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ITT: Your major and your favorite book

>> No.2107193

>>2107190
>/lit/
>anything but shit tier majors

nope

>> No.2107195 [DELETED] 

what kind of an inadequate nigger puts CS/IT in low/mid tier

>> No.2107196

Fucking THIS.

Almost everyone I know who's majoring in Biology is a Freshman who is either boring and has no real interests or is confused about what they want to major in and just decides to take Biology because it's something "useful," without actually giving much of a shit about it. I predict most lower-division Bio majors will change to a different major in two years.

>> No.2107199

>>2107190
>Law
>a major
Whoever made that list is fucking retarded.

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>Theoretical science in God Tier

>> No.2107202

>>2107196
I feel like Engineering majors are the same, everyone does because they read a Forbes list and want to make money.

>> No.2107205

Notice the higher the tier, the fewer job positions are demanded.

>> No.2107206

>>2107199

Actually in several countries Law is available as an undergraduate major. The closest you're going to get in the United States is a B.A. or B.S. in Legal and Paralegal Studies - not sure how much that qualifies anyone for.

>> No.2107221

I am a law major.

My favorite book is Glannon on Civil Procedure.

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Italian Literature / Linguistics

'The Foundation Pit' by Andrei Platonov, trans. Chandler/Meerson

>> No.2107225

Philosophy and economics double major.
My favorite book is Cyrano de Bergerac.

>> No.2107232

Psychology

Savage Detectives

>> No.2107234

Medicine
The Lord of the Flies

>> No.2107241

International Relations

The Secret History

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>Mfw I study English

Why am I shit tier?

>> No.2107253

German and Swedish
Virginia Woolf - Jacob's Room

>> No.2107262

>>2107252
>i_know_that_feel.jpg

Not sure I have a favourite at such, but Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee stuck with me for longer than any other.

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>>2107262
But why?

It's totally useful for those of us who want a job in journalism or something else media related or something.

Fucking troll picture making me sad.

>> No.2107289

Philosophy
Journey To The End Of The Night

>> No.2107291

who gives a shit about rocks

>> No.2107292

I'm a philosophy major, and I'm probably going to off myself before I get a chance to land a carrier anyway, so it's kinda like a win-win, right?

>> No.2107293

I was a liberal arts major and that's not even on the list...though I expect from /lit/ that it would be shit tier. Oh well, now I am in law school and doing well.

>> No.2107296

These lists are stupid. The only purpose they serve is to masturbate the egos of autistic neckbeards who have no skills outside of being able to perform hundreds of analytic calculations without becoming hopelessly bored.

Math is not hard. College should be about expanding your knowledge of the world, not learning how to be an arrogant drone that's a poor replacement for a pocket calculator.

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OP, you're a dumbass.

>> No.2107302

>>2107296

>a poor replacement for a pocket calculator.

For future reference, this is the point where you went full retard.

>> No.2107310

>>2107296
>Oh god I am such a hipster and am the coolest of the cool My liberal arts degree will make me millions designing flawless poetry

>> No.2107311

>>2107300
Probably the most accurate tier list I've ever seen on /lit/.

>> No.2107313

>>2107302
Yeah but what he said here
>College should be about expanding your knowledge of the world
is about the smartest thing that's been posted in this thread.

>> No.2107314

>>2107310
not OP btw forgot this trip from another thread

>> No.2107316

>>2107313

Learning physics is the best way to learn about the world for some.

>> No.2107318

engineering

les misérables

>> No.2107319

>>2107316

robots?

>> No.2107324

>>2107319

No, materialists.

>> No.2107328

>>2107316
Politics and history is how you learn about the world, but they don't make money, right?

>> No.2107329

>>2107193

Last year, there was a thread asking what /lit/ posters study and where. And would you believe it, most of them were either dropouts or studying philosophy at community college.

>> No.2107337

>>2107328

What the fuck are you saying?

>> No.2107341

>>2107329
They aren't dropouts, they're 'writers'.

>> No.2107345

>>2107337
Jesus, thick are we?

>> No.2107354

major is Speech Pathology
favorite book is Sherlock Holmes, eh is a pretty cool guy

I wish I was studying to become something more intense, I'm just not sure what. Something medical or death-related. (tbh I'd rather give up college and literally join the circus.) Speech therapy seems up my alley, though. I'm into linguistics, neurology, and helpin' folks.

>> No.2107355

>>2107345

No, I'm not thick, what you said just doesn't relate to what I said. Or if it does it's in an disgusting manner that completely ignores what I said and just assumes it to be incorrect for no reason.

>> No.2107365

Math
The Story of Civilization (though I've only read about half of the 9000 pages)

>> No.2107369

Studying IT, don't really like it anymore, but I am not to bad at it and will likely get my diploma with an A or a B so I will most likely get a job that doesn't pay to bad.

