I think the idea is that living dinosaurs were put on the ark by Noah. This is the Fred Flintstone idea of dinosaurs and humans living together at the same time. Then, at some point after the flood but before modern times, dinosaurs were hunted to extinction.
I’m pretty sure that’s an actual belief, if no longer one she holds, on her part. Remember, she earnestly asserted her favorite dinosaur could ‘breathe fire’ using a similar mechanism to the bombardier beetle.
Shade
Not Joyce, Ana.
We know Joyce believed in the arc. This was about Ana’s joke about the phrasing Joyce used.
King Daniel
As someone who grew up believing the same thing that she describes, it’s an actual (possibly formerly-held) belief.
Noah and his family got hungry, ate the dinosaurs and threw the bones over the side.
Needfuldoer
The bones spilled overboard when Noah put the rack of Brontosaurus ribs on the little window tray and the ark tipped over.
King Daniel
No, no, nothing ate meat until after the Flood! When there wasn’t a firmament of water overhead anymore to keep everyone strong and healthy while still maintaining a vegetarian diet, so now people and animals had to start eating meat!
Yes, this is what I was taught, that God decided dinosaurs prolly didnt really fit in any more and so had Noah leave them off the ark, hence the mass extinction. Always seems odd that the other mass annihilation of animals doesnt seem to be reflected in the fossil record. But maybe they all turned to oil in another one of Gods mysterious plots where he set us up to bring about the end times by finding that oil and burning it all, causing global warming.
ktbear
No wait, what? WHERES MY JENNIFER?? DAMN YOU WILLIS!
Felix
MWAHAHAHAHAA! I was just thinking yesterday that we haven’t had a good “Damn you Willis!” on here in a while. I needed that.
Roborat
Except that oil is not formed from dinosaurs, it is formed by algae settling to the bottom of oceans over millions of years, then getting buried and compressed under tremendous heat and pressure.
King Daniel
That’s just what teh evilutionists want you to think!
There’s actually a Chick Tract claiming that dinosaurs were on the ark, but the Earth’s climate changed after the flood making it less suitable to them, so they died out (and were finally hunted into extinction by people.)
The Bible (literary true) says that God or Noah put two, four, or fourteen specimens of every kind of animal aboard the ark. Now, obviously it doesn’t mean to include aquatic animals, but it says every kind.
Roborat
I have always wondered which of the humans on the ark had to host all the parasitic critters and various disease carrying viruses and bacteria.
[at risk of DontExplainTheJoke.jpg I was pointing out the dangling modifier of “I’ve never thought Satan put dinosaur bones in the ground to trick us.” … “They, the dinosaur bones, were put on the ark and later hunted to extinction.”]
I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the cast id undeclared. What is Joyce even majoring in? Last I remember she wanted to be a teacher but I think Joyce’s career motivations have long since evolved beyond that. I know Sarah is studying law, I think Amber and Danny are in computer science courses? Jennifer is journalism. I can’t really think of anyone else.
Thag Simmons
Ruth is in english, Walky is in telecommunications, Booster is in psych
Sirksome
I think Becky’s also in on a political science major or whatever the deal is with Robin’s sponsoring even though she’s just using it to game the system and take science classes. That’s probably also what Dorothy’s majoring in. Carla’s probably in engineering. Malaya and possibly Mary are in art. Has Sal ever stated anything? She’s probably undeclared too. It’s pretty interesting trying to imagine what some of the cast might be into for a career.
Nono
I don’t think Joyce has given any indications of switching careers. Heck, a first year Biology course like this is perfect for ‘yeah I can teach a whole range of subjects’ for primary educators.
Also, Raidah and Jacob are in law. Mary is in art, not sure about Malaya. Dorothy is more likely than not political science.
Julez
There isn’t actually a pre-law major. They never specifically said what their majors are.
Ferret
Joyce didn’t want to be a teacher, she became an education major so she could homeschool her future children better. She was actually going for her MRS, although her lifeplans are probably not quite the same now, although she may not realize it yet.
Regalli
Yeah, I suspect she recognizes it on SOME level after last semester – it’s clear she’s never going back to that church, and even if she hasn’t fully come to terms with it yet, she knows she doesn’t really believe in God anymore.
