h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Are you a Kurt fan as well? Very interesting list of music and activities. I just responded to a post of yours and then saw that you were from the US. Thought I'd drop a line. Just saying hello.

Hello!
Very much a Vonnegut fan....glad to hear you are one as well. I'd ask where your from, but it's quite obvious from your name! What other sorts of books/authors do you like? Music? Activities? Feel free to answer or not answer as you'd like! (Do keep in mind I haven't seen your page yet, so if you've listed any of this information there, sorry for bugging you about it...I just have a slight tendency to be incredible nosey...)

Lampie.

Well I enjoy John Irving, some easier material like David Badacci and Micheal Connelly (crime caper/thriller guys). Music, hm well the last two CDs I purchased are Dave Matthews Stand up and NIN With Teeth, my taste varies quite a bit. Uh...what else did you ask? Movies was it...well I just saw "the movie", thought it was good for an attempt at putting something on the screen which is nearly impossible to put on a screen(I liked it), looking forward to seeing the new Star Wars, I was a film major in college so the list of favorites would be far too long to put here. I don't know how about you?

Ah, film major....Okay, yes, don't answer the movie part...
Where did you go to college? How long? blah, blah, blah..[insert more randomly nosey questions here]

I went to school on Long Island in New York about 30 minutes away from Manhattan, Hofstra University. I was a film major and a drama minor. Acting is what I really want to do but once I figured that out I didn't have another 80,000 grand lying around to stay in college two extra years. I figured, what the hey you don't really need a degree in those fields in order to make it, Tarantino didn't even finish HS. Lord knows how much schooling Brad Pitt had, couldn't have been much or he wouldn't be so stupid as to leave Jennifer Aniston for crazy Angelina Jolie. I mean she's hot and all but a little out there. Sorry random tangent.

And Cary Grant never had an acting lesson in his life...

Tagents are perfectly acceptable, welcome even. I've heard of Hofstra University... I'm a bio/eng major, but I think my degrees are going to be absolutely useless...*le sigh*

No you could always get a job Bio-engineering things...uh...yeah I have no idea what you do with a degree like that. Still sounds better when you put it on a resume then Film Production does. "Wow bio-engineering, you must be a genius or something." You know that kind of response. By the way what does one do with a degree in such a thing?

With my biology degree? I guess slave away in labratory until you catch the plague and die? Hmmm....no idea.

I guess my only point was that whatever you chose to do when you walk into an interview with a degree in something that most would consider difficult you are already ahead of the game. Seeing as how you don't really know where your degree is specifically designed to lead you I ask you these question; How is it that you decided to study this?, and, Is it really what you want to do? I hope I'm not being too nosy.

No worries, it's fine.

I think I chose biology simply because it was there. (You must understand, I'm the kind of person who would become a music major just because I happen to hear someone playing the piano.)

However, I've decided to switch to an English Major with an art minor. It is a bit late for that, it will put me behind a year, but oh well.

And then, graduate school!