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Jealous. I always wish I was better at, and more interested in the sciences so I could have gone into that.
Anyway, I did English and American Literature with Creative Writing.
And I have a BA in it, so nah.
In the UK we do degrees in specific subjects, rather than just degrees in random stuff, so the major thing doesn't really apply.
i almost just fell off my chair.
i'm doing a degree in human psychology with an integrated placement year (if i can get a placement).
"Random stuff"?
That's how it works here, too. You take a few general classes, some basic math and English Comp. and stuff, but the majority of your classes are specific to your degree. That's why they call it a "major", it's your focus, the subject you are pursuing.
Hm, alright. I guess we have some focus on being "well-rounded" or something. xD It's actually probably a good thing, because the public school system leaves a lot of kids who don't know anything when they get out of high school, and could use the extra practice. I think it's good to know a little about a lot of things, not just a lot about one thing. Plus, if not for that, I'd be majoring in English, which was my original plan. I took Cultural Anthropology in my first semester to satisfy part of my social sciences requirement for university, and fell in love. Lots of kids aren't 100% sure what they want to do when they get out high school, and I think taking general classes in a variety of subjects is a great way to figure that out or to find something that you didn't know you'd be interested in.
I majored in English literature (in the UK) - and yes we did call it major and minor, and no it wasn't a posh place.
Not everybody decides to go onto higher education, though. One way may work "better" for things, one may be preferred by some, but there is no need to get snotty over things that are different. I love you girl, but you really do get rude over things like this, especially British/American english. It can be a little offensive to continually read about how one way (the American way) sucks and is wrong.
As for taking "random" classes, I enjoyed it and found it beneficial. I changed my major several times because I realized I didn't enjoy what I was learning, realized that I'd hate any job that came with the subject and what not. Sure, taking math and science seemed pretty useless to me, but now I also am happy that I did have to take them because I know things that I should know, which I never would have had I not taken them, and they are beneficial to me in regular day life and in the job I hope to eventually be in, in a round about unrelated way.
Though, if my education was done in a different country with different ways of doing things, I'm sure my answer would be completly different. Probably that I'm glad I didn't have to waste my time doing useless classes and got uni done with much quicker. Also had more time to focus on the topics I thought was important and useful. I do regret that about my education, I Feel that not enough history classes were required and the uni didn't offer much diversity. I don't have the time or money to take any non required classes so now I go into life unprepared and have to learn much of it on my own.
I never said our system was better than yours, no need to get snippy. I do think general classes can be helpful, for the reasons I stated above, but I never said that we were any better than you.
Neither did I, so who's being 'snotty'?
I said snippy, someone else said snotty. xP
In any case, it sounded to me like you took my "well-rounded" comment as a way of saying that our system is better (it wasn't) and responded with, "Yeah, well, our undergraduate programs leave us better suited for graduate school, so how's that?" I've seen you have a similar attitude elsewhere on the forums, so forgive me if I assumed that it was the case this time.
...Then what was this?
Yeah, I got that. Why would you quote them if not to say "apparently we go on to be better-suited for graduate school, as this lecturer has said"? You can't honestly say that you were just making some random statement that clearly had nothing to do with the discussion at hand.