What's your major?

[scrivener]

Those of you who went through post-secondary studies: What was your major?

Mine was English. I've taken post-baccalaureate courses in Education, and will probably get my Master's in Secondary Ed. Sometime.

[aleno]

I majored in Business Administration. I minored in fire science, can you believe it. I worked as an administrator for a nursing home but quit that to be a firefighter, then I got hurt and now I might start my own business,

[pzarquon]

After brief flings in other disciplines, I ended up pursuing (although "pursue" is a strong verb for what I was doing) a Journalism degree. I eventually got it, just before the whole UH Journalism Department was swallowed up and turned into one of a group of smaller "programs" - alongside public relations, for example - in the Communications Department.

So, of course, I now work in a bank.

I minored in fire science, can you believe it.Man, where were those classes when I was in school. I can only imagine the homework... :D

[adrian]

Right now, I'm taking my IT major @ Heald. I might get my medical major after (if the draft doesn't "take me"-more details later).

[kukui_nut]

One of those generic "Liberal Studies" BA's from Manoa.

Liberal Studies = cannotdecidesojustgivemethatstupidpieceofpaperasIh aveenoughcreditsalready...

[malia]

I got my bachelor's in Hawaiian Studies (minor in language) and after a semester of trying different introductory classes for several master's programs...I decided to go into Immersion so I got a Masters in Elementary Education. However, I would leave the thankless job of teaching in a second to go into something like working in the archives or something...wasted two years of college life, I tell ya! :(

[Timster]

Radiologic Technology

[808_m3]

Majored in the electrical engineering program at UH Manoa. After finishing up and having a small break (much needed break, after several 18 credit semesters), moved to the SF bay area.

[kamlost]

Business Ad. I'm looking at different post-graduate courses though.

[Russ Roberts]

I somehow graduated from Kahuku High and headed forUH-Manoa in '62. I took two degrees in education (BEd and MEd) and one in Library and Information Sciences. I minored in Russian. 'Used that skill in the Air Force and then stumbled back into radio after a stint at KTUH-FM in the early '70's. My spouse is the real brains in the outfit..she 's the school librarian at Laupahoehoe school and knows just about everything. I now work in radio on the Big Island. I must be nuts...but living along the Hamakua Coast is worth the long hours and weird callers.

[Linkmeister]

I somehow graduated from Kahuku High and headed forUH-Manoa in '62. I took two degrees in education (BEd and MEd) and one in Library and Information Sciences. I minored in Russian. 'Used that skill in the Air Force and then stumbled back into radio after a stint at KTUH-FM in the early '70's. My spouse is the real brains in the outfit..she 's the school librarian at Laupahoehoe school and knows just about everything. I now work in radio on the Big Island. I must be nuts...but living along the Hamakua Coast is worth the long hours and weird callers.

Darn, Russ, if only the board displayed Cyrillic! I had two years of Russian in high school, which now means I can say "Strasvooitye" (badly transliterated), and there's also a librarian in the family.

[Linkmeister]

Oh, put me down for B.S.Bus. Adm. at HPU back in 1979.

[Russ Roberts]

Thanks (or is it "spasscee-bo?) Linkmaster for the reply. My speaking ability in Russian is down, but I can still read reasonalbly well. Every so often I can work in the Russian when I talk with other Russians via ham radio....been a ham (radio and otherwise) for many years. I always enjoy your comments. I use this spot to escape the weird world of radio...Aloha...

[Glen Miyashiro]

Darn, Russ, if only the board displayed Cyrillic!
This board seems to support Unicode, so I suspect you can. For example: Спасибо!

I cut-and-pasted that from somebody's web page. You can also hunt-and-peck using the Character Map application if you're in Windows; don't know whether MacOS has an equivalent.

[Linkmeister]

Well I'll be darned. No, thanks, though; hunt-and-peck with Character Map is not worth the trouble. ;)

[j3rr3y]

Darn, Russ, if only the board displayed Cyrillic! I had two years of Russian in high school, which now means I can say "Strasvooitye" (badly transliterated), and there's also a librarian in the family.

я немного понимаю русского

thats awesome... i am learning Russian too.. im actually joining the Army as a linguist to learn it.. I ship off in November :)

edit: I used a "virtual keyboard" to write that russian.

[AuntieNellieKulolo]

I double-majored in German and Art History at UHM(with a Certificate in French on the side), got my first MA in Art History at Columbia, temped and bummed around a few years(2 of them in Venice, Italy so I could actually see what I had been studying)then decided I actually needed a skill besides knowing how to answer the question "Wo is der Markusplatz?" so went back to UHM for my second Master's in Library & Info Science.

[Miulang]

Undergrad, I started as a premed at Antioch College in Ohio, then I transferred to the University of Utah, where I received a BS in Journalism (heehee isn't that an appropriate degree?). Bummed around in publishing and fundraising in Boston for 10 years, moved to Seattle, went into the Masters of Health Admin program at the U of Washington and don't really use any of what I learned (except for the writing part).

Miulang

[alohalani]

Hawaiian Studies and Anthropology...*gulps* Sophmore at KCC for A.A. before transferring to U.H. My dream job in my fantasy world? Rearching in archives. (don't pinch me and wake me up)

[Lisa808]

I got my BA in English Literature at a university in Japan and went to ISS interpreter training school for 4 years in Japan to become an EN-JP interpreter/translator specializing in technology. :rolleyes:

[Pelix]

English as well.. :/ not really my choice though

[homesick]

I'm majoring in philosophy right now, but I'm considering switching majors, because I'm unsure about what kind of grad school I want to attend... I may possibly do some sort of pre-med degree. :confused:

philosophy is an awesome field, it is very good for strengthening communication and thinking skills, but alas, it is not very pragmatic, obviously.

[1stwahine]

1stwahine,momthreesoldiers,ND ONLY OF life!

[zztype]

BS/Computer Information Systems. Begun at the age of 51, after 30 years of experience! I hope to graduate by Spring '05. Yow!

[Miulang]

BS/Computer Information Systems. Begun at the age of 51, after 30 years of experience! I hope to graduate by Spring '05. Yow!
Eh, congrats to you! You get plenty going foa you. Us makule kine peeps sometimes tink we ova da hill and no can start anyting new, but you definitely one inspiration!

Miulang

[AbsolutChaos]

Those of you who went through post-secondary studies: What was your major?

Mine was English. I've taken post-baccalaureate courses in Education, and will probably get my Master's in Secondary Ed. Sometime.


Major: Circulation Technology
Minor: English

Love English,but decided the medical route would be a little more stable for my future...

[kamapuaa]

I got a B.S. in Geology and Geophysics from UHM. Now I am a computer nerd. Oh well, at least there are active volcanoes on this island. :D

[kimo55]

" Re: What's your major?"

Houlihan

[spoon]

I'm at Haverford, a small liberal arts college in Pennsylvania. I'm majoring in anthropology, but I don't know if that means I get a BA in Liberal Arts or in Anthropology... Also minoring in biology and East Asian studies. I heart biology! :D

[terramera]

majoring in: art!
hmmm, not what am I going to do with it? I'm planning on going into graphic design.

[Serenity]

Well.....
If you must know.....

My plans are to persue sign language courses(where ever possible),
to be able to be an interpreter for the deaf. ;)
So, there. :D

P.S. When I do learn my kickboxing skills,
someday, if I can, I hope to teach that
in the next generation of new students. ;)

Aloha. :cool: