/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12780534]

>age
>last good book you've read
>your major
>do you regret your major? if yes, what else you wish you would have taken?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oEULhtSEDhe No.12780547]

>>12780534
>college student data mining

[Anonymous No.12780689]

22
The Star Diaries
Dropped out, I was doing Bio for a few years.
I don't regret it, it got me out the house. I realise I should go back to do something or other, but I like working in a pub. Everyone I work with is a graduate anyway.
I'll save my money and go travelling, I think that's a better use of my time and money.

[Anonymous No.12780697]

>>12780534
>if yes, what else you wish you would have taken?

cyanide

[Anonymous No.12780713]

28
The Red and the Black
Mathematics
No

[Anonymous No.12781385]

>23
>The Man Without Qualities
>Pharmacy
>No

[Anonymous No.12781403]

>>12780534
>18
>The Brothers Kazmarov
>currently studying Telecom. Engineering.
>I want to move out of this shithole so I kind of just don't care about my major. I wish I could get a greencard and serve in the USA military.

[Anonymous No.12781422]

>>12780534
21
Crime and Punishment
Electrical Engineering
Not really, but sometimes I wish I had taken philosophy so I had more time to read. Also studying in an isolated engineering faculty intensifies tfw no gf greatly. Fuck how do I even meet a /lit/ gf send help.

[Anonymous No.12781587]

19
Fear and Trembling
Politcal Science
I enjoy it, my university has a good program

[Anonymous No.12781624]

>>12781385
>>The Man Without Qualities
>>Pharmacy
Perfect fit

[Anonymous No.12781718]

>>12780534
>19
>A Heart of Darknees
>Law
>Yes. I plan to transfer to Film

[Anonymous No.12781765]

>>12780534
25
War and Peace
English
not really, I do wish i would've minored in classics maybe, to learn Latin and Greek

[Anonymous No.12781944]

26
Notes from underground
Accounting & MIS
Yes so I'm going back to school for a masters in architecture

[Anonymous No.12782006]

>>12780534
>20
>Letters from a Stoic
>Liberal Arts
>Yes, I should not have even gone to the community college I'm currently attending. I've hated school since I was very young, and still do. I wanted to drop out of high school but didn't. I wanted to drop out of community college but didn't and am now in my last semester. The only reason I've come this far is because my parents have pressured me to do so. I'm sick of this shit and am moving out as soon as my get degree. If it ruins my relationship with them, good. I need to focus on myself and figure out what I want to do for once.

[Anonymous No.12782015]

>>12780534
Where my NEETS at?

[Anonymous No.12782032]

30
Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel
Yes. I was an English major. I work as a paralegal.
I kind of wish I had taken an American Studies degree which is part American History and part American literature. I might have gone back for graduate work in history. I could see myself teaching history. English, not so much.

[Anonymous No.12782129]

30
Wiseguy
English
No. I used my research and writing skills to get a decent job in journalism, which led to a great job in PR.

[Anonymous No.12782164]

>>12780534
29
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
Geology
No

[Anonymous No.12782179]

>>12780534
>age
22
>last good book you've read
Fanged Noumena (gabidal id zendiend)
>your major
Electrical Engineering, grad student
>do you regret your major? if yes, what else you wish you would have taken?
No, in retrospect I think I definitely made the right choice, although I also considered medicine and pure math
a philosophy minor would have been a nice choice too

Glad to see someone cares enough about me to mine my data

[Anonymous No.12782196]

>>12780534
>age 22
>baudrillard america
>compsci
>yes I do regret it. Iam bad at it and I am afraid of failing classes but job market anxiety keeps me in

[Anonymous No.12782206]

21
Headlong by Michael Frayn
English philology (English as a foreign language)
Oh yeah

[Anonymous No.12782234]

>>12782129
Same age. Looking to transition out of teaching English and into journalism. Any advice?

[Anonymous No.12782253]

>27
>The Name of the Rose
>Originally Theoretical Physics for a year, then Computer Science for a year, then Mathematics and English for a year, then 7 years working full time and saving money, now English and History.
>I'm actually happy with what I'm doing with my life now for the first time in over a decade. I tried so many times to make the smart choice about my future and hated myself while doing it but now I'm doing what I enjoy and I can actually live with myself.

[Anonymous No.12782381]

>>12782234
You have a couple of options.

>Column writing
We had teachers who wrote columns about once a month for the Education section. Column writing is tough, though. You have to have a good voice and be persuasive in about 500 to 750 words. And it's not for everyone. I preferred to just stick to beat writing.

