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10-21-2006, 10:02 PM
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what exactly are the career options for
poltical scientist degree holders. i know my govt/economics teacher has a degree in said field because i asked him about the polsci and he said he is one.
im really thinking about going into this over engineering because i do not enjoy math at all..well i do enjoy a nice set of differential equations once and awhile(not). help a brotha out.. 
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10-21-2006, 10:07 PM
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10-21-2006, 10:07 PM
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10-21-2006, 10:08 PM
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I'm working on a bottle of wine tonight so yeah the United Nations.
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10-21-2006, 10:13 PM
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im looking at the classes for poltical science at UCF and their are many for enviromental and global politics.. i like that kind of stuff.. holy crap the dissertation/thesis thing is worth 6 credit hours.. wow
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10-22-2006, 09:33 AM
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Yet another "Political Expert" on CNN. You get paid minimal, but you get to say whatever you want without any regard for facts or truth; then you can write a book that no one cares about and mention it on the air incessantly in order to get sales up and secure your second book deal!
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10-22-2006, 10:05 AM
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Job options for a Poly sci degree...
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TheDon... Get a co-op or internship to learn about work. You will learn a lot about yourself, what you like and don't like. What work interests you and what you would never EVER do again. For instance: Big company vs small. Big office vs smaller. Public vs private. Union vs non-union. Learn about industries- manufacturing, service, gov't, and so on... If you're reasonably intelligent, I would suggest getting one with one of the "Top 10 Internships" in the country. These will definitely expose you to one of the most amazing experiences in your life. If you need ideas, grab a Fortune magazine (the Fortune 500, Americas Most Admired, Worlds Most Admired, 100 Best places to work for issues) and read up to get some ideas. What about working for yourself? Go apprentice under someone you really admire or like... this worked for centuries and still does now. FYI I did a co-op with a F100 manufacturing company (hated it  ) For the past 4 yrs I have been working for myself with one of Fortune's "Most Admired" and "Americas top 100 places to work for" Love it and will never work for someone else ever again... best wishes Phil
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10-22-2006, 10:16 AM
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10-22-2006, 10:26 AM
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Like I said though, some are winners and some are losers...
I think Enron was a F50 company before they collapsed. A lot more truth lies in their values and culture.
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10-22-2006, 11:10 AM
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If you don't like math, for goodness sakes don't go into science or engineering. People in those fields may not necessarily solve math probs all day long but they do think in mathematical terms.
Most liberal arts degree programs provide the student with tools and knowledge and analytical training for graduate degree programs. Undergrad liberal arts degrees aren't especially useful unless you can clearly demonstrate that you have leadership skills or extraordinary analytical skills. For the majority of undergrad liberal arts students the entry-level positions that they will be offered will be pretty trivial. IMO, undergrad science courses, especially biology, are pretty lame. They are long on memorization and fall very short of developing thinking and rhetoric skills in the students. The result is that the students can sketch the Kreb's Cycle but don't know why they would ever want to. Analytical skills and skills of expressing ideas are precisely the skills that should be common and fundamental to every college graduate. But they are not. It is far easier to teach a kid how to memorize than to teach him how to think. Undergrad science curricula are not too good. I know, there are excepts. But this is my experience from having interviewed newly minted science undergrads for jobs. If I had my life to do over again I would have pursued an undergrad liberal arts degree in English Lit (or history) with an applied math/statistics or physics or chemistry minor. Then off to grad school in one of the science or engineering fields. If you have a demonstrated aptitude in mathematics, statistics, and physics; and if you score well on your GRE and display an obvious and honest enthusiasm for fundamental natural processes, any grad school will take you seriously. You'll end-up taking lots of undergrad courses as deficiencies, but so what? They will be in the field you want to make your life's work. FYI, I know several people who did almost exactly the opposite of what I outlined above. They got undergrad science degrees and went on to grad degrees in law or public policy. A good friend and former colleague earned a PhD in biology with an incredibly strong probability & stats background then entered law school and earned his JD from Vermont. He is a gov lawyer for USDA and is happy as a clam. Another got his nursing degree and license then practiced in a major teaching hospital for a few years while working on his MBA at Tulane Univ. Now he runs a community hospital in CA. The world is bursting with opportunities for men and women who have talent and initiative. Of those two, initiative is the more important until you get at the PhD level, IMO. Except in performing arts. In performing arts, forget everything I said, above. B
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10-22-2006, 09:29 PM
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10-23-2006, 09:41 PM
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had to vent, crappy day, funeral, ...
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10-24-2006, 11:11 AM
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