[mogambo]

(Original post by Billy Bryant)
Well when I tell people i'm going to study Chemistry, they say "Oh so you're going to make drugs? I know where to come in the future then" or assume im either going to be a teacher or work in work in a Chemists :/.

Lol yup I get that a lot too! I did chemistry with drug discovery at bath, and as soon as you mention that the requests for all sorts of drugs are fired at you and the presumption that I should know the sodding structures of them all! Like seriously... Oh that and getting asked to explain how to petrol is made !
Oh and I see you're studying chem with nanotechnology! Good choice! I liked my nanotechnology modules... they were hard, but interesting!

[diamonddust]

'So... you wanna be a writer?'
'What are you going to do afterwards? Write? Or be a teacher?'

[Helpful_Charlie]

(Original post by petromasha)
I mainly get a '..............why?' accompanying a strange/scared/weirded out look.

Russian isn't that strange, surely?

Shh.

[Craig_D]

"Do you do a lot of digging holes?"

Ffs As part of my degree I have never dug a single hole, it will never entail digging one, the lectures have at no point mentioned techniques in digging them, and throughout my entire career I don't plan on ever going anywhere near a hole in the ground.

[hummingbird28]

For engineering
"oohh...you must smart!!"
i don't understand why do people have to be judgemental,always

[Xearo_Disaster]

I'm also studying Psychology. I actually don't get the whole "woah, so you can read my mind!" thing as a first response, but it usually comes up at some point. First response is usually "oh, cool". |:

[indiemusicftw]

Told this girl i went in a kindof "date" with my degree-psychology

her response:
"So your analyzing my thoughts all the time...i find people like that creepy "

as you can probably tell, wasn't exactly a succesful day

[Basshunter]

Bioengineering is what I'm doing.

Few of the responses are:

"Isn't that a very difficult course? "
"I hate biology"
"Oh wow, sounds cool"
"What do you learn in it?"
"What do you intend to do with that degree?"

[Computerised]

When I say I do chemistry people ask if my plan is to work in Boots....

[daisydaffodil]

English literature - "Ah well. That's an easy degree." or "Oooh, do you want to be a teacher/journalist/author?"

Post grad (counselling and pyschotherapy) is usually just met with silence. Most of my family believe counselling is a load of tosh and I get the feeling my grandparents especially are embarrassed that I'd want to study that.

[Iron Mask Duval]

(Original post by Mellete)
There's no need to bombard a layman with scientific jargon. I think that's slightly snobbish.

Well that was my point; there's no way to properly explain what we do in geology without going into detail like that or it'd just be "No we don't learn much about dinosaurs, we learn about small creatures that used to live in the sea and whether or not global warming is real by making computer simulations", which then just leads to either more questions or people saying that what I do is pointless. I would go on to explain what all the things were that I mentioned in my "scientific jargon" explanation but most of the time people are so hung up on their brilliant joke about how geology is just looking at a rock on the ground they can't be bothered to hear what it is actually about.

Now what WOULD be snobbish would be to say "I would explain it to you, but it's so complex you wouldn't understand".

I actually take the time to try and explain to people who don't take the course (if they let me finish) what it actually entails.

[blahhh]

......'wow, thats seven years!'

[Stressworthy]

"What are you planning to do with that?"
"Bit of an odd combination isn't it?"

Eff off

[C_B_C]

"Get in the van"

and I get in the van...

[deathbeforeimmortality]

What is it?
Do you want to be a doctor?
Why are you studying it?
Why at Coventry? Why not Birmingham?

[ForensicShoe]

(Original post by Stratos)
Under my bed.

In my bed

[Iron Mask Duval]

(Original post by djgoebbels)
"Wow, that sounds complicated"
I'm doing International Relations and Global Issues

Edit: Woah, what was that neg for?

I got loads of negs too
No idea why, all I did was put down the questions people ask me and my response to them.
I admit, I made a spelling mistake and wrote mineral "exploitation" instead of exploration, but I really didn't think there were that many illegal diamond mine barons on TSR.

[morematterlessartx]

I'm a drama student:

"Do you really think that's fair on your parents after all the effort they've put in"

^That has to be my favourite although the usual is "So we'll be seeing you on the tele then!!"

[Mismatched_dollie_pepper]

(Original post by SwingOnTheSpiral88)
What I meant is, to put it bluntly, I am not exceptionally intelligent in any sense, and I still managed to graduate my MPhys degree with a first. It does deal with some complicated things but I'm sure that most people could learn the subject to a high standard if they had the patience. The way you learn physics is not by having pro
found, giant leaps. It's done by taking baby steps, slowly developing your understanding. I think just about everyone is capable of it. It's not something that only a privileged few of abnormal intellect could comprehend, and if I pretended otherwise I would feel like a fraud.

Congrats on your first!
I can see what you mean actually.
I did physics A-level and found it hard and did'nt do fantastically, but I could see how someone could do well if they just stuck at it and dedicated alot of time to it and so on. This was only Alevel though I guess :/

x

[Artvandelay]

"Of course you do".

I study Business

My business degree has quite a lot of economics and maths, so sometimes I just say "Economics". People will then think I'm a geek, or hopefully just clever. If I say "business", it translates to "I'm all about money".