If anyone can give valuable feedback on college philosophy and course choice.

[Magnetic Synthesizer]

I don't know how exactly how you can help me from an outside experience. BUt some might be able to give me valuable feedback on my course choice and maybe some things to avoid doing. I'm still gonna deal with humans, right.

http://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/humanities/course-list/knowledge/

 

This is what I have picked in about 5 minutes.

Neuroscience is my top choice since, I deem it superior to psychology. Because MRI scan = op data. I am more so expecting general tips on not to over-esitmate the maturity of a teacher XD and keep some things ot myself.

 

Neuroscience and the self             Knowledge of the human mind             Darwin's Tea Party    eugenics, misuse included     A Brief History of the Universe              Legal Knowledge kinds of knowledge excludded from the legal field ..911 why Human-Animal Studies  ???           Native Ways of Knowing  system of knowledge       The enlightenement             Interpersonal Knowledge and Communications              Evolution             

 

[Magnetic Synthesizer]

I went to edit a typo and the post disappeared.

[Guest Gee]

Lost Tale,

your in university (full time?),

studying a non trivial mix of history/philosophy/psychology/neuroStuff,

directing the creation of complex gaming project without programming expertise (because you don't like programming?),

which will use complicated engineering physics,

in which your the illustrator and art director thus you must have huge hours invested in illustration and design?

 

I'm not saying it can't be done or that you can't do it, but have you considered the possibility that your spreading yourself a bit thin?

And whilst it is admirable to be well versed in a variety of areas, have you considered the possible economic cost of not having the depth of knowledge(big assumption here)?

[iuliuspro]

I would take the Critical Thinking course, if they teach the tools with which we reason, that will help me in every situation. My strategy will be to take the courses that are useful for developing a mechanism for thinking in every situation. I would avoid history and the like where you have only facts, I can google that. I would also look up the teacher of the said course and see what kind of person is he, if he is passionate ok if not, I am sorry but even if the coarse sounds good it will most likely be a disaster. I hope you make a good choice, I am glad that you can choose all your courses when I was in collage I had 4 courses that I choose from 20 in a year.

[Magnetic Synthesizer]

Lost Tale,

your in university (full time?),

studying a non trivial mix of history/philosophy/psychology/neuroStuff,

directing the creation of complex gaming project without programming expertise (because you don't like programming?),

which will use complicated engineering physics,

in which your the illustrator and art director thus you must have huge hours invested in illustration and design?

 

I'm not saying it can't be done or that you can't do it, but have you considered the possibility that your spreading yourself a bit thin?

And whilst it is admirable to be well versed in a variety of areas, have you considered the possible economic cost of not having the depth of knowledge(big assumption here)?

I am not in university, I have just finished highschool with admission to my first choice of college program. Here in Quebec. we have 1 less year of high-school and 1 less of university which is balanced by the fact that you must first go into college before you go into university. The college costs 600$/year, if it costed more then 1000 CAD$ I would have been reluctant.I looked at the course list, and I'm going to college to learn those courses, not for the carton diploma. Then with some hopefully practical knowledge in business, finance law and marketing, I wouldn't be stumbling over little rocks of ''didn't know this basic ass regulation'' in my path.

Yes, I have considered. I conisdered 6 options on what to do and after researching, I decided to go on this one.

 

There are 2 things I like most in terms of work:

-Efficiency and optimization + forward command

-Science and Research!

 

I have a mediocre opinion of education. I want to get in the higher echelons of business in managing, and I think experience is better than a diploma.

Instead of going through multiple years of diploma and maybe job searching, I'd rather be in charge of this project and see where it goes. I'm aiming it to succeed not just be an experiment.

I decided to shutdown my science path after looking to some of the neuroscience and engineering income stats.

 

You know those nice places in the market where the top 1% of eahc profession work. Thats where I want to be, I want to have a nice time and not be dwarfed by surrounding mediocrity (which I think is the alternative)

 

Really, if you can help me with some words on the internet, I welcome it.

[Guest Gee]

My mistake, I assumed college = university.

 

I'm not sure what foward command means but if your looking at efficiency and optimisation you might want to look into studying the calculus of variations which is essentially the mathematics of how to maximise of minimise values of interest given varying constraints.

 

It isn't the sort of thing I think that would be taugh prior to university but a bit of calculus would go along way to laying the foundations for solving optimisation problems and whilst working you could easily self study through books and online courses.

 

I also can't imagine management without statistics, have you consisdered taking a corse in statistics or applied statistics?

 

Same goes with advanced excel or statistical package skills, does you college offer training in statistical packages?

 

Consider this, if your going to go to college and pick courses so as to advance specific careers goals, why not find the job specs of the roles your interested in, make a short study of the skills and compenticies you'll be expected to have for the roles and then select courses which are going to best enable the aquisition of said skills and compenticies?

[Magnetic Synthesizer]

Optimization in human systems, forgot to specify.

I already have calculus in my course list because I took the extra accounting variant of my course (the other option was extra marketing)

I will remember about statistics and should check it out.