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2 out of the 3 professors I emailed Friday about rec letters have responded with a yes, thank goodness. Now I'm only worrying about the last one (the retired one), so if I don't get an answer after my next class, I'm going to the office to see if there's another way of contacting him. Granted, I have no idea what he's doing, so I may have to ask another faculty member which would be pretty bad. (Sanity wise.)
Joseph:
--- Quote from: greenMonkey on 27 Feb 2011, 17:38 ---English/Cultural Studies (which I assume means lots of critical theory) and Philosophy of Science are both mad interesting, but seemingly very distinct fields. What are you getting your bachelor's degree in?
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Neuroscience, with a minor in Linguistics, at McGill. I spend more time reading and discussing things which are far outside the scope of those fields than I devote to my schoolwork though. I read far in excess of anyone else I know, in my everyday life, and am pretty well versed in a large variety of fields as a result (try me if you really want). I'm helped further by the fact that the majority of my friends study things like cultural studies, philosophy, and political science, and are generally involved in radical politics and actions. Of course, a lot of this cultural literacy is not something which will show up on a transcript from McGill, though I have managed to get A's in an upper level philosophy class, an Italian cinema classes, and decently complex modernist poetry class which I've taken, and in each of those classes was mistaken for someone who was specializing in the particular field, and when the course was over told that I should continue my studies in that direction.
I'm by no means settled on what it is I want to do later, I just know it is going to be at least a fair bit disconnected from what I'm studying now, and I really have very little idea how graduate programs would react to such a complete turn around in subject matter, even if I got references.
StaedlerMars:
As far as I know most graduate programs let you do a pretty big change around in direction. My flatmate did his undergraduate degree in Philosophy and came here to do a Masters in Computer Science.
Nodaisho:
Yeah, my uncle got a bachelor's in some sort of music-related degree, and then went on to get an MD.
Barmymoo:
I just found out that since I left this year, I've been bumped off the room ballot and will be allocated a room as if I were an incoming first year. This is absolutely shitty news so I'm considering moving out. My own flat! Eeeeeeeeeeeee! And it seems financially viable because college rent is ridiculous.
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