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Is pass/fail a better option than graded?

I am a PhD in economics professor educated in the UK and USA. First in economics, you need to clearly comprehend major theories, second, you might have some level of mathematical skills when you study Keynesian economics. Third, applying economics theories into real lives is important and required to figure out solutions for social issues and economic policies. Also, when you go for higher degrees, you might decide either microeconomics, macroeconomics, or development economics, or others is suitable for you. I studied Business Economics for an undergraduate program, Development Economics at the University of Sussex in England, and PhD at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Economics can be boring and interesting depending on how your lectures or professors take initiative but usually the economics subject limits their abilities due to its theoretical depths. Anyway, good luck to my Econ students. Any questions regarding economics, you can leave some comments. Good luck again to you all🤞

Dang! Thank you so much for this. It’s open and honest and very helpful.

The thing is you don't really choose the capacity/ ability to do everything and anything, you're just choosing to learn NOTHING that easily translates to a profession/job. Basically, many students go to programs such as Philosophy or other pure humanities or social studies fields because they are avoiding thinking about a career path. Then, after they graduate, they are hit with the fact that they still need to think about it because now they NEED a job to pay the bills. The thing is for every job/profession there is now a study program and you will be competing with people who graduated from that. There are programs for Education, Journalism, Marketing, Writing/Editing, Translations, Secretary, Library Studies etc. Now that you've decided you want to be a teacher, you probably realize that you need some training and degrees for that. You could have done these before, but that meant thinking about what you wanted to do before going to college. It's just a result of the fact that most younger people are delaying thinking about their future. People should think more about what they want to do after graduating in terms of jobs, instead of having the attitude that surely it will help to have any degree or that they'll decide when they're 22 or 25. Being knowlegeable about philosophy ideas is not in itself an ability for a job. It's a hobby. You need to learn actual abilities that are needed in society and people pay for, and to network.

I am currently doing master in economics and my honest answer is absolutely no. I mean you can easily pass the exam but other than that there is nothing you can do its more like buying the certificate. Everyone can learn the basic or the concept but they will alway stuck at beginners level.

I think it depends on how you define 'part of'. Barnard is an affiliated college of Columbia University, but it is not equivalent to Columbia. Barnard has independence on its own finance, admission and curriculum.

8 semesters ? So is it possible to get ur bachelors in 2 years, thats like 6 semesters? If ur coming in as a transfer student with 60 credits?

So is there any difference?

I don't think I even properly understand Plato's 'Theory of Forms'.

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Always Major in the STEM field. all other majors are for people that are destined to work at walmart for the rest of their lives.

Nah comp sci is a trap, hate my life right now

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this is actually super helpful, thanks!

I graduated with a first class degree in philosophy back in 2010. Since then I've just been doing entry level admin and finance jobs, because it's the only kind of jobs im good at. However, i would have been way better serverd had i done a degree in accountancy, as i could get a far better paid job. A qualified accountant can get paid handsomely. I have considered studying an accountancy qualification, but i am not going to lie -- I cannot think of anything more boring than calculating tax returns for a company to minimise their taxes. I have zero love for this field and for a philosopher this is anathema. I am good with analysing arguments and constructing arguments; working with abstract yet creative constructs and exploring words and their meanings. I can analyse numbers and figures, but i derive no joy from it. Thus I am faced with a dilemma now wether to take the plunge and try to become a professional philosopher, knowing the odds are stacked against me and money wise i could struggle painfully or continue being inauthentic to myself and carry on with finance. I will say one thing though regarding the need to go university to study philosophy. Sure, you can study philosophy independently and independently contemplate. You can even have your own philosophy channel on CZcams. You don't need seminars either, you can join several dozen online philosophy groups and forums. However, will you make a contribution to the field of philosophy outside of academia? Will journals publish your submitted papers? Will you have any influence in shaping current thought? Will the current luminaries in the field ever hear about you and engage you? The answer im afraid is extremely likely to be negative. If you really want to contribute to philosophy, you will need to go into academia and you will need to get a PhD min to get your foot in the door.

