If you could redo undergrad/grad school, would you change get a different degree?

[Seltzer Water]

i was talking with some friends the other day and I find that very few are happy with their degrees and would get something different if they could turn back the hands of time. My undergrad was biochemistry and I did two years of grad school in the same field and am now in the field of law, barely utilizing my degrees.

I would probably try to get a mathematics degree for undergrad and something else for grad

[xyzzy]

I did Anthro and Biochem for undergrad. I think I might have done Computer Science or maybe even EECS if I could do it over again. I ended up in Law, which I like and dont' think I would change, but I think I could have also been happy going in another direction.

[Gregory]

Fuck, no. My degrees got me a job four days after graduation and helped me stay in professional publications for ten years.

[Jonny Z]

i don't know if i woulda changed my majoring in film (maybe would have gone with tv at boston university...) but i more than likely would have chosen nyu's tish over BU and i definately would choose to stay awake through more classes

[Seltzer Water]

I did Anthro and Biochem for undergrad. I think I might have done Computer Science or maybe even EECS if I could do it over again. I ended up in Law, which I like and dont' think I would change, but I think I could have also been happy going in another direction.

did you find it easier to get into law with your science degree? from my experience, it facilitated the hiring process

[Ray G.]

Sort of, yeah. I did Psych and Education for my undergrad, but decided to give up on psych for Grad School because it's so damn competitive. Fortunately, I also had 30 credits in Social studies from my electives(virtually every elective I took was about history or politics), so I'm now pursuing a teaching degree as well as one in school counseling. I would have concentrated more on those areas and taken less Psychology courses.

[saymama]

i don't know if i woulda changed my majoring in film (maybe would have gone with tv at boston university...) but i more than likely would have chosen nyu's tish over BU and i definately would choose to stay awake through more classes



Omg! I wanted to go to tish my whole high school career! Then I meet Jeffery and wanted nothing but to follow him to the ends of the earth! Now I'm reading comic books. Did I get screwed on this deal?

[Troy Carlson]

Good Lord, yes!

English and French degree...what the hell was I thinking!?!

There are so many things I wish I would have studied. Architecture, Computer Science, Urban Planning...pretty much anything other than a freaking Liberal Arts degree.

Bleh.

[DrMachine]

i was talking with some friends the other day and I find that very few are happy with their degrees and would get something different if they could turn back the hands of time. My undergrad was biochemistry and I did two years of grad school in the same field and am now in the field of law, barely utilizing my degrees.

I would probably try to get a mathematics degree for undergrad and something else for grad

really? I thought you were a lawyer? or traininng to be one anyway...that would be the only other path I'd take (law)

otherwise I'm pretty happy, although I was at one time very down on my choices...it worked out though

[Jonny Z]

Omg! I wanted to go to tish my whole high school career! Then I meet Jeffery and wanted nothing but to follow him to the ends of the earth! Now I'm reading comic books. Did I get screwed on this deal?

and i thought my decision was bad, going to bu over tisch... :dunno:

[jason hissong]

No.


I would have changed other things- like where I went to school- but I don't think I could imagine having anything other than my English Lit (honors) diploma.

And I'm about ten months (or 22 months) from starting law school . . .


-jason

[Seltzer Water]

really? I thought you were a lawyer? or traininng to be one anyway...that would be the only other path I'd take (law)

otherwise I'm pretty happy, although I was at one time very down on my choices...it worked out though

I am in third year of law school. I went to UT Austin for grad school and worked in a lab where the Nazi professor threw chairs everytime a gel separation went bad. Decided staying in a lab was not for me and shuffled off to law school for patent law.

[xyzzy]

did you find it easier to get into law with your science degree? from my experience, it facilitated the hiring process

Sorta. Certainly, you stand out a bit against all of the history majors. A lot of people talked to me about going for the patent bar, but I wasn't really interested in that.

[DrMachine]

I am in third year of law school. I went to UT Austin for grad school and worked in a lab where the Nazi professor threw chairs everytime a gel separation went bad. Decided staying in a lab was not for me and shuffled off to law school for patent law.

hell the only reason I stayed in the molecular biology field is so that one day I could throw the chairs

[McAfee]

Maybe. I have two B.S. degrees: one in environmental biology and one in geography. I'm using them in my current position to an extent, but I've always thought I'd be better off with something like a nutrition/dietician background. And the env. bio degree was a major pain in the ass to get--something like 83 hours in science, plus a 12 hour (full-time) internship. That shit held me back in school for about a year. :x

[Seltzer Water]

hell the only reason I stayed in the molecular biology field is so that one day I could throw the chairs

my ex got her PhD in mol bio and decided that the chair was too heavy to throw and ended up in med school

[Seltzer Water]

Sorta. Certainly, you stand out a bit against all of the history majors. A lot of people talked to me about going for the patent bar, but I wasn't really interested in that.

at least you have the option to take the patent bar. Opens up more options

[xyzzy]

at least you have the option to take the patent bar. Opens up more options

Absolutely. That would still be the case with an EECS undergrad though. And I think I might have been better at it. It seems that we followed fairly similar career paths. I just wasn't cut out for the lab. I was good at theory, but practical labwork was my downfall.

[DrMachine]

my ex got her PhD in mol bio and decided that the chair was too heavy to throw and ended up in med school

HA

my path was pretty much the opposite...realized I couldn't deal with people and decided to work with molecules instead

[wabi-sabi]

I wouldn't change my undergrad, but I really regret the path my application to med. school has taken.

[MattJohnson]

I'm in college for philosophy, so if you ask me this question in a few years, I'm sure it will be yes. Assuming I get internet access in the gutter in which I'll be living.