What was/is your college major? And what college did you attend?

[TheHighwayMan3561]

University of Wisconsin-Superior, 2009-2013 with a BS in journalism.

[amroad17]

I majored in Management Information Systems at Old Dominion University, however, I only completed the equivalent of 3 years of college as I went part-time after my freshman year.  I ended up working in the restaurant industry as a manager for 30 years (along with working in the trucking industry as a driver for 8 years).

[GaryV]

... with a BS in journalism.

Journalism is a science?  I'd have thought that would be a BA degree.

[NWI_Irish96]

... with a BS in journalism.

Journalism is a science?  I'd have thought that would be a BA degree.

There are a lot of disciplines where one can get a BA or BS degree. Believe it or not, there is such a thing as a BA in mathematics.

[WillWeaverRVA]

I have a BS in biology from VCU. Wish I'd majored in chemistry instead, but the math would have kicked my ass.

Math kicking my ass is also why I haven't gone back to school for meteorology, even though I'm a hardcore weather enthusiast.

[7/8]

I got my BASc in Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo, class of 2018. It was a 5-year program with eight 4-month school terms and six 4-month co-op work terms.

[MikieTimT]

B.S.C.S.E. (Computer Systems Engineering) at the University of Arkansas.

Took a while to get through what with working while taking 15-16 hours, other than during the last semester's capstone course and taking Cal II twice due to being taught by a grad student the first time with as thick of a Chinese accent as you could possibly imagine.  Amazes me how little calculus I've had to use since graduating.  Like, none.

[1995hoo]

I have a BA in history, with a minor in religious studies, from the University of Virginia and a JD from Duke University.

[7/8]

Amazes me how little calculus I've had to use since graduating.  Like, none.

Same here

[bandit957]

I wasn't able to finish college, but I majored in radio/TV at Northern Kentucky University. I wanted to get into radio, but this of course was right when the 1996 Telecommunications Act murdered the radio industry.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

I wasn't able to finish college, but I majored in radio/TV at Northern Kentucky University. I wanted to get into radio, but this of course was right when the 1996 Telecommunications Act murdered the radio industry.

Would have thought you attended Bubblebama Pooniversity.

[Big John]

Amazes me how little calculus I've had to use since graduating.  Like, none.

Same here

No differential equations?

[US 89]

Math kicking my ass is also why I haven't gone back to school for meteorology, even though I'm a hardcore weather enthusiast.

As a current meteorology student at Georgia Tech, I can confirm the math is brutal. And it's not like some fields where you just have to take the math classes as a prerequisite for something else and then never use any of it again. In meteorology you actually use multivariable calc.

[gonealookin]

Amazes me how little calculus I've had to use since graduating.  Like, none.

Same here

No differential equations?

Heh.  I'm UC Berkeley, BA in Economics, Class of 1984.  I had a high school teacher telling me how important calculus was.  When I got to the third quarter of freshman calculus at Berkeley I looked around the lecture room and realized there was nobody but engineering students in there.  The calculus did help me in an advanced Econ/Statistics class later on, but I was on the liberal arts side of the Econ major so there was really no point in my taking that class and I instantly forgot everything I learned in it.  Yeah, for most people calculus beyond what you suffer through in high school is pretty pointless.  I do think the principles you learn in high school algebra (constructing a problem when there's an unknown and finding a solution) and geometry are useful in the real world.

[NWI_Irish96]

As someone who went through both a bachelor's and a master's program in math, I can tell you that anything in the continuous mathematics series beyond freshman calculus is really only useful if you're going into engineering or to get a PhD in math or physics.

Discrete math courses like Probability, Statistics, Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Set Theory are more useful, and to most people also more interesting.

[JayhawkCO]

This reminds me of my first semester at KU.  I had taken the AP Calc test in high school and gotten a 5, but I still thought I needed more math for my major (which was originally Engineering Physics).  So I signed up for Honors Calc II.  Turns out I didn't even need the credit, but enjoyed it a lot and got an A, so it was basically the worst/best GPA booster of all time.

Chris

[02 Park Ave]

Bachelor's degree from Manhattan College --- Electrical Engineering
Master's degree from Penn State --- Engineering Science

P.E. in PA

[jdb1234]

BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration) in Finance with a minor in Accounting from the University of Montevallo (graduated December, 2020)

I was an engineering major once upon a time, but never finished.

[Rothman]

A.A. General Studies

B.A. International Studies, Far East and Russian Concentration

M.P.P.A Master's in Public Policy and Administration

[catch22]

BS Civil Engineering, Michigan Tech