Favorite novel: Crime and Punishment

>> No.2107372

English
The Sun Also Rises (Anything Hemingway, really)

Taking a massive gamble on my major. The plan is to put a book or two out before I graduate so I hope it works out...

>> No.2107374

i have a math degree.

brother's karamazov

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>>2107372
Good luck with that. You know, I assume, that everyone and his grandmother wants to put out their novel, too. So I hope you know someone in the industry and suck their cock, because that's the only way it's gonna happen.

That, and prayer.

>> No.2107381

Biology. Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

>> No.2107394

>>2107190
Op you are the faggot and shit lover.
none of my genres are up there

>> No.2107396

English/Philosophy double major

Don't have a favorite book. But the bit of literature that has fascinated me the most is The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.

>> No.2107424

chemical engineering
infinite jest

>> No.2107426

>>2107424
Are you a teenager? Answer honestly.

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>>2107190

>> No.2107440

>>2107424
nope. i really am majoring in chemical engineering, and IJ is really my favorite book
on the other hand, i don't read much, just the occasional recommendation from /lit/, which is why IJ is my favorite, and which is why i assume you think im underage or whatever

>> No.2107461

Computer Systems Engineering

Favorite Book: The Golem
Favorite book related to my studies: Roger Penrose's "The emperor's new mind".

>> No.2107483

hello i am a math major

ulysses

>> No.2107484

>>2107461
Hey, I'm reading The Golem right now. Cool.
Wanna help explain all the little side-vignettes and song lyrics and stories that Meyrink throws in?

>> No.2107511

college dropout

i cant read

>> No.2107524

>major in English
>I barely even read on my own time

I hate not being interested in anything

>> No.2107526

community college philosopher, but i don't go to class much cause i'm always high.

Camus "the Plague"

>> No.2107530

>>2107526

typical /lit/izen

>> No.2107539

women's studies

maragret attword or whatever my professors make me read.

>> No.2107542

sociology, in canada (that I am a canadian is critical).

The invisable man, I really connect with his urban experience.

>> No.2107556

Journalism

Catch-22

>> No.2107566

Chemical engineering
Nineteen Eighty-Four; but I mostly read short stories

>>2107202

I went into engineering because I wanted to make a tangible, positive impact on the world. I'm probably going to switch from chemical after the realization at a career fair I'd probably end up at a corrupt oil company or Monsanto. Don't judge us all so harshly.

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Medicine

Blood Music ofc

>> No.2107575

Geology

Moby-Dick

>>2107566

>oil company

Dude, that is where the money is at. I might end up at one myself, more likely natural gas though. You can bail after you make a lot of money then do something you want to do and not worry about money.

>> No.2107582

Physics


Watership down. Though Ada by Nabokov is a pretty close second.

>> No.2107584

>>2107300
As a senior in high school receiving a shit load of discouragement, this made me smile.

I know CS will get me a job, but frankly I don't give a shit about CS.

>> No.2107587

>>2107575
>that is where the money is at.

But see, that's exactly what I don't want to chase. My original plan was an accelerated 6 year pharmacy program. I'd have made 100k right out of college, but I'd have been behind a counter all day. But then I read Walden (yes, Walden actually had an effect on someone) and reconsidered my career path. I don't want to sell my soul. I want to use it. If I can't have that, true fulfillment, I might as well kill myself.

>> No.2107588

biology, The Lusty Argonian Maid

>> No.2107589

>>2107556

Would anon say this is the most profitable of the writing-related majors? (Disregarding the lucky 2% who get book deals)

>> No.2107592

law majors do shit on the lsat compared to philosophy majors

>> No.2107595

graduate work in anything but medicine is for stupids who are willing to buy a second shit sandwich rather then hit the real world.

Medicine is stupid if you aren't a faggot striver poor as well. If you don't make BIGLAW, your law degree will worth like 15-22 bucks an hour as a glorified social worker.

>> No.2107598

>>2107595

Master degrees in most engineering fields boosts the average salary by more than 20k/yr.

>> No.2107600

why are you arguing? this is america, you won't get a job with any of these degrees anyway. a physics masters makes you about as employable as a bachelors in art history

>> No.2107602

>>2107600
Yeah, this. The job market is picky as fuck in America, right now. For every job you have 100+ qualified candidates applying.

Good luck, one and all.

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Computer Science
Eumeswil by Ernst Junger

>> No.2107606

nobody cares what your salary will be, engineers, go be petit bourgeois somewhere else plz

>> No.2107609

>>2107606
if you know what petit bourgeoisie means chances are you are one

>> No.2107612

>>2107595
Back to autoadmit you emotionally stunted thing.