But I don’t think she’s let herself think beyond that brief ‘fighter pilot’ idea (and honestly I’m not sure how much serious thought went into that beyond ‘flying planes and being cool’) what she actually DOES want to do. I’d bet she does change her major eventually, though. No clue what yet.
Nono
Future pornlord.
Regalli
Unfortunately, I don’t think IU offers it as a major.
Seriously unfortunate because I’d love to see her and Roz in a class together again and Roz going ‘… wait, seriously? Woooow.’
Nono
To be slightly more serious, I’m sure you can angle a creative writing course somewhere, maybe English Lit, and do a lot of focus on comparing, I dunno, displays of eroticism in media between medieval writing to modern day things like Fifty Shades or something.
Regalli
I mean I was a humanities major who got an undergrad thesis greenlit about our perception of Muppets as living, friendly beings who are also puppets and the uncanny valley so, I can see it. Try hard enough and you can justify A LOt in an academic paper.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Needs to be in one of those “Build your own major” deals like how Isaac Bonewits got a degree in “Magic” from UC Berkeley.
Bubbletea
A friend of mine actually did her PhD in that. Well, ‘Comparing Occurrences of ‘Deviant’ Sexuality in Something Century Literature from France and England.’ (Can’t remember what period she focused on! But apparently there was a lot more bestiality than she’d expected, which she found very exciting.)
Chris (the other one)
This is actually a reply to Bubbletea… you peaked my curiosity, and don’t know if this is what you were referring to, but I found “Transgressing the Boundaries of Holiness: Sexual Deviance in the Early Medieval Penitential Handbooks of Ireland, England and France 500-1000.” by C. A. McCann… fascinating reading. The author was able to figure out the (many) sexual deviancies of the early Middle Ages by studying the penitential handbooks. We know what they did, because we know what they chastised themselves for doing.
Roborat
@chris (the other one) the word you want is piqued, not peaked.
Demoted Oblivious
@Roborat (the original one), you are most likely correct, since that is the usual usage, however Chris may actually have meant that their curiosity was elevated to a maximum degree, rather than their curiosity was provoked.
To be honest though, in a fit of pique, I peeked at the particulars of piqued and peaked to be sure I didn’t place my proboscis problematically and pique peoples proclivity to impart a passage on piqued to we pupils.
Roborat
@Demoted Oblivious, that was brilliant, I am still softly chortling to myself.
Geneseepaws
Since Sal is minoring in AWESOME, maybe Joyce could major in it.
Well there’s the evidence! My question is if that still holds up now with Joyce’s change in outlook after what happened? She’s being pushed farther away from the person she was even during that date so her end career if we ever see it could still be dramatically different from what she planned. Although i can easily imagine her teaching and having a side gig as the famous author of the Julia Grey chronicles. It will be made into a movie franchise or tv series, probably on the CW.
Regalli
Aaah, right, thanks! I’m with Sirksome that I’m still not certain she does – given her response to Walky’s ‘you need good vision to be a fighter pilot’ she still seems to have that fantasy as a HER fantasy, not just Julia, and there was a LOT going on in the Brother Visit that could have been influencing what she said and was thinking there* (also given Joyce’s sensory issues, elementary school kids would probably be hell on her,) but I’m glad she actually has started questioning that one at least a little bit.
* Also given what we saw in the glasses arc that she will, in fact, deny that she’s changing even in a way she should have expected in the face of undeniable evidence. Her expression in that last panel isn’t exactly relieved.
Blindness
thanks, I thought it was something like that…the fundy way of educating women- let them learn until they find a man then they have to drop out so he can support them
Blindness
Wasn’t Joyce in education(learning to teach before she got her Mrs. Degree)?
Otl1973
Is being undeclared even a thing anymore? When I was at college (a state school mumble decades ago), I was officially undeclared for almost 2 years, then changed my major 3 times before I graduated. (Still got out in 4 years, but with way more than the needed credits to graduate.)
