/sci/ - Science & Math

Here are my goals:

Complete an undergraduate degree in Mathematics.
Pursue either a MSC in Mathematics or Computer Science. Focus in Recursion Theory or Theoretical Computer Science.
I may pursue a MSC overseas (US student here)
Once I complete a MSC I'll pursue a PhD in either Mathematics or CS with a focus in Recursion Theory.
After my PhD (if the world still exist) I'd like to do research in the Industry (like IBM, Microsoft,HP) or possibly become a professor. I'd rather not have the obligation to teach though.

Get an Master in Finance
work at wallstreet
get a 500.000 bonus and a trophy wife
success

I want to get my bachelors in Economics.

from here, I will either work in Washington DC (I have an internship set up and, and job placement is pretty common in this program), or go into grad school.pursuing a PhD in Economics. Concentration is unknown, but my overall goal would be to economically strengthen the western-friendly world / developing weak nations and make them western friendly.


it is gauge, but I am rather early in my education.

I want to know the mind of "god".

>get a PhD in biology
>revive Carl Sagan

complete my 4 year physics degree
if i'm still interested, do a phd.

if not...i may have to get a job.

I'm undecided between engineer and biologist.

If I choose biologist, I can pursue a better understanding of our planet more efficiently, but as an engineer I can construct things, and use physics and math more.


I should probably decide quickly.

Finish degree.
Apply for graduate medicine.
Failing that, Masters and alcoholism

sit home
play xbox
maybe go outside

finish undergraduate studies in physics. Apply for grad-programs at good universitys, do phd in theoretical physics. Find theory of everything. Receive Nobel prize. Or something along these lines.

>Start working at Goldman Sachs in January.
> Be hated by everyone in the world.

Complete my undergraduate degree in cognitive science. Take a master in something relevant.. I dunno. Have not looked into my options. Dont know what to work with, dont care. Just want to study cognition and have theory-of-mind sex with D.Hofstadter.

similar to >>2172680 but with an important distinction
sit home
play xbox
never go outside

capcha quite good: conuts society

Continue underwater welding for 3 time the salary of phd graduates
Get a different degree from open university every 4 years
Retire at 40
Live in my house that I own
Laugh at people still trying to pay off student debts

picture very related

>>2172731
No wonder he's out of a job if he only published 6 papers after finishing 3 postdocs

>>2172731
should've got 3 phds in culinary arts

Get PHD in aerospace engineer

Colonize moon

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101208/ap_on_sc/us_sci_test_rocket

finish my PhD
Do a postdoc in the same field
Get a professorship in a decent university.
Have anal sex with female students

>>2172714
>bored alcoholic by the age of 45 with not nearly enough education to understand the world yet just enough to realize this, lonely and depressed for the rest of your life weeping over the years lost to empty monetary gain.
Good luck brah

>What are your future academic or personal goals? (Be realistic).
Tenured professor. Nothing less.
>How are you working to achieve those goals?
BSc in neuroscience cum laude in the bag, two more years and I'll have an MSc in cognitive neuroscience. I'm building up a network so finding a PhD position shouldn't be that much of a problem. From there on it's working my ass off for about 15 years.

PROOF THE BIRCH AND SWINNERTON DYER CONJECTURE

jk I quit maths because I realized I'll never do anything useful in it.

Learn 12 different martial arts

Murder Scia before he arrives to the moon

>>2172487
> he thinks "Recursion Theory" is an actual thing

I think a lot of people here don't realize exactly how hard it is to get a PhD, especially in physics. Shit is crazy competitive, probably the most competitive field out there is physics. A BSc in physics will get you exactly zero jobs besides teacher, and even if you manage to get a PhD you'll need to work your ass off for at least a decade before you can get a decent paycheck.

I strongly suggest anyone wanting to pursue a Phd, in any field, but especially physics to dig deeply and see if that is what you really want. Because if it's not, you might waste a lot of time and money, but above all hard and stressful work.

>>2172826

How about Neuroscience?

If not...I'm just going for Finance and Economics...I've lived in the shitter money wise my whole life....not gonna continue it career wise.

To win IGEM.

Study computer science and mathematics, if possible to doctorate level. (haven't decided yet if I want to pursue a career of research or not)

>>2173011
The pay isn't much better in neuroscience (except in clinical fields) than it is in physics, but at least it's less competitive. Generally it's easier to find a PhD position in neuroscience, but keep in mind it's still competitive. The competition is a bit broader though, I've heard of people form China and India with a degree in electrical engineering apply for PhD positions in neuroscience and those make up just about half of the applications. In general if you have an appropriate degree you'll find a spot.

