After telling someone the degree you study, what is their response?

Well I am studying sociology, so I am sure you can imagine I tend to get responses such as;

Oh through clearing?... Shame

Does that even count as a degree?

You will end up nowhere!

etc... etc...
I just laugh it off now and say something along the lines of;
I don't come into your line of work and tell you how to suck .... so don't try tell me how to go about my career!

I want that module! Geological maps are purdy! They have them on the wall in Leicester's geology department, which is conveniently in the basement. Below geography. That's right geologists - we're above you in every way
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We have the dinosaur, we win.

Well, I didn't really enjoy my introductory palaeo module, much preferred maps and structures! Were they decent dino footprints? We were shown something that was conjectured to be dinosaur prints on a trip to Arran, but I was rather underwhelmed and unconvinced.

I was meaning to Aphotic that the Leicester geology department has a cast of a baby T-Rex in the foyer. It's called Jane And our geological maps and our dinosaur clearly beat the geography dept. :P

Ahh that'll be the Norse Code

History- 'oh, do you want to be a teacher then?' or 'oooook, so what can you do with that?'

Thought it would get better when i did a master's. Appaz not. MA gender and international development elicits 'what is THAT'. Always. Apart from people my own age, or who are actually smart, who are like, 'cool'.

Saying I'm at Warwick either gets 'oh cool, that's a really good university' or 'where is that, I've never heard of it.'

Here's Jane http://www2.le.ac.uk/ebulletin/news/press-releases/2000-2009/2008/10/nparticle.2008-10-29.5012317484

That pic looks great! And yes, it does sound like we saw the same thing on Arran. It was at the end of a long day and I was spectacularly unimpressed (I was told to open my mind by a professor!), so I didn't take a photo and didn't write anything in my notebook about it. I just remember it as the sham dino print! I love fieldwork too, just hoping the geography side of it is as good as geology...

Are you studying MCB at Glasgow? That was the course I chose for Honours in April, but after looking through some L4 Biochemistry past papers and discovering how they assess aspects of quantitative biology in much more detail than the MCB exams, I sent a frantic email to the biochem course coordinator begging to switch to his subject (and he said yes, woo! ).

Assuming you are in fact studying at Glasgow, do you mind if I pm you with a few questions about the relative merits of the different Group B courses? I received unconditional offers for all of them, so I can - hopefully - still transfer to whichever one I like before the start of my L3 teaching terms.

To the OP: when I tell people I study Molecular and Cellular Biology I just get blank looks and nods, whereas when I say Biochemistry they tend to go for the classic "what, like a chemist?" ("chemist" meaning pharmacist in this case...).