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    Thankfully I managed to get out of having to take a foreign language by testing out of Spanish. It used to annoy me that my mother didn't know how to speak English, but now I'm glad that it saved me a grand and a half.

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    well, I'm in Biostatistics right now...which I'd normally be fine with, but back in highschool I took statistics and exempted it in college.

    Only problem is that technically Biostatistics is different than statistics so ECU didn't give me credit.

    ITS THE SAME MATH BUT WITH MEDICAL EXAMPLES COME ONNNN I KNOW THIS STUFF. Oh well...I'll just surf the forums during class.

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    Library "science"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sinestro View Post
    Who takes classes they aren't planning on using?

    Highschoolers?

    Cause I had 6 solid years of pretty much nothing but Music and Teaching classes, with the first two having the general history/composition/math bullshit that every general arts degree requires.
    There are two different aspects to psychology. The math is very useful if you are interested in studying the brain more scientifically. However, if you are interested in becoming a therapist, most of that information is largely useless.

    So to answer your question, people who study broad fields sometimes end up taking classes they don't plan on using.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marylinn View Post
    There are two different aspects to psychology. The math is very useful if you are interested in studying the brain more scientifically. However, if you are interested in becoming a therapist, most of that information is largely useless.

    So to answer your question, people who study broad fields sometimes end up taking classes they don't plan on using.
    And a lot of fields of work have on site training or just take easily learned knowledge from work experience, but yet have ridiculous requirements in the way of certs and degrees.

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    Yeah man! **** the dissemination of knowledge! It sucks Bro! Screw school!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ldelusionl View Post
    Yeah man! **** the dissemination of knowledge! It sucks Bro! Screw school!
    So you like how many state tests you take? And you like spending that whole year of school studying for the test, which happens to have SOME information that is actually teaching you something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kros View Post
    The classes I'm taking now (JPN101, Data Structures, Calc) are all fine but, looking down the line there are some very ew classes coming up.

    I did *not* like Trig, I gotta say.
    How could you not like Trig?

    FREE CREDITS AND GRADES.

    It's the easiest maths out there. I still sometimes forget 8x7.. but that's me.
    XD

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ularg View Post
    So you like how many state tests you take? And you like spending that whole year of school studying for the test, which happens to have SOME information that is actually teaching you something.
    I stopped reading when you said "Studying" for state tests...

    You sure you live in the United States? Can't be...

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    Quote Originally Posted by ldelusionl View Post
    I stopped reading when you said "Studying" for state tests...

    You sure you live in the United States? Can't be...
    Studying (IE: Classes, not actually studying).

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    Quote Originally Posted by xMonodo View Post
    How could you not like Trig?

    FREE CREDITS AND GRADES.

    It's the easiest maths out there. I still sometimes forget 8x7.. but that's me.
    XD
    Was never any good at math, personally. I'm actually abysmally bad at it. I'm honestly lucky I manage to balance my own checkbook sometimes.

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    i hate school.

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    Religious Education.

    Why kids in England get this rather than say... logic and philosophy, I'll never know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Megumijk View Post
    Religious Education.

    Why kids in England get this rather than say... logic and philosophy, I'll never know.
    Doesn't religious education really fall under the same umbrella as "history?"

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    history can be about past events like ww 1 and 2.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lamer883 View Post
    history can be about past events like ww 1 and 2.
    Well yes, but I pretty clearly remember covering lots of religious content in world history. Perhaps it's just not as in depth?

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    yea. it is just about studying the textbooks and writing any factor that corressponds.

    at least it is like this here

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marylinn View Post
    Doesn't religious education really fall under the same umbrella as "history?"
    Absolutely not.

    It's a study of the practices and beliefs of various religions.

    Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Judaism, Hindu and Sikhism respectively.

    The only time religion is mentioned in the English history books is Henry VIII founding the Church of England and the religious persecutions caused by the monarchs that followed....and the Crusades, obviously but that's more World History than English History.

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    That IS really stupid. Wow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marylinn View Post
    That IS really stupid. Wow.
    My major was religious studies

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