With the crisis going on right now I don't think Finance or Economics will get you a job any time soon, but if you do the pay will be a lot higher. (this isn't really my field though, so it might be different, and it also depends on the country.)

>>2172798
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computability_theory

>>2172773
>Not nearly enough education
>Degree every 4 years

>>2173095
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion_theory

>>2173102
A BSc will teach you nothing but <span class="math">how[/spoiler] to learn. Anything above that will mean there's no way in hell you'll have enough time to work and earn the amounts of money you think you will.

My goals: contribute significantly to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_computation

>>2173131
You can just make an account brah, start typing up shit as you see fit. Also, don't forget to donate!

pharmacy or medicine here, but Belgian admission exams are dicking killers (don't suppose anyone got experience with these?)

>>2173245
also: future prospect

Degree in Mech Engineering

Masters in Aerospace

Phd in astrophysics or some shit.

GRADUATE STUDENT IN MATH

gonna be a tramp

step 1 Attempt god-tier physics.
step 2 Fail into computer programming hell.
step 3 Become Satan/Steve Jobs
step 4 ...
step 5 Create robot waifu!!! :D

>>2173245
Only thing I've heard was it was easier to go to Belgium to be a vet or a nurse or a physiotherapist.

Graduate with Anthropology Major (lol), Biology Major, Psychology Minor (lolol) and Chemistry Minor.
Go to grad school.
Decide on Neurobiology or Genetics.
Attain Masters.
Work in research while attaining PhD.
Combine genes randomly to make my very own waifu.

>>2172575
‎Why choose when you can become a BIOENGINEER?!

>>2172501
>>2172684

You know, as long as you get an MBA from a top notch business school; you're pretty much set in life. Not just wallstreet

become a neurologist

Get monbukagakusho stipendium for medicine.
Study medicine in japan.
Make research in Sweden, marry japanese wife for genetic purposes.
Get children and die peacfully watching meteorite hitting earth, while being in a cottage in canada.
Oh, and find a way to create mindless droids.

Score high on an IQ test. Spend the rest of my life convincing myself that I'm genetically superior.

>>2172826
I wish more people would look at teaching as desirable, or at least respectable. The reason why countries like Finalnd and Singapore have such highly touted educational systems is because teaching is prestigious. It's the main reason a lot of people even go to college.

>>2173904
The key words being "top notch". Far too many people assume an MBA or JD will lead them to instant wealth. The reality is that there are far more mid-level managers and public attorneys who work long hours for peanuts and spend their entire lives paying down student debt. Many are admirable and sincere, but many more never wanted anything out of their lives except money and stuff.

>>2174068

Awesome choice, I'm on my way to become a neurosurgeon. I still have many years to go until I am finally there, but medicine is truly a fantastic field of study and I am thriving so far.

Finish computer engineering bachelors
Get into decent grad school for masters (i have shit gpa)
Probably wont do phd

Biglaw for 5-10 years. Pay off all debt, save up a bit. Retire from law, get a bachelors in whatever is promising at the moment. Go on to masters. Find MBA friend and make a startup.

Hopefully make some money. If not, go into industry, hopefully in the developing world.

>>2174143
Yepp. That is why it's easier to get monbukagakusho in medicine than to get to finnish uni.study medicine LOL, well at least top three.
Seriously long term planning is limited. You may see max 5. year to future until uncertainty kicks in. One could probably make equation about it.

smoke weed erryday

I'm in a junior college program for electricians. I don't see the point in going to college if you just want to make decent money. You should only go if you have very specific goals and a good plan, which a lot of you fortunately do have, but you guys really are the minority. It's not even a question of where you go or what your major is, it's just that many people are too damn aimless for college.

I see prospect in of computational neuroscience based on how fast the field is growing and also combining my skills with math, computers, and psychology.

I'm not sure from which side to approach this, but I'd assume a higher mathematics degree will be more recognized. I'm getting a head start on programming while tinkering with HTM modules.

My endgame seems fairly interesting and satisfying, being directly involved with developing smart A.I. software and robots. There's a lot more room for application and it has already shown its usefulness (google/search optimization) even in its infancy.

If I'm not cut out or never land anything, my approach should have several fallback positions. I'll be web designing/developing on the side to rake some cash. Who knows, I might implement certain methods to web development and invest in a business there.

I wanna one day become an Astrophysist.
Cosmic evolution, galaxies and beyond, there is truly no greater field to enter.

I'd love to make people more aware of the Universe. Here in Australia, people (namely the white population) either come from a very strong Christian or Catholic background, or stronly atheistic (without any reasoning for it, and as such is just as blind as religion)

I'd love to push forward ideas just as the great minds did, and are doing to this day.

