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[Anonymous No.2342596]

[Anonymous No.2342597]

Maybe it'll help you beg on the street.

[Anonymous No.2342598]

wow, it looks like english students like listening to advice

[Richard Feynmann !Hwop/gspA. No.2342600]

thanks for the hilarious chain e-mail grandpa

[Anonymous No.2342599]

It's cool that a lot of people want to know what they can do with their English major.

[Anonymous No.2342620]

Advice from grad students: OH GOD STOP GETTING AN ENGLISH MAJOR IF YOU CAN DO SCIENCE

DO THE FUCKING SCIENCE

DO IT

[Anonymous No.2342629]

>>2342620
9 to 5 in a lab for the rest of my life.... Sounds great.

Economy & Business > Liberal Arts > Science

[mathfag No.2342652]

>>2342629
>economy and business

AHAHAHAHAHA

enjoy your office shit and corporate mentality.

i'll be over here, reasoning my way into undiscovered objective knowledge and never being in a lab.

[Anonymous No.2342660]

>>2342652
>i'll be over here, reasoning my way into undiscovered objective knowledge and never being in a lab.
Oh, so you're majoring in philosophy? Scientific degrees are much to disciplined and focused for that type of lifestyle, at least if you care about making money.

[Anonymous No.2342662]

>>2342629
>>2342652
This shit drives me crazy. I'm pretty great at everything but I don't know what I should major in because everyone seems to disagree about what's best. And I'm probably going to have to make a solid final decision real soon.

[Richard Feynmann !Hwop/gspA. No.2342663]

>>2342652

discovery is imperialism, uyo are every bit as implicated in the bourgeois hegemonic order as your business world friend

[Anonymous No.2342674]

>implying the major that improves your quality of life the most is the one that you should choose

Unless your main goal in life IS improving your quality of life

[Anonymous No.2342680]

>get my english associates degree last year
>work a shitty job to fund my teachers license
>find out that there are places in middle america that hire unlicensed teachers
>but I'd have to livei n the bible belt

[Anonymous No.2342684]

>>2342660
People confuse quality of life with wealth. I'd rather get paid $50,000 a year doing something I love than $200,000 a year performing devastatingly soul-crushing work. If you love it, it isn't even work.

[Anonymous No.2342683]

>>2342680
>but I'd have to livei n the bible belt

You mean the paradise of moral patriotic white americans?
whats the downside? You some sort of atheist?

[Anonymous No.2342685]

>>2342629
>9 to 5 in a lab for the rest of my life.... Sounds great.
not sure where you're coming from on that. to me, what comes to mind from "i work in a science lab" is hands-on work, decent pay, benefits, a lot of interactions with lab mates, dress code based on practicality guidelines and not silly notions of 'business casual', a rotating legion of young co-eds to handle your grunt work ... and obviously, it depends on a lot of factors, such as whether you're the principal investigator or a technician/assistant; what type of institution you work at; which field you're in (e.g. if you're a conservationist then your laboratory is the outdoors). i mean, your idea of lab work seems to be based on childrens tv shows.

[Anonymous No.2342689]

>>2342596
>>>/sci/

[Anonymous No.2342687]

>>2342662
I got an engineering degree in design engineering which let me take art classes including jewelry and glassblowing

what i didn't know what the only thing that matters is a solid internship program. pick a school with a guarenteed internship and you'll be set

me I had to go into programming and make websites for 100s of different companies, learn 100s of different businesses, interface with marketing, write copy, make graphics and photoshops, and of course code constantly. Oh and develop games, but I just do that for fun not bizness.

never got to be an engineer because no internship, so I'm totally fucking miserable

[Anonymous No.2342688]

>>2342683
What's wrong with paradise?
You mad you're going to hell?

[Anonymous No.2342691]

>>2342684
Or you could make 200k a year and then retire at 35....

[Anonymous No.2342692]

>>2342683
the last time i was in the bible belt was for boot camp
a local approached me, because he noticed I was able to read a sign on the wall
and he asked me, very secretively "is it true what they say about evil-ution?"
and I just looked at him as he continued "is that when satan makes bugs grow legs and attack people?"

