/lit/ - Literature

University of Chicago, undergrad Political Science. It's pretty great.

>Cdale

undergrad Political Science at Arizona State. not so great.

What the hell's with all the poli sci majors?

We are bored with our terribly useless major.

UBC motherfuckers

My library is a book

>>437802

Oh also English and minors in a couple foreign languages

William and Mary. Undecided, but hovering between history and Japanese/Italian studies.

Cornell, double majored in English and Music. Needless to say, I am now a computer programmer.

i'm in college right now.

getting ready for pharmacy school.

ARU. English.

University of York/Environmental Science
Good uni, shit degree.

Indiana University, English.

>>437873
What's ARU?

>>437749


philosophy, already got the degree gonna waste some more time getting English degree and then teach somewhere exotic, like Europe or Asia

>>437884
Anglia Ruskin University. Former Poly in England.

>>437910
lol that was Anglia Polytechnic University when I was at uni.

>>437914
Just realised our chancellor is that utter swine Ashcroft. Bah.

History extended major UQ class of 09

>Poly sci was my minor

Computer Science in Spain (yes, a nerd like me can enjoy literature and classics)

Computer Engineering at Calpoly.

Miami University Oxford, Ohio.

I'm an Anthropology major.

>>438424
hey, I know a guy who goes there on a basketball scholarship

>>437829
>refers to his job as "computer programmer"
>obvious lie

If any of you go to UCF, would you tell the admission officers to get off the fucking toilet and accept me already?

>>437829

>Cornell, double majored in English and Music.
> Needless to say, I am now a powerful wizard-ape.

Another SIUC here. Alumni.

Go Salukis.

Butler University. English major.

I'll be going to UGA as a math/chem double major next fall... I know, the two don't really fit into the /lit/ crowd well, but I am a voracious reader in my free time.

New Mexico State University, majoring in history.

Half of our funding goes to the football team, which is one of the worst in the country. Feels bad, man.

Going to UCLA next year. Open to advice on my major.

>>439033
I'm graduating from UCLA next quarter. Figure out what classes look like for all the majors you might be considering and get the common classes out of the way early. If you do it right, you should be able to go from undeclared to nearly any major you want your third year.

Heading to UT Austin next year for Petroleum Engineering. But I like books. That's why I'm on /lit/.

>>437824

Sup W&M. English major here.

>>438994

My parents graduated from Butler, interesting.

finished at University of Louisville, anthropology. Started out at Pomona (major: music), but came to hate it.

Columbia College Chicago, majoring in Fiction Writing. The writing scene here is really diverse, and there's always an event going on - story slams, open mics, visiting authors. This week is Story Week, and Joyce Carol Oates is the guest of honor this year.

I'm pursuing my associate's degree in Liberal Arts at a prestigious Community College.

Duke, Undecided major, probably English.

>>439068
livingthedream.jpg

>>439051
I got three things you have to promise to go to in Austin:
-Toy Joy (close to UT)
-Amy's Ice Cream (go for the Cop Stop, it's coffee ice cream with cake donuts in it)
and most importantly:
-Esther's Follies in the downtown area. I don't normally giggle like a child, and that is the most god-damned hilarious show I've ever seen. Facing the stage, be sure to sit at the front and to the right, because those are the hot seats.

Unless you already live there, but still, you might've not seen those.

And thank me later. I won't be in town, but UT is a wonderful school.

MA (Hons) History & International Relations, Aberdeen University (UK)

>>439045
Thanks for the advice. It's pretty cool that they let you stay undecided for two years. I was thinking about a major in English (obviously) but I would also like to do something with physics or math. What did you major in?

>>439081
Math, physics, and English are all in the School of Letters and Science so they have the same core classes. You should have no problem switching between them.

Georgia Southern University for both a B.S. in IT and an MBA

>>439066
Tell me a bit about Columbia Chicago- I was thinking about applying there for music.
As of now, I'm nervously awaiting admissions and rejections from various music schools. Berklee is my top, and I'd hopefully major in Film Scoring or Songwriting.

>>439087
Math and Physics prereqs also fit into each other perfectly, just like Math/Chem. So really the only extra work you'd have to do with a dual major is the extra major courses.

UC Irvine, majoring in English Lit.

>>439102
How'dya like them Muslims?

U of Manitoba. ugly city.
Working on bachelor for Math. Think I might do education or something because I don't know what the hell else to do with a math degree.

Stayed at my local state university in Louisiana. Damn you scholarships and amazing graphic design facility. Graphic design/Digital Art focus Visual Art degree. Currently an English teacher.

Virginia Commonwealth University, philosophy major. Graduate in May

University of New Mexico

Computer science major.

