College - did you go?

[Erika]

I'm always curious to see what someone studied if they did go to college. So do tell us :D

And if you didn't go, what would you have liked to study if you had gone?

[Erika]

I have a BA in English and Music. Music is my main gig and I have been studying it since I was 3. So studying it in college was almost a given. I did take a year of psychology and sociology.

Following my BA, I was offered a MA in Elizabethan English but was also offered a place on the course I desperately wanted which was a M.Phil in Music and Media Technology. It was the hardest few years but I loved it (mostly). Getting to play around with computer music, composing and also learning about film, sound and editing was fabulous. I have been very interested in computer music since I was a young child but had never had the time or opportunity to really delve into it. Thus this masters was a joy.

For now, I am done with college. I have had enough LOL Maybe in years to come I may go back and do that MA in English. Actually, when Sasha and any other child is grown, I would love to do that, as long as I have time from work and James.

[Jejune]

I did go to college, but I haven't actually finished. I am sloooooow. (Holy moo - I AM slow. I just realized it's been ten years since I went to off to college.) Anyway, I went to art school after high school. I was majoring in illustration with a minor in...oh ye gods...it's been long enough that I've forgotten my minor. Well, a minor in some nonspecific liberal art, tending toward history. So that would have been a B.F.A., and then I wanted to go to Yale for grad school and major in painting. Instead, I found that I hated art school, then I got pregnant in my sophomore year and left school. Since then, I've been taking community college classes when I can, but I no longer know what I want to major in. I'll soon have enough credits to transfer to a U.C. or CalState, and I guess I'll work it out then!

[Joni]

I have a BA in English and History. I had planned my entire teenage life to go to med school, but somehow at the last minute I realized I suck at math. I ended up becoming rather disinterested in most of my Lit classes in university, but I had a lot of credits so I went ahead with it. I loved studying history, and I'd love to get a Master's degree, but the local universities don't have much to offer for good MA History programmes. I recently applied to the Faculty of Education, but I have no idea where that will go since I'm knocked up and probably wouldn't go back to school in September should I even get accepted.

[MrsSuzNZ]

Nope, I left school at the end of 6th form, and I went to Nanny College for 6 months. I can say I am a qualified Nanny if that counts. LOL

[shellykyleigh]

I went to college, but I didn't finish. :(

I was undecided on my major...First it was socialogy and then I thought about getting a teaching degree. Since I am a single parent and can't really go back right now, I would love to go back to college when Kyleigh is grown.

[Jenny]

I went to a community college type of place and got my Legal Secretary diploma

I was debating wether or not to go back to school next year, but finances won't allow it

[MathSpeak]

Yep, I went to university... who wants to guess what I majored in? Well, I'll help ya' out... ONE of my majors was Africana Studies... the other one was... Yep, you got it. Right now, I'm pursuing my Masters (MBA)... After this, i'm going to Law School :) I actually was going to do the JD/MBA, but I had a kid and it threw a wrench in my plans... LOL (read: I'm grounded now....)

[Jejune]

Anika, remind me to tell you sometime about the class I'm taking right now. You might be able to help me laugh at it.

[Jurgita]

I went to college, but I didn't finish either. I was studying nursing. But I am going to finish it now. I am going back to school since Ethan is in day care now!! I can't wait to finish it!!

[MathSpeak]

Anika, remind me to tell you sometime about the class I'm taking right now. You might be able to help me laugh at it.

LOL... will do :)

[SarahJ]

I went to university for two years to get my Bachelor of Education to be a teacher, but got insanely burnt out from travelling to three campuses to study the papers I wanted, so grabbed the opportunity to go and live overseas.
I studied education papers, but also Childrens Lit and NZ Literature.

[Tlee]

I'm currently attending a community college. I've been going full time for 2 years. I am transferring to a university next fall to get my nursing degree. I'm just about at the point of being burnt out but i'm not giving myself the option to quit. I know i'll be glad when it is all over that I stuck with it.

[Lori]

I have a BA in English and Women's Studies, and an MA in English. I'm actually considering going back to finish my doctorate, as much as I despised grad school, just because...well, just because I have no marketable skills other than being a good student, and the only place that's marketable is in academia. Since I've been teaching again I've also had more of an idea of what I could do for a dissertation, which I had no idea about before. I was working on religious identity and literacy practices, and really had no direction, but there's a huge gap in the literature when it comes to non-Christian religious identities, and I am teaching at a school with a large Muslim student population, as well as a small but present population of Buddhist students, so I would have a nice pool of potential interviewees for a research project.

I don't know. I figure I'll put an application in and see what happens.

[Jo]

I went but didn't finish. I am working on going back. Hopefully if things go well, I will be a student at the University of Minnesota either this summer or fall. I was majoring in History but I am thinking about changing gears. I have become interested in teaching so while it might take longer, at least I will have a better game plan.

