[Ipg-smz] What college class or major did you transfer out of?

[Todd R. Weiss]

Hi all,

I went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a journalism major
beginning my freshman year and graduated with my well-earned and valuable
journalism degree.

It has allowed me to do what I want to do for work and travel the world and
the nation while doing it.

I never wavered in college, nor have I ever regreted my beloved career
choice.

:)

Yours,

Todd

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On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:47 AM Esther Schindler via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

> On Jul 23, 2019, at 3:45 PM, Phil Shapiro via Ipg-smz <
> ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:
>
>         Just curious, what class or major did you transfer out of?
>
>
> When I was accepted at Brandeis, I was asked to provide a major, so that I
> could be assigned the right advisor.
>
> I didn’t really know what I wanted, so I contemplated my two best subjects
> in high school: programming and English. I told my mother, “I don’t know
> whether to write down ‘computer science’ or ‘English.’”
>
> “Well,” mom said, “You could always write books about computers!”
>
> I responded with the plaintive whine of a 17-year-old, “Mothhhhhhhher!”
>
> But neither of those majors lasted a semester. I discovered that an
> English major was expected to read boring 18th century fiction and to re-do
> all the grammar courses I’d already aced. And — given that I already
> thought I knew how to program — I cut classes for programming so much that
> I was utterly lost. I got a C on the final (and didn’t even deserve that).
> I’d never gotten a C before and I freaked out. I didn’t come back to
> programming for five years.
>
> I switched to Linguistics, with a minor in Women’s Studies. The latter was
> a minor only because it wasn’t available as a major. Had I stayed for my
> senior year, my thesis was going to be on the anthropology of women and
> language.
>
> …So now I write about computers.
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