What is your major?

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 5:15 pm

I'm enrolled in Rochester Institute of Technology going for a major of civil enginnering technology.

Squall08 · Post by **Squall08** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 5:26 pm

yeah about the japanese thing, i was thnking about majoring in it and teaching in japan with that jet program.. and also getting a minor in some kinda business and hopefully come back and work with some business related company. eitherr that or translating something

Charizard305 · Post by **Charizard305** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 5:54 pm

[quote="Squall08"]Thanks for the replies. I was planning on majoring in CS but Ive decided to do something else. The cs program is way to hard for me to handle, and dont really want a 'contract job'.
I might major in Comp Info Systems, or Japanese. CIS seems kinda boring and jap would be lots of fun, but i dont think there are many jobs with japanese as a major.[/quote]

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downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 6:07 pm

Savia wrote:
downwithpants wrote:Bio, specializing in neurobiology. I got interested it because of the philosophical implications - for example, can our thoughts really all be explained in physical and physiological mechanisms? although bio courses only look at things from a scientific instead of a philosophical approach.
No. It can explain why, say, we feel fear when we watch a scary movie, but it can't explain why fear feels like that. I think it is an entirely philosophical issue.

If you mean, why fear feels like that specific feeling it feels, then yes, that's not biology, that would be linguistics and semantics because we would first need to come up to words that represent the specific feelings we feel.

Biology can explain how we feel it (mechanistically), how we develop this feeling (ontogeny), how that feeling has evolved through our evolutionary ancestors(evolutionary origins), and the why that feeling has evolved among us (functional consequences).

well, gl if you take u take japanese squall. asian languages are tough. you can go your entire life learning the characters and still not know how to write so many.

Alucard_FoN · Post by **Alucard_FoN** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 6:15 pm

Majoring in Computer Science. I've only taken basic CS classes so far, cause I've been concentrating on getting my general education requirements out of the way, but I'm eventually going to start learning programming languages and go into programming. Ideally, I'd like to save up enough money to start my own business. Failing that, I'd like to get a job with a major video game company. My ideal job would be something where I have flexible hours. What I really DON'T want is to be chained to a cubicle for the rest of my natural life just to make enough money to survive. I'd like to make enough money that I can put it away, invest it, so that I can retire as early as possible and enjoy life.

narcted · Post by **narcted** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 7:11 pm

GRADUATION

Seriously, I used to be a Government major till I decided school wasn't for me and left the hell hole I was in. Main reason I took it, I'm a history buff and I really like the subject.

motemote · Post by **motemote** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:02 pm

Went the international business route with Japanese at Yale. Then went 6 months at Northwestern going for masters in marketing and advertising before I got a job.

Fat_Scott · Post by **Fat_Scott** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:14 pm

I major in being fat, having sex with Dawn 24/7 Misinforming and bending steel with my bare hands.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:16 pm

Fat_Scott wrote:I major in being fat, having sex with Dawn 24/7 Misinforming and bending steel with my bare hands.

I think that's the most important part.

Savia · Post by **Savia** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 8:55 am

downwithpants wrote:
Savia wrote:
downwithpants wrote:Bio, specializing in neurobiology. I got interested it because of the philosophical implications - for example, can our thoughts really all be explained in physical and physiological mechanisms? although bio courses only look at things from a scientific instead of a philosophical approach.
No. It can explain why, say, we feel fear when we watch a scary movie, but it can't explain why fear feels like that. I think it is an entirely philosophical issue.
If you mean, why fear feels like that specific feeling it feels, then yes, that's not biology, that would be linguistics and semantics because we would first need to come up to words that represent the specific feelings we feel.

Biology can explain how we feel it (mechanistically), how we develop this feeling (ontogeny), how that feeling has evolved through our evolutionary ancestors(evolutionary origins), and the why that feeling has evolved among us (functional consequences).

well, gl if you take u take japanese squall. asian languages are tough. you can go your entire life learning the characters and still not know how to write so many.

Yeah, that's more or less my point- there's plenty of explanation for why fear exists, and why it is advantageous to feel fear, and so on, but as you put it the specific way that fear feels- how it is interpretated by our consciousness- cannot be explained, only described using as you say semantics etc. Why fear or elation or whatever else feels like it does is not something I think that science could explain.

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