[Christi]

My actual degree is a B.A. in Interdisciplinary English, because for some reason, Virginia decided about 15 years ago not to let anyone major just in 'Education'. My teaching certificate is in grades NK (preschool)-8. I have taken several Master's level classes but not in one major. I'd love to go back and get my Master's in Reading.

[Renita]

I have a BA in Psychology & Computer Applications. Will eventually go back for my MBA since I work primarily in Finance and I have NO finance degree LOL

[Amy J]

I went to college and graduated in June of 02.

[Danielle]

I have a B.Sc. in Psychology and Neuroscience.

[malcontent]

I have a BFA in painting. I graduated about nine years ago, and after making it through the endless critiques and harangues of art school while still of a tender age, I was more than a little disillusioned. I vowed to wait until I really knew what I wanted to do before going on to graduate school.

Obviously I've been waiting for some time, but I have finally decided to apply for MFA programs in creative writing (fiction) this fall. I've been working on my portfolio and taking workshop classes. I've also just taken the GRE, and I'm starting to line up some of the recommendations I'll need. Sometime this semester I'll also be teaching a few sessions of creative writing at the community college. I'm trying to bulk up my publications in the interim before my application to show that I am serious about my writing. I'm trying to read more widely too, especially because I will probably be teaching my way through grad school.I'm tentatively limiting my applications to universities that provide fellowships because I'd rather not go into debt for an artistic degree.

The MFA is allegedly a terminal degree, but more and more students are entering PH.D. programs afterward, so I guess that is a slight possibility.

[Theo]

I did go to college, but have not finished.
I got out of High School early and couldn't afford college (and, to be honest, wasn't motivated to go) for a long time. I finally started at City College when I was 23 and transfered to University after two years. I was majoring in Psychology and doing well until about two months into my Senior year, when I withdrew to take care of my sister, who was diagnosed with cancer. I was supposed to go back in the Spring, but due to a foul-up in the Admissions/Student Finance departments, my application for readmission didn't go through. I got pregnant with my son that Spring, and have decided that I'd rather spend his first years with him full time, and so have put off finishing that last year of school until some time down the road. (Sorry for the long ramble, but I guess I'm feeling chatty at the moment.)

[Desirae]

I went to a community college for a couple of years. I had planned on becoming an ASL interpreter but I have tendonitis in my arms and was told I'd never get through the training. I bounced around for a while but really never decided on anything....It was hard for me. I had always wanted to get into nursing but felt guilty cause I knew that in the end I'd be home with my kids. I couldn't rationalize spending all the money on college to stay home.

[Beka]

no, i was given a choice at 17 of was i going to keep "the baby" or take my university fund and go to take my degree.... i have a 9 year old now and she was worth losing every penny of it for. My parents were very supportive throughout my pregnancy but they made it very clear i had the choice to be a mother or study (and have them financially support me whilst i studied like they did my older sister) keeping Chase meant more to me.

I will go back eventually and I will get my history degree.

[Corey]

Nope, I didn't go. If I would have gone back then, it would probably have been for photography but now I would like to take some business classes and maybe graphic/web design.

[Marzipan]

I went to college and got a BS in biology/biological sciences. I was planning to go to Hopkins for nuclear medicine, but I'd rather be home with the kids right now, so I'm working on my Master's part time because I'd like to teach high school chemistry and biology. I'd like to go for nuc med one day though.

[Nona]

I'm sort of an off and on student in the Art program. It's hard to fit it in with two toddlers, but I go when it seems managable for the semester. I'm taking this semester off, though.

When I'm finished (eventually) I'll have a BFA in Fine Art/Photography emphasis.

[Kristi]

Well i went for one semster to a community college but then I got pregnant with Dylan and decided that I wanted to stay home with him until he started preschool. Little did i know we would be adding to more little ones to our family in the 4 yrs after that LOL.

I was majoring in Elementary Education. I would love to go back sometime and finish/

[Brooke]

I went to Drake University for, technically, 3 years. I majored in Creative Advertising with my Area of Concentration (basically a minor) in Consumer Behaviorism. That is a fancy term for all the psych and sociology classes I liked to take, coupled with the marketing classes I was required to take.

I didn't graduate. I basically took all my fun classes the first two years and dropped out when I had to take my crappy gen eds. I did a lot of magazine layout, ad designing/layout and full ad campaigns.

At one point, I decided to pick up some Graphic Design classes and then took so many that if I had continued on to my senior year, I probably could have double-majored in it. That's where my love for all things Adobe came to be.

I'd love to go back, but I don't know what I'd get my degree in. Technically, I think I just want to take classes here and there on the Adobe programs - Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign. I use the first two daily for work and the other one on a semi-regular basis.