/sci/ - Science & Math

>physics 101
> prof. says: math>physics>chem>bio
>mfw

>Go into my first engineering class
>Teacher: "If you don't know how to suck a dick, you're in for a real treat"
>mfw

>>3855193

haha, is this because engineers work for the private sector?

MFW OP gets to university and physics becomes chemistry, biology becomes chemistry, and mechanics becomes physics.

>>3855202

No, public sector workers suck just as much dick (if not more so) than the private sector.

>>3855179
>go to engineering lab
>Instructor: "I know alot of you are acustom to large dildos but we only use size 7 inch dildos here. If you don't have a 7 inch share with a partner until you get one."
>mfw

>>3855202
Nope. It is becuase the majority of engineers are homosexual.

>>3855207

Well the point is that engineers deal with "sectors" in the first place.

PhD in physics, you get to decide which fucking laser lab / particle accelerator / fusion ignition plant you wanna work at.

I pity you all :(

>teacher asks a question
>raise your hand
>someone blurts out the answer before you get called on

>Elementary school chemistry
>Teacher is a young dude
>"Hey kids! Today we're gonna put a huge chunk of sodium into water and see what happens!"
>Magnificient explosion that can be heard all over town
>All the boys have an instant man-crush on our teacher

>>3855255
>Same young teacher dude
>Present class with two containers
>One contains a corrosive base, the other one a corrosive acid
>He dissolves some metal in each to demonstrate their corrosiveness
>Then he mixes the two compunds
>AND MOTHERFUCKING DRINKS IT
>Whole class yells and goes pale, some girls faint
>Giant troll face on teacher

To this day I still think it took massive balls. I know now that bases and acids neutralize each other, but what if something went wrong? Goddamn crazy teacher.

>>3855283
You best be grateful, he will have spent hours on the maths checking and rechecking (I'd do it fuck tonnes of times) to make absolute sure he didn't fuck up.

>>3855283
hah, thats awesome

>be in a physics graduate program
>wasn't physics major, so have to take some undergraduate classes
>get perfect score on midterm - class average is 68/100
>realize probably all the undergrad faggots on /sci/ are retards regardless of major

>>3855382
How does the minor/major thing work? Ignorant eurofag here.

>>3855306
The maths would be utterly trivial. The thing you'd want check before hand would be the measuring apparatus.

>>3855435

Generally how it works is that you can have a major if you take a certain minimum course load in a given subject, with each subject having its own requirements. You can usually have more than one major, but you are not allowed to have no major. Minors, which don't exist at every school, just have lesser requirements. So having a minor in a given subject means you have taken a bunch of courses in it, but not have not met the requirements for a major.

>>3855465
Are there no preconstructed programmes? Don't you end up with students taking incompatible subjects? Like underwater basketweaving.

>>3855495
Some programs are pre-constructed. Engineering for example is pretty rigid. Chemistry or Physics however, would offer a lot of flexibility from one person to the next.

Example: John might take Optics and Electromagnetic Theory Sophomore year, while Joe decides to take Modern Physics I and II.

You don't get too many random underwater basket weavers in the hard science courses. They take watered-down baby versions of the science classes that don't count towards the major.