Western Washington University, English.

>>439102

Oddly enough, I never find about their antics until I read it in the papers. That, and I walk through the park to my classes instead of the main road, so I don't get to see their wonderful walls and tanks with Israeli flags that say "PALESTINIAN HOLOCAUST".

University of Florida, bio major, wish I were an English major though.

I've been working in pub kitchens for 4 years. I want to do philosophy/literature though.

another UCLAer

>>439127

>>439022 here

Sup, fellow NM-fag. I would just like to say that the rivalry between our schools is retarded. Nobody other than freshman and frat house-types give a shit about it.

>>439077
Nah I live in the Houston area.
Thanks for the advice though! Im visiting Austin this thursday so Ill check those places out.

USF - Psychology major.

Although, this shit school has raped me of the love I used to have for psych.

Western Connecticut State University (not actually a shithole state U.; the professors are fantastic but around 80% of the students are lazy tools), English Literature

>>439196
Dammit I wish I lived there, because I'd have someone new go to Esther's Follies with (everyone I would ask has seen it a dozen times). I just visit there a bunch, because my cousin lives there.

University of Birmingham (the original), War Studies.

Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Law school

Right now I am in a early college high school program and I am majoring in English, unfortunately

Tel Aviv University studying Political Science.

I major in lulz

went to school to be a paramedic had to leave with one semester left due to money and some personal problems working now to make money to go back and finish, also the school is in ontario

>>439051

Heeey, my gf was a PE at UT.

I'm also a UT grad in government, going to Baylor (maybe) for law.

Amherst College.

Double major in Classics and French.

Vassar
Philosophy

High School dropout. Spending my days reading non-stop and trying my hand in everything from the Sitar to learning how to draw.

>>439395
I know you didn't ask for advice dude, but you might want to just stick on thing and stick to it. FYI

>>439359
Oh, hey, that's a great school. I would have loved to have gone there (not enough to have actually gone there, but it is completely awesome).

University of Washington, Physics.

Please don't make me go back to /sci/, it is warm and safe here.

>>439055
Yo. Nice to see someone else from the best damn liberal arts school ever on /lit/.

Williams next year

Easterrn Warshintun University

bottom tier public uni represent

Computer Science / Mathematics

>>439452
They have a notoriously bad math department. I have a friend who did two years there and said that the math faculty was always getting recycled and reviewed, audited, etc.

>>439482
Yea it's pretty bad I'll admit, mostly for the undergraduate liberal arts prerequisites. 90 students crammed into an auditorium being taught by two graduate students who hate every motherfucking last one of you deer-hunting, jock-fucking, local rednecks.

I'm just going there because it's close, it's cheap, and I wasn't one of those smart / driven / lucky high school students who had his shit together junior year and knew he wanted to go to $40,000/yr Private University X. I went to community college. I got a job. I gots ta put work in.

>>439452
but I work for the municipal library system, so those are my /lit/ qualifications

Johnson & Wales
Baking and Pastry Arts

I am surrounded by people who don't know what colors make green.

I live a few hours away from you OP. Quincyfag.

University of Cincinnati
Ingrish lit
Meh department

University of Michigan,
Brain, Behavior and Cognitive Science, hopefully premed.

>>439560
I'm glad, because I would never eat a pastry that color.

University of Wyoming.

Biochemistry.

>>439482

My school was about $500,000 off when they reported their student aid amounts to the federal government. Yeah.

>>439273
>Israeli
>Studying political science
>The next avigdor lieberman

undergrad : econ major / math minor
grad : financial economics

A&M Poli Sci.

>>439616

What is U of Wyoming like? I'm thinking of doing the same thing there with intent of getting a PhD in life sciences, not sure what discipline though.

Stanford, Classics.

then for my PhD, Berkeley, Mathematics.

Nursing

because I had no better option

>>439708

I am intensely jealous of your marching band.

Fuck you, Carbondale is awesome.
You just need to drink more.

>>439725

Thanks! Although since I went to that school's arch-rival after I graduated, I'm not sure whether or not I'm still allowed to find them amusing.

I graduated with a journalism degree from the U. of Nevada.

That was two years ago and I've done absolutely nothing journalism related.

>>439702

It's alright. Although Laramie (the town it's in) is depressing. Whenever I finish with classes I always head down to Fort Collins.

>>439743

fuck yeah!

political science at this obscure Midwestern university.

it was affordable and scenic, okay?

Undergrad: Columbia (English)
Grad: University of Southern California (Education)

>>439747

Wat?.

>>439792

i went to school there

>>439806

Laramie or Fort Collins?

