After telling someone the degree you study, what is their response?
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That's not nice. Maybe those guys are mysogynists.(Original post by 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!
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Re: After telling someone the degree you study, what is their response?another good one. I try to dodge the question saying: i'm going back to uni in october to do a masters - hope it'll help getting a proper job. The the inevitable question: what will you study:(Original post by 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
me: Petroleum Geophysics
them:
Not even going to get what that is, or
so is that something to do with petrol
or
so what can you/do you do with that?
people are so funny
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Re: After telling someone the degree you study, what is their response?No you're right. That always got brought up as well.(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.
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. -
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Re: After telling someone the degree you study, what is their response?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.(Original post by rock_climber86)
hello fellow earth scientist I studied geophysics and i got:
"Is that like geography" sometimes:
"is that geography and physics"
i just say it's about earthquakes and volcanoes to which they go:
"cool sounds so interesting - i'd love to do that!"
I want to become a real life volcano man - travel around the world and study volcanoes.
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". -
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Re: After telling someone the degree you study, what is their response?LOL people are absurd(Original post by 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 -
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Haha, literally yesterday, my manager at work asked one of my colleagues who's starting Mathematics at uni in September the same question.(Original post by 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
Manager says (paraphrased): "oh, I thought you were into something like music. You know, it's the long hair, you've got that look about you".
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Re: After telling someone the degree you study, what is their response?Hmm... they're not worth it. Anyone who loses interest in you as a person because of what degree you're doing (and in such a rude way) is just stupid. Honestly. I would never ditch the idea of dating a girl just because she studies something like computer science(Original post by 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! If anything it would interest me because it's a bit unusual.
As for me, I get the standard 'Oh you're going to do English literature? What do you plan on becoming, a teacher?' -_-"
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Re: After telling someone the degree you study, what is their response?classic(Original post by 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".
going back to do a masters in petroleum geophysics. Any ideas what to tell people when they ask me? 
my current answer is: "they teach us how to find oil in rocks". Sounds lame...want to spice it up a bit
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Re: After telling someone the degree you study, what is their response?so they were right(Original post by saachi)
That said, I really do plan on becoming a professor. you're going to become a teacher for future teachers
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Re: After telling someone the degree you study, what is their response?made me lol because it's something I do (I apologize) and because I intend to start doing exactly that to history students.(Original post by Purple Giraffe)
Gut gemacht/muy bien
To be honest it's worse when people start reeling out random phrases they learnt at GCSE. I mean, when people tell me they're studying History I don't start shouting random dates at them
maybe throw in a random one, then act smug when they can't think of why it's important
1066! 1492! 1914! 1234! :P -
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Re: After telling someone the degree you study, what is their response?UPDATE
Random dude I sat next to on a flight:
"PPE? Oh so you're an intellectual."
Me: Oh stop it you :3
That is definitely how I intend to self-describe from now on...they might even believe me if they don't know me very well
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Re: After telling someone the degree you study, what is their response?Art and Design:
"Oooh, what do you hope to do after that?"
"The next Picasso?" - It's always Picasso...
"Are you good at drawing?"
"I'll have to see your drawings one day"
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Re: After telling someone the degree you study, what is their response?Probably hard to find guys with that same interest. If I met a girl who said she studied Comp Sci I'd think that's pretty cool (and luckily I'm not too nerdy - despite my avatar) and then we'd have a little to talk about.(Original post by 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! -
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Re: After telling someone the degree you study, what is their response?Haha, that's a great game to play(Original post by Eldedu)
made me lol because it's something I do (I apologize) and because I intend to start doing exactly that to history students.
maybe throw in a random one, then act smug when they can't think of why it's important
1066! 1492! 1914! 1234! :P
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Re: After telling someone the degree you study, what is their response?Loool..(Original post by Iron Mask Duval)
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.
my current answer is: "they teach us how to find oil in rocks". Sounds lame...want to spice it up a bit 
