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

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Reply 1660

emilie18

That kind of face.

Reply 1661

itchy and scratchy

I want to study Spanish -I usually get "are you Spanish then?" or my cousin once said "wow, you'll be in a class full of hot Spanish girls!"

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Reply 1662

username418231

Original post by emilie18

That kind of face.

What do you study?

Reply 1663

emilie18

Original post by Dee Leigh

What do you study?

I don't study it yet, I'm off to uni in September, to do International Business with French and Spanish. People always look surprised/confused, I genuinely do not know why! Hmm :rolleyes:

Reply 1664

jhadjkura

Original post by Holby_fanatic

Cardiff University. :biggrin:

Where are you planning on going?

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I'm for 2013 entry. I chose lancaster and thats the main one i wanna go to.

Reply 1665

xsweetcherrypiex

When I tell people I'm going to study economics, they always say

"gonna sort out this financial crisis soon, eh?!"

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Reply 1666

MashB

Original post by xsweetcherrypiex

When I tell people I'm going to study economics, they always say

"gonna sort out this financial crisis soon, eh?!"

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Looool, exact same with me!

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Reply 1667

Holby_fanatic

Originally Posted by Holby_fanatic 
Cardiff University. :biggrin:

Where are you planning on going? 
 
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I'm for 2013 entry. I chose lancaster and thats the main one i wanna go to.

Oh I applied to Lancaster for Biomedical Science! It's a lovely place and a great course. :smile:

I fell over at my interview and sprained my ankle though. -.-

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Reply 1668

M1011

I study Business and Management. Always get a sort of awkward response of; 'oh really, that's erm good' *awkward pause*.

Such a misunderstood degree, when will people learn that the AND in the middle means something and that it doesn't lead to running a blooming local retail store...

Sigh, should have done Economics... but there was me thinking I'd choose something which interests me lol.

Reply 1669

nathgooner

'oh like Sheldon from the big bang theory'

I study theoretical physics

Reply 1670

pete44

me: I'm studying pharmacy!
Other guy: Is that so you can work in a chemist, I'll come to you for my paracetamol!!!
me: :unimpressed:

Graduated in masters of pharmacy and i'm a chemist who puts pill in a paper bag...fml

Reply 1671

wulfyrokujuyon_64

I study Linguistics with Japanese. General responses are usually 'Oh wow! You must be really smart!' or 'Oooooo! What made you choose that?'. Nobody usually even mentions that I study linguistics for 75% of my degree -_-;;; lol. Worst response I probably got was 'CHING CHONG CHONG CHI'.

Reply 1672

Knighted

Lol are they stupid? Maths is applicable in everything.

Last year I got:

Person: So what are you studying.

Me: Business Computer Systems.

Person: Oh....thats....nice *awkwardness*

To be fair it was an insanely boring thing to choose. I've switched now to Digital Media Development so yeah :smile:

Reply 1673

Soares

'So what do you want to do with that?'
Art student :rolleyes:

Reply 1674

lauren.mae31

I study computer science and am one of the few girls on my course - when im out in clubs meeting people I dread the moment this conversation comes up because quite often a guy hears 'oh i study computer science' and leaves :| considering i dress like any other girl, wear just as much make up, do my hair to the best of my ability, wear ridiculous high heels - and the fact they were interested BEFORE i told them that is just ridiculous! I now offer that info right at the start then point them to the door!

Reply 1675

username418231

Original post by lauren.mae31

That's not nice. Maybe those guys are mysogynists.

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Reply 1676

Jacobdatz

Me: Biomedical Science

Them: Really I'd have thought you'd be doing music

Me: Why's that

Them: The long hair and such

Reply 1677

Iron Mask Duval

Original post by hannahchan

.... sorry to correct you but Ross did have a badge which said "geology rocks" on it.. so technically.. they might have been talking about that. :wink:

No you're right. That always got brought up as well.
Has been even worse describing engineering geology:

"Those are just two words put together. Did you just make that degree up"?

Person:"Ah ok...."?
*silence*
Me: "You have no idea what that is do you"?
Person: "Nope".

"You're manufacturing rocks"? (To be fair that is something we do, as ridiculous as it sounds)

Has just gotten to the point where I make stuff up about terraforming new planets and trying to create real life rock-pokémon now.

Reply 1678

Iron Mask Duval

Hahaha, I always used to use the earthquake and volcanoes line too. Sounds cool and there is no need for anymore questions. Can then lead onto movies with ridiculous geological inaccuracies like The Core or the fast lava flow in Dante's Peak that clearly erupted from a composite volcano.
Though did get one teacher at school say:

"What's the point in studying that !? There aren't any volcanoes or earthquakes in the UK".