What major would you have picked (if different from the current) and what else would you have done differently

2/14/2009 6:40:47 AM

My degree is in English Education. If I had to do college all over again, I would have gotten a degree in Child Development and Family Studies.

But I would have had to go to UNCCH or some other school for that degree program and I would have never met my husband.

2/14/2009 8:11:04 AM

I would probably have gone to dental school.

2/14/2009 8:21:26 AM

I would've chosen Political Science and then onward to Law School. In addition, I would've made sure that I had plenty of tutoring in Economics since I didn't understand it the first two times.

Now I'm a history graduate that's headed for law school. Wish me luck.

2/14/2009 8:21:31 AM

I don't think i'd change much, except maybe I would have done EE/CPE instead of CSC.

A few years ago, I would have answered that i'd have majored in finance and catered my development towards iBanking, but given the current wall street mess, that might not have ended well.

2/14/2009 9:11:42 AM

i would like to know a foreign language (but i'm fairly certain i wouldn't stick with learning it) and definitely would have done study abroad

would have kept my major at csc

2/14/2009 9:23:15 AM

Quote :

"I don't think i'd change much, except maybe I would have done EE/CPE instead of CSC. "

scratch that, reverse it.

ok, I dunno really. I'm fairly happy with what I did so far.

2/14/2009 9:40:18 AM

i would have kept the same major (EE), but probably would have gone to a different school

2/14/2009 9:47:37 AM

Stuck with idea of ME, or did CS.

[Edited on February 14, 2009 at 9:50 AM. Reason : /]

2/14/2009 9:49:31 AM

Would have majored in philosophy.

2/14/2009 10:20:38 AM

EE and ME

2/14/2009 10:27:15 AM

I'm ME but I would love to go back and prolly double major in ME/AE and with a hell of alot better grades and prolly minor in EE

[Edited on February 14, 2009 at 10:41 AM. Reason : ...]

2/14/2009 10:40:48 AM

i wouldn't have liked it, but i would have majored in business and minored in computers/networking of some sort. it'd be a lot more helpful than animal nutrition seeing as how i work for my dad at an architectural firm (eventually will be management). i would have liked to take some drafting classes, and plan on taking some at the community college, but i don't think state teaches many of those anyway.

i wouldn't have enjoyed business, but it'd be more helpful for sure.

2/14/2009 10:54:06 AM

I would have picked design.

2/14/2009 10:56:04 AM

i would have picked ME instead of EE

2/14/2009 11:12:15 AM

I would have chosen the same major, but i would have probably gone to CC FIRST and then transferred to NCSU. My main difficulty in college was not the course work, it was the adjustment coming from such a small-town atmosphere into the large college setting.

Secondly, I would have stuck it out. I was in too much of a hurry to join the workforce.

2/14/2009 11:27:00 AM

nothing different major related -- i would've studied a bit harder, and banged a few more sluts that i found morally objectionable at the time...

2/14/2009 11:32:08 AM

I'd have waited 1, maybe 2 years before going to school. I was in no way responsible enough to handle college at 18, and it showed. I probably should have taken a couple of semesters off to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail when I was around 20 instead of waiting 10 more years as well.

2/14/2009 11:49:28 AM

I should have gone into the navy for4 years. And then gone to college. I needed to do a lot of growing up back then. The discipline would have done me good.

^I did take a year off...and it was good and bad. The working world (and the level I worked at) sucked.

I'd still have picked mechanical engineering, but I would have gotten a lot more involved in everything, and I would have spent a lot more time working on school and a lot less time partying my ass off.

2/14/2009 12:00:45 PM

I would have picked nursing
I would have started studying spanish my first year
I would have learned about and stayed away from anyone like warren
I would have lived on campus my first year
I would have looked at colleges farther away (UNC [colorado, not that icky blue UNC] gave me a nice scholarship, but nothing that would have made up for having to pay out-of-state tuition)
-or-
I would have done the CC route for a year or two, and then transferred somewhere

2/14/2009 12:55:12 PM

I might have tried to double major in Spanish.

2/14/2009 12:56:09 PM

I'll let you know in about 10 years.

2/14/2009 1:00:36 PM

i would probably go back for Chemistry or something to that nature

2/14/2009 1:07:18 PM

would have started out as a bio major

2/14/2009 1:52:53 PM

i'd have gotten my shit straight a lot sooner than waiting till senior year

2/14/2009 2:06:12 PM

Gone to another school.
Not smoked weed and gotten kicked off campus my first night in the dorm.
Involved myself in campus activities and shit.
Gone to another school.

