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Radical AC:

--- Quote from: StaedlerMars on 03 Mar 2011, 03:14 ---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.

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I hear about that stuff from time to time, and would love to do that myself.  I'm getting a Polysci degree next year, and am trying to figure out what undergrad CS classes I would need before a program would even look at me with a BA background.  I'm interested in medicine and computers (neural engineering type stuff) and was just considering trying for another bachelors degree in BME and moving on with that.  If I could skip a lot more undergrad stuff and move on I would absolutely prefer that.  Does anyone know much about doing that kind of thing?

Unrelated university thing.  My state legislature is voting if we(students) should be allowed to have guns on our campuses today.  :psyduck:

Coward:
That doesn't sound too good.

Lines:
I wrote some long thing about why humanities are important, but whatever. They give you a chance to use the other side of your brain and help your education to be more well rounded. And considering there are so many of them, suck it up and find something that interests you. (This "you" is a a general "you", not anyone specific.)

Elizzybeth:
I didn't mean to sound combative, clownshoe; I'm sorry if it came across that way.  And I don't think it's at all irrational to choose computer science over the humanities.  My boyfriend's getting his bachelor's in computer science, and he can make up to $100/hr coding blogs for people... with a Master's in English, I make about $12/hr.  I am trying to teach myself php so I can get small coding jobs on the side, because it's incredibly lucrative. If you choose to go into a field because you love it, you have to acknowledge the fact that you may not make as much as someone who does a trade that's in high demand. 

It was only your "betterment of society" comment that irked me, but I realize that you're simply parroting things you've been told.  And it only irked me because I've been told the same thing, many, many times.  So if you detected any bitterness in my tone, it was not directed at you but at thousands of years of people claiming society would be better if all those pesky artists and writers and actors and musicians would stop farting around do something worthwhile for once like fighting in a war or making Wordpress themes, goddamnit.

horsefish:
I'm currently working on a post-master's degree, mostly because at my current salary, I can't afford the payments on the student loans from my bachelor's and master's, and I don't have to make those payments as long as I am enrolled in school at least half time.  Of course, I'm taking more student loans to finance this degree, which will do little or nothing to enhance my salary.  :psyduck:

I'm basically a one-man academic pyramid scheme. 8-)

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