Comments on: Friday Happy Hour: Famous People’s Majors

By: Steve C

Steve C — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:06:00 +0000

Not so much myself, but my younger brother is Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 astronaut. BTW, my brother had his 11th birthday the day man walked on the moon, 7/11/69.

By: rob

rob — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:18:00 +0000

Philosophy major in good company with Bruce Lee, Alex Trebeck, Steve Martin, Harrison Ford, and Thomas Jefferson.

By: grover

grover — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:09:00 +0000

1) I share my name with a web-savvy photographer and a developer for a major Linux brand.

Needless to say, whenever a new email or social networking service opens up, I do *not* get to register under my own name.

By: PartiallyDeflected

PartiallyDeflected — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:39:00 +0000

2. I had a major role in reducing the average response time of Fire, Police, and EMS in a few cities.

By: dangermouse

dangermouse — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:29:00 +0000

I share my first name with a surprising number of *ahem* adult movie stars, it would seem ‘Tiana’ is quite popular in that circle. I always liked that my name (including my surname) is very unique and no one else has my full name (that I know of). However, I understand that a new Disney animated movie coming out this year has a Princess Tiana – soon everyone will have or know a kid called Tiana… well it was fun being on the unique end of the name scale while it lasted…

By: Monica

Monica — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:13:00 +0000

I am an English major; they say the astronaut Sally Ride has a B.A. in English.
I will minor in Art History. The model Sasha Pivovarova actually majored in Art History. And they say models aren’t educated.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:39:00 +0000

1) Sadly my name is shared with a Playmate of the year; Sara(h) Underwood.

3) Ted Bundy, Jon Stewart, and Abbie Hoffman. Psych majors are always diverse it seems.

By: Sara in AL

Sara in AL — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:50:00 +0000

Chuck-Tom Cruise flunked out of Seminary. No, he was expelled.

By: emily p

emily p — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:36:00 +0000

I actually share my major with Ray Romano….kinda. He was supposed to study accounting in Queens.

By: dawn

dawn — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 07:22:00 +0000

2. The biggest highlight for me was my last job in the US. Ever since studying Accounting in college, I wanted to go into international taxation. It was difficult to find a job in that for the first half of my career, but I finally stumbled upon an international tax position when living in Maryland. Best job of my life – and I worked for and with fantastic people.

A couple years ago, I decided to move to New Zealand after taking a side holiday during a business trip to Singapore. To do that, I needed a job! After applying for a couple, and landing an interview, I just needed a reference. They specifically wanted to talk to my current boss (at that time). I finally had to tell her about my plans to move across the world. She gave me an excellent reference, which got me the job out here, which qualfied me and my husband for immediate permanent residency visas.

I miss that job, and my former boss almost every day. I will always be grateful for her gift of an excellent reference!