What Was Your Major In College

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degree.....and...Chemistry major for my graduate degree (again ! because it's so great to be able to IMPROVE the world on a molecular level, and there's ALWAYS chemistry jobs everywhere)....and best of all...chemistry is the molecule underpinnings for engineering, biology, medicine, and almost all sciences, except physics...if you understand chemistry, you rule !!!!

I was a political science major until last semester, and was about three or four classes away from having all the credits I needed to graduate, and the apathy and utter conformity of my fellow majors during the run up to the Iraq invasion drove me to drop out entirely. It's been building for years, but this was just the last straw. I got sick of having classes with people who were there just to learn how to screw the system and get rich quick. I also got sick of having conversations about how dictators murder their political opponents, and hearing people defend it as "solidifying their power base". I just can't bring myself to examine all the sides of political murders, or the actions of the CIA during the Cold War. I almost got in a fistfight with a guy who was trying to rationalize and justify the CIA's involvement in the assassination of Allende in Chile, and shortly after 9-11, a classmate suggested that we should revisit internment camps for Arabs as we did for Japanese Americans in WWII. I finally decided that if these people were going to end up as part of the same system I hoped to change, there was no hope for me.