When my kids were in college (different state schools, but the same state, 10+ years ago), it appeared you were expected to declare a major when you started, and while changing was possible, it seemingly was discouraged. The requirements for graduating in most majors didn’t allow much delay in starting major-specific classes, and if you passed the number of credits required for graduating by more than (depending on the year – it’s varied) 10-20% (which becomes likely to make up the needed classes if you change majors more than a short while after you started), they charge a per credit hour “surcharge”, which is currently 100%. (That is, they charge twice as much tuition – but not fees, which are roughly the same level as tuition – for each credit than if you don’t exceed the limit.). This is intended to encourage “efficiency”, so students don’t take too long to graduate.
Maybe some states aren’t as asinine as mine?
Regalli
Yeah, I didn’t declare a major until sophomore year and I would have enrolled… fuck, a decade ago in September. Depends on the school, I think. (I also declared a minor going in that I ended up not finishing without any real issue. Such is life.)
Slartibeast Button, BIA
In the late 70s I just took courses until I got tired and looked to see what I could build out of the combination. (BS in Physics/Math)
Clif
Your advisor should be shot though.
Mr D phone posting
“oh no no no can’t have people learning TOO much now.”
misanthropope
-literally every authority figure, ever
Steve
A little googling tells me that undergrads at Indiana U have to meet certain requirments before they declare a major, often at the end of freshman year.
I transfered between one university and another, and at the first I didn’t have to declare a major until I had completed 2nd year (I was in Faculty of Arts) while the second required incoming students to apply for a particular major. I changed mine before I even set foot on campus.
Ob
Comıng from a non-US education system, even the idea that you can be “undeclared” seems absurd to me.
You are supposed to pick between math&science / math&literature / social studies at the beginning of 9th grade here. And then you better know what major you want to study by the time you graduate highschool, as you have to put it on the form before you enter a university entrance exam.
From the first day of university you are bombarded with classes in your chosen major, and 4 years is barely enough time to fit them all. So just picking random “human evolution” and “gender studies” classes for the first two semesters and then deciding to study robotics in the second year… I just can’t even comprehend how you’d fit all those courses into your schedule.
Loki
What happens if you study for longer than the four years?
Here in Germany, it depends on university, but you can basically study as long as you want at some universities, unless you fail too many exams of your chosen major. If you do, that bars you from studying any major where that course is mandatory (so, if, say, you fail “intro to statistics for STEM students” with biology as your major, and you want to study chemistry after, you are SOL.)
The downside is of course, that at some point you fall out of the financial perks of being a student (like cheaper insurance) and the costs start catching up to you. And it looks bad on your resume.
Ob
Yeah it changes from uni to uni, but generally people can do double majors, and finish it in 5 years. In some unis you have to have really high grades before you are allowed to double major. And in some cases you lose your scholarship if you can’t finish the uni in 4 years. In some cases you lose it if your GPA falls below 3.5. And in some cases you don’t lose it no matter what you do. (Heck I had a friend who took like 10 years to finish and he still had his scholarship).
So once you are in your chosen course, it’s largely up to the university and your scholarship to decide how much choice you have.
Liliet
From a sounds-like-it’s-different non-US education system, here you straight up enter an educational program. You don’t “pick” classes other than like, a couple of elective choices (do you take cognitive psychology, psychology or sociology as supplement to your software engineering studies? type of thing) throughout all four years of your education. You are enrolled into a course of people with your chosen specialty (Computer Science, Software Engineering, etc – and yes, these are different as they are two different educational programs), have lectures with your whole course (and some lectures even with several different courses of your year in big enough lecture halls), then the course is also subdivided into groups which all have the same program but have workshops / practical classes / lab classes at different times so a teacher doesn’t have to wrangle 90+ people all trying to speak English or something, and can just handle 10-20 at the same time. You don’t pick your group, you’re assigned to it. (Though I imagine if you want to switch for some reason there’s no reason why you couldn’t, it just has to go through official paperwork and stuff)
(Electives like the psychology/sociology ones I mentioned are offered to a whole year of students of the same faculty that doesn’t have that as their primary specialty, as they are not tailored to their specific major in any way as a result. That’s why you have choices – when there’s 300 people making choices and you’re going to have 10+ groups as a result either way, you might as well offer 3-4 different subjects… that the same teachers will teach anyway)
(And it’s year-specific, always. You don’t get to “take” the same class either in the second or third year because you don’t really “take” classes. You just attend them. Same as school)
Johan
She wants to be a elementary school teacher but she was originally all about her Mrs.
