International Relations

How old are you first of all? It will help me give u advice

>>2728890
I turned 18 in the spring (hence the my birthday was in the Spring note)

>>2728786
If you're an outgoing, charismatic normie go for international relations. Otherwise go STEM

>>2728786
Good luck getting a job.

>>2728786
Unless you're going to a top-100 university for it, please don't waste your time with this joke-tier degree. You won't learn shit.

It's all theory and 0 practice. The stuff you learn isn't applicable. It won't help you analyze political events better. Even a month on /pol/ will make you a better analyst than a degree in IR. The thing is a joke.

They taught me some things about Realism and Liberalism, a bit about international political economy and academic writing. Actually, the academic writing bit, which was expanded to form an entire semester, was perhaps the most useful and applicable thing we were taught in this shit-tier program.

I've read Harvard's IR syllabus and it's nothing to do with what you get in your typical university. They actually study top political figures and authors in detail there and read a shit-ton of books. It's worth it to take the degree there.

A degree in IR is overall better than having no degree. As far as I know it can help you apply for work at various NGOs and think tanks, and even at government institutions / administration.

You'd need a Master's or a PhD to work as an analyst for the CIA and from what I've seen, these "political scientist" academician cuckolds are the worst-tier plebbitors out there. Overworked and underappreciated, they have to shell out "scientific" research all the time in order to stay relevant within their field. Research that their piers will never read. It's a lonely, soul-sucking work. I can count the number of lecturers working in the field who were overall liked by the students on one finger on one of my hand.