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What was you gpa when you graduated? If you don’t mind me asking

I majored in philosophy and I wouldn't swap it for the world. I also knew I had a career lined up as a naval officer and I knew I could afford to take a major that wouldn't immediately translate into a "related" job. I ended up as a submarine officer so I went to nuclear power school, and then the navy paid for my masters in operations management, so I can literally "do it all" now. #1 I was already good at reading and writing but philosophy made me better at it and I garantee it made you better too. The core of philosophy is logic though. Philosophy isn't just reading and writing. Did you not have to take any advanced symbolic logic classes? #2 You don't need a professor to teach you anything. Good Will Hunting made a solid point that you could pretty much learn anything if you have a library card. You pay for a professor to teach you the shortcuts, to help you figure out what is worth reading and what isn't, and to provide expertise that comes with decades of experience. You can "self teach" anything...but its going to take a LOT longer and without expertise, you will not see your blind spots. Look at how many idiots on youtube are self styled philosophers but they can't identify common informal fallacies e.g. Tim Pool. #3 This one is valid. No one outside of philosophy seems to understand what it means to be a philosophy major. They think we sat around all day, smoking weed, and saying "dude like...what if none of this is real man....whoa" instead of recognizing that we are more like lawyers and mathmeticians that analyze logic and argument. #4 sort of true...except most of my phil major peers have gone on to have solid careers either as PhDs or lawyers or, in my case, military officers. I think part of majoring in philosophy is recognizing that it provides a universal set of skills that compliments something else...and you should figure out what that is going to be for you in your sophomore or junior year.

Thank you so much. I'm currently in my second year of psychology, but I don't like it. I been thinking of changing to economics, I learn basic math in my last years of high school and have economic classes too (now I feel sad bc the professor was really bad), but I have moments were I think I won't be able to do it and that I'm going to waste another year. I have been watching your videos, and now I feel more secure ♥︎ Thanks for this video and sorry for my English

Hi, Wellesley or Barnard which is better for computer science.I am asking it for my daughter.thanks.

For anyone wondering! I majored Philosophy at UOFT and I have a great career as a Learning Designer, and more recently own my business (3 years in now 10-15K month) in eLearning development.

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I’m one of those people that have no foundation at all. But I believe have the ability to make any adjustments and get full marks every time when I do so.

tysm im thinking of applying ed to barnard next year so ive been binging videos! the weird comments made me paranoid tbh

I'm going back to school to take some more philosophy classes, but I'm not going to get a degree in it. I like the subject and I enjoy getting feedback from others, but I'm not interested in getting a degree in it.

For context, I applied ED to Barnard College and was rejected, but I received the Cornell TO offer! I was just wondering whether or not I should even put in effort trying to transfer to Barnard, so yeah!

Thank you for your helpful advice!!! I have more questions about the barnard housing. Do we have to wait until it send us housing eamil can we apply or register for it? Do we have rights to join in the lottery or just be assigned a roomate? I have browse through the internet and found out that it said that barnard may ususally give transfer the first year housing if it offers the housing hhh. I want to check if this is ture thx!

2 years what are you doing now ?

I’m sure the comments are super supportive of your choices and aren’t hostile towards anything that doesn’t earn money-thy god 😂

Columbia for the win. Always. Barnard has academically declined. Spoken from a Barnard grad.

My biggest concern was that there would be a “stigma” love the advice, thank you!

I get the impression that most people who say that you don't need to go to college to learn something have not realized the impact college has had on them. Rarely do you see a self-taught person reach such great heights completely on their own. Even great geniuses of the past interacted with others. Learning is, after all, a social experience.

This video would have been better if you showed pictures of the dorms/rooms.

Nice video! Hey, can you make a video talking about social sciences? My main goal has always been to dedicate my life, to the movements and changes I´d like to see in my not so developed country: Mexico. I like most social sciences, but think that philosophy gives you more thinking/mental tools for your professional and personal life. For me, it's like studying mathematics, which by doing lots of proofs and being so abstract, will give you awesome thinking skills; rather than doing engineering, which in most cases, will evade proofs and being too abstract. Thanks in advance!

Both at the same time however I'm a a personal psychologist and went with psychology double with the right credit system I'm looking at a long sabbatical. You shouldn't have to work. When you go to the psych ward and they have all these workers. Our philosophy is abstracted.

Depends on what job. All else being equal, having the most relevant major (or a relevant major) for the job you apply to will help, but for certain "elitist" jobs (like you said), if you have the right university name, your major doesn't matter as much. I will also add that that's not really fair, but that's reality.

