So what do/did you study in college? Did you bother with college?

[BiggusGeekus]

My Dad worked at a University (staff, not faculty) so I got to go for free.

I dropped out with one semester left. That was pretty stupid in hindsight. I should have just gotten a job and gone part time if classes were driving me nuts.

However, what I did gain was what life is like without a college degree having all but earned a college degree. Even with one history and management course remaining, empolyers treated me as a guy who just barely made it past high school. When I finished up my degree, employers treated me like I had just gained 20 IQ points. I want to stress that my degree was in computers and my last courses taken were history and management. There was nothing distinguishing my skill set in the months before gaining my degree and after.

It may be just a piece of paper, but it is an important one to a lot of other people.

As an aside: my grades shot up when I started using flash cards and resorting to rote memorization. If you can zip through the test questions that are multiple choice and one line answers, you can spend more time on the essay (or code sample) questions. Also, for any project, save the last 10% of the time allotted to you to making the project pretty. I saw some team projects that were worthless but got As because the professor was stunned by the color and layout. This holds true in the buisness world as well.

 

[Alhazred]

A B.A. in Honours Medieval Studies (which is a fancy way of saying I took ten additional courses and had to maintain a higher GPA), followed by an M.A. in Elizabethan History. I came close to attaining a minor in English but I decided to take one more shot at Latin.

 

[EricNoah]

Was gonna go into some kind of engineering, as I'd done well in advanced science courses in high school.

But I'd also done well in advanced English courses in high school. On the day I selected my first courses for college, I changed my future by deciding to major in English. And since I didn't know what I would do with an English degree, I decided to go for Secondary Education (English).

Later, when I wanted to be a school librarian, I knew I would need a master's degree because that's what's required for the state license. And so I did that.

I'm in a job directly tied to my education, which is a rarity these days I know. So it did all work out well for me.

 

[diaglo]

i studied beer & pretzels.

also navel lint.

 

[haiiro]

I got my Bachelor's in General Studies, which is more or less like having three minors and no major, with more upper-level courses (at least, that's what it was like at the University of Michigan when I got mine ). I studied English, art history and film theory, with Asian studies tying the three together.

Apart from doing freelance writing, there's no direct connection between my degree and my day job -- I chose my degree based on what I was interested in, since I didn't know where I was headed. The logical choice would be teaching, which just doesn't interest me.

 

[bubbalin]

I just finished a degree in Civil engineering with honours(Yay). Fortunately, we can get student loans here in australia that are repaid through tax when you earn enough to cross the repayment threshold.

Been working a year and feeling the tug of university again... Even though I hate homework. I'm thinking MDiv, MA and MBA all sound interesting... Problem is my wife is going for her 3rd degree, and I'm currently earning the money.

My group
BE (IT), Masters Accounting (whatever that is listed as) finshing in a month.
BE (Electrical & Electronic), BS (Physics)
BS (Computer Science) Hons, PhD (Computer Science) hopefully finished by the end of this year.
BA (Asian studies and languages) hopefully finished this year
BA (History and something else...) Hons

Have had in my groups
BE (E&E), BS (Physics) Hons
BE (Environmental), BA (Asian Studies)
Whatever a medicine degree is denoted as...
guy who is working on a BE and BA simultaneously and has a couple years of medicine behind him.

Yeah, we're a prettty highly educated bunch...

 

[Tanager]

Study in college? I don't get it.

You know, those things you spent brain power on, like drinking beer and chasing skirts.

In addition to the above I managed to get a BFA (Bachelor of F*** All) in Studio Arts (mostly painting and printmaking) with enough extra credits to qualify for a minor in linguistics.

 

[Vrecknidj]

Me: AS (Physics and math, mostly), BA (Philosophy, minors in religion and math), MA (Philosophy, emphasis on epistemology and metaphysics)

My other gamers
Rod: BS (Industrial design)
Dan: AS (Industrial stuff)
Kevin: AS (science), BS (Computers, minors in chemistry and criminal justice)
Paul G: BS (Engineering)
Paul C: No college
Bob: No college (well, one trigonometry class)
Barry: BS (Engineering)
Robin: No college--Coast Guard for life
Chad: BA (Business)
Alex: Four semesters, one class per term (he's only 15)
AP: Still in high school

 

[barsoomcore]

In university, I learned almost everything I know.

About girls, that is.

Spent, um, a long time getting a frickin' ENGLISH degree. I mean, like eight years or something. I was stoned for a lot of it, and drunk for a lot of it, and incredibly obsessed over a series of troublesome women for a lot of it, and I think I just about nearly drove my mom completely insane. But I married the last (and most troublesome) of the troublesome women, and now I have the word "Manager" in my job title, so she's ALMOST forgiven me for never going to law school.

She got all excited when one of the troublesome women convinced me to write the LSAT and I did okay on it. HUGE disappointment for her that instead I went to Japan to learn how to sword-fight.

One day, though, she'll get attacked by a bunch of samurai and her little boy'll be there to save her, and THEN her tune will be a little different. I'm telling you.

 

[Desdichado]

One day, though, she'll get attacked by a bunch of samurai and her little boy'll be there to save her, and THEN her tune will be a little different. I'm telling you.

C'mon, man! Samurai are supposed to be all honorable and funky hairstyled and all that. They don't go around attacking random middle-aged Canadian women. It's the ninjas you have to watch out for. Those sneaky bastards will jump anybody.