Computer Science
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I seem to recall you saying you were a CS student once or twice, or am I confusing you with somebody else?
You probably are. I'm only a highschool student (despite what you said on the rww page - you also misspelled "Septmeber"), and have never done any (formal) CS. More an enthusiastic amateur.
Ok, now I feel very old. I actually learned more in high school than in the first 3 semesters of college. What language do they have you useing?
'anceint' you are. I don't even do the stuff at school - they do Visual Basic 6 for goodness sake... I originally learned QBASIC from a book in primary school, but I've since moved on to C/C++/C#, dabbling elsewhere as well.
Possibly, though the parents would rather something else. Maths, maybe?
Do what you like doing. I know far too many people whose parents forced them into majors they didn't like(usually chemical engineering).
So that's why there are more than two chemists in the world. I was beginning to wonder...
There's always minors, and double majors.
I'd have to agree with Ty here. Do what you like doing. My parents practically guilted me into going to Chemistry. Eventually I switched to Biology 'cause mom was like: "Well, if you don't want to be a Pharmacist like I told you to, be a doctor." Of course, when she found out what kind of doctor I wanted to be, she freaked out--But that's a different story.
Just do what you feel comfortable with. There's really nothing worse than feeling like an out-of-place puzzle trying to be put into the wrong spot.
What kind of doctor merits a freak out? Dr. Mengele? Anyway, thirded on "do what you like doing." But still, you should do cog sci. I need fodder for my future profzi scheme.
Forensic Pathologist. Mother does not like the idea of me being 33 and cutting away into a dead body. "You'll forever be alone. No one would want to talk to you. You'd smell like dead bodies. I WANT GRANDCHILDREN!"
And Cog. Sci does sound interesting. When given the chance, I shall have to find a good class. :3
Wasn't it a doctor of marine biology or something? Sorry for interrupting... back to my hole.
Haha. I don't mind. ^u^ And no. As much as I'd love to be a Marine Biologist, I'd end up eating them (The fishies). o___o...I had sushi tonight. Oh god, it was delicious. Ha. Random. But yeah, I've actually always wanted to be a Forensic Pathologist. (But then again, I've wanted to be a lot of things, singer/actor/assassin included.)
Yes, do come out of your hole...
I hope you didn't decide to be a Forensic Pathologist just so you wouldn't eat the expiraments.
I like the Blue. :3
And...-cough- Nooooooooooo. Hahahaha. There will be no eating of the dead bodies. XD I may look like a zombie, but I am not.
How do you even learn it? Do you persuade daddy frog to kill mommy frog for the inheritance, and then as the exam have to work out which poison it was?
Hahaha. Nooo silly Peter~ You kill them yourself and blame the French for they had a shortage of frog legs and take all the money. Of course! ... No. I'm kidding. Anyways, In total, it'd be about 10-13 years of school. Besides the Undergraduate years, you had med school, then residency, then an additional year of pathology specializing, and then another additional year for forensic pathology specialization (getting to actually deal with the government and all these murder crime stuff).
When you start college, you should take any advice your professors give you under serious consideration. I was not intending to be a scientist when I started my course of study, but my professors steered me into it.
What were you going to be then, and what did they say? That there's more money in slime-mould taxonomy than in Ancient Egyptian demography?
I had been thinking to try my hand in business and (hopefully) make a pile of money. My professors averred that I would be wasting my brain that way. One even put his money where his mouth was and gave me a job as a lab-rat.
Perhaps you should consider joining the cognitive revolution, comrade! Certain areas of cognitive science heavily draw on computer science.