/sci/ - Science & Math

thanks for the template, dick!

>>3815119

woops
>fixed

>>3815132
> implying I'll post it after that rude remark

are you guys trolling?

You would think math majors would be successful as math translates to almost any field = the best employment oppurtunities for a major

Somebody gimme the template so i can do

What i studied - Psychology, Economics, Marketing

What I expected - A lot of money

What I got - Unemployment

Shit I know math majors who didnt feel like working and made thousands off the stock market

>>3815160
implying this thread isn't shit and i found any of these pictures even somewhat funny

>>3815168
> posting pictures of text to an imageboard

>>3815189
Cut him some slack, he studied psychology.

>>3815133
similar. went to grad school and found this out.

>>3815168
this one actually made me lol.
i feel your pain. good thing i didn't have my name on a piece of paper with psychology under it.

>>3815168
>never got past general psych
>clearly had a terrible, outdated curriculum

bam

>>3815235
>implying most get outside of general psych
>social psych, personality psych, forensic psych all rely heavily on gen psych -- ask all the same questions
>health psych (aka interventionalists) and neuropsych (aka bottom feeders in grad school for neuro) have one foot out the door.

>>3815199

Oh wow, I feel ya' bro.

>>3815199
>neuroscience
>what i expected: look at what brain activity and interpret its meaning
>what i got: ERP modulation by x. DERP I DUNNO.

What I Studied: Computer Science
What I expected: Artificial life research
What I got: "Hello welcome to the Apple Store!"

Oddly enough, I'll get paid far more in about 5 years than had i even ended up in gov't or diplomacy.

My major is one of the most indie/hipster of all majors

2 DEEP 4 U TO COMPREHEND

oh boy, i love these

>>3815403
anyone who's read "A New Kind of Science" would get that

your hipster field is based around one of the bestselling math books ever

you are a very poor hipster

>>3815573
he was studying it before it was cool

>>3815580
fair enough

I keep lolling at the guy in OP's picture.
What's it from, anything in particular?

>>3815602
Abelson's and Sussman's lecture series, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, available on youtube as part of MIT open courseware

The scene in the gif is from the beginning of the first lecture

>>3815387

latinfag IR student here, whats the job like? are an undergrad or postgrad? any tips?

>>3815729
Haven't started yet.
Its actually in technology consulting, yep, quite relevant to my degree, lol. But it will pay quite well after just a few years. I assume it will be long hours of varied work, (documentation, client relations, SAP, etc), getting heaps of contacts in various industries.

I did do one year of postgrad on a thesis, getting first class for it. In the behavioural interview, the guy basically said the reason I was in front of him was because I did the extra honours year.

I don't get what's going on in the OPs pic. Where is the sauce from?

category theory, category theory everywhere.

>>3815403
how the fuck are cellular automata physiology? And CA's aren't even truly math. They're complexity science and theoretical computing science.

I have a PhD in Archaeology, with a focus on South America.

>Feels ok man

yo dis thread bee funni

Lol

Yep

>>3816216
i know that feel man.. GA is a bitch

>>3816216
very funny

>What I studied
College

>What I expected
Learning and Jobs

>What I got
Bullshit classes and debt

Just sayin!

>>3816351

>Butthurt engineer
>Can't even get the meme right
>Biology is NOT hard when obviously all of those guys are

>>3816216
that sucks lol

>>3816416
butthurt biologist detected

annnnd i picked the wrong major

>>3816369
>going to college to get a job

>>3816400
We have a winnar!

>>3816269
Mah nigga... Hope you got your First Aid and USMLE step 1 secrets. Mad HY

>>3816446

>Double butthurt engineer detected
>Maybe if you stopped sitting on cocks for awhile and lurked a bit more, you would come to understand our super secret clubhouse memes

>>3816468

>Highschool
>No connections
>All white collar jobs require BA

>College
>Tons of employer connections
>Internship opportunities

Not sure where you fucked up.

>>3815199
>>3815272
>>3815270
large portions of the medical imaging field aren't convinced frmi coorelate to brain activity nearly as well as some of the researchers claim

>>3816468

>implying 70% of college goers don't have an eye toward painful employment down the road.
>The other 30% are dumb sociology majors.

>>3816468
Dumb stoner detected

>Study nothing

>Do carpentry and builders course out of boredom

>Take a bunch of other half assed evening classes

>Make 110 grand a year telling immigrants where to stack things and draw pictures on my computer

>Rich jew fiance's grandparents give us a luxury apartment and a car

Life is pretty sweet.