2/14/2009 2:12:11 PM

I would have chosen linguistics.

[Edited on February 14, 2009 at 2:14 PM. Reason : and maybe not skip so many classes]

2/14/2009 2:13:28 PM

i think i would have actually given more thought to my studies my freshman year while things were still really easy.

2/14/2009 2:18:02 PM

Instead of going into research, I would have gotten a bio degree with human nutrition concentration, and applied for nursing school.

Instead of now, where I am taking pre-reqs for nursing school that I missed under biochem (human anatomy, nutrition, psych, etc.)

2/14/2009 3:02:10 PM

I would've either done mechanical engineering again, or done poli sci or history. I'm not totally sure.

2/14/2009 3:26:12 PM

i'm currently getting my masters in Atmospheric Science

i'm an outdoors kind of guy. little did i know that meteorology mostly consists of being indoors behind a computer...so every time it's nice outside and i'm stuck in the office, i die a little bit on the inside

if i could go back and do it all over again, i would do Parks & Rec or Forestry so i could have a career working in the outdoors!

2/14/2009 3:45:11 PM

i definately would have gone pre-med, but chances are i'd be at a different school.

(currently ME major)

2/14/2009 4:27:15 PM

I probably would have done meteorology, moved to the midwest, and been one of those guys on that storm chasers show. Thats what I wanted to do growing up but I let the idea of money and such get the best of me and instead chose CPE and well that didnt exactly work out for the best either. So now I just live my dream vicariously through those guys on tv haha

2/14/2009 4:32:36 PM

I probably would have done construction management, however, my path led me to where I am now and I am pretty happy. hard to complain.

2/14/2009 4:51:52 PM

study something easy but good pay like business

2/14/2009 5:16:26 PM

i wouldnt have changed majors 3 times. I would have started where i finished and saved myself at least 2 years of school. I also would have done an internship or co-op.

2/14/2009 6:22:43 PM

would have done math and physics

2/14/2009 7:06:24 PM

I either would have gone to a smaller school and stayed in biology or double majored in Political Science and something like Business Management.

2/14/2009 7:07:15 PM

same major, but it would have gone into it early.

would have done study a broad or two.

would have taken more ap classes and transferable community college classes during high school.

2/14/2009 9:04:55 PM

I would have still gone to state and majored in Chemistry; but I would have used my electives to get a second degree in Science Education instead of waiting to do that later at a different school. I also would have NOT lived in University Towers and instead lived in a dorm!!

Oh and I would have taken advantage of the tutorial center for Physics 205 and 208 because I desperately needed help in those courses

[Edited on February 14, 2009 at 9:10 PM. Reason : add]

2/14/2009 9:08:43 PM

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"PHARM D PROGRAM"

they should hang that shit from the rafters

"YOU CAN IMMEDIATELY BE MAKING 125,000 JUST TO COUNT PILLS AT WALMART"

i don't know why anyone does anything else

2/14/2009 9:13:49 PM

yep. i would have attempted to go to pharmacy school for sure

2/14/2009 9:24:39 PM

hell, i'm almost 28 years old and i haven't ruled the shit out completely

2/14/2009 9:48:08 PM

I would have done my ABM in EE in 4 years instead of 4.5 and gotten the fuck out of raleigh sooner

2/14/2009 9:48:57 PM

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""YOU CAN IMMEDIATELY BE MAKING 125,000 JUST TO COUNT PILLS AT WALMART""

not at walmart. any other pharmacy sure, but not walmart.

i'm a pharm-d and from speaking to people that have worked there, they offer you the bottom of the barrel (as they do for everyone) when it comes to pay and benefits.

[Edited on February 14, 2009 at 9:51 PM. Reason : d]

2/14/2009 9:50:21 PM

wat
im sure there is a going rate for pharmacists and walmart pays what any other place does

2/14/2009 9:51:41 PM

I wouldn't have changed majored so much and would have saved 2 years.

2/14/2009 11:28:03 PM

i would have learned something like boat buildings or cooking.

i should still do that tho

2/14/2009 11:38:12 PM

Don't regret the major I chose, but I likely would have gone to nursing school...

Would have broken up with someone when the red flags started... Would have squashed some stupid girl drama earlier and done more to develop close friendships with some people...

2/14/2009 11:45:37 PM

my parents are both pharmacists and when i am visiting I hear recruiters and shit call .

cant say that happens as an engineer. then again my job isn't a living hell and I don't run a drive through.

2/15/2009 6:00:25 AM