>Stringer (freelance) work
Ask your newspaper or local mags if they have any stringer opportunities available. I started out as an in-office sports stringer. If you have an area of expertise or interest, express that. We had someone who freelanced the ag beat because it's what they were interested in. They wrote one or two stories a week, and it gave coverage to a group that otherwise wouldn't get it. We also had freelancers who wrote for our magazines division. Just call/email the editor or managing editor and talk with them about what you're interested in.

>Shop a story
You can always write a feature and shop it around. Get a copy of Writer's Market to find out which publications are the most relevant to your subject area. If you write about fly fishing, The National Review or Floor Coverings Weekly aren't likely your best bets for getting published.

If you're working in elementary/secondary education, know that journalism pays a lot less and the work isn't as stable, which is why I left. My advice is to keep doing what you're doing and go the freelance route. It might develop into a career, but don't give up your paycheck, health insurance and pension just yet.

[Anonymous No.12782389]

24
The World as Will and Idea
Liberal Arts
No, but I do roadwork since there is no such thing as work in the humanities.

[Anonymous No.12783462]

23
The Things They Carried
Currently writing my master's thesis in supply chain management
There is nothing I'd rather have taken, but that does not mean I don't think about killing myself multiple times every day.

[Anonymous No.12784456]

35
Noli Me Tángere by José Rizal
dropped out. no regrets. i make really good money in tech. school was a waste of money and time, but it was the right choice at the time.
>>12780689
the star diaries are amazing. stanislaw lem is the greatest sci fi author of all time
>>12781422
crime and punishment was amazing. favorite dostoyevsky ive read
>>12782164
is that any good satan is cool

[Anonymous No.12785131]

>>12780534
19
Storm of Steel - Ernst Jünger
Undecided, probably switching to Criminal Justice to be a detective or something. Philosophy is also an option.
Not really. I tried Pre-med because le epic STEM money meme, burned out. Was thinking Comp Sci, too boring.

[Anonymous No.12785184]

>19
>Flowers for Algernon
>software engineering
>Yes, but no idea what else I should have done. Programming is annoying and stressful, I don't really want a STEM career but math is the only thing I've ever been good at.

[Anonymous No.12785231]

27
Tainaron
Computer science and energy engineering
Yes, I hate both of my majors and wish I had went to art school instead. Maybe some time in the future because studying is free here.

>>12782253
Seems like we have had a pretty similar studying history. Trying to choose a "smart" major was the stupidest thing I have ever done, though I understand why I did it because I wasn't interested in anything after high school.

[Anonymous No.12785261]

>>12780534
39
For whom the bell tolls
Process control engineering
Hell, no. I was already working then studying and for 15 years was working in various industries. Now I'm bored, so went to work in core banking.

[Anonymous No.12785276]

31
The Stranger
Fd.Sc Network Engineering and Systems Administration
I can't give a simple yes or no here.

I did learn many new things, but a lot of it was repeating what I did at A-level. I didn't do well enough at A-level to go directly to university, and I didn't have the social confidence and drive to redo my A-levels when everyone from my year had moved on. I successfully completed the Fd.Sc and was invited onto the a bridge course after which I could do a B.Sc. However I became 'disillusioned' because a number of the topics where covering boring and outdated technologies. I did think, if I complete the course I'd have a B.Sc, but really I felt for the money it wasn't worth it. I could spend it on industry certifications to make my self more employable, I could build my own lab and continue to teach myself. Also if I was going to do a B.Sc, I'd what it to mean something, have high academic value rather than just a token. So I quit, and went to work for someone else who had also quit and was running their own IT business.

[Anonymous No.12785301]

>21
>fahrenheit 451
>história
No ragretz, but only because I was smart enough to go into it while already having a stable source of income

[Anonymous No.12785309]

>>12781422
Which field of electrical engineering?

[Anonymous No.12785363]

>22
>Confederacy of Dunces, but before that Independent People, which I found deeply affecting
>Math
>Some days yes, some days no

>>12782253
pretty scared this is gonna be me. initially went in for physics, now in second year and planning to major in mathematics. I kind of enjoy it, but I have a bit of a sneaking suspicion I might enjoy English more. For the moment I kind of like maths though, and I'm a good enough student that I have some time for reading

>>12780713
gang

[Anonymous No.12785374]

>>12785309
Not yet defined but I'm thinking in taking blend of telecom and AI courses.

[Anonymous No.12785516]

>29
>The Odyssey, currently reading Intro to Christianity by Joseph Ratzinger
>history
>yes, but it doesn’t matter because I’m going to apply to the Police academy once I graduate

[Anonymous No.12786578]

bump

[Anonymous No.12786594]

>>12780534
>20
>Blood Meridian, just finished today
>Computer Science

I don't regret it. I got into programming by reading a book on C my dad gave when I was 10, and been learning since. Wish I had more time to write, but I can't hate it.

[Anonymous No.12786611]

>>12780534
>20
>Anna Karenina
>Political Science
>Not yet. I'm still in undergrad. I'm still thinking about what to do with my life.

[Anonymous No.12786667]

>>12780534
>20
>Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-1891
>computer engineering
>sorta, I like programming but I don't know how I feel about the rest of computer engineering and am not sure if I'm cut out for the higher end courses. I'd like to go into biology or a related field instead so that I can go into genetics in graduate school. If nothing works out I'm going back to home country to become a farmer like my grandparents or some shit.

[Anonymous No.12786881]

>>12780534
24
Lee by Tito Perdue
Electrical Engineering (communications/digital signal processing primarily)
I like electrical for the most part but I wish I could have done either a pure mathematics major or philosophy.

[Anonymous No.12786951]

>>12786881
How do you cope with the fact that the engineering and corporate work environments are full of simpletons that are allergic to reading in any meaningful way?

How can you connect with these people? EE student here btw. Just asking because the future looks bleak in terms of meaningful human connection. Fuck I need to make /lit/ friends.

[Anonymous No.12786961]

>>12780534
>20
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>Philosophy, planning to declare for history as a double major
>Not yet but if I end up homeless I will

[Anonymous No.12787018]

>29
>The Tempest
>Technical Writing
>Yes
I wish I never went to college.

[Anonymous No.12787179]

>>12786881
>Electrical Engineering (communications/digital signal processing primarily)
>I like electrical for the most part but I wish I could have done either a pure mathematics major or philosophy.
are you me?
>>12786951
I'm in the same boat
I've already learned to cope with this feel, the truth is /lit/ friends are incredibly hard to find pretty much anywhere, I'm also pretty antisocial so that doesn't help
I have accepted the fact that I will be alone with my feels forever

[Anonymous No.12787245]

I don't want to make a new thread
How many books have you guys actually read in total, not counting kids' books? I feel like a failure, there's only about 200 non-genrefiction books on my list, and that's including short stories. My god you read something like Portrait of the Artist and it only counts as 1. It's hard to get that number up.

[Anonymous No.12787247]

>>12786951
Shit, im also a EE student and this shit is very true. I think the degree being such a energy draining thing kills the will for concerning with those things.
But i think that sort of problem is also seen in all over STEM and even most humanitarian degrees. One of my uni teachers also had a similar opinion, saying that universities at this point only serve to create "specialized ignorants", optimal for the goverment.
I've many times assisted to history and law classes with a friend of mine and was pretty surprised when the teachers asked how many books they've read recently and only about 5 out of 110 people raised their hands.

[Anonymous No.12787257]

25
Convenience Store Woman
Neuroscience PhD
Yes, computational biology

[Anonymous No.12787283]

>>12787245
Why do you worry about that kind of thing? Read at your own pace, and read the things you're interested in. It isn't a contest.

[Anonymous No.12787289]

>>12787257
25
Anthropology
No, it gave me a really solid foundation for anything but i hate the current laboral market which is almost administration. Im gonna apply to a creative writing mfa, i know the bad reputation but wish me luck bois

[Anonymous No.12787291]

>>12787289
Forgot to include the book, lmao

Moonglow

[Anonymous No.12787296]

>>12787289
>thought about applying for writing mfa
>portfolio
>haven't written anything in two years.
oh well

[Anonymous No.12787303]

>>12787289
>>12787291
good luck lad

[Anonymous No.12787346]

>>12787296

I have a deadline to have app-quality shit to apply by dec of this year. Kick your ass into it, you can drum up something.

28
Schlump
Political Science
Sometimes I wish I’d just gone into visual art, ignored my idea to have something more marketable, because it led me to my wageslavery. Still, I learned a lot and have a greater scope of possibilities with my degree in academia than if I’d done art. I don’t know. I still feel conflicted.

[Anonymous No.12787435]

>>12780534
>20
>growth of the soil
>philosophy+poli sci double major
>no, although perhaps i should

[Anonymous No.12787459]

>22
>eeeee eee eeee
>Information systems
>I feel like I'm gonna end up hating it once I get truly into my professional life

[Anonymous No.12787795]

>22
>Madame Bovary
>ChemE
>every day; wanted to study geology, but decided against it (would've probably ended up teaching HS earth science)

[Anonymous No.12787817]

>19
>City of God
>Philosophy
>Not yet

[Anonymous No.12787831]

>27
>Minds, Brains and Programs by John Searle
>Electrical Engineering
>No, but I do wish I stayed a fifth year and got a BA in philosophy

[Anonymous No.12787857]

>>12786951
Sorry but you are making some major generalizations. True, not many of my engineering buddies are into Kant and metaphysics and the problem of universals but if you look hard enough for these people you'll find them.

