/sci/ - Science & Math

Don't study pure math or science. Just don't. It's not fucking worth it. I wish I could go back and undo this and just become a code monkey.

>you will NEVER catch up to the kids that had professors as parents and were doing real analysis and quantum mechanics when they were 12
>even if you have the same level of natural iq/intelligence as anyone else you still will be too far behind the people who have talent AND the experience and work ethic
>if you EVER get below a 3.9 say goodbye to going to the top grad schools because they have so many perfect candidates to pick from plus you have to compete with all of india and china
>got a B freshman year? Say goodbye to that REU that year. Then the REU next year since you didn't have the research experience from the first year... Oh you don't even know what an REU is? You poor soul...
>BTW, only people from the top grad schools have any future in academia
>you have to keep publishing complete garbage
>chinks/pajeets read your research and steal your work
>you will grow to hate it
>backstabbing everywhere
>get a shit advisor? RIP
>even if you make it through this sick system you have to keep slaving and publishing garbage just to maybe get an adjunct professorship at some shithole
>postdoc after postdoc after postdoc that lead to nowhere
>work for under minimum wage
>affirmative action is out of control in STEM
>industry takes your research, never pays you for it
>tenure track positions are GONE
>maybe you want to get out of the academia hamster wheel; those "quant wall street jobs for STEM phds"? They only want phds from harvard and yale, not your non-ivy school! LOL!

>tfw you need to remake all your plots so the colors are distinguishable in monochrome

How does one stop making careless mistakes on test papers? It’s literally making me want to kill myself that I can’t score a full mark on a mathematics paper cause I forgot a minus sign. Even after checking, some still slip through.

>parents: hurr durr you're a brainlet and unsuitable for higher education
>drop out at 16
>go back a bit later, get A*A*A*A* at A level
>first person in completely average schools history to get into the maths olympiad
>zero confidence due to being told I'm a brainlet most my life, oxbridge, imperial, durham, warwick NEVER EVER
>get to uni and realise how bad I fucked up never applying anywhere very good
>averaged 90 percent in first year

It doesn't matter, right bros? Right? I didn't waste my potential right bros?

>>9401130
Can't apply next year when I'm 2 years into uni. And yeah I realised it was an exceptionally stupid decision after about the first year of uni, but fell for all the bullshit my parents told me, they insisted I wasn't smart enough for any uni until after AS levels.

Although I am definitely going to apply to the cambridge part 3 physics course (final year of undergraduate physics there) next year.

also
>you can always just apply the next year.
Only normalfags with a decent home life can do this, I had to find somewhere to live as soon as possible.