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

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Original post by tehforum
Explain otherwise, please.


Try taking the triple dosage of the wrong drug and see what your liver says......
Games Programming.

They either think I do nothing but play games or that I'm some kind of wizard.

That or they stopped thinking the moment the word Programming comes out of my mouth.
Law

"How could you defend someone you know is guilty?"



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Original post by inthechaos
Law

"How could you defend someone you know is guilty?"



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Classic.

Not for me to decide, only the judge or jury.
Original post by tehforum
Classic.

Not for me to decide, only the judge or jury.


It ultimately results in an argument when I say I don't want to work in criminal law and no matter how hard I try they don't grasp the concept that you can work in law and never do a single criminal case


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Forensic Investigation I get a lot of
'You wanna do what people do on CSI' or 'oooh so you want to cut up dead people'
My reponse is always -_-


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Original post by CheesusCrust
Pornography degrees are a thing now, so, you know.
I would have thought that, on the contrary, you'd be to besieged with people, hoping to get laid with a professional.
Whenever I tell anyone I've applied to do Anthropology, I usually just get a lot of blank stares :sigh:

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They ask what area of law I want to go itk or they say oh that's hard and I agree with them!
"And what does that lead onto?"
Biomaterial Science and Tissue Engineering

I normally get wtf is that?
Biomaterial Science and Tissue Engineering

I normally get wtf is that?
*Double-take*

"Engineering? But you're.......female. And not butch."
They: "Computer science, is that like IT?"
Me: "It's like maths."
They: *gasp*

Me: "Computer science."
They: "Good, so if anything if wrong with my PC I can call you."
Me: I want to study forensic psychology
Parents: what? Really! You're not joking what about medicine or pharmacy
Me: no I am sure
Parents: but my friend's husband was a psychologist and he suicide and I always think that psychologist will be Affected by their patients
Me: :laugh: okay but I still want to be a forensic psychologist

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Me: Bio med them: oh! So you didnt get the grades for medicine then. Me: wait, how did you know that?
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They: "Computer science, is that like IT?"
Me: "It's like maths."
They: *gasp*

Me: "Computer science."
They: "Good, so if anything if wrong with my PC I can call you."


This^^^^

Those are the exact responses I get.

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i havent started yet but so far all my friends are assuming they can call me when they get sick and i ll know what to do automatically
I do Liberal Arts and of course nobody knows what it is so I have to explain it for about 5 minutes.
"Oooooooooooooooooh"

or

"That's unusual"

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