Also damn engineers don't have to work in a corporate settings. I travel to factories and fix shit, if that's your thing.

[Anonymous No.12787862]

>>12780534
>21
>Moby Dick
>Theology
>Not yet.

I regret life more than I do my major. I don't have high flying aspirations in life. I originally wanted to be a monk, but then fell in love, and so I've got to be a real human now and start working towards a future with this woman. I figure theology is broad enough to where I can either go the high academic route or just be a teacher at some Christian school. We'll see.

Tldr; going to be monk, went to kill self, girl told me how much she loved me, now I need big-boy pants.

[Anonymous No.12787864]

24
its a meme, but anti-oedipus
graphic design
no, college helped me learn more. i wouldnt have picked anything else, maybe taken more classes in computer science i guess

[Anonymous No.12788154]

>>12780534
>age
27
>last good book you've read
Currently reading Roadside Picnic. Highly recommend.
>your major
Graduated 5 years ago in May with a Bachelor's in History and Linguistics.
>do you regret your major? if yes, what else you wish you would have taken?
No, history I did for fun and I genuinely enjoy linguistics. My only regret is not networking in college so that I could've had a linguistic related job as soon as I graduated. However, I enjoy my current profession and just got a new offer of employment in Michigan for the same job by double the money.

I don't regret college or my career choice but I should've spent my time more wisely, from a financial and career path standpoint.

[Anonymous No.12788231]

Rhetoric by Aristotle
Sports Science
Adrenachrome

[Anonymous No.12788374]

>>12788231
>thread's only chad reads Aristotle

he begat chads, though he was none

[Anonymous No.12788410]

>>12780534

23
The Master and Margarita
Psychology
A little bit. I love what I study. I used to want to go to graduate school and do a PhD in clinical psychology. But now I get sick to fucking death at the thought of having to do 6 years of research in graduate school. I hate doing research. I hate writing academic research articles and literature reviews in general. So in a last ditch effort to make something of my life I am prepping for the MCAT and will hopefully get into a medical school in the next couple years which will allow me to pursue psychiatry. If I could go back and pick a different major, I probably would have done philosophy or microbiology.

[Anonymous No.12788438]

>>12780534
3
my lil pony: printed edition
whats a major

[Anonymous No.12788456]

>>12780534
>25
>city of God by saint Augustine (not memeing, actually enjoyed his writing)
>doing my PhD in physics
>it fucking sucks but at least I have a bit more freedom than a wagie

[Anonymous No.12788658]

>>12784456
I hated reading Noli in high school. El Filibusterismo is somehow worse.

[Anonymous No.12788666]

>20
>The Frolic of the Beasts
>Medicine
>No. It's difficult but it's what I've always wanted to study.

[Anonymous No.12788696]

>23
>"Wonderful Fool" by Shusaku Endo
>Geography
>I am underemployed but have no regrets about my major since I had fun camping, found God in the mountains, and became a competent statistician and digital cartographer.
>>12780547
Don't care. I'm on Facebook to humor my grandmother, I use Kaspersky, and I've bought things on AliExpress. My home phone number seems to be public information in India. My data is thoroughly mined and available on spreadsheets in San Francisco, Washington, Moscow, and Beijing. I wouldn't be surprised if London and Berlin had their hooks in my shit as well.

[Anonymous No.12788700]

>>12780534
21
Beyond Sleep by Willem Frederik Hermans
Medicine
No, not at all. I can't imagine doing anything else.

[Anonymous No.12788711]

>>12788666
based medicine bro

[Anonymous No.12788806]

>>12788711
Give me your high-yield notes.

[Anonymous No.12788814]

>19
>"The sailor who fell from grace with the sea"
>Chemistry
> Struggling a lot this semester academically. Due to prioritising reading and getting a better relationship with my brother. Honestly I don't regret it though even if I am slowly killing my academic success.

[Anonymous No.12788817]

>>12780534
>24
>Accounting and Finance
>Rene Guenon Intro to Hindu Doctrines
>No especially because it helps me with the job I have and I love but if I were to pick a degree again with the interests I have now, it would probably be Theology.

