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Since I am a computer scientist, I am heavily biased towards it.
I believe it is the most beautiful field of this era. You start it off by learning about the crude concept of programming languages and similar things. However, as you get more into it, more amazing things start to unfold before your eyes: genetic algorithms, neural networks, machine learning, advanced data structures and algorithms and even intriguing theoretical concepts.
Computer science is an artform in itself; not only you make and optimize code, but you also have conventions regarding the aesthetics of writing code. Since it is such a young field, you will have a huge chance of being one of the first people in history to behold a breakthrough, the same way object-oriented programming and data mining were.
I am so in love with the field that I am pursuing a Ph.D. in it, focusing on artificial intelligence, as well as getting a Master's in mathematic just for the sake of understanding the underlying concepts. If you get into computer science, ten, twenty, thirty, fifty years from now, you will be proud to call yourself a computer scientist.
But I am biased.
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CS is completely baller. I just graduated with a psychology degree (i'm premed doing med research now), but none of that is because of my degree. All my friends who did computer science have kickass jobs right out of college. make the switch, you can always take psych for the lulz, and you can go to psych grad school quite easily with a comp sci undergraduate degree. it might even be preferred.
comp sci classes are much harder, but they are worth it!
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Well, if you're not planning on going for your master's degree or PhD for Psychology then you should major in CS because a Bachelor degree in Psychology doesn't have a lot of jobs related to psychology.
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What a bunch of bullshit in this thread. Seems to me people hate psychology as much as they are hating on any liberal arts degree.
Simply a "technical degree" will net you a job in the field you want and you are done. Engineers pretty much fit this mold and I view it as a modern day apprenticeship. You make your 50-100K job and be a cog in a machine taking in orders.
What you do with your degree is limited to what you want to do. I graduated triple majors because if you do pursue a libarts degree its fairly easy. They teach you to think and to be innovative. Its not what you graduate with but what you have experience in. Your extra curricular will determine what you can or can't do.
No jobs related to psychology... Every job in every field will have some relation to psychology. What I get to do is to tell some computer science degree cog "hey change this." If you are a creative person then you honestly have whatever you want at your finger tips as long as you do well and know how to sell your abilities.
Working for ESPN has taught me 2 things, 1. Its not who you know its who knows you. 2. Never sell yourself short always shoot for higher.
If you want to teach or want to do research you'll need to get more education but its what you surround yourself with. If you want to change a degree its no big deal it happens all the time but exam why you want to do. If you want that future job security because you are not sure what you want to do then by all means go for it. I just want to counter these incredulous statements of "you can't do anything with a psychology degree."
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While I don't necessarily agree with the view on Psyc majors expressed in this thread, your view on CS or other technical fields is just as equally uninformed and narrow minded.
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Which cc is it you are attending? Is it good at computer science?
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On August 05 2011 14:50 iceburn wrote:
What a bunch of bullshit in this thread. Seems to me people hate psychology as much as they are hating on any liberal arts degree.
Simply a "technical degree" will net you a job in the field you want and you are done. Engineers pretty much fit this mold and I view it as a modern day apprenticeship. You make your 50-100K job and be a cog in a machine taking in orders.
What you do with your degree is limited to what you want to do. I graduated triple majors because if you do pursue a libarts degree its fairly easy. They teach you to think and to be innovative. Its not what you graduate with but what you have experience in. Your extra curricular will determine what you can or can't do.
No jobs related to psychology... Every job in every field will have some relation to psychology. What I get to do is to tell some computer science degree cog "hey change this." If you are a creative person then you honestly have whatever you want at your finger tips as long as you do well and know how to sell your abilities.
Working for ESPN has taught me 2 things, 1. Its not who you know its who knows you. 2. Never sell yourself short always shoot for higher.
If you want to teach or want to do research you'll need to get more education but its what you surround yourself with. If you want to change a degree its no big deal it happens all the time but exam why you want to do. If you want that future job security because you are not sure what you want to do then by all means go for it. I just want to counter these incredulous statements of "you can't do anything with a psychology degree."
Congradulations, but you are an outlier.
While I agree that with hard work and vision can get you anywhere, not everyone is going to triple major and wants to work hard when they can get a degree and achieve the same monetary compensation with a lot less effort in the end.
I'll gladly take my 80k and 5-7 hour on average work days and be a "cog" in the system. I enjoy being creative with my code and solving complex problems.
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whoops hit wrong button D:
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On August 05 2011 15:07 Sufficiency wrote:
Which cc is it you are attending? Is it good at computer science?
A cc called "Surry community college", it's not particularly known for anything except for nursing, but they do offer computer science classes and a lot of people do take them. The university i'm transferring to (NC State) are pretty well known for Computer Science though.
On August 05 2011 15:00 djcube wrote:
While I don't necessarily agree with the view on Psyc majors expressed in this thread, your view on CS or other technical fields is just as equally uninformed and narrow minded.
Sure, psychology can be a good career field i guess if you are able to land a career in it, I'm not as well informed of the job market available to psych majors, but the main reason for changing majors in my original post was that I felt that I would not enjoy a psych based career any longer, which if I'm not going to enjoy something, then why do it.
Elaborate on your second statement as to why the views given on CS or tech fields are narrow minded and uninformed. I'm open to anything.
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