>>3816486
>>3816480
>>3816489
PROTIP:
1. I'm smarter than you
2. I was making the exact opposite claim.
3. You're all illiterate morons

>>3816513
1/10

>>3816513
Dumb stoner detected

too lazy to open photoshop
>what I studied: Physics
>what I expected: relativity
>what I got: neutrinos

>>3816506
nice

none about physics yet? feels goodman

Software engineering, anyone?

>>3816535
I feel like most people who go into SE know exactly what they're getting into.

>>3816400
is mycology actually an undergrad major anywhere??

>>3816535
90% spec writing
10% actual code

>>3816621
Some universities in Europe offer mycology programs at the undergraduate level, but I'm not aware of any in N. America. My Master's and PhD. (current) are in mycology but my degree is simply MSc.

When I tell people what I study they love it. Everyone loves fungi yet no one knows much about them due to the lack of material in the public education system.

what I studied: physics

what I expected: interesting problems about the observable world

what I got: tedious quantum calculations

>>3816734
Don't be fooled by the romanticized image of physics. If you find quantum calculations boring then you should change your major

>>3816763

I know, it's for an engineering program though.

I detest quantum/modern physics, everything else is fine

The sad truth

>>3815037

>>3817485
This would explain some of the people I see on engineering degrees

>>3815199
>mfw I failed out of an engineering matlab course
>mfw I'm wanting to go to grad school for neuro

that's a pretty cool story actually... i want to do neuro after i finish my math undergrad, and as part of my course we do some MATLAB projects.

feels qualified man.

>>3815927
you're right, i don't study cellular automata directly, i just like the cool picture

i'm in an applied math grad program that deals with cell cycles and physiological systems. i WAS studying gene transcription networks but then i discovered something much, much cooler that I can't talk about, sorry!

>>3816656
what are your specs in software?

>>3816006

tell_me_your_secrets_bones.jpg

>>3817496

I love messytronics.

>What I studied
Engineering

>What I expected
Hitting shit with a wrench and magically having it work.

>What I got
Nope.avi

>What I studied
Computer engineering

>What I expected
Constructing computer archicture and hardware

>What I got
Testbench waveforms and analysis every fucking where.

LOL
this is the best post i've ever seen :D
Keep it alive

>>3821038
i mean, best thread :P

>>3815037
I've seen a gif floating around with this clip. Anyone got a link?

>>3821077
the gif is lost in the deepest jungles of my hard drive but here's the YouTube video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY

>>3815052
Feels Bad Man.

anyone got one for mechanical engineering?

>>3821090
Thanks. Do you have a link to the gif on the interwebs perchance?

>>3816006
That's a better outcome than I expected. As soon as I saw Indiana Jones in your thumbnail I expected the "what I got" part to just be someone in a library kinda like how he says it is in his lecture in one of those movies.

Something like:
"99% of archeology is done in a library"

>>3821184

Wow, story of my fucking life right here, no joke.

impressed at how aweome this thread went

>>3821184

Holy. Fucking. Shit. LOL. I made the right panel of that fucking thing like a year ago and I shat a brick right now seeing it reposted XD haha. Here's the original

>>3815434
>>3815434


This a billion times. I can't stand the media. Reading the headlines for nuclear can make it feel like there is unified campaign to shit all over the most interesting and powerful fuel source humanity has.

The worst thing is that this fear-mongering, incorrect, bullshit could cost me a career.

>>3822034
I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Scientists are the new (medieval) priesthood. We interpret important things (reality for us, scripture for priests) for the illiterate masses. We are powerful and essential to everyone's way of life, but we are NOT trusted. Fear is easily spread.

On the anti-nuke thing, the VAST majority of anti-nukers I meet are woefully ignorant of how nuclear power actually works.

>>3822053
I've always felt that way about physics. The holy scrolls are available only to the worthy.

>>3822067
My neighbor, a baseball player for my school's team, knows my undergrad is in biochemistry.

He came to me and asked if I could make him steroids or HGH. After laughing for a bit, I told him I could, but it'd require thousands worth of equipment and even more to make it anything approaching safe.

I'm a little perplexed as to why people think we're alchemists or wizards or something.

Seriously, my law classmates (one specifically with two engineers, myself, and a boatload of liberal arts majors) ask me the most retarded questions about pharmaceutical and biotech cases.

The fact that so many simply don't understand the most basic principles of the processes that make modern life possible, disappoints me. Can't say I'm shocked though.

oh god, these environmental engineering pictures are killing me. It's a lot more varied than observing poop all day!