[Anonymous No.12788829]

21

philosophy, environmental biology and french

last good book i read ? i mean , Dune was alright, but maybe LoTR? Sorrow of the war was the best of the past few months.

I think I regret double majoring. I wish I had focused more on Bio, which I plan to do senior year but I could've been much more advanced by now. I love philosophy, but kiekregaard is right about professors. they are leeches. dave in stoner is right: they are only in the academy as a refuge. The academy is no longer a place where we go to do the learning that God wills us to do. It is a 9-5 job like any other for almost all profs. and any eagerness to learn more and improve oneself through reading and writing is snuffed out. The shell of liberal arts colleges has been filled by a new crustacean of the genus trade school of the species impractical arts. So essentially I regret studying philo because it has come to feel like a job not for me but for my friends , the passion we once had has fallen away to an academically mandated cynicism. We used to be interlocutors interlocking everyday. Now it's just not the same and I blame the state of the academy.

[Anonymous No.12788852]

>>12788814
hey man keep it up. chem is hard and relationships are important. besides, youre still at the beginning of college and one bad semester and be completely hidden by success at higher levels.

[Anonymous No.12788855]

>>12788456
st. augustine is unironically based. changed my life and made me much better at interpreting plato

[Anonymous No.12788878]

>>12780534
>27
>The Kreutzer Sonata
>Bus. admin/economist
>Yes, a little bit, I should've gone for the STEM-meme

>>12780689
>The Star Diaries
Based. One of my favorite Lem books, together with Tales of Pirx the Pilot.

[Anonymous No.12788883]

>>age
20
>>last good book you've read
Steppenwolf
>>your major
Fucking genetics
>>do you regret your major? if yes, what else you wish you would have taken?
Classes are full of girls, it gets boring very quickly. Should have majored in philosophy or linguistics, same prospects but different skillsets I guess

[Anonymous No.12788884]

>>12780534
19
>The waste land, ts eliot
>Graphic communication and media
>dont regret it, have experience as a chef, and since i can continue studying after i graduate im probably going to study english, try to write poems and get articles published while working as a chef, and do logos/media work on my free time.

[Anonymous No.12788891]

>26
>whatever
>physics (energy physics to be exact)
>yes, it was a mistake. Probably something with chemistry or biology

[Anonymous No.12788903]

>24
>On the Road
>Commerce (Accounting & Finance)
>no, got me a job so at least I didn't off myself from eternal shutin NEET life. lots of scope for branching out where I currently am (government)

[Anonymous No.12788931]

>18
>Journey to the end of the night
>Got into med school but not sure if I should choose medicine or theoretical physics. Please help.

[Anonymous No.12788972]

>>12788931
I cast my vote for theoretical physics. Sounds much cooler and probably less grotesque than medicine. Are you squeamish? If so, then Physics is really your best option.

[Anonymous No.12788975]

>>12782006
What in God’s name are you going to do with a liberal arts associates degree?

[Anonymous No.12788981]

>>12788972
Yeah I'm quite squeamish, is that really such a problem in medicine? I had no problems with blood or dissections during Biology or anything.

[Anonymous No.12789030]

>18
>Submission by Michel Houellebecq
>Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
>Not really, though the maths is fucking me over from my statistics modules.

[Anonymous No.12789041]

26
Notes from the Underground
Psychology
Nope. The only thing keeping me on edge is that finding a job in psychology is really hard with just a bachelor's degree.

[Anonymous No.12789061]

>>12788154
What do you do?

[Anonymous No.12789064]

>>12789041
jorden peterson epic

[Anonymous No.12789070]

>>12789041
>that finding a job in psychology is really hard with just a bachelor's degree.
Then finish masters

[Anonymous No.12789106]

someone reply to mine. i never get replies on this website.

[Anonymous No.12789112]

>>12789106
Friend what do you do?

I’m in accounting and it feels so soulless I want to do something else

[Anonymous No.12789130]

>>12788931
Theoretical physicist
Choose medicine. Academia is quickly becoming a scam due to publish or perish.

[Anonymous No.12789147]

>>12789130
I don't think the physics departments have been hit all that hard by that in my country.

[Anonymous No.12789149]

>>12789112
i'm >>12788829, so still a student

[Anonymous No.12789150]

27
Lord Jim
(Food-) Chemistry
Nope, I love it. Its time consuming in some months, but it still leaves me enough time to learn new languages (attended norwegian courses last semester) and read. My job prospects are good and I finally feel like I have a secure future figured out. (Even though I would love to stay a studycuck all my life.)