BBCC
Joyce – Elementary Education
Dorothy – Political Science
Walky – Telecommunications
Billie – Journalism
Amber, Danny, Rachel – Computer science
Ethan – Undeclared but was considering English
Joe – Undeclared
Sal – Undeclared, though we’ve seen her looking at musical stuff lately so maybe she’ll go into that
Mary – Art Education (Malaya was not an art major, it was an elective)
Mike, before he died, was in Social Work
Sarah, Raidah, Jacob – Pre-Law (as in, takes Classes to prep for law school, not an actual major)
Carla – Computer engineering
Roz – Gender Studies
Dina – Biology
Becky – Political Science, probably wants to double major or minor in Biology
Ruth – English
Booster – Psychology
Joe isn’t questioning her presence, he’s objecting to being paired with someone who has previously said they don’t believe in evolution in a Biology class. Unlike Joyce simply being in the same political class as Roz, Joe being lab partners with her could affect his grade.
361 thoughts on “Juveniles”
Ana Chronistic
why were dinosaur bones put on the ark tho
Ana Chronistic
(inb4: I got really into editing a wiki bc I’m literally the only contributor other than the person who created the front page and sodded off)
Mr D
Yo ana you had disappeared last night, what happened?
Mr D
ALSO the comic is up like 10 minutes early
(Or my computer is like 10 minutes late)
Demoted Oblivious
DoA’s server time has been out of sync for a while.
Demoted Oblivious
Accordingly to this measurement it’s early by ~6 minutes. This is being posted at exactly 20:12
Ana Chronistic
?
Needfuldoer
Damn, you’re good.
Do you know what the Powerball numbers will be, or will you only know with the same couple minutes’ lead time?
Alex Boston
I think the idea is that living dinosaurs were put on the ark by Noah. This is the Fred Flintstone idea of dinosaurs and humans living together at the same time. Then, at some point after the flood but before modern times, dinosaurs were hunted to extinction.
Lingo
She’s joking.
Khyrin
I’m pretty sure that’s an actual belief, if no longer one she holds, on her part. Remember, she earnestly asserted her favorite dinosaur could ‘breathe fire’ using a similar mechanism to the bombardier beetle.
Shade
Not Joyce, Ana.
We know Joyce believed in the arc. This was about Ana’s joke about the phrasing Joyce used.
King Daniel
As someone who grew up believing the same thing that she describes, it’s an actual (possibly formerly-held) belief.
King Daniel
Yeah, that grav checks out.
Mister Gray
Meh, I find it a fun idea of Noah’s ark and dinosaurs.
Ana Chronistic
but why the bones, why not the live versions
Dean
Noah and his family got hungry, ate the dinosaurs and threw the bones over the side.
Needfuldoer
The bones spilled overboard when Noah put the rack of Brontosaurus ribs on the little window tray and the ark tipped over.
King Daniel
No, no, nothing ate meat until after the Flood! When there wasn’t a firmament of water overhead anymore to keep everyone strong and healthy while still maintaining a vegetarian diet, so now people and animals had to start eating meat!
brionl
I thought their excuse was that dinosaurs were NOT on the ark, and that’s why they are extinct now.
ktbear
Yes, this is what I was taught, that God decided dinosaurs prolly didnt really fit in any more and so had Noah leave them off the ark, hence the mass extinction. Always seems odd that the other mass annihilation of animals doesnt seem to be reflected in the fossil record. But maybe they all turned to oil in another one of Gods mysterious plots where he set us up to bring about the end times by finding that oil and burning it all, causing global warming.
ktbear
No wait, what? WHERES MY JENNIFER?? DAMN YOU WILLIS!
Felix
MWAHAHAHAHAA! I was just thinking yesterday that we haven’t had a good “Damn you Willis!” on here in a while. I needed that.
Roborat
Except that oil is not formed from dinosaurs, it is formed by algae settling to the bottom of oceans over millions of years, then getting buried and compressed under tremendous heat and pressure.
King Daniel
That’s just what teh evilutionists want you to think!
ADD
There’s actually a Chick Tract claiming that dinosaurs were on the ark, but the Earth’s climate changed after the flood making it less suitable to them, so they died out (and were finally hunted into extinction by people.)
