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Typesetting, rather. Scars still applies.

1. Journalism 2. Poetry 3. Accounting 4. (restart) Computational Linguistics 5. Japanese

1. Origins of Monotheism 2. Anthropology of Religion 3. Mendicants and Mystics 4. Arthurian Legend 5. Drawing London (study abroad class)

1. Early Elizabethan Poetry 2. C17 Drama 3. The Romantic poets 4. English literary satire 5. Numerical methods for social geography

Software Engineering Sociology Anthropology Philosophy (logic) AI All 1975-8.

1. Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD, technical not in college, but after I finished high school) 2. Neuromorphic electronics (it was still called micro not nano electronics back then) 3. Design of CMOS image sensor (including some optics) 4. Cyber tactics & intelligence 5. Digital forensics

1. Daniel and Revelation 2. Semiconductor physics 3. AI (it was 2001 so we were building Markov chain generators) 4. Computer architecture 5. Romantic American literature

1. Artificial Intelligence circa mid 1980s level, so tail end of the "dark ages" 2. Software Engineering 3. Computer Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces 4. Databases and Data Structures 5. Business and Systems Management Polytechnic Comp Sci fodder for 83-87, plus a year's industrial placement.

1. Phonetics and Articulation (linguistics/speech) 2. Metaphysics 3. Existentialism 4. Electronic Music 5. Film History (and Film-Making)

Pteridology Agrostology Mycology Ecosystemology Pedology

1. Media ecology (with Dr. Neil Postman) 2. Game theory 3. Science of perception 4. Print technology 5. Directing for the stage

1. Folklore (main) 2. Cultural anthropology (secondary main) 3. Japanese language (mandatory 3rd non-native language) 4. Gender studies Alas, I had a bit of illness and other misfortunes and got lured to world of IT and Linux, became a sysadmin.

They’re all super similar, not a lot of electives from what I remember. Yay English universities. 1. Mobile Robotics 2. Control Theory 3. Artificial Intelligence 4. Mechatronics 5. Virtual Reality

1. Material mechanics 2. Non-Distructive diagnostics 3. Solid-state physics 4. Human Ressource Management 5. Laser physics

My professors and I were on the same page as me and my earliest class was 11 my senior year. Math with a physics minor.

New to me!

I had one elective — a class on linguistics, which was very interesting. And then I got a job at SCO and moved up to Santa Cruz and got failed out because I forgot to mail in a form dropping all my classes… oops.

History of Computing was the wildest my CompSci degree got. Was probably only an option because the prof wrote a book on it.

If I could remember mine I'd want to drop out all over again.

I detested OChem for the same reasons I hated integral forms. Learning to reproduce the CDC handbook from memory was just not fun.

COBOL! Didn’t look like fun

1. (Mathematical) Analysis 2. Vector Algebra 3. Numerical Analysis 4. Statistical Methods 5. Theory of Computation

1. Discrete mathematics 2. Ancient Greek 101, 102, etc. 3. Newton to Einstein: The Trail of Light (that one was a blast) 4. One on genetics as known in the 1980's 5. Greek Drama (in translation)

Fortran '77 Cobol Psychology Political Science Meterology

1. Mammalian Evolution 2. Wetland Ecology 3. Microbiology 4. European Politics 4. Cultural History I did a Biology degree in the early 80s, and then about a decade later, a Politics degree - this was after a severe bout of malaria in India, so it's possible my brain was not entirely my own.

(I was a physics major and an English minor. My dad was a chemistry-philosophy double major, and my younger godchild is doing a chemical engineering degree with a music theory minor. I sometimes describe us as the world's most liberal arts nerd family.)

(undergrad bounced all over the place before I landed on political science, minors in Old Testament Theology and Recreation and Park Management. Legal assistant certificate after that in lieu of law school, then later, grad school with master's in special ed)

1. Complex Analysis 2. City Politics 3. Randomized Algorithms 4. Operations Research 5. The Social History of Alcohol in Russia

1. Quantum Mechanics 2. Measure Theory and Fractal Geometry 3. Human Geography 4. Intro to Linguistics 5. Ballroom Dancing

1) Microbiology (my degree subject) 2) Biochemistry 3) Genetics 4) Organic Chemistry 5) Physical Chemistry

I just wanted to let you know that this has been rippling across my Final Fantasy XIV friends' posts, and it's been a delight to see this facet of my gaming friends. Everyone's quoting the person they saw it from and it's a fantastic chain to follow back through.

But also you'll never feel more like a wizard than when you do a rare books course and wind up doing an intensive comparitive study of four different 300+ year old translations of the same book in a dark old library with a fucking magnifying glass and tape measure to examine fonts and water marks.

1. Mathematical Physics 2. Topics in Western Civilization 3. Public Speaking 4. Differential Equations 5. Moral Philosophy

*Actually a high school class where we read detective novels. Mr. Adamson hoped the title would impress university admissions people.

I double majored in Biochemistry and Peace & Justice Studies, but could easily have had a minor in Medieval Literature if my school had allowed that. (Fortunately, they knew their students and restricted you to two majors or a major and a minor.)

1. Category Theory 2. Abnormal Psychology 3. Russian 4. Riflery 5. Voice for the Stage

1. Death in the prehistory 2. Politological aspects of public governance 3. Contemporary folklore 4. Ecopsychology 5. Geographic information systems

Aircraft structural design Weather forecasting Viruses Anatomical dissection Linear algebra

1. Numerical methods in Physics 2. AI (mostly LISP) 3. Electricity and Magnetism 4. Moral Philosophy 5. Physical Chemistry I think what shifted my trajectory the most was auditing Operations Research after graduation - I finally understood linear algebra and learned to apply math to real problems.

For an EE degree: History of TV class - where we had someone from the new cable service HBO give a talk. A science fiction short fiction class possibly set up by James E. Gunn A History of Rock and Roll class Calculus - taught by an Aussie the looked like John Cleese Chemistry

1. Criminal Law 2. Roman Law 3. Political Theory 4. Philosophy of Mind 5. Kant

1. Calculus 2. Organic chemistry 3. Intro to science fiction 4. Microwave circuit design 5. Geometric Theory Of Diffraction

1. Limnology 2. Art History 3. The Bible as Literature 4. Dendrology 5. organismic evolution.

Soviet Political Thought Soviet Foreign Policy German History Russian History American Media and Politics

Adv Calc (1 2 3), Real Analysis (1 2), Measure Theory, Functional Analysis Aka Triangle Inequality 1 through 7. a+b=c thus |a|+|b|>=|c|.

Modern algebra German Spanish literature Intro to biochemistry Fairy tales

1. Medieval French 2. C++ programming 3. Neurolinguistics 4. Human dissection 5. Old English Poetry (One year of a medical degree, English Language BA, Medieval Studies MA)

1. Music Informatics 2. Modal Logic 3. Swing Dancing 4. Mathematics of Quantum Computing 5. Science Fiction Creative Writing