[Anonymous No.12789177]

>>12782196
I'm in the same situation and on the verge of flunking out. I don't know what to do

[Anonymous No.12789190]

>24
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>Computer Science
>Regret it with every fiber of my being

[Anonymous No.12789224]

>>12789190
But why? You can make big buck with it

[Anonymous No.12789235]

>>12789070
I read Dosto and started psychology way before hearing about Jordan though.

>>12789070
That's the plan. I just get really anxious about it because I'll finish my current course by the time I'm 30, and add 2 or 3 years after that for a masters. I feel like I'm way out of the curve, and the fact that I'll probably be sitting on my current boring job until I get my masters just make it more discouraging.
I'm not giving up though otherwise I would just end up killing myself.

[Anonymous No.12789243]

>>12780534
24
The Pale Kimg
Comp Sci
While I would much rather be teaching English or working on a boat tracking whale populations or something, I can't really say I regret it; all things in life, good and bad, have brought me to where I am now, and there's no point lamenting what could have been.
I'm working now to at least move into a career path that I'll find more personal satisfaction in, so it's not like I'm trapped working with computers forever.

[Anonymous No.12789253]

>>12789224
Not him, but comfortable money and convenience is why I chose computer science; what I didn't realize back then as a 17-year-old apathy-riddled unperson was how much value my future self would place in finding a sense of personal fulfillment in what I spend my time doing.

[Anonymous No.12789287]

>>12789253
>finding a sense of personal fulfillment in what I spend my time doing.

as someone who did the latter and then developed a ton of chronic health problems, I wish I had just studied CS in undergrad

I'm >>12787257, considering mastering out and trying to find work as a data scientist or doing an MS in CS or something.

[Anonymous No.12789292]

>>12789235
>I'll finish my current course by the time I'm 30, and add 2 or 3 years after that for a masters.
If its trully what you want then you wont mind the waiting.

[Anonymous No.12790213]

20

Ulysses- was my 2nd reading and it was way better than the 1st time.

Computer Science

Not at all. I'm currently in my third year and it seems like something I was born to do. Staring at a terminal for hours on end, fixing bugs, finding an optimal algorithm for every small problem, doing side projects- it has kind of even changed the way I think. Granted, college is mostly useless, sitting at home and learning on your own is the only way to go.

[Anonymous No.12790313]

19
Siddhartha
haven't decided yet, probably something linguistics or history related

[Anonymous No.12790695]

>>12780534
21
Haunting of Hill house wasnt bad
Idk what my major is, I'm in med school

[Anonymous No.12791417]

>>12780534
>21
>The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
>Math, U of Toronto
>Yes. I wouldn't have rather studied anything else, I only regret it cause my family kept fucking me over mid-semester, so I went on leave a year ago to fix my life.

I look like pic related

[Anonymous No.12791430]

>27
>The Swimmer by John Cheever
>Medicine

Yes, I regret it but it's for reasons completely unrelated to the discipline itself.

[Anonymous No.12791458]

23
Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Medicine
yes, everyday. I wish I had gone into pure math or CS.

[Anonymous No.12791484]

>>12791430
Hell ya cheever

[Anonymous No.12791538]

>>12780534
>25
>Waiting for the Barbarians
>English Language/Literature
> I've transcended regret, and am going to go back for a geology degree

[Anonymous No.12791723]

>20
>The Stories of Anton Chekhov (Modern Library, 1932)
>CS
>Considering a switch to architecture BS, soul-sucking but in a different way

[Anonymous No.12791734]

>>12780534
>24
>Atlas Shrugged
>Policy Studies
Eh it was a bit of BS and I don't really use it now because I'm in law school. Wish I did more business and IT classes for fun but I'm fine with it.

[Anonymous No.12791804]

>24
>Dear Thief
>English
>No

I say no, but this might be the first time in my life I'm coming around to that realization - and I'm two months from graduating. College was shit and I know that my degree is next to useless because I'm not going to be a teacher or professor, but I'm glad I had the time to focus on the one subject that I enjoy, which is also the one subject that doesn't make me want to blow my brains out.

[Anonymous No.12791809]

21
notes from the underground
EE
it's very boring but the salary will be worth it. im told

[Anonymous No.12791812]

>>12780534
19
in search of lost time
mathematics and international relations
asian so that was the compromise with my parents, then either STEM grad school or law school after this, I'm already too dead inside for regret

[Anonymous No.12791851]

>>12786881
I'm also doing digital signal processing but I'm in the very early stages of the program. Im actually procrastinating studying for my continuous time linear systems final rn. does it get more intresting? like the only cool thing Iv learned in this class so far is am and fm radio signals. convolution is so fucking boring, also its basically just a math class at this point. does it get better desu? what cool shit have you learned?

