>>2315813
I do not even have to read his works with that wig he is great in my book.

>>2319062
With all due respect you can go fuck yourself tripfag. That is horrible reading list and there is no better way to describe it. My use of that phrase does not reflect on my political beliefs, which are about as lefty as they come.

>>2319115
>talking to richard feynmann

wow are you new here or what?

>>2319118

that is an incredibly rude post, i await your apology

>>2319118
Been here about a month so not familiar with all of the tripfags. How would you rank this one in terms of dreadfulness when compared to Quentin, Sunhawk v2 etc.?

>>2319121
pretty much any tripfag is better than this cuntface. not to say that you should go around bumping sunhawk's thread or responding earnestly to quentin, but it's in the interest of the board to avoid any kind of interaction with feynmann. i'd rather have deep and edgy/deist trolling here 24/7 than a single thread with someone wasting their time talking to feynmann.

>>2319124
Good to know. Thanks for the heads up.

Dual major - Mathematics / Physics

English and Japanese