/sci/ - Science & Math

I'm in college as a Mechanical Engineer. I'm going to do this for 10 years or so while heavily investing so I can retire under the age of 40 and set up a game shop. Hopefully by this aging has been cured, if not then time to freeze myself and hope for the best for the future.

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

>learn 10 languages
>get 2 higher educations (related to each other)
>try to get a doctorate by 30
>if successful start my own business
>have a family with 4 kids

>end my financial engineering studies
>become trader (easy with the "grande école" I'm soon to be going to)
>earn lots of moniz
>retire at 40 max
>spend the rest of my life studying higher levels of maths and physics, and profiting of the companies my dad has built+my savings.

>>3549078
>learn 10 languages
sure binary is in here

Make enough money to buy land in a rural area, zone it, and build my own house and live out the rest of my life synthesizing drugs, gardening and creating art.

buy khanacademy and make people pay for it.
Just to ensure knowledge isn't too spread in the world.

>>3549099
>learn arithmetic in 10 bases
>sure is binary in here

>>3549262
that was my point.

survive world war III

I need to go to school for physics.
I feel compelled to die with a complete understanding of everything on the most elementary level.
Throughout my career in trying to perfect fusion energy for the benefit of the human race I'll be placing every other ounce of effort into the Theory of Everything.

>>3549259
I really like your thinking.

My goals are to finish my Pd.D. in Stochastic Fluid Flow Modelling (two years time, hopefully), move into quantitative analysis.... Stay in quantitative analysis for long enough to be able to get to a point where I can also live a life (sort-of...) retire happy.

> finish biology in my college
> get a job doing scientific work of any kind. I can study frogs. I don't care...
> if that fails become a professor of biology in high school and retire at 65. Don't mind being a professor.
> smoke weed
> get married
> have kids
> die

not all in that order

>>3549273
YFW we have fusion reactors before you finish high school

>>3549289
Hope your wife is cool with you being a zombie then.

They told me I could be anything.
>become biologically immortal
>transfer consciousness to a quantum supercomputer
>take over civilization
>push technology to it's limits
>expand and control all the matter and energy in the universe
>???

>>3549273
Sorry boy but if you're involved in nuclear physics you're not getting involved in the theory of everything. Its a one or the other game here. When you start at university you'll begin to realise, there're too much there for you to do everything - you have to specialise. Theory of everything is for the mathematicians to keep working on. Wolfram will have it before you know what hits you.

>>3549293
Not that guy, I'm pretty fucking sure I wouldn't be disappointed if they showed up tomorrow.

I honestly don't know. Part of me wants to write papers, do new science, and generally help the world. A different part of me wants to get a high paying job and build awesome shit in my spare time.

>>3549297
Universe is nothing as a whole. Control nothing.

>>3549304
> get a high paying job
> YFW no matter how smart you are you have to be extremely lucky to do this.

>>Be realistic.

>stay unemployed
>waste my life on 4chan
>die as a virgin

>>3549304
you can:
be a well paid professor.
In france, professors in preparatory classes (after high-school) can be paid up to 100k€/year, for approx 20hours/week.

Get Ph.D. in finance.
Become professor.

No worries about blowing up some fund on Wall Street. Not as much money as an investment firm job but much more secure.

>>3549316
don't want to be an actuary?

>Get degree in music education
>Get degree in English
>Become a teacher in my hometown
>Join committees, start making my community a better place
>Continue education while doing these things
>Eventually have a PhD by the time I die
>Become principal of one of the schools in my hometown's school district
>Change that school for the better
>Eventually become superintendent
>Do everything in my power to give the next generations a chance at a decent education and a worthy future

I will fight for my convictions until I haven't a limb to stand on.

achieve masters in aerospace engineering for the moment
then i want to work on improving and inventing propulsion systems. aerodynamics research also interests me

I'm on the science track as of now, but will drop off and go the private industry route instead.

Physics here.

Job could be practically anything related to sensors are measurement techniques, spectroscopy etc., that sort of thing.

Since I have a wife and a huge place to live .. I'd say I got off lucky. It's a shame though, that one can't do the academic science route in my country.

>Be realistic.

survival and reproduction?

>>3549309
Petroleum engineers for the win.
>>3549312
Mon francais est nul, parce que je ne sais pas les mots scientific souvent.

>>3549335

how are you going to get a job as an english teacher? there are about 200 applicants for every open position. fail

>>3549312
Implying passing the Agrégation and been in the top 10 is easy.

>>3549382
being*

>>3549369
hahaha :D you don't need French to do science, really.
I always have to look up for sources in English because I can't find anything useful enough in French

>>3549382
it is. Once you have been in prépa and been to the ENS, of course.

>>3549396
I've been told my accent is superb, so maybe I can make up for the total lack of vocabulary by just mumbling all the time.
You have superb bread in France. Don't take it for granted.

>>3549398
You said it. Prépa, ENS. Those are the way taken by the elites.

>>3549405
I'm actually not French, just studying there; bread is awesome, but so fucking expensive

>>3549411
>mfw I'm the elite

To you, my ideal life will sound boring no doubt.

>marry my girl
>have children (two or more)
>have a steady job, as stress-free as possible
>be a good father and a husband
>grow old
>die a painless, peaceful death

I'm not exactly shooting for the stars here.

>>3549513

/sci/ will condemn you with snarky comments regardless.

Finish the aviation diploma and become a career pilot. I'd be happy with any flying job, no matter how unglamourous, if it gave me enough money to live well, and stable enough so that I can come home at the end of the day.

If that means being a flight instructor for the rest of my life, then I'm fine with that. As long as I get to fly.

Well, I want to have a fun job (and good paying). Good paying because I plan to get a nice roadster car or something and just travel everywhere cross country, be it by myself, with a friend or 2, or with a significant other. Also, travel to other countries as well.

tl;dr git money, travel the world

>>3549525
oh no

>>3549542
also left out that I want to get a light sport/ultralight aircraft license and fly my plane errr day

I don't mean to seem like I care about material things, like our social stats. I just want four walls and adobe slats for my girls

>>3549529
That's actually making me seriously consider joining the RAF again. Flying is one of the most fun things I've ever tried.