[Anonymous No.12792121]

>>12780534
23
Ulysses
Philosophy
No

[Anonymous No.12792153]

>19
>crime and punishment
>still in highschool
I'm okay, I'll probably finish this year, if not next and this gives me time for doing whatever I want

[Anonymous No.12792166]

21
The nigger of the narcissus
Don't do majors in UK but I study computer science
No I love it.

[Anonymous No.12792197]

>>12780534
24
The sheltering sky by Paul Bowles
Law
Yes and no. I’m not doing law. Law school was good for me. Want to be a writer or a journalist or something idk but didn’t want to do this before law school. If I didn’t do law maybe I wouldn’t have the values I do now

[Anonymous No.12792223]

>>12780534
20
Dead Souls
Studio Art and History
No not yet. Doing my best to maintain tradition in printmaking the prof is big on conceptualism but Whistler and Rembrandt are my idols

[Anonymous No.12792267]

>>12780534
20
The Atrocity Exhibition
Political Science
kinda sorta. I like studying it but I don't like "the industry" for it of bureaucrats. I forget why I even became one other than I've always been good at it. I was interested in humanities but got memed away from English. The only thing I'd do over poli sci (which to me is just applied philosophy+history, both things i like) is Theology, but my school doesn't offer that. oh well
/rant

[Anonymous No.12792587]

>>12788975
You tell me

[Anonymous No.12792605]

>>12780534
22
I've been reading a lot of Martin Amis lately, Money and London Fields are particularly good.
English Literature and Philosophy (minor in German)
To some extent, I wish I would have focused more on foreign languages, perhaps majoring in some combination of German, French and/or Classics, minoring in Italian, Russian, Phil or English. That said, I did get a lot out of my degree (especially a 4th year English seminar on Ulysses), and have enjoyed most of my classes.

[Anonymous No.12792615]

>>12791804
Why not be a teacher or professor, if I may ask?
If everything else makes you want to take a bullet to your prefrontal lobes, why not teach the one subject that you enjoy?

[Anonymous No.12792748]

>>12792615
Teaching requires a very specific kind of person, and I don't have the patience or desire or mindset to be one. Not even for being a professor, where you can be "yourself" a bit more. I can't stand the students I'm around as it is - even in my senior seminar class, the final point for the English majors in my university - the other people around me seem to almost hate English. They don't want to do the work. They don't care about the literature we're reading. I can't stand academia, really.

It all sounds very rant-y, I'm sure. I just know that my attitude and the very harsh way I'm sure I'd grade simply wouldn't work.

[Anonymous No.12793039]

21
the idiot
computer science
Im debating if i should do a philosophy double major so i dont regret not "doing what i love" and it will also help seperate from the r9k cs kids. If i dont have enough time to fit that in 4 years ill just do a double in mathematics

[Anonymous No.12793056]

>>12793039
>seperate from the r9k cs kids
if you wanna do that choose a different field, philosophy is a bigger cockfest than math

[Anonymous No.12793060]

>>12793056
I was referring more towards the "robot" aspect. Kids in stem cant hold a conversation in anything and its ruining my attempt at making friends. I know theyre pretty autist in the phil. department but atleast they know how to use their brain

[Anonymous No.12793067]

>>12793060
oh, that's fine then, might wanna consider psychology/neuroscience or biology if you want socially healthy (and potential interesting CS projects)

this is of course just from a socialization purpose, if you prefer phil, go for it

[Anonymous No.12793087]

>>12780534
>>age
30
>>last good book you've read
Unironically Infinite Jest
>>your major
Philosophy
>>do you regret your major? if yes, what else you wish you would have taken?
Yes, I work as a sales manager in publishing and if I had gone the B.Commerce route into an MBA I would be making double what I am right now. I'll probably either go back to school or do a degree through open university at some point

[Anonymous No.12793088]

>>12780534
>18
>Lolita
>CS
>didn't start yet

[Anonymous No.12793168]

20
The Conquest of Bread
Music Education
No, however teaching music isn’t my end goal. I want to get my masters and then PhD in Conducting and then transition to either university or professional conducting.

[Anonymous No.12793200]

>21
>The Picture of Dorian Gray
>Journalism w/ a minor in English
>No. I only just switched to it so I'm fairly excited.

[Anonymous No.12793222]

>>12780697
based and cyanidepilled

[Anonymous No.12793261]

>>12780534
20 (holy shit I'm 20)
I can't even remember, honestly.
English/Public Policy
Yeah. Wish I chose compsci.

