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Changed a few times.  I started out as a computer science major.  I had written statistics programs in BASIC on Apple iic-s and e-s for my school's sports teams when I was in high school, and figured I could make a career out of it.  After two and a half years of that, I got bored out of my skull learning how to do the same stuff in seven languages and simple heuristics in Prologue.  Plus, my dad died when I was 20, and I figured I should do something that interested me.  I was already interested in philosophy, but no philosophy major in my hometown, so I switched, intending to double-major in history and English.  Did that for a year and a half, then transferred to UND and finished a double-major in philosophy and religious studies in one year before going to grad school.

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My BA was in Modern & Contemporary History.

How is that defined?  Isn't the term "contemporary history" rather oxymoronic? 

It's the present that just became the past.  There is always lots of new material to study.