Student writes his entire dissertation in one 40-hour sitting, gets a 2:1 - Polidicks

I always did wonder if I were to take every word I wrote on Facepunch alone in the time I had to write up my Final Year Project Report which would have a bigger word count?

[QUOTE=proboardslol;47424475]I used to be a humanities person. I used to have a stack of philosophy books as tall as I am. I considered myself a faithful hegelian (and still do; the only philospher I give any attention to nowadays is Slavoj Zizek). But it got me nothing. I had a circle of friends who also studied philosophy, and they read different authors. They didn't like Zizek, I did, so we had a rift between us. Eventually, I sort of realized that studying philosophy and talking about shit like that wasn't making me happy. I spent a year away from college and just worked; I acted like a normal dude who didn't know anything about philosophy. I read some scifi books and decided to get into programming, and realized that's what I liked, so now I'm a CS major (used to be english major). Philosophy just simply has nothing to offer me anymore. There are no surprises left and everything just turns into postmodern bullshit after 1900. Analytical philosophy is cool but you don't need a degree to do thought experiments. ultimately, I think a better education in philosophy is to just read the books yourself if you're so inclined. I just think humanities departments are just a big waste of money. Join a book club if you feel like finding likeminded people. Studying science makes me happier, I guess.[/QUOTE] the humanities encompasses a lot, for example Anthropology which is what I'm currently studying. While Anthropology can go either way, as a science or a humanity, it's primarily still a Humanity Degree. Like my plan is to go into Archeology and actually use my degree, since Archeology is one of the sub-fields of Anthropology.

People discussing majors online is always a bummer. Everyone agrees every major that isn't in the STEM fields sucks and is worth mocking. No one wins. It doesn't really bother me, since I study Japanese, I'm good at it, and I like it, which is all that really matters, but it can be so discouraging to people that higher education has been reduced to little more than "do engineering or computers or else you're a worthless piece of shit and have nothing to offer other than being a punching bag."

[QUOTE=Apollo;47427460]People discussing majors online is always a bummer. Everyone agrees every major that isn't in the STEM fields sucks and is worth mocking. No one wins. It doesn't really bother me, since I study Japanese, I'm good at it, and I like it, which is all that really matters, but it can be so discouraging to people that higher education has been reduced to little more than "do engineering or computers or else you're a worthless piece of shit and have nothing to offer other than being a punching bag."[/QUOTE] This is why I have not mentioned anything about being a history major in this thread. Even though you learn good research and communications skills as a history major so it's useful outside of academia, but it's in the humanities so science nerds shit on it. [editline]30th March 2015[/editline] But honestly this makes me a lot more happy than any STEM field ever could.

I've wrote a 10,000 word paper in one sitting before and it was honestly one of the worst experiences in my whole life. Never procrastinated like that again

[QUOTE=Sableye;47421946]Its historically important but a completely useless profession, even psychology majors can find work in the medical field, sociology majors can find employment in analytics, philosophy though just is a purely academic field with not really any real world application anymore[/QUOTE] Philosophy is useful as an add-on if you're wanting to get into law, social work, journalism, stuff like that, but yeah it's not going to get you an actual job [i]in[/i] philosophy. But it looks nice regardless of what job you are applying to