ITT: Classes that are absolutely pointless.

[[JAC]Marylinn]

My major was religious studies

Geez, if you were going to get a useless degree, should have gone for something easier like psychology.

[Sinestro]

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.

Right. It's called your general ed requirements. Everyone has to go through them, but I've never seen a college where part of the psychology degree was Trigonometry. That just doesn't click.

Unless it was like "take 3 general math courses in scaling order" to where if you started at a high level you'd have to take only higher level math classes, but that just seems backwards.

[[HZoo]magnakaser]

Geez, if you were going to get a useless degree, should have gone for something easier like psychology.

Decent burn aside, (though to be honest, any non-science degree can fit into that mold.) it's actually a very good major for going to law school, which was the original plan. But maybe more importantly, it's what I actually enjoyed studying. Instead I ended up going to grad school (oh noez) for one of my minors.

Now start flamin' that life decision, it's even easier!

[SyKot]

wtf is wrong with learning more.

[[JAC]Megumijk]

wtf is wrong with learning more.

Classes where you learn nothing are deemed worthless.

Having to attend classes for worthless subject matter is a huge waste of time. It's not something I'm looking forward to with college.

[SyKot]

Classes where you learn nothing are deemed worthless.

Having to attend classes for worthless subject matter is a huge waste of time. It's not something I'm looking forward to with college.

Ye I said that but I skip boring classes :P

[[BETA]Warchamp7]

English. It's just retarded these days. Or rather the kids are.

Half the people in my Grade 12 English course didn't know when to use which forms of there/their/they're, too/to/two etc.

English should focus on spelling and grammar. Reading stuff like Shakespeare and analyzing it should be it's own course in High School.

[[JAC]Marylinn]

Right. It's called your general ed requirements. Everyone has to go through them, but I've never seen a college where part of the psychology degree was Trigonometry. That just doesn't click.

Unless it was like "take 3 general math courses in scaling order" to where if you started at a high level you'd have to take only higher level math classes, but that just seems backwards.

I didn't say trigonometry in particular was part of my degree, I said there are classes involved in my degree that are worthless to me.

I already have 2 credits in calculus from AP in high school, so trigonometry was the next gen ed level math available. I don't know how you confused the two things.

[[TZUL]Narfle]

How far are you in your psychology education btw marylinn?

And if you need any test subjects, i wouldnt mind lending a hand, im diagnosed as a schizophrenic, and I dont really use my time that constructively anyway.

[[Sav2]Qwernakus]

I think i would prefer Latin over German. Though, its not pointless (I live in Denmark, we learn German or french as a third language.

[[TZUL]Narfle]

I agree with you so much fellow viking, i would have loved to have latin instead of german.

You can has cheezburger now.

[LolMaliken]

SyKot, the fact that i dont wanna take useless classes isnt because i dont wanna broaden my horizon, its because classes are 1500 bucks a pop + books and that **** adds up quick. im an audio major and although id say "study of the music industry" sounds like a useful class, we watched movies based around studios for 11 weeks -_-' then i had intro to audio which we went over the difference of a SM58 and a SM57 (2 mics, literally the difference is a grill on the top) and im 3 classes ahead of where i should be as pre-reqs are going and they want me to go back, even though im comin out with A's.... im in studio acoustics and they want me to go back and take intro to sound... wtfffffff!!!!! and even though i gotta take a trig class (understandable to know the math's and stuff's) but i gotta take geometry as well.... why do i need to know how to graph? anything i would do that takes graphing is programmed INTO THE SOUND BOARD.... stupid college.

[[JAC]Marylinn]

How far are you in your psychology education btw marylinn?

And if you need any test subjects, i wouldnt mind lending a hand, im diagnosed as a schizophrenic, and I dont really use my time that constructively anyway.

Even though this is technically still my sophomore year, I'm done with my major once I finish my general ed. (Trig, biology, and one more science credit which I haven't picked yet. Probably astronomy.) I was fortunate enough to get a LOT of my general ed out of the way in high school via the AP program, so my freshman year was a prime time to get as many credit hours as possible towards my actual degree.

I don't want to graduate early, so I'm spending senior year on my minor, which is journalism.

[LolMaliken]

my high school i was either ditching, drunk or didnt give a ****/sleeping. i rly wish now that i payed attention and took AP classes when they were free >.<

[[S2]Kros]

Even though this is technically still my sophomore year, I'm done with my major once I finish my general ed. (Trig, biology, and one more science credit which I haven't picked yet. Probably astronomy.) I was fortunate enough to get a LOT of my general ed out of the way in high school via the AP program, so my freshman year was a prime time to get as many credit hours as possible towards my actual degree.

I don't want to graduate early, so I'm spending senior year on my minor, which is journalism.

I'm jealous. I wish my high school would've provided those kinds of options.

[Targuil]

Literature, Swedish (mandatory in Finland -.-), psychology, arts, music.

[[JAC]Marylinn]

I'm jealous. I wish my high school would've provided those kinds of options.

You live in the US. It's a federal program. You just have to seek it out.

[[S2]Kros]

You live in the US. It's a federal program. You just have to seek it out.

What? I was under the impression that the school had to offer the AP classes to the students.

We had AP Bio, AP Calc (which was just calc 1), and AP English.

[Zulukas]

Honestly, I'd have to say calculus is pretty useless unless its directly related to your chosen profession. I'm training to become an electric engineer and although I'm only like 1.5 years into my college, I can only see calc being useful if your going to be a scientist and researching all the time. I had to use multivariable\vector calc in my last physics class (electricity & magnetism) and 90% of the practical stuff we learned in the class were basic formulas that didn't have any differential equations or integration. and 90% of the forumulas that we personally derived (to prove the easier formulas we already knew) was the only time we used the calculus we learned.

although... I gotta admit that I really do enjoy calculus, if I could major in it and get a respectable well paying job with it (not re-teaching it) I'd go math major, but there just isn't much demand for a math major.

[[S2]Kros]

Honestly, I'd have to say calculus is pretty useless unless its directly related to your chosen profession. I'm training to become an electric engineer and although I'm only like 1.5 years into my college, I can only see calc being useful if your going to be a scientist and researching all the time. I had to use multivariable\vector calc in my last physics class (electricity & magnetism) and 90% of the practical stuff we learned in the class were basic formulas that didn't have any differential equations or integration. and 90% of the forumulas that we personally derived (to prove the easier formulas we already knew) was the only time we used the calculus we learned.

although... I gotta admit that I really do enjoy calculus, if I could major in it and get a respectable well paying job with it (not re-teaching it) I'd go math major, but there just isn't much demand for a math major.

I can't say for sure, since I'm doing CS and not EE. But, from what I do know about EE...I'm purty sure you'll be using plenty of calc in the future.

Again, I don't know for sure.

Double major in EE and Math =P.