/sci/ - Science & Math

my level of self loathing seems to be ever deepening

>non-mathfags immediately sense your contempt towards them, thx to their animal instincts, even though you're trying your hardest to be polite etc

i want to make friends, how do you deal with this?

>find the derivative
>find the critical points
>state the intervals where the function is increasing and decreasing
>find the local and absolute maxima and minima
>find the second derivative
>state the intervals of concavity
>find the inflection point
>find the asymptotes, x-intercepts, y-intercept
>sketch the graph of the function

>decide to study maths to feel like less of a brainlet (already have STEM degree but it wasn't maths and I've forgotten all of it anyway)
>start going through section on line integrals in maths for engineers and physicists textbook
>SO fucking boring

Is this normal? I want to feel like less of a brainlet but studying maths with no purpose is boring.

How do I turn myself in to an uber hardworking person? I don't have ADHD or anything like that but I procrastinate everything to an incredible degree due to lack of interest or immediate needs.

How do I stay inside learning or doing nerdy shit when it's summer outside and everyone is having fun? And I live in Britain ffs! If I lived in California I probably would have failed university due to this. I know I am an ugly nofriends loser who won't enjoy being outside but I still can't convince myself to work hard

>>8437828
Out of hope that an anon comes out saying they were the same way and later fixed their math retardation.

>>8216702

>steve patterson
who dis

>Cantor
who dat

So what is that one trick that will make me work really hard? I'm not asking how to increase my IQ or become superman, I just want to be self motivated rather than needing to be assigned work

>you never went to Stuyvesant High School
>you never went to Westminster College or Eton College
>you never went to an elite university

>why didn't I get into an easy field

You were born too late to reeingineer dinosaurs as your high school biology project for the semester

And don't say stuff like "you should've taken xyz courses". This is the UK where you pick your subject as a dumb 17 year old. You have to trust universities / teachers to give you good advice...But obviously nobody tells you the hard truths, such as: places like Oxford / imperial / UCL have curricula that have ten times more packed in to them compared to lower ranked unis.

I initially disliked the clueless dilettante naivety of the babies on /sci/ but what I see in real life is more demoralising. On sci you get clueless 15 year olds asking dumb questions about maths or physics. In real life you realise that people consider it worthwhile to spend their time in university learning about engineering shit like choosing pipes with good wall thicknesses. 4-5 years of this shit just for engineering jobs! Holy fuck, I would gladly choose pointless shit over this. I now have more respect for arts students than engineering students. I now feel happy reading the dumb questions on sci.

I think I've lost all respect for almost all " education". Engineering degrees are not worthwhile. If you give someone a non-rigorous education all you're doing is reducing their future options. A physics student could do any type of engineering research but an engineering student can't do vice versa.

There is definitely no dignity in education for employment's sake while having any pretence of academia.

Please answer the questions I ask myself all the time in my head.

Do STEM PhDs need tonnes of creativity, or is it hard work? Also same question but for being a regular lecturer/researcher/professor.

Are these mythical genius physicists/mathematicians mostly just people who are inordinately interested in physics, rather than having inordinately powerful brains? Obviously you have a few like von Neumann who are geniune geniuses.

How many papers should lecturers be publishing every year? I know there should be no answer.

Are maths courses basically useless for almost all non-academia jobs after Calc 1-3, linear algebra and basic stats? IS vector calculus (i.e. div,grad,curl) close to useless outside of academia?

What is the point of doing an engineering bachelors and then engineering phd when you could be doing a physics/maths bachelors and then engineering phd? Surely the second way gives you a better fundamental knowledge? I am just not seeing any use for my engineering degree. I picked it as a dumb 18 year old and I feel like I've been robbed of a real education. My degree is not practical in any way but it isn't rigorous theory either.

And finally and most flippantly: Be honest with me m80s, physics is surely full of BS, right? I see snippets of it on /sci/. How the hell can you tell what happened so long ago?

And actually finally: I read about a lot from pop-sources that people bring complicated maths in to economics in order to justify bullshit. Is this the same for physics, or do they have some sort of symbiotic relationship?

chem 1 was pretty shitty

chem 2 is more fun just because there's calculations now

>take chem 1
>learn about all the new concepts and formulas
>learn how formulas are applied
>study for tests expecting to solve shit
>it's all just conceptual shit

Why do I suck so much at English and the humanities?

Why can't I write for shit, or correctly interpret a classical novel to achieve passing grades on exams?

Please help me /sci/

>>4473486
How can an evening class help me? In the evening I become tired which makes social interaction even harder. In the morning on the other hand I am too full of fears.

;_;

How can I get gf?

;_;

>>4444855
Are you EK? Can you be my gf?

;_;

Prisoner A is elected to count. When he gets in the room and sees the light on, he counts one up and turns the light off. If the light was off, he does nothing. Once he counted 99, he knows 99 prisoners have been there + himself = 100, so he informs the warden. Every other prisoner turns light on, when he enters the room for the first time AND light is off. Otherwise he does nothing. Because the prisoners are chosen at random, we can assume there will be some point when every prisoner has turned the light on exactly once.

Now here's a harder riddle: How to get gf that likes science?

;_;

>>4411593
My smartness doesn't make up for being lonely.
How do I find someone to love?

;_;

>>4401367
No, they are disgusted by my social awkwardness.

;_;

>>4399954
How do I ensure being born in the right universe?

>>4399955
I need someone intelligent. And my landlord doesn't allow dogs.

>>4399960
I am 22.

;_;

>>4396695
I cannot leave 4chan until I have friends. 4chan is my only social interaction.

;_;

>that feel when not even a nobel prize can get you gf

;_;