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Comment by glitchc

12 days ago

I'm still stuck on how someone makes it through a history degree without enjoying reading.

when my senior year rolled around, I still didn't know what my major was going to be. I visited a guidance counselor, and she viewed all the classes I had inadvertently taken, and I'd fulfilled 3/4 of a History degree (a Southern History degree, no less - they offer it at my alma, Ole Miss). So I just went with that and read a few more William Faulkner novels : )

  • I went from an EE major to Aerospace. Realized I wasn't going to make it. At the same time the market for aerospace graduates was collapsing. But I did have enough math and programming credits to graduate with a CS degree. And dumped those aerospace credits into an Astronomy minor. Sometimes the degree picks you.

    • Funny how this goes in the US. Sounds like a better system, curriculum-wise. In Europe, in many cases, one would need to fully start over.