so i'm a psych major and people say a lot of crap about the major itself and i agree...it's nothing prestigious, but you can actually do a lot of things with it (granted you go on to higher education). i was just wondering what you think the biggest waste-of-time degree is. i'm gonna go with the women and gender studies..or whatever that new one is.

11/14/2006 12:48:17 AM

i'll go with any degree offered here

11/14/2006 1:12:43 AM

sociology

11/14/2006 3:05:41 AM

everyone always makes fun of chemical engineering majors

11/14/2006 7:40:54 AM

why?

it's sooooooooo easy

11/14/2006 7:48:47 AM

Turf management?

11/14/2006 7:56:04 AM

my sister was a womens studies major at duke and went on to dental school at unc, so i think if you're going to do something like go to prof school, it really doesn't matter what you major in. Might as well do somehting your interested in unlike most other people!

11/14/2006 8:32:09 AM

A degree is only as useful as what you do with it, and what you learned/did outside of the classroom. Many degrees are perceived as being a joke/ridiculously easy because they appear so on the surface; dig a bit further, and they are a lot more complex than most people would think. Again, depends on what a person decides to do with it in/out of the classroom. That being said, I could argue any degree is a joke and defend it with some validity.

11/14/2006 8:46:22 AM

I always thought Parks Recreation & Tourism sounded like a huge joke.

11/14/2006 10:16:40 AM

^
yeah my brother takes tests about playgrounds. supposedly PRT is the easiest major at state. i read it somewhere.

11/14/2006 10:49:37 AM

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"so i'm a psych major and people say a lot of crap about the major itself and i agree"

so are you just trying to feel better about the major you're in?

the obvious choice is business/management, women studies is a close second


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11/14/2006 10:50:49 AM

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"Parks Recreation & Tourism"

i know a guy who dropped out of ae to this.. wtf. why would anyone take this? its bullshit majors like this that pulls the rank of our school down.

^the obvious choice is not business. if you think business majors are a joke then you're a fool.

11/14/2006 11:16:04 AM

^^ While that may have been true at Sac State, it's not so at NC State. There are a ton of opportunities for bus/mgmt and other COM degrees at State. So I would have to give you some props for trying to provoke people with your joke, but have to disagree with your choices if you're being serious.

11/14/2006 11:19:14 AM

isn't business where all of the engineering rejects go?

11/14/2006 11:32:13 AM

i knew some people who dropped out of engineering and went with business. i laughed at them. i didn't laugh at the major. i laughed at them because i knew they probably wouldn't like it and i was right.

a business major can get you real successful, only if you like the major. even if it is a place for rejects to go, the major isn't a joke.

11/14/2006 11:45:02 AM

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"isn't business where all of the engineering rejects go?"

no it's where the people go who want to make a decent living and not go to class with 50 guys all day long

11/14/2006 12:50:51 PM

^It's where the Mrs. degree candidates go.

11/14/2006 12:58:35 PM

^ Food science major caught my brother that way.

11/14/2006 1:20:31 PM

MEA

11/14/2006 1:24:52 PM

^x4. hah. How'd I know you were a business major.

11/14/2006 2:25:38 PM

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" so are you just trying to feel better about the major you're in?"

i could care less. i already have what i want to do mapped out.

11/14/2006 3:08:49 PM

Film Studies.

11/14/2006 3:29:59 PM

i'm a former business major and finishing my mba...i never even had to look for a job, i was able to pick where i wanted to work and will be making a good amount of money with a fun job.

there are lots of engineers getting their mba that say engineering was much easier than the business classes we have.

try auditing 500 level business classes if they're "a joke"

11/14/2006 3:31:52 PM

business

11/14/2006 3:43:56 PM

buddy of mine graduated from state in parks, rec, and tourism and is making $95,000 with a professional baseball team. graduated 2 years ago. not bad.

11/14/2006 4:05:40 PM

Lets see...
https://packtracks.ncsu.edu/scripts/RegRec/ada_dgtt.pl?college=ALL_DEG

Communications
Professional Golf Maganement
Religious Studies
Sports Management
Turf Grass Science

and finally for the rascist/sexist pig in me:
Africana Studies
Womens and Gender Studies

11/14/2006 4:10:24 PM

I'm thinking about changing my major to Religious Studies

11/14/2006 6:01:19 PM

Business major ain´t no joke, fool. Graphs and shit and benjamins up the ying yang poo poo river.

