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RockyRaccoon said: Taking an ethics course was what made me want to study philosophy.
what do you intend to do with your phil degree?
my classes start today! amero-hispanic sociolinguistics today i find ways to be interested in very specific courses.
anyone who has a chance to take logic should, but only take through quantified predicate logic. modal logic is a joke
To be honest, i'm not really sure what I want to do with it. I'm just interested in philosophy.
I've always enjoyed writing a lot, so my real goal is to get some books published as a source of income someday. I wouldn't mind being a teacher someday either. A combination of the two would be grand 
just keep your options open man. I almost did my BA exclusively in philosophy and added a Spanish degree last minute because the philosophy graduate programs are so competitive. I loved studying philosophy though
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Re: I love college [Re: OZA]
#18759774 - 08/26/13 02:22 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Just started. I like it very much so far but am feeling a little homesick. I suspect that will be done with soon as I become familiar with everything and make more friends.
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Thanks, i'll keep that in mind
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at the moment - because anything can change with school - i'm earning a really cool degree. i'm doubling in english and philosophy, possibly with some type of writing minor. i'm focusing more on the language/rhetorical theory aspect for my english degree rather than literary analysis. logic interests me as well with the philosophy side so it all ties nicely together. i'm seriously considering law school but i'd like to have a marketable degree regardless.
rockyracoon, you might want to consider doubling with english and earning a writing minor if you're just wanting to do a bachelor's.
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Re: I love college [Re: millzy]
#18760455 - 08/26/13 04:49 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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millzy said: at the moment - because anything can change with school - i'm earning a really cool degree. i'm doubling in english and philosophy, possibly with some type of writing minor. i'm focusing more on the language/rhetorical theory aspect for my english degree rather than literary analysis. logic interests me as well with the philosophy side so it all ties nicely together. i'm seriously considering law school but i'd like to have a marketable degree regardless.
rockyracoon, you might want to consider doubling with english and earning a writing minor if you're just wanting to do a bachelor's.
I'm going for a major in philosophy. Doesn't sound like a bad idea though
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i'm majoring in both philosophy and english. my school has a double major program for them. you might want to look into seeing if your school offers something along those lines. or at least look into the writing minor.
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RockyRaccoon said: Cool man. What's your major?
Im getting a Bachelors in Business management. Im thinking I will start working on additional certificates outside of my college in my jr year of school. Got to have my resume looking good to get a job in this competitive market. I cant be going to college to get out with no job or a low paying job. Otherwise I will be in the same place I was before getting in college..... in poverty
 
I was kinda torn between majoring in Philosophy, which i'm very interested in, or something that i'd be more likely to get a job with after school.
I chose Philosophy, and there aren't many jobs for people with that degree. I'll probably end up teaching.
Yeah I choose philosophy too. Starting an internship at my old high school next week. Fucking weird feeling I tell you...
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I'm liking college too. I'm the hyper nerd though. I sit in the front row of all of my classes and no one sits next to me.
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RockyRaccoon said: Cool man. What's your major?
Im getting a Bachelors in Business management. Im thinking I will start working on additional certificates outside of my college in my jr year of school. Got to have my resume looking good to get a job in this competitive market. I cant be going to college to get out with no job or a low paying job. Otherwise I will be in the same place I was before getting in college..... in poverty
 
I was kinda torn between majoring in Philosophy, which i'm very interested in, or something that i'd be more likely to get a job with after school.
I chose Philosophy, and there aren't many jobs for people with that degree. I'll probably end up teaching.
Yeah I choose philosophy too. Starting an internship at my old high school next week. Fucking weird feeling I tell you...
sounds like fun
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Re: I love college [Re: OZA]
#18761209 - 08/26/13 08:04 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Fuck college. I've been happier since I dropped out last March than I have been in years. Having a degree would be nice, but it would have been much nicer to have gone for two years, had the "college experience" and said fuck it then instead of wasting my time fucking around, in and out, all that non-sense.
