/sci/ - Science & Math

>was a smart cookie as a youngster
>went to university and hated my subject
>didn't enjoy it at all
>was a loser with no friends and extremely depressed
>got through it and got my degree but with the bare minimum work
>realised I dun goofed by not going to an elite university
>realised I dun goofed by not doing math or physics
>now work in a respectable white collar job but it's brainless

Apart from programming, what other productive areas are there for someone who wants to do smart people stuff like applied math, without having a job in the areas?

I feel so sad that I have never been in a high pressure environment. I think my awful university experience made me in to a lazy person.

I feel so sad that my degree was so boring. I did a chemistry degree. Doing a degree at a non-elite university was so demotivating because the courses were much easier than comparable courses at better universities, so what was the point? And as a non-math major, I knew it would not lead to anything profound. I was in the middle of my degree when AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol and I felt so sad knowing that I'd never contribute to something like that.

>>12591139
Bro that's deep. Now let's go work out.

>I don't know topology, I don't know real analysis, I don't differential geometry, but I am an engineering Chad. What gave it away, if I may ask?

>Why yes, I do have no intrinsic motivation to better understand computation and the philosophy behind it; my choosing to major in computer science is entirely based on the inordinate amount of money I will be compensated with to do relatively simple tasks. I must ask: How were you able to tell?

>>11959302
Why don't you negotiate with the company to pay you an incentive every year for using your property for passage.

Also, before you go to jail for destroying a communications cable, look up where the ROW (right of way) starts and your property ends.

a lot of dumb property owners don't realize their property is part of the ROW.

also I'm the same guy who posted this.
>>11958323


I do this for a living.

>>virtual particles
>>ghost fields
>>collapse of the wave function
>>dark matter/energy
>>imaginary numbers
>
>That's a lot of words for "we don't know what's happening".

>me, just starting to study for calc 2 five days before the exam

We reached the end of Moore's law. Transistor density at or near capacity, and the limits of power/voltage on CPUs means we can't clock them any faster but have to resort to multi-cores, which are far less efficient.

So hardware is at a gridlock now. The past few years has seen the ball in software's court, and they do a shite job. Much of the attention is on mobile apps, which are obviously going to be a bunch of consoomer shit, and the rest is enterprise and business software. We are in fact going to be stuck at a plateau as long as hardware is stuck.

>>11455557
Sorry bro it ain’t B

>>11422699
There is no money geology unless you have PhD. Otherwise you are doing something that is completely different than geology as a technician.

I've been in the business for several years now. No one does just "geology" in the way you learn it in schools. Because those jobs are almost nonexistent.

Get a geo engineering degree instead.