Just to make a difference, and put some hope into my fellow man, that's all I want from this life.

>>2172771
Great minds think alike.

I'm aiming for a BSc in Physics. My personal interests are currently into high energy physics and many particle physics.

I would love to revolutionise Economics with papers so complex that you would need a mathematics degree to understand them, thus ridding the world of arrogant, yet oh-so-ignorant, Econ undergrads once and for all.

I have undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Economics and am now working towards a PhD in Mathematics.

Goals:
Get a B.S. in Earth Sciences, geology in particular. Try and specialize in Mineral Exploration.
Get a job working for a country, where my knowledge of two European languages (Russian, German) could land me a job overseas.
Work a few years, go back to school, get a master's. Focus in Mineral Exploration, again.
During this interval, acquire money through stock market.
Attempt to publish a book/author some papers
Eventually obtain a PhD in Geology
Become a consultant
Sit back and relax as I've won at life.

Finish undergraduate degree in mathematics.
Realize non-existent employment prospects.
Move back in with my parents.
Play xbox all day.

I'm living the dream.

King of the World with the ability to summon waffles and bacon from the sky while having babies blood bathing the g-hads

not to be a nerd like all of you

>>2174408
same here. except i might drop out. I'm not failing or anything (though it's not great ~3.2ish), but I just hate school so damn much. I hate the whole concept of grades--I know how much i know, the profs don't; don't give me a fucking grade, just let me do my own thing!

>>2174522
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodidacticism#Notable_autodidacts

Become part of the master race.

>>2174408

I did/do this, with a laughable GPA at the end (I nearly flunked out). Now I drive forklifts all day. It's okay, since I don't apply myself anyway. I just figured that I'd study what I like while in school, and since what I like(d) is actually useful, maybe it'll be an in to something better later in life.

GOALS:
BS in EE
Get a job
HOW:
Study, study, make connections, study, study

Complete my MSc in cybernetics engineering, possibly a biomedical direction.
Turn myself into a cyborg
Kill my mother in the past to avoid the robot uprising

Astrophysicist til im around 35 then its astronaut time babby

Get BSc in Computer Science
Maybe get Masters
Otherwise, work.

>> phd in mathematics
>> 300k starting
>> any job i want

I am looking to get a degree in marketting or electrical engineering. I am currently learning mandarin and move to a capital city in China.

My grades are decent and I can afford to live in China as everything is much cheaper, luxiries come easy. I want to start a new life there, fast-paced activity, opportunities for my creativity and subservient women.

Complete Double Major B.S. In Systems Engineering and Physics
Either A. Get a job.
B. Go to grad school for Astrophysics or Aerospace Engineering or Physics

Either work as an engineer, an astronomer doing university research, or go into aerospace an space exploration. possibly becoming an astronaut.

And I'm moving to northern Mexico, er California.

>>2174068
This.

>>2174544

Great Minds.

All that matters is what you can teach yourself to actually do at a high level. Not your faggot grades.

lrn2math

Working on BS in Physics (adviser and classmates trying to convince me to trip major with Math and Astro... may decide to).

Best Case Scenario: Grad school, PhD, enjoy cushy life as college prof / researcher, get job at NASA.

Still Pretty Good Scenario) Grad school, Masters, go teaching route, enjoy slightly less cushy but still quite rewarding career teaching high school science and inspiring young minds.

>>2174710

any country in the south america is alright. but i would prefer brazil to mexico man.

TO ALL THE NEUROSCIENCE/PSYCHOLOGY PEOPLE!

I am an undergraduate Mathematics major. I have an interest in Cognitive science/Neuroscience and I am considering going to graduate school for it. I have a minimal background in the field other than an intro to psychology and introduction to cognitive science course I'll take by the time i graduate. How best can I increase my chances of getting into a to program for cognitive science/neuroscience? I already have a math publication + research experience (in math)

>>2174767
Take more classes if you're not about to graduate next term. I'm sure they'll look for people with a broader understanding of psychology.

>>2174767
You'll need some bio as well. Neuroscience doesn't just depend on psychology, otherwise it's kinda just cognitive psychology. I'm a psych major with a concentration in neuroscience, which means that I've taken extra biology classes at my college.

So I'd say you need more bio and maybe some research methods/ a little related research experience (not in math).

The good thing is that being good at math means that you'll be able to learn stats for analysis super quickly.

