Polish Rob
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Polish Rob said:I've made up my mind that I'm going to major in Poli Sci, unless I find something insanely interesting when I get to college. I'm sending away my applications in a few days, and hopefully wherever I go, they'll have a great political science or politics program.
What can I do for a job once I get out of college? Does masters or bachelors make a difference?
galenrox said:yeah dude, I'm switching majors from economics to a poli sci/public relations double major cause I want to become the next Karl Rove (without the whole baby eating thing)
RightatNYU said:Poly Sci gives you a great preparation for both public and private sector jobs. The public sector is a great place to work, you get great retirement, excellent health care, lots of vacation, good job security, and an average salary of 52,000.
galenrox said:Yeah dude, political science is well paired with communications, because political science is essentially the study of why people govern themselves as they do, and communications is a way of breaking that down in a more micro sense.
I think he studied "bong law".Originally Posted by Loxd4
Mmmm....what class do you take to major in political science?
If you graduate, will you know more than Trajan?Originally posted by Galenrox:
If there was such a class I'd take it.
Right now I'm only on my second political science class, I took International Relations last spring, and I'm taking Intro to American Politics now. I'm just changing majors now, so I'm just starting here.
Polish Rob said:I've made up my mind that I'm going to major in Poli Sci, unless I find something insanely interesting when I get to college. I'm sending away my applications in a few days, and hopefully wherever I go, they'll have a great political science or politics program.
What can I do for a job once I get out of college? Does masters or bachelors make a difference?
danarhea said:As long as you dont go into politics, its a good degree. Otherwise, its as useful as learning to bait hooks. At least learning to bait hooks has its reward, but not right away. The Bachelors degree in baiting hooks is useless, but once you get your Masters degree .........
I'll let you think on that one for a minute.
Polish Rob said:I lost ya totally dude. English please? lol. Its not that I'm stupid, but I"m burned out from homework all day on my day off, and its 1:10 am.
Thanks.
galenrox said:If there was such a class I'd take it.
Right now I'm only on my second political science class, I took International Relations last spring, and I'm taking Intro to American Politics now. I'm just changing majors now, so I'm just starting here.
George_Washington said::shock:
The public sector has an average salary of 52,000? That can't possibly be true for the country overall. Maybe for places in New York or California but still, that's high. Government jobs don't really pay that much but they do offer good benefits.
galenrox said:thanks dude, I'm ****ing stoked about it, I'm gonna run the world from behind a curtain!
galenrox said:I'm still gonna study economics, but it's not gonna be my major anymore. I love economics, but I'm not that good at it, but I think I could be a really good political strategist, so I'm gonna try that out.
When I started college I didn't really tool around at all, I went in thinking "I'm gonna do economics and business, and I'm gonna be successful at it. That's what my dad did, and thus that's what I'll do", but I've been thinking more and more that perhaps I should look into other things, and I figure that, since politics is a passion of mine, I should check that out, among other things.
This semester is a tooling around time, I'm taking a philosophy course (which I am quickly realizing is a bastard science), a film analysis course (another bastard science), a calculus course (which I appreciate, but I'm not very good at it, thus why I'm taking it again), and a political science course, and I'm pretty sure now that that's the direction I want to go in.
RightatNYU said:i ****ing hate philosophy. what use is that ****?
practical knowledge is my friend, practical knowledge.
I think. Therefore, I am.Originally Posted by RightatNYU
i ****ing hate philosophy. what use is that ****?
practical knowledge is my friend, practical knowledge.
galenrox said:I dunno, they allow some pretty bullshit ideas through in philosophy, like right now we're talking about Des Cartes' arguments that animals cannot think because they don't have souls, and I was one of several people to point out that we know that the brain is the source of thought, to which we got the response "Yeah, but Des Cartes didn't know that, so we have to set that aside". Of course he didn't know that!! He wouldn't have argued the point if he knew something that proved it false, the man was one of history's greatest cynics!
I regularly want to choke my professor.
128shot said:Well, if he is going into politics, I'd have an easier time resting my head if a politicians was actually well versed in philosphy..
Billo_Really said:I think. Therefore, I am.
That's all you had to say, negro!Originally posted by RightatNYU:
cognito, ergo sum?
no, cognito, ergo fag.
RightatNYU said:why? what does philosophy offer that practical knowledge cant?
128shot said:And why not? Philosphy can cause you to think of things in a much different way.
I would really, really, like a politician well versed in economics and history though...
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