Agemegos
The Bible (literary true) says that God or Noah put two, four, or fourteen specimens of every kind of animal aboard the ark. Now, obviously it doesn’t mean to include aquatic animals, but it says every kind.
Roborat
I have always wondered which of the humans on the ark had to host all the parasitic critters and various disease carrying viruses and bacteria.
He Who Abides
The one that always won on poker night.
Ana Chronistic
[at risk of DontExplainTheJoke.jpg I was pointing out the dangling modifier of “I’ve never thought Satan put dinosaur bones in the ground to trick us.” … “They, the dinosaur bones, were put on the ark and later hunted to extinction.”]
Rainhat
1) What IS Joe’s major, anyway?
2) There was a lot of how-dare-you when Roz questioned Joyce’s presence in a class. I’m wondering how this is different.
Nono
In the other universe, he was basically undeclared until situations got him into robotics.
Sirksome
I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the cast id undeclared. What is Joyce even majoring in? Last I remember she wanted to be a teacher but I think Joyce’s career motivations have long since evolved beyond that. I know Sarah is studying law, I think Amber and Danny are in computer science courses? Jennifer is journalism. I can’t really think of anyone else.
Thag Simmons
Ruth is in english, Walky is in telecommunications, Booster is in psych
Sirksome
I think Becky’s also in on a political science major or whatever the deal is with Robin’s sponsoring even though she’s just using it to game the system and take science classes. That’s probably also what Dorothy’s majoring in. Carla’s probably in engineering. Malaya and possibly Mary are in art. Has Sal ever stated anything? She’s probably undeclared too. It’s pretty interesting trying to imagine what some of the cast might be into for a career.
Nono
I don’t think Joyce has given any indications of switching careers. Heck, a first year Biology course like this is perfect for ‘yeah I can teach a whole range of subjects’ for primary educators.
Also, Raidah and Jacob are in law. Mary is in art, not sure about Malaya. Dorothy is more likely than not political science.
Julez
There isn’t actually a pre-law major. They never specifically said what their majors are.
Ferret
Joyce didn’t want to be a teacher, she became an education major so she could homeschool her future children better. She was actually going for her MRS, although her lifeplans are probably not quite the same now, although she may not realize it yet.
Regalli
Yeah, I suspect she recognizes it on SOME level after last semester – it’s clear she’s never going back to that church, and even if she hasn’t fully come to terms with it yet, she knows she doesn’t really believe in God anymore.
But I don’t think she’s let herself think beyond that brief ‘fighter pilot’ idea (and honestly I’m not sure how much serious thought went into that beyond ‘flying planes and being cool’) what she actually DOES want to do. I’d bet she does change her major eventually, though. No clue what yet.
Nono
Future pornlord.
Regalli
Unfortunately, I don’t think IU offers it as a major.
Seriously unfortunate because I’d love to see her and Roz in a class together again and Roz going ‘… wait, seriously? Woooow.’
Nono
To be slightly more serious, I’m sure you can angle a creative writing course somewhere, maybe English Lit, and do a lot of focus on comparing, I dunno, displays of eroticism in media between medieval writing to modern day things like Fifty Shades or something.
Regalli
I mean I was a humanities major who got an undergrad thesis greenlit about our perception of Muppets as living, friendly beings who are also puppets and the uncanny valley so, I can see it. Try hard enough and you can justify A LOt in an academic paper.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Needs to be in one of those “Build your own major” deals like how Isaac Bonewits got a degree in “Magic” from UC Berkeley.
Bubbletea
A friend of mine actually did her PhD in that. Well, ‘Comparing Occurrences of ‘Deviant’ Sexuality in Something Century Literature from France and England.’ (Can’t remember what period she focused on! But apparently there was a lot more bestiality than she’d expected, which she found very exciting.)
Chris (the other one)
This is actually a reply to Bubbletea… you peaked my curiosity, and don’t know if this is what you were referring to, but I found “Transgressing the Boundaries of Holiness: Sexual Deviance in the Early Medieval Penitential Handbooks of Ireland, England and France 500-1000.” by C. A. McCann… fascinating reading. The author was able to figure out the (many) sexual deviancies of the early Middle Ages by studying the penitential handbooks. We know what they did, because we know what they chastised themselves for doing.
