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

[Sally Wiener Grotta]

<<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.>>

You know you caught my eye with that one. Fascinating stuff.

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On 2019/07/24 10:40, Esther Schindler via Ipg-smz 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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