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

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Original post by Ghostsinthemachine
I just get people saying 'me too', followed by awkward silence when I tell them I'm a psych student because our Uni has so many psychology students.


Whereabouts are you?
Original post by electric-wars
Whereabouts are you?


Bangor Uni :smile:
Reply 982
It's usually silence with a look of mild contempt and pity.
I never get tired of it... :sigh:
Reply 983
Original post by emilymay
Usually a disbelieving look :tongue: Its normally on nights out that people ask me, and I'm dressed in a little short skirt, drunk etc. so when I say I do medicine people do not seem too convinced. Although actually it tends to be guys who do that, most girls are just like 'ooh you must be really clever!' Too which I respond awkwardly with something like 'supposedly :redface:'


lol next time anyone says 'oh you must be clever' say; ' yeah, sometimes my neck starts hurting.' their immediate response would be... 'why's that' and then vainly say ' because my brain is so big' :smile:
Original post by Flamin-Hot
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 study a level sociology so i get that all the time from people who see it as a micky mouse subject, because they are the maths and pure sciences brigade, and then they have the cheek to ask me what the subject even is! i think that says it all really.
go you for doing what you want to do though, we need sociologists regardless of what these idiots say!
BA (Hons) Modelmaking at AUCB. The first they try to teach us is how to actually tell people what it is we do. I still haven't got the hang of it :hmmmm:
Original post by ScouseEmma28
Im doing Business Studies, and their response usually is 'are you going to run your own business?'. My answer - no, because ive seen the large amount of cr@p you have to organise, deal with and i can't be bothered with it.


Then why do the degree? :tongue:
Animal Behaviour (its really just Zoology, a bit misleading I suppose)

"what is my dog thinking when he is watching tv?"
"how can I tell if my hamster is sad?"

That sort of thing.

Then if I tell them that is basically Zoology

"So you want to work in a zoo?"

:angry:
Reply 988
Original post by Tpx
Animal Behaviour (its really just Zoology, a bit misleading I suppose)

"what is my dog thinking when he is watching tv?"
"how can I tell if my hamster is sad?"

That sort of thing.

Then if I tell them that is basically Zoology

"So you want to work in a zoo?"

:angry:


So you don't want to work in a zoo?
Original post by FinalMH
So you don't want to work in a zoo?


Could see myself working in a zoo actually, it's probably pretty cool. :redface:
(But how dare you ask me that!!!)
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Original post by StrayBullet
Does anybody else get a 'typical' response?

I study psychology and almost laugh to myself before mentioning this, simply because I know full well that they will respond by saying something along the lines of; "Oooh, don't figure me out!", "better watch what I say around you then, eh!". Makes me feel like a right manipulative cow!

Anyone else have similar retorts? :biggrin:


I said the same and got:

"mickey mouse that is"
Reply 991
Original post by Tpx
Could see myself working in a zoo actually, it's probably pretty cool. :redface:
(But how dare you ask me that!!!)


hahah so why the angry face? :laugh: :smile:
Reply 992
I get many raised eyebrows when I tell people I want to study MORSE..
Geography.

"How's the colouring in"
"Which way is North"
Medical Student: I'm a Med Student. :smug:

Person: O' rly? :beard: Can you check out my rash?

Medical Student:
:puke:
Mostly its......."What the **** is that?"

lol
Original post by Agent Smirnoff
Medical Student: I'm a Med Student. :smug:

Person: O' rly? :beard: Can you check out my rash?

Medical Student:
:puke:


I'm curious....how are you a medical student and a police cadet as I always thought that police cadets were future policemen in training....and yet you are in med school......
"Ahhhh, so you're studying herbs?"

"Why the hell did you just mention astrophysics? Are you st00pid????"

"So you're studying biology?"
That one gets me quite a lot.

I want to do my degree in Natural Sciences.
I usually get a "what is that course?"
Or I get "wow that seems hard."
Or I get "you must be pretty smart then."
Or I get "oh my friend is doing chemistry"
It's bloody Biochemistry, not chemistry. How hard is it to know that it's biology and chemistry together.
Original post by HollowPointSmile
"Ahhhh, so you're studying herbs?"

"Why the hell did you just mention astrophysics? Are you st00pid????"

"So you're studying biology?"
That one gets me quite a lot.

I want to do my degree in Natural Sciences.

I thought you would get something like that. That's probably the course no one has an idea on what it actually is.

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