/sci/ - Science & Math

>never took calculus in high school
>have two weeks to go from algebra to starting calculus for placement test
I tried buying textbooks but they put me to sleep before I got anywhere. What do I use?

>Mathematics
absolutely useless and we'd die
>Physics
would know a lot but have no idea how to apply any of it IRL and we'd die
>Chemistry
sort of useful, actually
>Biology
would actually know lots of useful shit but unless they had a perfect memory and remembered which berries were poisonous and which weren't etc, we'd die
>Mechanical Engineering
maybe actually useful, would be able to make tools, weapons to kill animals for food and defense, could probably jerry-rig guns with homemade bullets and shit, more than likely have enough knowledge to make a insulated hut and keep a warm place to sleep with all of their thermo knowledge, wouldn't actually be useful for anything else though and lets get real, even the physics majors could make a fucking bow & arrow. you don't need to be ME to do that
>Electrical Engineering
probably less useful in this situation unless they had loads of telecommunications knowledge and knew how to jerry-rig some sort of communications to have us saved earlier, probably not possible with the few materials, would still have some decently useful knowledge but would probably be fucked tbh m8 this would be the only guy that could get us out before that 3 years if they know this shit, though.
>Chemical Engineering
we're not going to need tubes, so we'd die.
>Civil Engineering
We'd probably have a sick hut but get fucked in the ass in every other way, so we'd die. we don't need to design a road m8.

just lurking so far

is some liberal arts major trying to push that liberal arts is as hard as STEM?

is that what's happening?

>>7579425
You're generalizing entire fields and somehow have an idea that finance is more enjoyable than engineering, so you have no idea with what you're going on about and clearly aren't more than an freshman in university.

If you don't enjoy engineering, then why are you even considering it? If you're going for a maths degree, you won't have any sort of backing for engineering past your second year, so you'd be wasting your time. You either have a knack or you don't and I don't think that you do.

I'll say, if it was ME and I was going for maths... deducing what would actually be worth the time I spent on my degree and ON PAPER, what would be most successful if I pursued it? It'd be finance without a doubt. Maths majors aren't really the best for going to grad school for engineering.

Would I ever in my life actually want to work in finance? Holy fuck, just give me the gun now. If you think that Finance is more interesting or less bureaucratic than engineering, you're in for a very rude awakening. It's probably the most soul-sucking thing you can do, which is why the guys in that field are usually total sociopathic morons.

Who would I respect more and such? It'd be the engineer. Most people don't respect people who enter finance.