>What are your future academic or personal goals?
innovate and optionally became rich

>How are you working to achieve those goals?
lots of fapping

>>2174767
Princeton says:

We strongly encourage such students to apply-- you will feel right at home. Our program aims to draw undergraduates with strong quantitative backgrounds (e.g., majors in mathematics, physics, engineering and computer science, in addition to well trained biology and psychology majors) into neuroscience. We aim to do that in a way that allows them to continue to develop their quantitative skills in the context of a rigorous training in neuroscience. Students in the "Quantitative and Computational Neuroscience track" within the Neuroscience Ph.D. must fulfill all the requirements of the Neuroscience Ph.D. In addition, their electives should be in quantitative courses, and their Ph.D. research should be in quantitative and/or computational neuroscience.

Has anyone here experience an "academic change of focus"?

Like for example say you just ~knew~ you were going to be a biologist whilst growing up. You would document various organisms for fun as a child, read various biological books, and excel in biology courses in HS. Then say, your Junior/Senior year you realized you no longer wanted to do Biology once you obtained your degree, but something else completely different? Say from Biology -> Economics (for graduate school)

TRY TO GET INTRO GRADUATE SCHOOL

>>2174996
>>2174996

tl;dr

Philosophy -> Maths.

8 yrs as a programmer/linux admin. Realize no matter how much wealth or praise I receive for doing these tasks they are easy and represent a personal laziness that will eventually leave me struggling financially. Gain 45 semester units toward philosophy degree in 8 months (3.9 GPA). Realize college is a place where you are rated for abilities you already have or can easily acquire...
Realize survival is niche and that wealth (at least personally generated wealth, not inherited) is a symbol of your value to society and your value to society is based on the difficulty of your intellectual rigor....

I'd hate to be an alpha, nobody works as hard as an alpha...

lrn2math

>>2175275
>Realize wealth (at least personally generated wealth, not inherited) is a symbol of your value to society
wealth is symbolic of how effective you are at parasitic behaviour
nothin has value to society because society is undefinable
be wealthy but at least be honest about what it means

my personal goal is to stop being such a faggot IRL and make friends in the right places so that I can live fairly comfortably doing some semi-skilled or skilled job. Once I finish Uni I should have the skills and contacts I need to get cracking on instead of wasting my life on 4chan.

I SERIOUSLY doubt qualifications have much weight in the industries you are going for. I've seen too many people walking around with PhD's and degrees thinking that the whole world owes them a big deal. If you want to study /sci/fags, study the industry. People ten times as dumb as you are making much more money while you waste away as a volunteer lab assistant waiting for your big break.

remember this phrase: if you're so clever, why aren't you rich?

Finish master's thesis
Graduate
Go back to being an alcoholic
Get job
Become functional alcoholic

>>2175317
>>2175317

I apologize, Economy is the greatest problem we face as a planet in my opinion. The common man does not care to break his bondage because it is something he cannot see.

But the fact of the matter is that most of the posters in their thread probably will be rewarded financially in accord with the value of their skill or trade.

And besides if you get too honest about morality it gets hard to get stupid monkey pussy, because hot bitches are all idiocracy'd out even the smart ones only know how to count calories and check your bank statement.

>>2175331
I was just giving the asshole in me some free expression
>And besides if you get too honest about morality it gets hard to get stupid monkey pussy, because hot bitches are all idiocracy'd out even the smart ones only know how to count calories and check your bank statement.
damn diggety

Professor in a philosophy department, preferably in my local university (which is pretty small) but I can accept a position in some other university as well.

I'm currently completing my bachelor's degree so there's still a long way to go. I'm planning on staying in the academic circles for the rest of my life.

Finish my master's in mathematics. Then I'm going to move back in with my parent's and get a job, most likely in engineering.

...im probably the only person here who is moving in with his girlfriend

>>2172466
Undergrads in Math + Physics - CHECK
Masters in Physics - CHECK
Phd in Physics - In progress
Working at the LHC - CHECK
Invet Time Travel Technology - will start in 2011

>>2175394
yeah, mine moved in with with me

I whould like to be a physicist preferably quantum.
i am in the 11th graid and i am taking bc calc and teaching my slef ap mech

Get my undergraduate degree with honours, get my MBA. Go to get a certificate in culinary arts and work at Mcdonalds flipping burgers and shit. Seriously I will do that and I will post pics.

Currently I have three goals, number 1 being my top choice and 3 being my last:
1. Medicine/Pharmacy
2.Graduate School in Neuroscience/Physiology
3. Physiotherapist
Option one is kinda bleak at the moment. I have an okay GPA (3.78) and some clinical/volunteer experience, but I haven't done a lot of research (worked in the lab for one summer) and I haven't written the MCAT yet. Option two is more likely what I'll do, but again the lack of research in my UG in going to kill me I think. I think I may have to cope with doing option 3, which kinda sucks but I think I would still like it.

