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

Perlow, Jason jperlow at gmail.com
Wed Jul 24 16:27:35 UTC 2019


I started off in International Relations with a minor in Spanish language
(I am fluent) and then went into Economics. Ended up doing IT stuff on Wall
Street as a consultant and eventually Unisys, IBM and Microsoft. And now in
Infosec. But been writing about computers since 1993 or so.

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 6:46 PM Phil Shapiro via Ipg-smz <
ipg-smz at netpress.org> wrote:

>
>   When I was in college, I transferred out of geology class after one
> week.  After I heard the professor lecture about rocks for an hour,
> I knew the class was not for me.
>
>     Then, as a mechanical engineering student, I learned that all third
> year engineering students were required to take accounting.
> The very thought of accounting class makes my brain hurt.  So, I
> transferred out of engineering and got a degree in liberal arts (majored
> in philosophy.) If I need an accountant, I'll hire one, thank you.
>
>         Just curious, what class or major did you transfer out of?
>
>                  phil
>
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