>>439743
Is the degree respected?

Colorado > Wyoming

>>439811

foco

>>439816

I am going there to get into their Pharm D. program. For a PhD I would go to University of Colorado.

>>439822

Ah okay. Where do you live now?

>>439828

down in the springs

>>439839

So do you wanna fuck? Or not...?

Princeton.

>>439849

fuck yeah!

philosophy, you want fries with that?

non-humanities majors should stfu and gtfo

>>439874
>butthurt sociology major struggling with Intro to Statistics

Electrical engineering at Concordia (montreal)
easy money for a lazy man

>>439874

why?

New College of Florida

History and Economics

it's pretty boss

>>439875
>>439874
>believes sociology is a humanity. The sciences can have that dreck.

Am I really the only Accounting Major here? ;_;

>>439907
At least you'll have a job waiting when you get out. Most of us won't.

>>439908
Yeah, that's the main reason I chose it. I hate all work pretty much equally so I might as well take time to learn what will make me money so I can slack off more efficiently.

>>439907
I will suck your dick for a $50, 5 year CD with at least 5% return

University College London, Undergrad - Philosophy.
Awesome uni.

>>439907
Is there a major in accounting for bad taste?

>>439953
THERE"S NO ACCOUNTING FOR BAD TASTE EARL, STFU

>>439956
psh I bet Stephanie Meyers has an accountant

>>439937
Uh, sure. Just sign here and you can paypal me the 50 bucks.

>>439937
>>439953
>>439956
>>439962

hilarious samefagging *glares*

Portland State

Biochemistry.

>>439667

I'm an American, just have a really strong interest in the middle east but want to do my coursework in a decently westernized country. Israel also wont stamp my passport so I can roam a bit through the region.

I haven't been to any countries who havent normalized relations with Israel, but I figure I can do that once I'm done with my stuff at TAU.

anthropology undergrad

university of Colorado

Any of you fags not go to some shitty school in some random city no one has ever heard of? "Herp Derp, I study english at this shitty Christian school, I iz smart." If you didn't get into a decent school there is no reason to flaunt it, you might as well be going to community college and saving yourself some money.

>>440022
>Was rejected from all schools, lives with parents

>>440022

This is what it looks like when you couldn't score higher than 20 on your ACT and even the awful state schools wouldn't take you.

>>440030
Lol, yeah right, I actually applied myself got a 1520 on my SATs and go to Duke University, you know that college that you got rejected from and couldn't afford to go to even if they did accept you? Yeah that is the one I'm at so fuck off, it is likely you study at DeVry Institute of Technology or one of those other shitty schools you see on TV for those who can't deal with "real" college.

u of chicago. econ undergrad with minor in philosophy.

>>440041
>get 1520 on sat
>duke
>implying these are accomplishments

>>440041
Dude. Person at a good school here. A really good school - better than yours academically.

Get off your high horse. Going to a better school does not make you smarter than anyone else. It does not make you better than anyone else. It's an accomplishment, it is something you should feel proud of, yes, but it's not at all something to brag about. It does not give your life meaning or value. All talking like that accomplishes is it makes you sound like a dick. And gives those of us who do go to good schools a bad rep.

>>440049
>Another one of those "I wasn't even trying in High School, you conformist!" type people who never get anywhere in life.

>>440035

i scored a 26 on the ACT (by no means a genius score)--very above average/mediocre.

i'm graduating medical school to start a residency in a few months.

>>440045
Hey, University of Chicago, how's it going? Assume you're studying for finals? Polisci major here.

i think he's just trolling

>>440054
What school you go to? Don't give me that "Uh I go to Harvard" bullshit either.

>>440060
i just got done. now im bored and posting on 4chan. sup

>>440057
hey, i wasn't even trying in high school, and i got into a better school than you did.

1600 sat master race here.

>>440065
Bout the same, honestly. Just dicking around. Don't have another final til Thursday. What year are you?

>>440072
3rd

>>440041
My face when I realized I wouldn't be going to school with people like this

>>440064
I don't want to say because, again, I don't want to sound like the kind of prick who thinks being at a good school makes him a superior being, and I don't want to give that kind of a reputation to my school.

Also, would me saying the name of a school make my posts any more believable? There's already posters in here talking about going to schools better than Duke (UChicago, Stanford, Princeton).

>>440069
Trollin mofo who was up too late smoking weed before his SAT test date and didn't make it to the test and blames "the man" for his miserable life.

What is University of Chicago like? I grew up in Chicago (went south for school to escape the weather) and UofC was one of the few institutions in the city people seemed in awe of.