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Re: I love college [Re: jewunit]
#18761215 - 08/26/13 08:06 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Everything is nonsense. Just gotta find the nonsensical things that you like
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Re: I love college [Re: OZA]
#18761221 - 08/26/13 08:07 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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even logic becomes nonsense when you introduce modality
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Re: I love college [Re: OZA]
#18761223 - 08/26/13 08:08 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah well college certainly isn't it, I gave it a go and then some. Waste of fucking time and money.
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Re: I love college [Re: jewunit]
#18761233 - 08/26/13 08:13 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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by all means
cure cancer without a degree
idc about credentials. as long as it works
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OZA, I felt exactly the way you do... 26 years ago.
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Not really something I planned on ever doing.
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Re: I love college [Re: 22Carat]
#18761315 - 08/26/13 08:36 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Lucky you. At most schools, usually every seat is taken.
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Re: I love college [Re: koods]
#18761357 - 08/26/13 08:47 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Reporting in from Minnesota. I'm just getting situated from my move from St. Louis to Minnesota. I definitely love this state, and couldn't be any happier. What I enjoy about college is that it can give you that drastic change needed in your life. I wouldn't be able to do a move this big if I didn't have a good enough reason, luckily I've got school to thank.
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Re: I love college [Re: jewunit] 3
#18761407 - 08/26/13 08:58 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Mathieu's Being in College Tek advice from a recent graduate
- DONT FUCKING HURRY.
- Don't spend too much time back at home, especially in your first year. Does your campus seem empty on weekends? ITS FUCKING NOT. ITS FULL OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO WISH THEY HAD SOMEONE TO PLAY WITH.
- Use RateMyProfessors.com EVERY semester, it will earn you half a letter grade in every class for the same amount of effort.
- Don't save too much money; live cheaply where you can, and save it for awesome shit. Go camping. Go road tripping. go tripping.
- Really think about a class schedule that works for you. What got me out of bed was having all of my classes chunked together in a dense 2/3 day per week death-block, and using the rest of the week freely.
- Playing video games alone is the biggest waste of your college experience. Chronic chronic use a close second. Stick to experiences that elate and elevate you, you have the rest of your life to be sedated. Keep it social. Spend the $$ on the aforementioned awesome shit.
- Avoid classes taught by TAs (sorry grad students!), unless they have a kickass review / you do not care about the course. They don't know how to teach, usually don't know how to speak English (which is fine for them as people, but shitty for you as a learner) and they can do nothing to get you forward in life. Not so with professors.
- After your 2nd year, you shouldn't spend any more of your summers mopping floors or serving tables if you can help it... you might not get paid well in an internship, but do it anyway. If you turn that internship into a job, or leverage it during an interview you'll top that entire Summer at $10/hr in a couple weeks.
- Find a professional-level mentor(s), whatever your major/career goal. If there isn't a program at school, spam people who do what you want to do; you can find them on Linkedin-- ask them if they would be free for coffee (on you) so you can pick their brain. They will be your biggest advocate when you graduate, and you will need that.
- Speak up in class regularly, but don't try to shove down everyone's ears how smart you are. STFU 10 min before class ends...
- DONT RUSH TO LEAVE THE DORMS. It's tempting, but that is the ONLY read ONLY time you will get to live in that kind of arrangement-- and it's AMAZING if you have the right mix of people. Ignore the downsides, you'll tell those stories for the rest of your life.
- Make friends you wanna be around for a long time. For serious, it's fucking hard out there-- you'll turn around in 3-5 years and wonder where everyone your age went. In college you think everyone in the world is your age, but they're not-- in the workforce everyone's in their 30s-50s. Hipsters will confuse you. Belligerently hot women in ridiculous abundance will be a thing of the past. It's hard to believe, like the first few pages of a dystopic novel.
Good luck.
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Re: I love college [Re: mathieu]
#18761984 - 08/26/13 11:17 PM (10 years, 5 months ago) |
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Mathieu,
That is pretty good advice there. I really agree with the dorm thing. There is no other experience like it, except maybe for summer camp. People are inherently lazy, and if you move away from the people, it just isn't the same.
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