I majored in Philosophy in my undergrad, then I worked in finance and financial technology for 5 years. I'm now in the middle of my masters, still in Philosophy, and I plan on doing PhD. I have some comments on your video 1. Reading and writing are not the fundamentals of philosophy. If you specialise in Logic, you will do very little "writing". The fundamentals of philosophy are intellectual curiosity about how the world is and how it works, the ability to think about these problems in a logical and systematic way, and the ability to formulate your proposed conclusions clearly. In that sense, it's similar to the sciences, but you're doing thought experiments instead of science experiments. 2. There are so many ways to learn about any topic nowadays. There are very few areas where a specific college degree is required. Engineering, medicine, architecture and law are some examples where you definitely do need a degree, but many tech workers (including myself) did a degree in whatever, then learnt to code or learnt the hard skills required for the job they want through self learning. The benefit of doing a philosophy degree is having people around you that you can discuss ideas with and philosophy professors can be a wealth of wisdom and knowledge 3. See my point above, lots of jobs just require a college degree, they don't require a degree in anything specific. This has never been an issue for me. 4. This is not true in my experience. You can't become an accountant straight out of a maths degree, you'd be better off doing accounting and finance if you want to be an accountant. How many people do economics degrees vs how many economists jobs are there? Most people that do a "pure" major (maths, a science, english, sociology etc), rather than an "applied" major (accounting, psychology, engingeering, law) don't have a clear career path either. Philosophy probably has the least obvious career path unless you want to be an academic, but most degrees are open ended to some extent.

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I think you don't understand philosophy, if you think you're 'good enough' and don't need to improve, we all need to improve even Professors. To me, this shows you have an extremely closed mind when entertaining new ideas. Also, understanding different ideas only happens with feedback and engaging with other students and lecturers who have drastically different ideas to yours. A lot of people also forget there are a lot of similarities and some even argue that philosophy and science are one in the same thing. It just sounds like you wanted something that was more black and white in subject matter with right or wrong answers, rather than areas of grey that are a matter of interpretation. BTW my latest job, developing digital blockchains, I got simply because they needed philosophers in their team. I never knew I would be going into that field during my studies. You never know where philosophy takes you, which is kinda the main point.

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There's plenty of content, a major in philosophy of the mind and psychology is kind of a big deal...at least for me; having a dislocated optic nerve, it literally would move back out of place and I would look retarded. But I agree, there are a lot of problems within the major itself and they don't like funding it. Also how it crosses over in an English major, the program was an actual philosophy of the mind and history of historicity and psychology of self deception and cognitive arrangement. It was hard. I'm homeless now but at least my optic nerve is intact. But you get to make people look really stupid and it's not intentional.

philosophy has the gift of being one of the most accessable fields for people. everyone engages in philosophy. majority of our life is philosophy. Studying for something that everyone does regularly is a terrible idea when you're trying to have a job since everyone can do it, even at an armchair. If I won the lottery, after my first initial spending spree, I would go to university for philosophy to really intellectually round myself out.

1) Lmfao, Philosophy is not reading and writing. Those are primarily the superficial elements of it. If you equate philosophy with "just reading and writing", even after having majored in it, philosophy is clearly not for you. You know what is reading and writing?...English. Reducing philosophy to just reading and writing is perhaps one of the shallowest and most unphilosophical/unreflective perspectives/assessments of it in existence. 2) Lmao. Philosophy is not about rhetoric or debate. That's...rhetoric/debate. It's about deeply pondering and questioning and seeing mundane ideas from a completely different perspective. You're literally thinking about existence/universe/everything, including thinking itself and thinking about thinking. 3) So you don't like that philosophy is "weird" and not accessible to normies because you're...and normie. Lol. 4) College is not a trade school, even though people mistake it for that nowadays. You're literally a prime example of a completely unphilosophical person who has no understanding or idea of what philosophy even is and whose criticisms therefore fall completely short because what you're criticizing and superficial and non-core aspects of philosophy rather than philosophy itself. Sorry, but any of those other more "practical" majors - history, English, Chemistry, etc., would've been much more well suited to you. DISCLAIMER: GRANTED, this is apart from the financial situation regarding cost of tuition/college. I have a relatively unusual circumstance myself regarding this, but the opportunity cost and financial cost is something to factor in in terms of whether or not a philosophy major is right for you.

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Philosopher turned Teacher, don't be a pussy. Just arguing my side .

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