College Majors

[Yenke-Bin]

I just graduated with a degree in Poli Sci, and a Religious studies and spanish minor.

And I plan to start my path down the "Master of Divinity" degree, soon.

[Almajoya]

Music and Business.

"What are you going to do with that?" you ask.

Be a lawyer.

Don't worry about it now. It will make sense in the morning.

[Saint Clair Island]

Music and Business.

"What are you going to do with that?" you ask.

Be a lawyer.

Don't worry about it now. It will make sense in the morning.

Makes perfect sense. After all, it's not as though you need a law degree to become a lawyer.

[Neu Leonstein]

Lagrangian's are derived (in quantum theory) from symmetries and are useful due to a calculus of variations type model called the principle of least action. If economics uses calculus of variations, I'd imagine that there could be similar mathematical machinery involved.

I suspect in this case it's a matter of coincidence more than anything. Economics obviously makes a lot of use of optimisation techniques, so Hamiltonians, Lagrangians and Bellman Equations are part of the armory - but my particular equation had more to do with a consumer surplus (hence the integral) under continuous time discounting (hence the inverse exponential) and uncertainty (hence another exponential, this time a probability function).

[Greed and Death]

Music and Business.

"What are you going to do with that?" you ask.

Be a lawyer.

Don't worry about it now. It will make sense in the morning.

The under grad degree with the highest acceptance rate into law school is philosophy followed by math.
Thus far one of the lowest acceptance rates for law school I have seen is Pre Law. Especially if the school your undergrad degree is from doesn't have a law school.

[Ourobora]

Studying a double at the moment: Social Science/Social Work. For social science I'm majoring in Psychology, hopefully with a focus toward counseling and 'abnormal' psychology (or psychpathology). In social work I want to have a focus toward mental health, and sociology.

[SaintB]

Graphic Design (Bachelor of Science [Dunno why a BS instead of a BA]) and Business (ASB)

[New Limacon]

Right now I am undecided. In the interest of have a spontaneous life, I will major in the first subject someone suggests on this thread, and base my career and life on it.

[Logan and Ky]

I will be beggining college this year and I plan to major in either music or something related to ecology. Yes they are two very different things but I really cant decide.

[Veblenia]

I majored in history (the pretend social science) and minored in economics. I think if I had to do it all over again I'd probably do geography instead. Or, if I actually wanted to be useful, maybe journalism.

I think history is a humanity

So do I; however, depending on your school it gets lumped into either the humanities or the social sciences. At mine, it was taught as a social science. There are a lot of fragile academic egos that depend on the idea that they can reconstruct historical "truth".

[UnhealthyTruthseeker]

Lagrangian's are derived (in quantum theory) from symmetries and are useful due to a calculus of variations type model called the principle of least action. If economics uses calculus of variations, I'd imagine that there could be similar mathematical machinery involved.

I suspect in this case it's a matter of coincidence more than anything. Economics obviously makes a lot of use of optimisation techniques, so Hamiltonians, Lagrangians and Bellman Equations are part of the armory - but my particular equation had more to do with a consumer surplus (hence the integral) under continuous time discounting (hence the inverse exponential) and uncertainty (hence another exponential, this time a probability function).

Out of curiosity, how exactly would Lagrangians work in economics? Granted, I imagine that it's not really exactly the same, just mathematically similar, so it's called a Lagrangian, but I'm still curious.

[Saige Dragon]

Right now I am undecided. In the interest of have a spontaneous life, I will major in the first subject someone suggests on this thread, and base my career and life on it.

Boondocking and Tinkers.

[Grave_n_idle]

Right now I am undecided. In the interest of have a spontaneous life, I will major in the first subject someone suggests on this thread, and base my career and life on it.

Awesome. Do theology, then we can swap notes when I do.

[Imota]

Currently working towards a B.A. in linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, because I like the subject and it's really the only one I can complete without exceeding the unit limit....I really messed up planning in college....I'll probably wind up supplementing it with a few A.A.'s from Chabot...I'm thinking business and creative writing....

[Capitalistliberals]

economics and finance, starting august

[Vetalia]

Accounting.

[Christmahanikwanzikah]

Working towards a B.S. in Civil Engineering.

[Neu Leonstein]

Out of curiosity, how exactly would Lagrangians work in economics? Granted, I imagine that it's not really exactly the same, just mathematically similar, so it's called a Lagrangian, but I'm still curious.

Well, mathematically they're exactly the same, as far as my understanding goes. Lagrangian multipliers are used in constrained optimisation problems and turn out neatly as a "shadow price" or some sort of inferred marginal utility associated with the constraint.

I suppose the differences in application are pretty huge, but the basic mathematical intuition behind them can't really change. Economics does dodgy things now and then, but raping math is not one of them.

[Eofaerwic]

Psychology BSc (focus on experimental psychology, so I ticked natural sciences ), specialising in Forensic Psychology at MSc and PhD level. Just finishing off the PhD too - so soon it shall be Dr Eofaerwic bwahahahha

[Extreme Ironing]

I have a Double First in Music from Cambridge University.

This sounds all well and good, but what the hell am I going to do with it?

[EvilDarkMagicians]

You have college majors in poverty...what?

[Cannot think of a name]

I went for a trifecta of useless, an AA in Music, BA in Film & Digital Media, and a grad certificate in Playwrighting (like a Masters except only one year and no thesis) I am qualified to be a really annoying fellow audience member.

[Jello Biafra]

I am majoring in both Political Science in English Writing at the University of Pittsburgh. *pokes OP*

[Concurria]

Music and Business.

"What are you going to do with that?" you ask.

Be a lawyer.

Don't worry about it now. It will make sense in the morning.

Makes perfect sense. After all, it's not as though you need a law degree to become a lawyer.

There are no undergraduate degrees that correspond with professional degrees. You cannot get an undergraduate degree in "Law." It simply doesn't exist. Poly Sci, Sociology, History, and Lit (sometimes) are generally pre-law degrees.

[Extreme Ironing]

There are no undergraduate degrees that correspond with professional degrees. You cannot get an undergraduate degree in "Law." It simply doesn't exist. Poly Sci, Sociology, History, and Lit (sometimes) are generally pre-law degrees.

You should be more specific. Perhaps in your country no undergraduate law degree exists, but elsewhere...