Majors

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I say computer science. You always help me out with that stuff amirite?

I'm going for computer engineering, and I can tell you it's a lot of fun, well the hardware courses anyway... Science is the part that frustrated me the most because it involved a lot of theory and programming. However, I've heard that computer market is not doing as well now. Then again, I have a guaranteed occupation in my field in the Army.

Can't believe how expensive colleges and universities are over there in the US.
In France it's nearly free except for private schools (which are quite rare). And it doesn't affect the quality of our education as a lot of students are hired by foreign companies, a lot of which are from the USA.
France should be filled with foreign students really, heh.

[quote name='Costello' post='1782897' date='Feb 18 2009, 04:28 PM']Can't believe how expensive colleges and universities are over there in the US.
In France it's nearly free except for private schools (which are quite rare). And it doesn't affect the quality of our education as a lot of students are hired by foreign companies, a lot of which are from the USA.
France should be filled with foreign students really, heh.[/quote]
WAT... could you give me a quote on a yearly tuition?
I seriously don't think learning french is worth it though.

Well they're either completely free or something below 500 euro/year...
I work in a private school though and they charge students 5,000 euro/year which is considered extremely expensive.

yeah tuition is expensive in canada too >.>

If I'm having financial troubles I'll just go to a Florida college because I'm eligible for this thing called bright futures which is 100% of tuition fees paid in public schools or the "average 100%" of private college tuition paid.

I don't wanna study overseas though. Tuition may be free but plane tickets and the time to learn French more properly isn't heh

edit: another thing I'm concerned about is job security. Apparently actuaries are in huge demand (probably because a lot of people don't even know what an actuary is), but I've yet to actually talk to one. Anyone on gbatemp an actuary? lol

[quote name='Linkiboy' post='1782949' date='Feb 18 2009, 04:53 PM']If I'm having financial troubles I'll just go to a Florida college because I'm eligible for this thing called bright futures which is 100% of tuition fees paid in public schools or the "average 100%" of private college tuition paid.

I don't wanna study overseas though. Tuition may be free but plane tickets and the time to learn French more properly isn't heh[/quote]


Haha weird Im doing the same thing,

Haha, me too. I'm trying to get at least a 3.7 GPA for graduation. The key word in that last sentence is 'trying'.

I fell from a 3.8 last year to a 2.9 this year.
Got a "D" in my fucking precalc class.
Hate it soo much.
:/ Meh
Still got into the ucs for "Law, History, and Society" WTF Kind of major is that?

I go to a University for Digital Media Arts. Thats just long for animation. Im taking CS classes and its seriously the coolest thing ever. My college has ties with Microsoft that allow me to download(for free and legally)

Access 2003 and 2007 Yes
Viseo Professional 2003 & 2007 Yes
Project Professional 2007 Yes
Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 Yes Yes
Windows Vista Business (32 and 64 bit) Yes Yes
Visual Studio Professional 2008 Yes
MSDN Help Library for Visual Studio Professional 2008 Yes
Expression Studio 2 yes.

And that is the FIRST half of the list. but im paying for it. 30 grand a year.

Bump for more opinions (but blogs don't really bump anyway)

Choice by salary expectations: it works but I have seen such people go down in flames almost as hard as those that do things for their parents so be careful when basing decisions on that.

Computer Science and Computer Engineering. I am not sure exactly what these entail (the definition varies with temperature around here) but I say go with the maths based ones, possibly even electrical engineering based ones. The ones done in the computing department work but given a choice between a person who did it in the maths department and one who did it in a computing one it would be maths every time. Know also that the first year of either course will be boring as hell. A few others discussed this sort of thing in other threads so I would look there (it ended up something like what Westside said anyhow).

Actuarial Science. Nobody likes insurance or health and a safety people and given you would be a boss of sorts to those people...... If you do want to go that route though I would suggest engineering with a forensic/health and safety bias (not sure what exists at undergrad level, especially stateside) and then short course if necessary to get into the role.

Actuarial science was something I thought up last month that looked relatively interesting but oh well.

Also... would you recommend staying at uni for longer than "normal"? I was thinking maybe taking a year to study abroad, leech off of my parents while I can, etc. stuff like that. I like math, but whats the difference between the math department and the computing one?

Generally I see computer science as more at the level of "user-software" while engineering as hardware and hardware level software.

Thanks fast as always for the informative post.

[quote name='Linkiboy' post='1787612' date='Feb 20 2009, 07:44 PM']Actuarial science was something I thought up last month that looked relatively interesting but oh well.

Also... would you recommend staying at uni for longer than "normal"? I was thinking maybe taking a year to study abroad, leech off of my parents while I can, etc. stuff like that. I like math, but whats the difference between the math department and the computing one?

Generally I see computer science as more at the level of "user-software" while engineering as hardware and hardware level software.

Thanks fast as always for the informative post.[/quote]
Watch out for what you take. In my university Computer Engineering is categorized under Hardware engineer and Software Engineer. Now Software Engineer and Computer Science are similar in courses, but in Engineering, you will do you practical stuff, things that you will actually do in real life, and it will get you better jobs. As for the studying abroad things, in my opinion, you should do it. University life will make you a miserable fuck, anything that will spice up your uni life will help motivate your ass a little, but for god sakes, don't choose Japan as your country. acefalm:

But I want to eat pocky while having sex with loli Naruto cosplayers all day.

Honestly Japan didn't even cross my mind as somewhere to study abroad, I was thinking more like Europe... France, Germany, Sweden all sound good. Maybe I'll visit Costello.

Also... why do ye feel university life is "miserable"?

creefiboy and creefstello have a good ol time in france

[quote name='Linkiboy' post='1788115' date='Feb 21 2009, 12:16 AM']But I want to eat pocky while having sex with loli Naruto cosplayers all day.

Honestly Japan didn't even cross my mind as somewhere to study abroad, I was thinking more like Europe... France, Germany, Sweden all sound good. Maybe I'll visit Costello.

Also... why do ye feel university life is "miserable"?[/quote]

With the Major choices you want to get into, you're going to get a ton of workload, that's why Uni life will be painful. Expect to be working with buddies trying to figure out proper algorithms in the most ridiculous programming languages at 3 am...!

I don't know much about Actuarial Science, so I can't give an opinion on that.
At my university, Computer Science is very theory-heavy/algorithm stuff, while Computer Engineering is more about hardware. As someone said before, Engineering tends to give you the more practical options that are useful/needed in today's society. I couldn't decide between either before, so I ended up taking Software Engineering, a good mix of both. However, Computer Science will probably leave you with more freedom of courses you can take, whereas Engineering ones can limlit you (as in my case).