11/14/2006 6:41:05 PM

Biochem is a joke...switch to that.

11/14/2006 7:12:15 PM

turf is not hard to get into, its hard to graduate from though. alot of the negative stuff about turf comes from the 2 year program.

11/14/2006 8:49:50 PM

^why hard to graduate?

11/14/2006 9:00:10 PM

Anything you can get a job with right after graduating is not a joke, thus my answer is history and English.

11/14/2006 9:03:56 PM

^ I bet those english and history grads can get a job as cashers!

11/14/2006 10:02:12 PM

let the profession wars begin!

11/14/2006 10:08:29 PM

Computer and Electrical engineering

11/14/2006 10:54:29 PM

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"I bet those english and history grads can get a job as cashers!"

or maybe the english grad can get a job as a cashier

11/14/2006 11:49:43 PM

and yet they still cant count correct change

11/15/2006 12:02:16 AM

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"Biochem is a joke...switch to that."

yeah i heard that's what lazy worthless shitface homosexuals major in

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"no it's where the people go who want to make a decent living and not go to class with 50 guys all day long"

hellz yeah

11/15/2006 12:17:51 AM

A old roommate switched to PRT(couldnt make it as an engineer) and has long graduated. He actually likes it, was a avid golfer, did a internship at a golf course(you have to do an internship) and i think now he is working at some city rec as manager or something. So he did use the degree.

11/15/2006 2:08:51 AM

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"there are lots of engineers getting their mba that say engineering was much easier than the business classes we have. "

The MBA classes are a lot of work, but I find them easier than my jr- and sr-level EE classes.

11/15/2006 2:49:33 AM

also probably has do to with the fact that things like public speaking and other social skill aspects of a business/MBA program are scary to most of the introverted engineer types, and in general requires a completely different way of thinking, which can be hard for many engineers.

11/15/2006 7:17:34 AM

^^,^
More work, not as difficult as my technical courses in CSC/ST. Difference to me, you can see/arrive at the end of the tunnel (assignment), whereas you could get hopelessly stuck on a program/proof. Though this isn't representative of the population of MBA classes, the one I'm enrolled in is 55% introverts, with the dominant MBTI being ISTJ's. I'd wager about half the people in there are engineers of some sort.

Back to topic, anybody pointing out that major X is a joke, I have yet to see evidence proving that. I know it's bashing in good fun, but I'd like to see somebody actually looking up WHY major X is a joke, instead of ignorantly assuming so.

11/15/2006 7:43:03 AM

American Studies

(do they have it at NCSU?)

11/15/2006 8:33:31 AM

Biggest Joke of a degree at State is LTH or the History Education Major. It'll take you 4 years just to get into your regular required education classes and 3 years after that to graduate.

11/15/2006 1:40:59 PM

i know a history major that is now a VP of College Board. "Its not always about what degree you get but how good you are in what you want to do" thats what he says. I think PRT is a joke...i took one PRT class and its an easy A.

11/16/2006 3:30:28 PM

i agree with whoever said that no matter how "easy" a major is, its what you do with it that counts

that being said, i was a PRT major/BUS minor

11/16/2006 10:05:34 PM

i always have to defend media communications and film studies

pretty useful if you get into televison, but state could definitely improve upon both programs and introduce more actual production-end courses

11/16/2006 10:57:28 PM

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"Biochem is a joke...switch to that."

FU! [nervous breakdown]

I shoulda stayed in CHASS...

11/20/2006 5:23:48 AM

Philosophy isn’t the most vocational major, but I’ve rarely seen it dragged through the mud the way you see with other CHASS majors. Except for being a professor or going into law, and the occasional company that hires an ethicist or newspaper/magazine that wants a philosophy/ethics column, there aren’t many philosophy jobs. I mean it sets you above people without college degrees, so its alright.

11/20/2006 8:03:02 AM

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