/sci/ - Science & Math

/sci/ I need something productive to do this summer. What would be the best thing? I already have a part time job and I'm trying to get another.

>going in to final year of chem eng bachelors
>will do a masters so I'll graduate in 2015

What I am currently doing:

>going through an engineering maths textbook
>going through matlab textbook

What I am considering starting (and continuing after summer):

>learning python - no idea if it would ever be useful

>learning more about chem eng topics - boring as fuck, chem eng is shit

>learning spanish - would take ages to get to useful level, have no one to speak with

>learning arabic - live with my parents who are native speakers, my only language is english so it would be much harder than spanish, zero cultural benefit, unsure of employability benefit

>reading novels - isn't productive, would be enjoyable

What are your opinions? I do well at uni, I'm not one of these non-committal types who does fuck all. But I don't want to waste my time.

>haven't done any math since high school
>need to know more math for job
>decide to take calc course at regional college to refresh memory
>teacher seems to have aspergers, can't teach because he's afraid of the class and mumbles the whole time
>have to learn everything from book
>last test consisted entirely of doing matrix math by hand

Why is math instruction so awful, /sci/?

>want to spend my summer doing maths courses on MIT website, learning Arabic, getting better at MATLAB and excel, going over chemical engineering concepts for my final year

>will have a job

>want to go to the gym

Does being extra smart make up for being completely skinny and weak? I'm already ugly, no social life etc, the only benefit of the gym would be to feel better. But it takes up so much damn time.

And, not to act like I have a superiority complex, but when I see some big fat guy at the gym deadlifting 600 lbs and I'm thinking about Arabic verbs or my upcoming exams inbetween sets, I kind of think the lifting will never lead me to anywhere.

If you even have vague hopes of being Mr Smart Person, is it a major goof to do a degree in anything other than Maths or Physics?

Holy balls does chemical engineering feel shit tier. I give zero shits about thermodynamics or heat transfer coefficients.

Do maths/physics give you satisfaction that you're learning the fundamentals of the universe, or would i still have hated it (I'm not really curious about intellectual matters).

Does learning more maths make you feel like you're expanding your view of the world, or is it really boring shit (to me, not trying to troll) like, "we have just spent 2 years proving that every prime number + 3 is divisible by 4"

>rounding before the final answer