{"id":1118,"date":"2012-05-24T09:32:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T21:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2012\/05\/every_majors_terrible\/"},"modified":"2012-05-24T09:32:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T21:32:23","slug":"every-majors-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2012\/05\/every-majors-terrible\/","title":{"rendered":"every major’s terrible (apologies to gilbert & sullivan)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have spent a lot of time lately advising students on their programs of study. (This is one of the reasons my blogging has been sparse of late: I have been filling in while we are ‘between’ registrars & as a result have almost nil ‘spare’ time.) One of the things we often talk about is which major(s) a student should study, where a ‘major’ is the subject that they will devote most time to over the second & third years of their degree.<\/p>\n

This is an important decision for first-year students as it pretty much determines how they’re going to spend much of their study time in the ensuing years, and so we take quite a bit of time to talk about the various options, and I often find myself asking ‘where do you see yourself in in 5 years’ time? It’s serious stuff as you don’t want to get it wrong, and sometimes I encounter someone who is just a bit confused by the various majors on offer & how they’re structured – but happily I have yet to meet anyone with the views parodied by the good folks at xkcd<\/a> \ud83d\ude42 (Thanks to my friends at Number8Network <\/a>for passing this on, and yes – someone has already had a go at singing it<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

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