Mild bout of curiousity is inspiring this. I wonder if there is any link between what we major in and being HP fans... and, yeah, just stright up curiousity. Okay kiddies, my question(s) of the day.

First off-- are you currently attending university, have you allready completed college, or are you looking at college as a future endeavor? (Technical College is well included in this)

Second-- In any of the above cases (assuming those of you with future plans know) wht is/was/will be your Major?
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I am a college/ university student ( as many of you know)
My major is a BS in Web and Digital Media Developement (Covers all sorts of media/electronic elements, including software-- Flash, Dreamweaver, 3d programs-- interent, and gaming ect.)

What about you guys?

Well, I'm in college too. Com,munity college. I Should be graduating relatively soon. My major is Humanities and Social Sciences, although that really doesn't hold any basis for the future career I want. But it's the best I can get in community college.

I want to be either a animal behaviorist, zoologist, or conservationist. I'm more leaning toward animal behaviorist though, because I love psychology and I actually do pretty well in it, and behaviorism relates to psychology.

So yeah.. I'm going to attend a 4 year old sometime in the future, hopefully a college that will give me levrage for the kind of career.

i WILL be going to college this fall. I'm gonna enroll in the education program in alaska...be a teacher! GO UAF!!!

Well, some of you know but not all. I went to Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. My major was English. Nothing big. I graduated in May 2006. During the time I was in school (College and Senior yr of high school), during my breaks and the semester that I took off, I went to GIA Institute in LA, Cali and a lot here in Chicago. So I graduated in 2003. So I am also a certified gemologist appraiser. So my title is CGA. But I do not use my degree in English at all. But my minor was accounting. And still nothing for that either. But I do work for Roger's and Hollands Jewelry as their diamond and gem buyer for the company.

Ive already got into college just waiting 2 finish high school!

Wow Meridae, you have some fanatstic goals. You know my last employer started out as a zoologist, he wand up being a dentist. Yeah, wierd aside, that one.

And Leona, interested in teaching? Noble. But alaska seems cold :P

And Phoenix, my dear woman, almost sounds like you went to school for the sake of schooling! Still, look at this, a full n well educated among us. Good to hear! I'll go to you in frustration then, shall I? But being a gemologist, thats got to be a profitable career.

And Emily, that great that your in! Any idea what your going for?

Im assuming college is university to you folk. . . considering I'm a high school student but the school I attend is known as a college?!?!? Bleh confusing.

I hope to be able to attend uni after I finish high school but I'm going to have to take time off after school to be able to work to get enough money to be able to go. I come form a poor family and there is no way i'm going to be able to afford to get into the courses I need. It's a major B@!%H because I'm already panicing about considering I can't get a job. :(

Anyway, I also want to be a zoologist. I have a love for all animals but I'm not particulary interested in Veterinary as it wouldn't be something I could continue to do for the rest of my life. I'd get bored . . . With zoology there are plenty of sub categories, so to speak, I can work my way through if I get bored. I'm rather intrigued by cryptozoology at the moment.

Yes, Dai your right. I like school very much but I could never see myself as a teacher. I'm not patient enough to be one. But I do plan to go back to school one day. I would like to finish my accounting degree and then hopefully get my CPA. I'm just like Shonks, I get bored. But I do love my CGA degree and the job. And yes, you can make a load of money. I'm not quite there yet but hopefully in the next few years I will be.

I want to work in the film business or follow in my dads footsteps as a record producer, I’m going to study media and film along with music technology and sociology, it’s a little different here in the UK as we finish high school at 16 (only 14 more weeks left!) then go on to college and finish at 18, we then go on to university and study one major degree were interested in.
But yeah I would love to be either of those things as there both my passion!

i want to be a scientist(physics). I live in India in here we have school upto 16 and then 2 yers college and then 3 or 4 years university and if it aint enough then people go and study for another 2 or 3 years. but a lot of people join jobs by then. i am doing my 3rd year in my uni in a 3 year course.
there are not much oppurtunities for science and i am not good enough yet to get into competitive exams(to get into further studies) although i am good at physics in my class. so i have to get myself a job and then prepare for the exam for a year then try to crack it.

I'm interested in science. I guess I spent too much time in the local natural history museum when I was a little kid.

I didn't know what I wanted to do when I started university, but I took a few courses and got really interested in geology. I finished university with a degree in geology, and a minor in biology. I took extra courses in biology, botany, and zoology.

I now work as a geologist, doing exploration, because I like looking for stuff. It doesn't matter to me whether it's water that they want me to look for, or gold, or whatever. I just like looking for stuff. And I'm pretty good at it.

Right now, it's energy that everyone wants, of course, so I'm working in the oil industry. I'm a bit troubled by the environmental implications of that, but I have no idea what to do about it.

Meanwhile, the pay is good, and the work is interesting, although often hectic and stressful. So I'm enjoying being a first-year student at the LC in the evenings, to get away from all that.

Been meaning to reply to this thread but just plain forgot. It looks like you all have some very interesting goals ahead of you and such! Meridae, I had no idea you were in community college, neato!

Emily, that's really interesting. I didn't realize just how different things were over there in the UK. Here in the US, you graduate from high school at either 17 or 18 then (usually) attend a 4 year college and go on to grad school or something after that depening on what you're studying. Very fastinating hearing all you guy's career goals. Such a variety!

Twilight, a geologist? Neato! You could have probably helped me last year when I took this geology course.

For me, I'm currently in college now. I'd like to be a writer so I'm majoring in english. I suppose I'll be a teacher too but the only thing about teaching is that I don't like to wake up early in the morning. Yes, this is really lame but I can't help it, I'm just not a morning person. But I suppose after college I'd go to grad school though I'm not sure about that much.

I'm not a morning person, either, Professor. Never have been. I try to change, but I just can't fall asleep at night. And that makes getting up in the morning a bit challenging.

I remember seeing your post about your geology course when I first arrived at the LC, and sort of chuckling to myself. It was an old post then, so I was too late to help.

I took a lot of English courses, too, and I like writing. I wish I could come up with good stories to write. JKR is really amazing, to have had the HP stories and characters pop into her head one day during a train trip. But as it is, I just get stuck writing a lot of really dry technical reports. Blah!

You know ths thread is not only giving me a chance to learn more about my Fellow LC people and there aspirations-- it's also given me a bit of a technical understanding concerning language and schooling dicrepancies...

Erm, changed the thread name to UNIVERSITY, as ya'll were kind enough to point out to me that school beyond 18 is only called "college" by we backward American folk. Hey, that's what happens when you go to the same school from 14-17/18 (well, I went to a four year high school, at any rate)

And to you two English type major/intrests-- remember that aritting books for most is more of a hobby thing anyway, most folks can't manage to live off thier writting alone. So, Rogue, Teaching is not a bad solid income alternative ^_^

Down here we go to the same school from 12/13-17/18 yrs old! Accept most of the time these days the schools are split into two campus' so that you do Yr 7-9 at one campus and Yr 10-12 at the other but it's still the same school, which is better I think because you don't have to put up with all the little annoying Yr 7's running around your feet. :P

Dai I'd definitely say you're right about the whole english thing. ^_^ I want to write myself, I absolutely love it, but I know that I certaintly can't depend on it.

Anyway . . . I can see myself being one of those people who just keeps going back to school. I love learning and I'm interested in too many things to just be able to do one thing for the rest of my life. I'm probably (well hoping anyway) to travel the world and see as much as possible. :)