>get B.Sc in computer science
>get M.Sc in computer science
>get Ph.D in computer science
>focus research efforts on logic and computability theory
>attain position at any university that's looking
>publish papers and dick around in my faculty office all day errday
>teach lectures, fuck students over on exams
>enjoy life

>[BONUS ROUND] get dick sucked by girl looking for extra 2% on assignment

Got my bachelors in physics and health physics... got a pretty awesome job for two years.. Now i'm enrolled in a Phd program for experimental physics (laser-plasma interactions) and love the shit out of it. I don't have much money but life is too short to not do what you.

>>2175458
>>2172487
you guys want to study the same field

>>2175458

>This is why teaching in college is god-tier.
>Pays well.
>Lots of free-time compared to other occupations.
>Getting your dick sucked by a hot college chick is actually legal compared to high school.
>Your workload is proportinal to how much you give a fuck about grading the students/what you teach/how much curriculum you teach, etc, etc.

>>2175413
lol... meant getting a place together

How much prestige does being a professor have?

>>2177412
Lay prestige depends on the ranking of university you teach at. Prestige in academia probably relates more to your own personal research.

>>2177421
Some of it seems like intellectual arrogance (definitely not true for all people). I'm in the mathematics department and I hear graduate students talk arcanely about Algebraic Geometry in public places. As if you do not know AG then what do you know, type of thing.

One of my mathematics professors is sort of rude. If there are a bunch of undergraduate students in his office during office hours and another professor wants to chat with him, in front of all his students he'll say "Let me gets these guys out of my office first".

I'm aiming to complete a PhD but I won't be arrogant.

>>2174996
>>2174996
>>2174996

Computer science/electrical engineering --> Medicine

I hated learning/doing math throughout my high school education, I was bad at it and it was extremely boring to me.

I spent two years at comp sci/ee college until I realized I would hate to do that job for xy years (also, I've failed all of my math/calculus courses). Worst two years of my life with shitload of frustrations, extreme boredom and just plain old lack of interest in courses.

Now I'm studying for medical school entry exams, everything is going just fine.

Fucked up high school, want to do something related to space as the cosmos in general.


But when I have nothing backing me up I'll probably go be a plumber or something. I'm simply too stupid to be a scientist of any sort and since it's already obvious I'll never excel in the field I'll have a horrible time finding work.

Fuck yeah community collage

Get a degree in mathematics and work on a mathematical foundation for robotics. This will allow engineers to create robots that move "naturally" and advances in AI will allow the robots to handle "complex tasks" (such as "give me the red ball", "Bring me my umbrella", "Go walk the dog", etc). What will happen after that is that most jobs done today by humans will be done by robots. The only nonrobotised jobs will be scientific ones. Soon the majority of the population will be employed to clean and repair the robots that work for the rich elite and scientific personnel. And later then a greater divide is made when AI will reach a peak where robots will maintain themselves thus causing the majority of the population to revert back to villages and medieval customs while a small elite will enjoy super-modern comforts and indefinite lifespan.

Enjoy the future guys.

>>2175912
So what is the average income of a Professor over there? Swedefag here, curious about how it compares.

ITT: retard high school dropouts who think they can be astrophysicists and pre-med wannabes who don't stand a chance.

>>2177543
ITT: arrogant undergraduates thinking the world is in the palm of their hands because they got an A on that test that one time

>>2177506
Fellow scientist here, your goals are evil.

>>2177564
Never mind that they are also completely and utterly unrealistic.

I want to go to graduate school.

Will A's, B's and (a few C's) keep me out?
I have research experience. I am published in a peer reviewed journal and I think I can get solid recommendations.

>>2177761
Meant to add, I have over a 3.0<=x<=3.5

>>2174615
no astrophysicist has ever been selected as an astronaut. just sayin
good luck though

>>2177543
As if you're gonna have such a fantastic life teaching highschool chemistry.

>>2177820

>>2177820
>>2177559

Doesn't stop him from being right

>Go to US
>Aerospace Engineering
>Suddenly get a job at SpaceX and meet Robert Zubrin and go out for drinks with Elon Musk and drive while drunk with Louis Friedman and... ;_;

>>2172773
YOU NEED A COLLEGE DEGREE TO BE HAPPY.

Wow, brainwashing

>>2177856

You forgot:

>Stalking Beth Biller
>Marrying Charles Pellegrino [without his consent]

>>2177849

I just don't see what the problem is if someone wants to study hard science or higher math independently.