Roborat
@chris (the other one) the word you want is piqued, not peaked.
Demoted Oblivious
@Roborat (the original one), you are most likely correct, since that is the usual usage, however Chris may actually have meant that their curiosity was elevated to a maximum degree, rather than their curiosity was provoked.
To be honest though, in a fit of pique, I peeked at the particulars of piqued and peaked to be sure I didn’t place my proboscis problematically and pique peoples proclivity to impart a passage on piqued to we pupils.
Roborat
@Demoted Oblivious, that was brilliant, I am still softly chortling to myself.
Geneseepaws
Since Sal is minoring in AWESOME, maybe Joyce could major in it.
Demoted Oblivious
Pretty sure Sal already Mastered that.
SeanR
She considered it during dinner with Jacob and his brother. She declared then that she DID want to teach.
https://www.dumbingofage.com/2019/comic/book-10/01-birthday-pursuit/goals/
Sirksome
Well there’s the evidence! My question is if that still holds up now with Joyce’s change in outlook after what happened? She’s being pushed farther away from the person she was even during that date so her end career if we ever see it could still be dramatically different from what she planned. Although i can easily imagine her teaching and having a side gig as the famous author of the Julia Grey chronicles. It will be made into a movie franchise or tv series, probably on the CW.
Regalli
Aaah, right, thanks! I’m with Sirksome that I’m still not certain she does – given her response to Walky’s ‘you need good vision to be a fighter pilot’ she still seems to have that fantasy as a HER fantasy, not just Julia, and there was a LOT going on in the Brother Visit that could have been influencing what she said and was thinking there* (also given Joyce’s sensory issues, elementary school kids would probably be hell on her,) but I’m glad she actually has started questioning that one at least a little bit.
* Also given what we saw in the glasses arc that she will, in fact, deny that she’s changing even in a way she should have expected in the face of undeniable evidence. Her expression in that last panel isn’t exactly relieved.
Blindness
thanks, I thought it was something like that…the fundy way of educating women- let them learn until they find a man then they have to drop out so he can support them
Blindness
Wasn’t Joyce in education(learning to teach before she got her Mrs. Degree)?
Otl1973
Is being undeclared even a thing anymore? When I was at college (a state school mumble decades ago), I was officially undeclared for almost 2 years, then changed my major 3 times before I graduated. (Still got out in 4 years, but with way more than the needed credits to graduate.)
When my kids were in college (different state schools, but the same state, 10+ years ago), it appeared you were expected to declare a major when you started, and while changing was possible, it seemingly was discouraged. The requirements for graduating in most majors didn’t allow much delay in starting major-specific classes, and if you passed the number of credits required for graduating by more than (depending on the year – it’s varied) 10-20% (which becomes likely to make up the needed classes if you change majors more than a short while after you started), they charge a per credit hour “surcharge”, which is currently 100%. (That is, they charge twice as much tuition – but not fees, which are roughly the same level as tuition – for each credit than if you don’t exceed the limit.). This is intended to encourage “efficiency”, so students don’t take too long to graduate.
Maybe some states aren’t as asinine as mine?
Regalli
Yeah, I didn’t declare a major until sophomore year and I would have enrolled… fuck, a decade ago in September. Depends on the school, I think. (I also declared a minor going in that I ended up not finishing without any real issue. Such is life.)
Slartibeast Button, BIA
In the late 70s I just took courses until I got tired and looked to see what I could build out of the combination. (BS in Physics/Math)
Clif
Your advisor should be shot though.
Mr D phone posting
“oh no no no can’t have people learning TOO much now.”
misanthropope
-literally every authority figure, ever
Steve
A little googling tells me that undergrads at Indiana U have to meet certain requirments before they declare a major, often at the end of freshman year.
I transfered between one university and another, and at the first I didn’t have to declare a major until I had completed 2nd year (I was in Faculty of Arts) while the second required incoming students to apply for a particular major. I changed mine before I even set foot on campus.
Ob
Comıng from a non-US education system, even the idea that you can be “undeclared” seems absurd to me.
You are supposed to pick between math&science / math&literature / social studies at the beginning of 9th grade here. And then you better know what major you want to study by the time you graduate highschool, as you have to put it on the form before you enter a university entrance exam.
