[FnG]magnolia;18263757 said:How did you find both the degree and the masters? Did you have a diverse mix of students? What did you want to do before you enrolled and what do you do now in terms of a job? Maths and physics are not the two words that spring to mind when I hear the word 'philosophy'. Educate me
I didn't enjoy the masters anything like as much. It was far more about *my* thinking on subjects, and less learning about others. While I understand that's a lot of what post-grad is about, it's not something I'd thought through before taking it on. I really thought at the time I wanted post-grad, oh, why not, I found this area interesting.
Didn't get to see many of the students at Masters as I did it as a correspondence course - think similar to Open University. I did a couple of on campus things and the thing the surprised me so much was that I was one of the older ones there - at 35. I was expecting a lot more older people involved in the courses for some reason
Hasn't made an awful lot of difference to my job. Always been in IT Tech, although to be fair I'm more architecture than 'doing' now.
In terms of the area I focused on, in that list above it would come under metaphysics. I did a lot around what most people would probably classify more readily as physics - a lot of planetary work, stuff on mavity (and why it doesn't exist as a force... wrote a number of papers on that and I still don't readily understand it..). That's where the maths and physics come in.
I also did a fair bit on religion and spirituality - I guess that's the more traditional view of philosophy?
It's an incredibly far reaching subject really - so to say 'I studied Philosophy' is a bit like saying 'I studied words about stuff'.
I've always liked this in terms of a brief explanation - I love XKCD, it's ace