>>440078
It's pretty hard, there's a ton of work, and there's a lot of really nerdy people. Obviously, I can't compare it directly to any other institution - but it's pretty damn intense. But I wouldn't go anywhere else if you paid me.

>>440076
I lol'd at University of Chicago being better than Duke at anything.

ucsd psych major bio minor

>>440083

Yeah I considered applying but no matter how well do in a Chicago public school there's just a lot of places you cant get into. Hyde Park sure is purrrdddyyy, though.

the only dude i know from duke plays starcraft professionally. that's about the highest achieving guy out of there i think

>>440089
oh good now we can have a retard higher education ranking slapfight

>>440076
>>(Tel Aviv University)

I jk.

>>440077
hey kid, go to bed.

everyone who has posted above this post isn't really that intelligent. why?

1) They're not rich.
2) They don't score a 10/10 on a scale measuring "how happy they are"

The truth hurts.

>>440098
I mean, this is obviously a troll, so my instinct is to ignore it. But I honestly don't even understand what it's saying.

>>440098
>>college students aren't rich
>>thus college is worthless

Lol, just keep at your circle jerk about how "awesome" it is to be an underachiever, complain about everyone else bragging, when in fact you are unable to face the fact that there are people in the world just plain better than you. Enough of the we are all the same hippy bullshit. I know there are those out there smarter and harder working than me out there, just you fucks aren't among them so stfu.

>>440101

if you were intelligent, you'd be either happy or rich.

god damn you're retarded as fuck

fyi duke guy. you are going to lose vs louisville

>>440106

>>440106

die

>>440107
but that doesn't even make sense
>>440106
stop being such an ass. seriously, you're just an smug asshole with a false sense of superiority.

>>440112
It is simple realism, there are people better than others at certain things, I am better than most others at the things that actually matter, like intelligence and hard work. I won't be a professional basketball player because I am too short, nothing I can do about it, but I don't blame basketball players for being too tall.

>>440123

wish i could be like you

>>440123
make a better effort. right now it feels like a waste of time just trying to reply to you.

uc berkeley
chemical engineering

>>440123
I'm in love with you now. You're my hero. By going to a better college, you've proven you're a better person than me, so you're my new model and inspiration. I wish I could be like you.

Lol your pathetic sarcasm does nothing to change the fact that I will undoubtedly get a better job than you and, perhaps, make something of myself.

you are either a huge retard or you have serious problems, since you are from duke the conclusion is most likely both.

>>440155
unlike all of the rest of the losers who post on this site, you, you alone, will become a success

Seriously, you're my idol, man

>>440155

You are pathetic

after being at berkeley, my new goal in life is to make sure fags like you learn a little bit of humility.

>>439022
Fag.

>>439127
Sup holmes.

I'm one of those assholes that goes to business school at UNM also (Senior currently). Gonna pull da next Enron yo.

UC Berkeley, history.

Oh, and there were a couple of years where I was making just shy of $200K/year with my badass history didn't-quite-actually-get-a-degree. *And* I was miserably unhappy.

>>439219
I'm moving there this year for next semester. Can't wait!

>>439350
Really? I thought there were less women having a PE major than on the internets.

Going to Melbourne Uni, got 4.32 gpa (out of 5) so I should be able to secure a scholarship. I'll see in any case.

UC Berkeley. English major.

Wright State University
Technical Writing

UC Riverside, English major. Cool professors, lazy classmates

I was computer science before I decided that English was superior. Well, except for the career part, kind of screwed there.

>>438436
>>438986

>>437829 here. While I love the idea that I might be a powerful wizard-ape, I wonder what's implausible about being a computer programmer. I was just saying that my undergrad education had nothing to do with my career path; that like so many directionless liberal arts majors, I ended up being a cog in a wheel. I don't know why you think that's something someone would lie about.

>>438436
>>438986

>>437829 here.
While I love the idea that I might be a powerful wizard-ape, I wonder what's implausible about being a computer programmer. I was just saying that my undergrad education had nothing to do with my career path; that like so many directionless liberal arts majors, I ended up being a cog in a wheel. I don't know why you think that's something someone would lie about.

Got through one year of history at York University. I'm never going back. Ever.

>>440915

I did a couple years at Queen's University (I assume your talking about York U in Toronto). Overrated school! I am getting a better education at a Community College.

uga
biology major philosophy minor pre-med

ITT: anons yell at each other, but no one knows who they are talking to because they are anons

Also, 1st year of Brock University.

Probably going to go the English Major -> High school english teacher route.

Brock has a really highly esteemed concurrent education program

Social History, Erasmus University (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

University of Leeds, Russian studies.

Central Washington University

English/History Teaching Major. 8-year degree.

>FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

McMaster University (Canada), Kinesiology

UC Santa Cruz, Lit major.

Pretty school, shitty hippies

I go to strathclyde university in scotland, mechanical engineering. Pretty average university overall but has one of the best engineering departments in the uk. I would have went to uni in england, but we get free university in scotland so it was a no brainer. Plus its full of english people.

Virginia Tech, Economics

>>440155
Next president right here bro's.

Queen's University for Drama

>>441165
>Teaching

Oof. Not rewarding.

>>440041
My cousins went to Duke and their minds are both quite pedestrian. Anyway, for a person pretending they have a brain the size of God, you write like a thirteen-year-old on a Counterstrike forum. Punctuation much?

University of Nebraska-current student
History with music and Spanish minors.

Graduated with business degree from local state run institute. Still working retail.

Also, everyone that asks where I went thinks I mean UNC Chapel Hill when I say UNCC. I'M POOR.

>>439102

Hey, fellow anteater. Done with finals yet?

Not graduated as of yet. But NSU Tahlequah and then OU Norman as far as education goes.
Journalism

O HEY LUC

>>441186
I've currently deciding whether or not I should accept the offer I have to study Law (LLB) at Strathy, or the offer I have to study Law-Politics (Joint Honours) at Glasgow Uni.

>>441255
>I've

That should be 'I'm'.

P.P.E. at Oxford University, I had to live in a shitty concrete block for two years but the rest was really nice.

>>441255

What's Strathy like compared to Glasgow? Grade issues aside, did you like the university? Can you see yourself going to lectures in that building from the accommodation, going in to campus (if there is one, I don't know the universities myself), and did you like the current students?

University of Southampton, English and History. Pretty great uni, the staff are fantastic.

>>441270
Not OP but Glasgow has a much nicer campus (coming from a strathy student), but strathy has the advantage of being right in the middle of town, so theres shops, clubs etc nearby. Glasgow will have a higher proportion of arseholes however, and plenty of folk up their own arse (but most uni's have them anyway). Still they are both good, in terms of law for the other poster they are pretty much equal. Basically I got unconditionals from both and had to choose between them, but chose strathy on the back of its engineering rep. For law I would just decide which place you like better, in terms of the quality of the course they are the same.

St. Olaf, Physics and Math major.

University of Leicester. Uni is great and the lecturers are amazing, too bad the city itself is an immigrant shithole.

>>441295
Glesga's a great uni, I wasn't impressed with Strathclyde at all.

>>440904
It's not your background, but that you used the term "computer programmer" rather than software engineer or software developer.

>>441218

One more to go and then I am DONE. It's a bit of a shame though, I love the campus when it's so quiet around finals, yet I dislike the reason for the quietness.

>>441341

Nice. I've got one to go as well. How's the major been treating you?

johns hopkins, math/english major

fuck baltimore

>>441327
I didn't think the practice of making your job sound more impressive than it is, even at the expense of accuracy, was now a requirement...but then again, I try not to spend too much social time with other IT people. Leave it to 4chan to know (or invent) the unwritten rules.

I'm not a software engineer, because I don't "engineer" my software, nor do I only "develop". I design, write, revise, maintain, and/or test it, depending on the situation. So the generic term seems the best to me, and in any case, I know (and work with) dozens of people who describe themselves that way.

>>441345

Not bad, anon, not bad at all. How is your major treating you?

>>441371
The term "programmer" has a negative connotation. Programming is the physical act of programming, Software Engineering is the act of creating software. Needless to say, if you're doing designing, maintaining, and testing, you're an engineer/developer.

Also, more importantly, your job title would be "Software Engineer", which is why it's pretty obvious you're talking out of your ass.

Education-History; Troy University in Alabama

>>441422

Quite well. Comp lit here. What year are you?

Illinois State University, social work major and sociology minor. Never took a sociology class before this semester, they're pretty interesting. Also, lol at my future salary.

>>441447

Second year. You?

>>441468

Same. I'm sure /lit/ doesn't care for our convo, so if you want, you can hit me up on AIM @ spectsindre.

>>441320
What course you doing? Strathclyde is pretty poor for some degrees.

I'm currently computer science and physics at the University of Waterloo. It's been pretty fun so far.

>>441442
I don't know of anyone who considers "programmer" derogatory (yes, I just asked several about it). And what the hell is the "physical act of programming"--as though someone is dictating the code to you and you just type it in? My job title is actually "Technical Director", but since that doesn't describe what I actually do for a living very well, I use "programmer", which I consider the most general term of the three we're discussing.

But, by all means, continue to make judgments about specific people from dubious generalities. It'll get you far.