>> No.2107617

>>2107609

that's a lot of words to say "i know you are but what am i"

>> No.2107621 [DELETED] 

>>2107609
Nigga you don't know shit about social class.
Petit Bourgeouisie don't have that level of self awareness.

>> No.2107620

>>2107617
that isn't what he said at all

>> No.2107623

>>2107587

Oh that's just silly. First you build financial security, then you do what you want to do. Having financial security allows for much more freedom.

>> No.2107626

>>2107300
should put what you parents told you to take above what you thought was easiest

>> No.2107631

>>2107623
That is that Petit Bourgeoisie attitude we are talking about. Fuck your shit.
Don't suffer if you don't want to, for fucks sake.

>> No.2107633

>>2107626
Yeah, I agree with this.

I respect people whose parents mandated that they study law far more than I respect people who are business and English majors just because it's the default "easy" degree.

>> No.2107639

Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting
Jean Baudrillard's Transparency of Evil.

Feels dope not seeing my major listed. *under the radar*

>> No.2107640

>>2107639
I believe yours would fall under the "Everything else not listed" that's placed in "Shit Tier," pal.

>> No.2107644

oh no a picture on the internet said my major was bad

>> No.2107645

>major
Well... .well.... well... screw school

>> No.2107649

Pharmacology is a joke. Legalized drug pushers. If you want to deal drugs you need not go to college.

>> No.2107654

Art Education - Welcome to the NHK!

>> No.2107661

physics - catcher in the rye

>> No.2107676

>>2107661
because you had to read it for high school english class

>> No.2107691

Going to be going into Engineering, most likely mechanical or biological.

I don't know why I'm posting in /lit/ because I don't read a lot but The Things They Carried, Hitchhikers Guide, Sabriel, Feed, and some book about some kids who worship a watertower, were all good books.

>> No.2107724

>>2107676

> implying i went to high school

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>>2107588
>Lusty Argonian Maid

>> No.2107763

FUCK YOU, music makes the world go round!

*butthurt*

>> No.2107764

The thing that always makes me lol about this image is that Geology somehow made it to top tier.

>> No.2107810

>>2107631

Ahh, you're just young. You have probably never even been poor, me, I have been poor. You don't know what it's like to not be able afford meat and have to eat beans every single day around a wood burning stove. You are probably just some overly idealistic middle/middle upper class 18-22 year old who never had to sweat and bleed at a job for 12 hours a day of backbreaking labor. Financial security allows for more freedom. What's wrong with working for an oil company? Machines need oil. That don't run on idealistic teenage nonsense.

>> No.2107818

>>2107810
morality bay bee. would i, driven to extremes, do terribly immoral things? probably. but that doesn't justify them. no need to make a virtue of necessity.

>> No.2107827

>>2107764
What's wrong with geology?

>> No.2107831

>>2107827

Or psychology, for that matter?

>> No.2107835

>>2107818

Which part is immoral? Working for a natural gas or oil company? Please explain.

>> No.2107846

Chinese/Spanish double major

Hundred Years of Solitude or Lolita. I couldn't pick. Crime and Punishment is third place.

>> No.2107857

Technical Professional Writing, and Jacob's Shadow.

>> No.2107859

Chemistry
Stranger in a Strange Land

>> No.2107901

Mathematics

Nine-teen Eighty Four.

>> No.2107918

Computer Science
Gene Wolfe: Book of the New Sun

>> No.2107929

>>2107566
>>2107424

>Chem-E major
Fucken brofist

>Infinite Jest
>1984

Oh, never mind.

Chemical Engineering.

2666

>> No.2107971

Materials Science and Engineering
Snow Crash

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Music

Grendel - John Gardener

>also, anyone who believes in this tier list is an idiot.

>> No.2107977

>>2107929
Petro-E here
Catch-22

>> No.2107979

>>2107975
>agreed. Definitely.

>> No.2108327

Rus. Lit./Phil.

Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy

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biochem
Dune

>> No.2108337

OP, God Tier is missing computer science!

>> No.2108434

Medicine

I don't have a favorite book. I almost never read the same book twice.

>> No.2108449

19th century French Art History and Mesopotamian Art History.

Since I started to study these, I have almost no time reading for my own pleasure.
So I'll just pick The Great Gatsby because I always happen to enjoy this book.

>> No.2108456

Biology pre-med here.

Have to say I was a bit peeved when I saw this tier list.

Anyways, most undergraduate degrees don't really give you any skills useful in a job outside of nursing.

Another question: Why are we proletariats arguing over whose shit sandwich tastes the best? It's a joke, no one college degree is going to be the key to your advancement in to the rich upper class which is the goal, right? Does that not make all college majors shit tier if they keep you POOR and IRISH and middle class? Fuck the tiers and this infighting. College bourgeois unite. Kill the rich.

>> No.2108471

Computer Science

The Legend of the Ten Elemental Masters by Nick Smith.

