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

"medical neuroscience"

"bloody hell"

"So, I'm guessing you're like practically a native speaker then?"
"That sounds so difficult. I could never do that."
"You going to teach English in Spain, then?"
"Oh that sounds lovely, spending all that student loan of yours on a year long holiday. Wish my degree would give me a holiday too!"
" I can speak it too! Uno, dos... ¿tree? Close enough...oh wait! Is it trois?! It is, isn't it!"

Nobody ever asks me about the other part of my degree though... :frown:

Reply 1322

Happydude

11

I'm going to do a medicine, and always feel a bit self conscious when I have to tell people...

Reply 1323

The_Male_Melons

3

Original post by zeptobecki

"medical neuroscience"

"bloody hell"

Me: isn't that an mm?

Reply 1324

zeptobecki

Original post by The_Male_Melons

Me: isn't that an mm?

eh?

Reply 1325

andyyy

2

I do comp lit so people usually just ask me what comp lit is and after I spend 5 to 15 minutes explaining it to them they just go, 'hmm cool' and / or quietly walk away - if they haven't already quietly walked away while I was going on about Hugo Meltzl von Lomnitz, that is.

Reply 1326

The_Male_Melons

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Original post by zeptobecki

eh?

It was a joke. MM- mickey mouse.

Again I was only jokin.

Reply 1327

sanksta

Original post by Lamperouge

"So, I'm guessing you're like practically a native speaker then?"
"That sounds so difficult. I could never do that."
"You going to teach English in Spain, then?"
"Oh that sounds lovely, spending all that student loan of yours on a year long holiday. Wish my degree would give me a holiday too!"
" I can speak it too! Uno, dos... ¿tree? Close enough...oh wait! Is it trois?! It is, isn't it!"

Nobody ever asks me about the other part of my degree though... :frown:

I hate it when people assume that I must be fluent in the language!
(Good degree choice, by the way! :wink:

)

Reply 1328

longman240

1

"Oh, so you want to be a teacher?"

"Yes."

Reply 1329

daisiesandfashion

them: "oh, so you're gonna be a designer!" me: "nope"

or sympathetic looks as if saying "you're not the brightest are you?"
or some people have actually laughed and called me unintelligent to my face

love the judgement you get for wanting to study something you love...

Reply 1330

Carpet21

12

Well it's usually about 30 seconds later that I get.."so like, you wanna be a doctor or what?".

What I find most difficult is politely returning the question without it sounding judgemental or condescending. Because I'm really not, but people already assume medics have this high and mighty attitude (which I can confirm a lot of them do unfortunately).

Reply 1331

limetang

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Maths:

"Oooh that must be hard."

"Oh. I hated maths/couldn't do it"

"Eugh I couldn't think of anything worse"

Reply 1332

Gob Bluth

21

"Ooft sounds really hard. Glad i'm not doing that"

"No, it isn't, probably easier than your course"

Reply 1333

WhuTom

10

Chemistry

"...**** that."

Reply 1334

hannah.austin

1

Discrete Maths
Either "What the hell is that?!" or "Is that Maths but done in secret?" :tongue:

Reply 1335

joey11223

20

Zoo-Biology (Zoology in essence, same course code and such)

unsurprisingly... "oh right so you want to work in a zoo?"

Erm..it's not actually my most favoured job, but it would do. :tongue:

Reply 1336

leahnic

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I usually get 'oh so you're an artist? I would have never taken you to be an artist'

Or 'cool...' with a look of 'wow you must be thick'

Or the occasional 'wow that sounds so exciting I would have loved to do that good luck"

I, studying jewellery design btw

"Who is this?!"

I usually say something like "I study mathematics."

Then they usually say something like "so, like, is it really true that there are finite topological spaces with nontrivial homotopy groups?"

Mathematics, always an ice breaker. :excited: