So, how many of you are still undecided on a college major?

WOO HOO! I think I got a job in Sudbury for the 4 months of the Summer animating for a Canadian cartoon called Chilly Beach!!! Now I have to live in Sudbury for 4 months.

This isn't meant to be an insult but a joke:

"If you can't make it in graphic design, try journalism." It's either journalism or adveritisng depending on what you're going in to. Apparently it's the big joke where I am.

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Originally Posted by Andy

I think I have finally figured out what I may want to pursue though. After writing for several different sites, which I designed myself or went on to re-design, and just out of my own enjoyment, I've really developed a passion for graphic design. Maybe just webpages, or possibly something like advertising as well, I don't know. For now, I think I'm just going to put my computer repair certification to work and try to get a part time job in the Best Buy PC repair area, and take some time to really figure out what I want to do. I mean, I've got time. Look at Mzo. *cough* ;)

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You sound like new media to me.

GPA isn't that important to a Designer or Artist. In every single evaluation / interview you lay out your work. None of this: "80% math" bullshit. You see what we have to offer, you like it and can mold it in to something or you can't... plain as day.

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Originally Posted by station82o

Whats the new major? And from what I hear, most college graduates will have switched majors 2 or 3 times in all. =\

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Hell, most people switch careers several times too. Sometimes you have to (very likely in the near future if you're in computers...). I worked as a graphic designer for about 4 years, now I've been working as a programmer for about 2, and I think I may just end up a highschool math teacher.

New Media is finishing up for me.

I hope my design business takes off, it would be nice to make say 50-80k a year doing what I like. Obviously I have to get my name out there.

I'd work for another company if they paid me well enough. (none of this design for 20-30k bullshit)

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Originally Posted by lithium

I think I may just end up a highschool math teacher.

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Demon! They're the most loathed of all teachers, as a whole. Hard to teach math and be liked. Good luck :)

I know it's way early (as I still have three or four years to sit on it) I've no clue what to do for college. I'm restricted to staying in-state for the most part, but damn. Everything I'm good at I don't enjoy enough to pursue, and everything I'd want to pursue would make no money and the potential career would suck. I'm glad I have a long time to figure this out.

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Originally Posted by flux=rad

None of the above actually. I graduated awhile ago. I'm about to start graduate school, so I'll be leaving soon. I'm originally from Tupelo. I feel like we're crudding up this thread, though.

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crudding up threads is a national TNL past time.

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Originally Posted by Nomi

Demon! They're the most loathed of all teachers, as a whole. Hard to teach math and be liked. Good luck :)

I know it's way early (as I still have three or four years to sit on it) I've no clue what to do for college. I'm restricted to staying in-state for the most part, but damn. Everything I'm good at I don't enjoy enough to pursue, and everything I'd want to pursue would make no money and the potential career would suck. I'm glad I have a long time to figure this out.

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The only tip I could offer legitimatley is go to community college to get your basics over with first, dont rush headlong into a 4 year university like I did (and then went to community college - doh). CC's are great compared to stuffy regular universities in my opinion, I actually enjoyed my time there.

Oh and have as much teenage fun now while you can, live it up, cause responsibility sucks.

I agree, going straight from high school to college is a regret of mine. I actually have two bachelor degrees because of it. Where as my brother didn't go to school until about 6 years after high school, and he knew exactly what he wanted to do and loves his career.

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Demon! They're the most loathed of all teachers, as a whole. Hard to teach math and be liked. Good luck :)

I know it's way early (as I still have three or four years to sit on it) I've no clue what to do for college. I'm restricted to staying in-state for the most part, but damn. Everything I'm good at I don't enjoy enough to pursue, and everything I'd want to pursue would make no money and the potential career would suck. I'm glad I have a long time to figure this out.

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It's not that hard to be a math teacher, teach, and be liked.

Skim over the chapter in class, spend the rest of class showing how to use the main point of the lesson with problems like the homework problems.

Then assign the problems that have answers in the back of the book. That way the kids who just who don't care can further screw themselves over by making crap up and writing the answer down, and the kids who do care can work the problems, and use the answer in the back of the book to check themselves until they get it right, in a way further teach themselfs.

Then give out a test that has 5 to 10 questions on each section of the homework. That way what they miss directly reflects what they know and don't know.

Math doesn't have to be hard, I have no idea why teachers want to make it that way.

With stuff like calculous, add in print out sheets on proofs, and what words in that chapter mean. You can prove something all day long, but if kids don't know what you are talking about, and/or how to relate it to the test and homework, you are doing jack shit for them. You are wasting your time and theirs. I’d almost say showing them how to do the homework is more important than proving what they are using. Or at least show them how to do it first. At that point they would have some experience with the mechanics of what you are trying to show them.

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Originally Posted by station82o

The only tip I could offer legitimatley is go to community college to get your basics over with first, dont rush headlong into a 4 year university like I did (and then went to community college - doh). CC's are great compared to stuffy regular universities in my opinion, I actually enjoyed my time there.

Oh and have as much teenager fun now while you can, live it up cause responsibility sucks.

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Yes, do everything he said. Also, do everything to keep drama out of your life. Most of the drama you have to deal with right now doesn't matter and is only going to further eat away your childhood.

When you get out of highschool you relise how pointless much of that BS was, and be unhappy you didn't enjoy more of the good things.

Learn as much as you can and work as hard as you can NOW. Its harder to learn as you get older. Im not talking 35 and 45, Im talking 20 and 21. In the next 10 years you are going to lose almost all of your natural ability to learn. Eventually everything becomes a job to learn, even the things you were good at before.

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Originally Posted by station82o

The only tip I could offer legitimatley is go to community college to get your basics over with first, dont rush headlong into a 4 year university like I did (and then went to community college - doh). CC's are great compared to stuffy regular universities in my opinion, I actually enjoyed my time there.

Oh and have as much teenager fun now while you can, live it up cause responsibility sucks.

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That is what I did after high school, and I'm just about done with it. I at least have the general stuff out of the way, so when I officially know what I want to do with my life, I can jump right into it.

The community colleges end up being cheaper, and in the end it's the same thing as going to a four-year college. I feel that a degree is a degree, no matter where you get it.

As for responsibility, I don't want to grow up just yet either. :)

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That is what I did after high school, and I'm just about done with it. I at least have the general stuff out of the way, so when I officially know what I want to do with my life, I can jump right into it.

The community colleges end up being cheaper, and in the end it's the same thing as going to a four-year college. I feel that a degree is a degree, no matter where you get it.

As for responsibility, I don't want to grow up just yet either. :)

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Despite me, you, and Station being nice blokes, I wonder if Stone would hire us? We all went to CC to get out our basics, and do any of you plan on going to one of those wonder schools? Hell could station go with that BS on his record now?

OMG NO JOBS FOR US
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