Hey who here is a History Major in college?

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If you are I will have questions for you. Of course I will be able to help out as well, hopefully.

I am a third year history/ Poli Sci double major. What's your question, friend?

I have difficulties with interpreting the instructions when I write papers. I do the assignment but in their eyes I do not follow the directions. Have you ever had this problem?

History major here as well. Could you be more specific?

History major here too

I'm Art History...I love it,but not for a career.Last thing I want to to be shuffled away in a museum..

Junior history major here. Ask your teacher, that's the only way you'll know. If that fails, find a student who has taken the teacher before and ask him for advice. Sit next to him if need be not to copy off, but to get advice from.

"Beard and Hat Guy" continually made my life easier.

I'm not in uni yet but I am taking a History A level and I like it a lot

Same here.

I plan on taking history at uni next year.

@ Orwell: I think my problem was I took one class more seriously than the other this quarter. I had two classes. History 130 Worlds Forming and History 372; History of Technology. I naturally assumed that the 130 level would be a cake walk forgetting that the professor who teaches the course is the weed out professor. I simply did not focus enough on my lower level history course.

I'm going to be posting in this space alot more often.

Hey thanks for speaking up. I will be posting more questions as well as discoveries within the next three school years.

<--- Anthropology+History major (work in progress)

History major with ambitions to teach and write...

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When I started back to school I remember sitting in the advisor's office getting signed up...

She was pretty impressed with my test scores, and as we chatted and filled out forms she asked what I wanted to major in. When I replied that I was thinking of studying history, she dropped her pen to the desk, rubbed her temples and asked in irritation, "What [the hell] do you expect to do with a history degree?"



It's a worthy question.

I'd be interested to hear any answers you guys would care to offer.

Absolutely nothing. I have a "real" major in the sciences that will form the basis of my career. The only real job open to history majors (aside from jobs that are open to anyone with a college degree regardless of major) is "history professor."

I'm in General Studies at a community college, but when I go to a real college i'm changing my major to History with a minor in...teaching...or whatever that's major/minor is called?

I've decided that i'm probably going to eventually teach US History at either a private school or a public school in a rural area and/or with excellent test scores, so I know i'm getting kids that will pay attention and learn. But then again, I can't pick where I teach. History is the one thing i'm really good at. I'm also apparently a great writer "with a strong wit" according to teachers and friends and publications, but I hate a good chunk of my writing and i've won awards for writing I thought was subpar. So to keep me sane, i'm going to do something I have confidence in myself to do. I wanted to go into film criticism, because I love film and my reviews were one of the few things I love that I write, but then the bottom fell out of the newspaper market, and being a newspaper film critic was the only kind of film critic I wanted to be. Maybe I can create a History of Film class as an elective if I wind up teaching at a good high school. Teaching History also involves very little math (or at least no math I can't do with a calculator), the one subject I am terrible in.

I'm not, but lots of my friends are history/poli sci majors.

You should talk to your professor(s) about interpreting the assignments. If you have to do much in class writing (like essays on tests), you should check with the disability office and see about extra time on tests.