[Anonymous No.12793510]

>>12793261
Why can't you still switch to cs? If you're 20, I'm assuming you've been in uni for only one to two years. 20 is still young my guy.

[Anonymous No.12794127]

>>12793261

I'm >>12788410

I regretted not changing my major but now I am too close to graduating to switch. At only 20 years old, it is not too late. Switch if you truly desire to do so my man, you're still young and early in your education.

[Anonymous No.12794268]

>>12789061
Aircraft Dispatcher

It's an interesting job that starts out low paying but after some experience you start making bank at a major airline. It only requires an FAA license which cost me $8,000 over 6 weeks, compared to my degree which was $80,000 over 4 years.

I make about $32,000 a year at my current job, but the new company that hired me is starting me at $60,000 a year, topping out at $130,000.

If you have even a passing interest in logistics and aviation, I highly recommend it. It's an experience game but it's a solid investment once you get with a major.

[Anonymous No.12794272]

>23
>Inherent Vice
>Biology
Not yet at least.

[Anonymous No.12794335]

>>12780534
>27
>Apology by Plato
>Electronic and information technologies
>Yes, ecology

[Anonymous No.12794767]

20
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Physics
Not yet, I like learning how to solve problems,

[Anonymous No.12794798]

>>12780534
27
The Sun Also Rises
English
I loved getting and English degree. Trying to go back for my masters now but recieving a full ride is hard.

[Anonymous No.12794827]

>>12789190
>>12789253

I studied 2 semestres of Computer Science, and it was hell. I am so glad I had the balls to change my degree. Now I work in Multimedia and Visual Arts. It might not have such a good employment or paying rate, but it sure makes me happier and more fulfilled with what I am doing

[Anonymous No.12794830]

>25
>The sandman
>Information systems
Should've switched to pure computer science in my masters. BA is a hell of a minor.

[Anonymous No.12794840]

>>12781718
Based. Fuck law

[Anonymous No.12794849]

>>12794840

Can confirm. Law students are terrible people.

[Anonymous No.12794997]

>>12781587
cringe

[Anonymous No.12796078]

>>12786951
I have two friends within the field and most of the people, both of whom I met when I was working at the local community college, not directly from anything work related. It was fairly difficult to accept that EE is just as much a cargo cult as most liberal arts fields, it's just a cargo cult with a higher floor because basic mathematical proficiency is required, but I've more or less come to terms with it at this point. I just don't talk to anyone about my views or about anything I do outside of work and it's basically tolerable. It'd be nice if I could form meaningful connections with others within EE, but it's unlikely to happen as the field tends to be flooded with the kind of morons who actually think solar panels and electric cars are the answer to the major paradigm shifts coming in the near future.

[Anonymous No.12796115]

>>12791851
It really only got interesting for me when I got into the digital labs and working with stochastic processes. For the most part what I actually do isn't really "electrical engineering" in the sense that most people think, and I think that finding a niche in which you use your skills to pursue something that interests you is incredibly important. In the beginning, especially signals and systems/systems analysis it's essentially an applied math, but most of the people I went to school with got a lot more interested when they got to communication systems and their digital lab courses later into Junior year/first semester Senior. Also, I really like math, so I took numerical analysis for engineers and elementary stochastic processes and both loved them and found them very useful to what I do in a professional capacity which I guess you could call computational biology at this point (don't doxxx me bro).

[Anonymous No.12796341]

>20
>Dune
>Aerospace Engineering

I'm not particularly enjoying it, but I no longer find enjoyment in anything. I don't regret picking it.

[Anonymous No.12797992]

20
1984
Pol-Sci/History
meh, idk what I wanna do with it desu. If I was to regret anything about college, it's not making any friends there.

[Anonymous No.12798335]

>>12780534
>age
39
>last good book you've read
The Talented Mr Ripley
>your major
Philosophy
>do you regret your major? if yes, what else you wish you would have taken?
No, though I regret not taking it more seriously.

[Anonymous No.12798465]

- 24
- Permutation City by Greg Egan
- Computer Science
- Yes, but I regret going to college in general. I've been making money online at 18 and living the NEET lifestyle ever since. The only reason I went to college is because my mother wanted a diploma. I don't think I gained an intellectual development while I'm at college, worse, I felt like I'm devolving in that chapter of my life.

[Anonymous No.12799533]

>>12780534
21
Tropic of Capricorn
Mathematics w/ minor in classical studies
Not in the least. My only regret are most of the other students in my major. I wish they had more gusto.

[Anonymous No.12799541]

>23
>political science student, minor in legal studies.
>The Bro Karamazov
>Yes
>I wanted to be an English major, dad.
life is suffering.