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Okay I've been thinking about 3 different directions to go in my college career and like any other well rounded individual I'm going to 4chan for advice.

Mathematics, Aerospace Engineering or Physics

I love math classes. I can sit down for hours and work problems and be perfectly content. It just feels like a big game to me

I also love rockets, aircraft and spacecraft. That's why aerospace engineering is an option as well.

I've always been interested in physics and I enjoyed the classes but I'm still kind of borderline about it

Whichever path I choose I'll end up going to grad school. I need to take graduate level courses into consideration.

Excess salary means nothing. I only need to live comfortably which I'm doing now with a part time job. So as for living expenses I'm low maintenance

So, which option would /sci/ suggest?

>> No.1404364

>>1404356
Math or Physics if you are serious about science.

>> No.1404369

>>1404356
>Engineering

Are you a homosexual or planning on becomeing a homosexual?

>> No.1404379

Aerospace Engineering

If you do math, you won't be sitting down solving random math problems for 8 hours a day. You'll be solving one huge problem for a year, something like "a tv company wants to predict who (male, female, young male, young female... etc) watches your shows, and when."

You don't really seem interested in Physics.

>> No.1404382

> Excess salary means nothing

Academia? Research? etc.

>> No.1404392
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1404392

>>1404356
>Engineering

Do you like the taste of man seed?

>> No.1404394

Aerospace Engineering, it's the most fun and you'll be working with clever people doing interesting stuff (and actually doing something). Better lube your anus though.

>> No.1404398

Consider: Do you like to build/design things? Do you like to spend months on a single problem?

>> No.1404403

>>1404364

I wouldn't be going into Math for the science. I would be going because I enjoy logic and number puzzles. Although my attraction to physics would be because science is pretty rad

>>1404369
If it's gay to like aircraft then yeah... OP is a homosexual

>> No.1404417

>>1404356
I would say physics since it's my subject, but you don't seem terribly enthusiastic about it and you'll need that keenness to survive grad school. Maths is probably best for you but bear in mind you have a much better chance of working on proper new research if you go into physics. Not that many maths PhDs have the nous to go into pure maths research.

Don't become an engineer, they have AIDS.

>> No.1404421

>>1404382

honestly I don't really know what motivates me. I like to sit down and work out logic problems. I don't really care how much I get paid but I still wouldn't be willing to get paid unfairly. I don't like the idea of being taken advantage of because I'm indifferent about salary

>> No.1404426

>>1404403
You can design spacecraft as a head physicist or one of the 100 aerospace engineers working under him.

>> No.1404430

>>1404421
Sounds like math or physics is for you. In engineering all you will do is grunt labor.

>> No.1404433

>>1404426
Actually, very few physicists are involved in space engineering. All the physics problems were solved in the 60s.

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1404440

>>1404356
So this boils down to if your gay or not.
Do you get tuned on by penis? If yes then welcome to the "fablous" life of engineering!
Else go physics/math double major.

>> No.1404444

>>1404440

what about the other 10%

>> No.1404447

>>1404433
Exactly most places only have 1 or 2 on staff, and they are usually project leaders, with tons of engineers working under them.

>> No.1404460

ROFL ENGINEERS R GAY

>> No.1404463

>>1404444
Usually bi or some kind of sexual deviant

>> No.1404473

>>1404421

Social sciences can challenge your logic.

>> No.1404480

lol I was joking about taking advice from 4chan but I'm starting to think about taking more physics classes

I bet I could get a job with an aerospace company with a physics degree and have a secondary option of going into physics.

I'll have to think about this a little bit more but thanks for the unexpected insight

>> No.1404496

>>1404473

I took a political science and a psychology class and it really didn't feel like I was really learning anything

>> No.1404509

What is this "engineers are gay" samefagging? That isn't even a real stereotype, you just made that shit up.

>> No.1404524

Our airplanes are working fine, we need intelligence applied to the social world..

>> No.1404540

>>1404496

Machines are easier to understand than people and societies.

>> No.1404547

>>1404524
HAHAHAHAHA

>> No.1404601

>>1404480
no problem.

FYI: a physicist is qualified to do any job an engineer would usually do (companies even hire physicist over engineers), and engineer cannot to the job of a physicist

>> No.1404610

>>1404509
newfag?
never heard of engineers before?

>> No.1404628

>>1404540

When I took IQ tests my best areas were always the logic and mathematics areas. I'd kind of feel like my area of specialty was going to waste.

Kind of like choosing the "typical melee" race in an RPG to be a mage. Just aren't going to reach full potential