If you could go back to school, all expenses paid on the condition you get a degree with a decent GPA, what would you study? What would be the most useful?

What if you knew you'd also knew you'd get 750 k for completing the degree? (Enough so that you don't have to make the degree vocationally focused) What would you study? What would be the most interesting?

It can be a bachelors, masters, phd, certificate program, or what have you.

10/26/2010 1:02:44 PM

doctor of letters

10/26/2010 4:45:49 PM

Master's of the Universe.

10/26/2010 5:35:53 PM

Med school.

10/26/2010 6:05:43 PM

I would stay in my current Engineering program and continue on to get my PhD. I would also try to transfer to another school in a different state that I have more interest in. I would need a supplemental income to help support my family so I would not have to worry about the full time job I also work...

10/26/2010 9:43:36 PM

ma in health advocacy

10/26/2010 10:31:35 PM

Practical: PhD in statistics -- and make sure I went to a "name" school.
For fun: Geology, or forestry, or maybe a PhD in Lonnie Thompson's glaciology group where I could do significant field work. Just something where I could work outside.

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10/27/2010 1:56:22 AM

part of me says go back and finish my math and physics (feels like unfinished business)

but today's qntmfred wants to do robotics and machine learning

10/27/2010 10:12:46 AM

For a career, I am glad I picked Mech Eng.

If it was purely out of interests and I wouldn't have to worry about money it would have been something dealing with music most likely or literature in a close 2nd.

10/27/2010 10:19:32 AM

Meteorology (which I should have done in the first place) and then be the first to drive into an F5 intentionally.. may as well go balls to the wall haha

10/27/2010 3:36:52 PM

The one I'm getting now

For fun: basket weaving (or studio art)

10/27/2010 5:40:55 PM

PGA Golf Management

10/27/2010 8:06:11 PM

If it was free, I might continue on to a PhD rather than stopping at a Masters which would increase the utility of it somewhat. If I never had to worry about money again and had to choose what to study for fun I think I'd get all kinds of random electives that in no way make a coherent degree (some maybe a Masters in Liberal Studies)

Although history &/or english could be fun if I wasn't worrying about a job.

10/27/2010 11:47:23 PM

I'd go to UNC (I'd wear red every day to keep my soul pure) for a Master's in library science.

10/28/2010 12:12:13 AM

something in computers probably (CSC/Comp Engr)

or others....

Environmental engr
Mechanical/Aero engr
Nukuler engr
Business Admin

10/28/2010 12:53:00 AM

As an English major, I would use this opportunity to pursue my other passions that were overshadowed:

1) Meteorology
2) Aerospace Engineering
3) Computer Science

But assuming I can maintain a decent living on my current degree and future degrees in the same field, and since you sweetened the deal with 750k, I would consider doing Film Production or Design.

10/28/2010 2:38:29 AM

If I didn't have to earn money, get a JD and help students fight corruption in academia.

10/30/2010 9:24:30 PM

I wouldn't change it.

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10/31/2010 9:34:38 PM

Quote :

"As an English major, I would use this opportunity to pursue my other passions that were overshadowed: 1) Meteorology 2) Aerospace Engineering 3) Computer Science"

I apologize, but I chuckled pretty hard I'm a bad person.

I'd probably finish Aerospace Engineering (I chickened out and went computer science), or I'd do something in the marketing field. Tryin' to get that paper

10/31/2010 9:41:39 PM

If I didn't have to worry about making money, I'd want to pursue a phd in international history or anthropology at Columbia

10/31/2010 9:42:53 PM

phd in english

11/1/2010 12:45:07 AM

Quote :

"I apologize, but I chuckled pretty hard I'm a bad person."

What, because people with a humanities degree can't have possibly passed up genuine interests in science?

[Edited on November 1, 2010 at 1:23 AM. Reason : f]

11/1/2010 1:23:06 AM

^I have to agree. I'm an ME but in general have a much bigger interest in writing, music, and "arts" related stuff (hence my earlier post in here) as far as pure interests go. I decided what I thought to be a more logical "career" choice since I was paying a lot to go to college and that is how I ended up with an ME degree.

Now, that is certainly not the case with every humanities major and not with every engineering major, but there are definitely people in both my shoes and Netstorm's shoes (similar situations but we each chose a different path).

11/1/2010 8:56:44 AM

i'd finish my nutrition degree & get something in wildlife or whatever. i wanna be a park ranger in one of the big really pretty national parks. i just like nutrition.

11/1/2010 11:28:08 AM

MS or PhD in Materials Science

11/1/2010 12:03:10 PM

this question makes a lot more sense w/ just undergrad, so assuming that that is the question: i'd double major in applied math and computer science.

11/1/2010 12:51:51 PM

so you'd double major in applied math and applied math?

11/1/2010 2:35:22 PM

basically.

although i don't know if that's actually what i'd do. but it'd definitely be a double major containing two of: applied math, computer science, some engineering. maybe i'd just actually do the civil engineering/applied math double major that i signed up for but never took any extra classes towards . god what a mistake that was.

11/1/2010 7:50:28 PM

architecture or industrial design

i was a csc major

11/2/2010 11:35:39 AM

I'd go to vet school

or meteorology

11/2/2010 6:05:02 PM

if I could go back to school, all expenses paid... I'd be sooooooooo happy

and I'd go to med school

11/6/2010 5:12:36 PM

med school is one of those degrees that easily pays for itself, so i'm not sure why having it paid for would be the deciding factor...

11/6/2010 6:28:08 PM

Certainly not very useful career-wise, but honestly I would go back to be a History major.

11/7/2010 11:56:11 AM

Just saw this thread, whatever, I'll drag it back up.

Either economics or one of the high-demand languages, like Arabic, Urdu, or Mandarin.

Any of the above would be a bitch and a half but if I buckled down it would take me from the dim recesses of marginal employability and throw me to near enough the front of the pack.

12/24/2010 1:36:59 AM