>> No.2108473

Business
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

>> No.2108474

Theology
Right now it is Narrative Theology as a Hermeneutic Approach

>> No.2108483

BA Psychology
Foucault's Pendulum and The Color Purple.
First one makes me laugh, second makes me baww.

>> No.2108485

Near Eastern Studies/Islamic Studies

The Niche of Lights

>> No.2108507

Philosophy

Don't think I can pick a favorite but if I had to I'm not going to try and impress you pretentious fucks.

Gates of Fire.

>> No.2108510

Biochemistry

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

>> No.2108515

English/History

The Master and Margarita

I know I could have gone into something a lot more employable but fuck it it's hard to get a job in anything right now so I might as well study the stuff I'm passionate about.

>> No.2108525

>>2108456
i like the way you think, Che

Molecular Biology- slaughterhouse 5 but i've only recently gotten into good literature so that may change.

>> No.2108535

History

The name of the Rose

>> No.2108546

Computer Science Major, math minor.(but I'm in my first year)

I don't have a favorite book.

>> No.2108562

I'm doing a degree in Bioscience, my favourite book is Sword in the Storm by David Gemmel. (I didn't just say Bioscience because Biology was in faggot tier, my course is genuinely called that for some reason.)

>> No.2108578

Aeronautical engineering. The Hobbit.

>> No.2108631

>>2108525
You'd better read Finnegans Wake if you want to stay here boy.

>> No.2108637

>>2108631
yessir!

>> No.2108643

>>2108637
This should be good

>> No.2108649

history / 1984

>> No.2108664

>>2108637
Get your ass in the riverrun past Eve and Adam's, and finish that book boy!

>> No.2108668

Politics - Remains of the Day.

>> No.2108677

Maths/phys double major.

White Nights
inb4 that's not a book

>> No.2108685

>>2108456
Bio/Pre-med brother here. I like the way you think. One thing though, why is becoming the "rich upper class" the goal? Why does class even matter?

inb4 readfinneganswakeoryouropinonisinvalid. Already did.

>> No.2108687

Chemical engineering.
Gulliver's Travels has always had a special place in my bookshelf.

>> No.2108690

Math major here, my favorite book happens to be The Brothers Karamazov.

>> No.2108703

>english major
>started my own e-commerce biz
> engineer friends derping making instruction manuals

Stay mad "God Tier" enjoy your close minded slave status.

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>>2108685

Becoming rich and "upper-class" is the heretofore "American Dream" of advancing your place in society. It's pretty widely acknowledged (I think) that the ability to improve your social status and economic class in america is vastly reduced. Hence my comment that we are fighting over the tastiest shit sandwich. The whole concept of arguing over which college degree is false because a college degree is worthless no matter what it is. How much better is yours than mine when they are both insignificant?

That is, assuming you actually desire money and prestige and a career (which most westerners do).

Anyways, biology is a stepping stone for me to becoming a doctor= a slight increase in my social and economic station in life, but not as significant a bump as going into the "rich" or political sphere would give me; and remember there is no "college degree" that bumps you into that sphere, outside of upper class institutions open solely to the rich and incredibly talented and famous (aka closed to YOU and ME).

Anyways, my favorite book is Hunger by Knut Hamsun.

>> No.2108877

>>2108866
> the ability to improve your social status and economic class in america is vastly reduced

In comparison with?

>> No.2108891

>>2108877

The past.

>> No.2108906

>>2107300
yup

>> No.2108948

Computer Science.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, though it changes occasionally.

>> No.2108952

Computer science

Vineland

>> No.2108955

Biology and God Delusion by Dawkins

>> No.2108958

>>2108955
You're going to fail pretty bad.

>> No.2108960

>>2108955
Are you serious? This is your favourite book? Out of all the books in existence, this is "the one"?

Or, is it just the last book you read that you happened to like? Help me out, here. I need some of my faith restored in humanity.

>> No.2108965

>>2108866
Degrees can be insignificant, but by no means are they all insignificant. Furthermore, a degree can be insignificant in one context and significant in another. I don't even plan on using my degree once I get out, but that's not to say it won't have an impact on my life; some people may think me smarter or more learned because I have a college degree whether that's right or wrong. I was really questioning the desire for "upper class" levels of money and prestige.

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>>2108958
>>2108960

>> No.2108985

No matter what your degree is, it's not useless. Universities especially emphasize a well-rounded education, so business majors have to take science courses. English majors have to take mathematics. Everyone has to take a foreign language.

For some reason, people are forgetting the "higher education" for the major. It is called "major" for a reason--one has to study other things, as well.

>> No.2109009

>>2108891
It's easier now to succeed in America than ever before for browns, yellows, and women. The 1950s we see in media is often idealized rather than factually representative.