From the first day of university you are bombarded with classes in your chosen major, and 4 years is barely enough time to fit them all. So just picking random “human evolution” and “gender studies” classes for the first two semesters and then deciding to study robotics in the second year… I just can’t even comprehend how you’d fit all those courses into your schedule.
Loki
What happens if you study for longer than the four years?
Here in Germany, it depends on university, but you can basically study as long as you want at some universities, unless you fail too many exams of your chosen major. If you do, that bars you from studying any major where that course is mandatory (so, if, say, you fail “intro to statistics for STEM students” with biology as your major, and you want to study chemistry after, you are SOL.)
The downside is of course, that at some point you fall out of the financial perks of being a student (like cheaper insurance) and the costs start catching up to you. And it looks bad on your resume.
Ob
Yeah it changes from uni to uni, but generally people can do double majors, and finish it in 5 years. In some unis you have to have really high grades before you are allowed to double major. And in some cases you lose your scholarship if you can’t finish the uni in 4 years. In some cases you lose it if your GPA falls below 3.5. And in some cases you don’t lose it no matter what you do. (Heck I had a friend who took like 10 years to finish and he still had his scholarship).
So once you are in your chosen course, it’s largely up to the university and your scholarship to decide how much choice you have.
Liliet
From a sounds-like-it’s-different non-US education system, here you straight up enter an educational program. You don’t “pick” classes other than like, a couple of elective choices (do you take cognitive psychology, psychology or sociology as supplement to your software engineering studies? type of thing) throughout all four years of your education. You are enrolled into a course of people with your chosen specialty (Computer Science, Software Engineering, etc – and yes, these are different as they are two different educational programs), have lectures with your whole course (and some lectures even with several different courses of your year in big enough lecture halls), then the course is also subdivided into groups which all have the same program but have workshops / practical classes / lab classes at different times so a teacher doesn’t have to wrangle 90+ people all trying to speak English or something, and can just handle 10-20 at the same time. You don’t pick your group, you’re assigned to it. (Though I imagine if you want to switch for some reason there’s no reason why you couldn’t, it just has to go through official paperwork and stuff)
(Electives like the psychology/sociology ones I mentioned are offered to a whole year of students of the same faculty that doesn’t have that as their primary specialty, as they are not tailored to their specific major in any way as a result. That’s why you have choices – when there’s 300 people making choices and you’re going to have 10+ groups as a result either way, you might as well offer 3-4 different subjects… that the same teachers will teach anyway)
(And it’s year-specific, always. You don’t get to “take” the same class either in the second or third year because you don’t really “take” classes. You just attend them. Same as school)
Johan
She wants to be a elementary school teacher but she was originally all about her Mrs.
BBCC
Joyce – Elementary Education
Dorothy – Political Science
Walky – Telecommunications
Billie – Journalism
Amber, Danny, Rachel – Computer science
Ethan – Undeclared but was considering English
Joe – Undeclared
Sal – Undeclared, though we’ve seen her looking at musical stuff lately so maybe she’ll go into that
Mary – Art Education (Malaya was not an art major, it was an elective)
Mike, before he died, was in Social Work
Sarah, Raidah, Jacob – Pre-Law (as in, takes Classes to prep for law school, not an actual major)
Carla – Computer engineering
Roz – Gender Studies
Dina – Biology
Becky – Political Science, probably wants to double major or minor in Biology
Ruth – English
Booster – Psychology
We dunno about Lucy or Malaya.
BBCC
Joe is currently undeclared
crow
Joe is just responding to Joyce being rude about being partnered with him. Plus, Joe is sort of a friend.
Yotomoe
People don’t care if its someone they don’t like that much. Sad state of affairs but rude behavior isn’t judged universally.
Rectilinear Propagation
Joe isn’t questioning her presence, he’s objecting to being paired with someone who has previously said they don’t believe in evolution in a Biology class. Unlike Joyce simply being in the same political class as Roz, Joe being lab partners with her could affect his grade.
thejeff
Plus Roz was being insufferably elitist about it. “This is a special class that plebes like you shouldn’t have been able to get in.”
Yumi
Pretty sure the comment was about what JOYCE says in the last panel.
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