[Richard Feynmann !Hwop/gspA. No.2342693]

>>2342685

>a rotating legion of young co-eds to handle your grunt work

observe how the scienitst delights in oppressing the proletariat

[Anonymous No.2342695]

>>2342693
Observe how the commie sees only class distinctions, quantity of wallet paper, and not the humanity of all.

[Anonymous No.2342701]

>>2342692
did you correct him?

[mathfag No.2342699]

>>2342660
No, I'm a mathfag. Did you miss the name?

Also, shut the fuck up feynmann

[Anonymous No.2342697]

>>2342691
And then collapse into a never-ending depression because you've lost all purpose in life like everyone does when they retire that early?

[Anonymous No.2342698]

>>2342685
Yet you completely ignore the long stretches of no breakthrough, the long nights crunching numbers, the monotony involved in recording observations... Your notion of lab work seems to come from modern science fiction.

[Anonymous No.2342702]

>>2342695
>implying human spirit does not = $$$

[Richard Feynmann !Hwop/gspA. No.2342705]

>>2342695

all of humankind has humanity, silly goose, it's just that some (e.g. scientists) insist upon subjecting othres to wage slavery

progass equations

[Anonymous No.2342707]

God these are worst than the George RR Martin threads.

[Anonymous No.2342709]

>>2342699
Why are you majoring in philosophy?

[Anonymous No.2342710]

>>2342697
you must be a pretty goddamn boring person if you think work gives you purpose in life.

[Anonymous No.2342713]

>>2342710
I don't make the rules.

[Anonymous No.2342727]

>>2342713
you don't have to follow them, sheep.

[Anonymous No.2342729]

>>2342713

and you don't know them either

[Anonymous No.2342730]

>>2342680
It's not as though hundreds of counties, occupied by millions of people, are going to be entirely homogenous in their espousal of the stereotypical Bible-Belt views & lifestyle. I mean, there are liberal pockets and places where the dominant local ideology/demographics are barely discernible from e.g. California or upstate New York. If there are several places where you might realistically be able to get a job, you should at least research the specific area.

[mathfag No.2342737]

>>2342709
Is this some kind of semantic trap where you include the formal sciences as part of philosophy?

[Anonymous No.2342731]

>>2342701
i pulled him closely, breathing in the vapors emanating from his empty skull
I placed my hands into his back pockets, squeezing his buttocks and whispered
"yesssssssssssssssssssss"

i never saw a man run so fast

[Anonymous No.2342739]

>>2342730
and those places would want qualified teachers
and good for them

i went to a public school in south jersey as a kid, half the teachers were unqualified. my history teacher spent every lesson talking about jesus and kept trying to get the one jewish kid expelled. when another student's parents divorced she call him an abomination and told none of the other kids to talk to them or their parent's will break up too

[Anonymous No.2342740]

>>2342737
No way, bro.
Ask me "anything".

[Anonymous No.2342745]

>>2342737
Mathematics is just logical reasoning using abstractions. It's closely tied to philosophy. Some forms of philosophy use mathematics in their arguments.

[mathfag No.2342755]

>>2342745
>Mathematics is just logical reasoning using abstractions

Math is a subset of philosophy (like everything). But the term specifically refers to scope (abstract relationships) rather than basically anything.

[Anonymous No.2342756]

>english
>a hard liberal art
pick one

your friends, /sci/

[Anonymous No.2342759]

>>2342756
>art
>a hard liberal
I sure hope you can come up with something better than that.

[Richard Feynmann !Hwop/gspA. No.2342760]

>>2342756

the dichotomoy of hard vs not hard is immaterial to a population that does not fsuffer from erectile dysfunction

[Anonymous No.2342762]

>>2342756
fuck off richard dawkins is a faggot

[Anonymous No.2342767]

>>2342739

I refuse to believe this.

[Anonymous No.2342770]

>>2342767
>4chan
>nothing but the truth
gtfo, doubter

[Anonymous No.2342784]

>>2342755
Fair enough. I was just pointing out that philosophy and mathematics aren't diametrically opposed, and are actually different methods of understanding using logical axioms. Eventually science and philosophy will meet again; just look at the work being done in neuroscience with regards to suffering and morality.