/sci/ - Science & Math

I'm getting a B.S. in Geology from a state school.

Rocket science.

Well, I'm in university pursuing a science degree and minoring in mathematics, as well as working on scientific research. What's the point of this thread?

>>4017079
Reading papers from peer reviewed journals,
Figuring out and proving theorems that weren't in peer reviewed journals yet,
Writing papers in peer reviewed journals,
Reviewing papers for peer reviewed journals.

Yeah for some reason it seems research is somewhat centered around these journals.

On a side note, I also solve a few projecteuler problems from time to time, does that count?

>>4017079
>does not involve shitposting on /sci/?
>implying OP isn't a shitposter
Fuck off. saged and reported

I'm a math major at a major university.

also i need to be here to make sure someone reminds op he's a fag

>op is a fag

Try to develop the theory of the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state beyond the 5 guesstimate ground states we have currently.

>>4017110
lol get a load of this nigga, somebody mad

2nd year physics grad reporting in.

honors quantum II homework, atm

have seminar in another 3 hours, shitsux

I'm in my junior year of computer science at a state school

>>4017124
Your graduate program has honors courses? How is it different from the normal grad course?

i'm a lecturer in maths at a major uk university

captcha says "tenure electet", i shit you not

>>4017134
you graduate "with honors" if you go down the required courses list and do an "honors level" thesis. it's mainly bullshit to put a higher workload on the student, not the expected increased rigor. i'm probably not going through with it.

I've just finished my project on oblivious transfers in a new cryptosystem. I don't know if I'll continue to do a Ph.D. I'm not certain I'm motivated enough.

2nd year physics student studying electricity and magnetism, multivariable calculus, and differential equations

Moving around dem genes every day.

designed and constructed a vinegar and baking soda volcano (the compounds steal electrons from one another)

>>4017166
>undergrad
>babby calculus 2nd year
>ODEs 2nd year

>>4017170
fuck off, /lit/?

the raid day was pretty fucking hilarious.

now it's just fucking inane trolling garbage, which is technically expected from english majors, but whatever.

>>4017166
>>4017131
>>4017114
>>4017105
Undergrads need not apply. GTFO

>>4017182

if you can't comprehend a simlpe acid-base reaction i don't know what to tell you.

>>4017170
>the compounds steal electrons from one another
>steal electrons from one another
>steal electrons
Confirmed for 14 year old middle school general chemistry student who thinks he's a physicist.

Currently devising a system for correcting solar x/gamma ray data. and undergrad stuff.

Currently devising a system for correcting solar x/gamma ray data for the purposes of improving predictions for solar system radiation environment. and undergrad stuff.

>>4017192

if electrons were not stolen it would be nonpolar

but there are ions in acid and bass so it's polar and there are electrons stolen

QED

Year three of an integrated MSc (5 years straight up) in control engineering.

>>4017209
The baking soda and vinegar reaction is a simple (overall) double replacement reaction. All final products are left electrically neutral.

The terminology "stolen electrons" is retarded, autistic, and unnecessary.

>>4017230

thank you for rephrasing what i said to make it wordier i guess?

Studying computer architecture from binary to compiled languages and how exactly it all works.
Project Euler.
OpenGL.
Yup.

>>4017242
So you're a junior CS major just like me.
Sup

I work in a lab doing research on bone regeneration for critical size long bone segmental defects.

I usually pick the engineer class in Hellgate: London.

I'm a student at the University of Chicago double-majoring in bio and geo. I've been learning how to prepare fossils in Paul Sereno's lab.

I work customer service at a grocery store. I do absolutely nothing science related. I just browse sci to help keep me slightly more informed then the average Joe.

just wrote a program to do convolution for circuits. pretty simple.

>>4017238
>what litfags actually believe

I devise my own scientific experiments to advance in my field.

Work in the molecular bio research lab for the (small) college I go to. It's actually mostly micro work, taxonomy and whatnot, and we only work with BSL I organisms, but then I'm just a second year undergrad so it's still good experience. We've actually been working on reclassifying part of a bacterial genus into two new genera recently.

>>4017311

Using maximum likelihood, parsimony, or bayesian analysis when constructing your tree?

Or do you just do bitch work?

I'm a Psych student.

The over 21 - not an immature sack of shit, kind.

I'm digging for archaeological remains to validate Dr. Tsoukalos' theories on ancient alien encounters. This discovery will have profound influences on modern thought.

trying to get my math degree

>>4018648
>psychology
>not an immature sack of shit

Your whole field is an immature sack of shit masquerading as science.

>>4018678
so much this.

Doesn't almost anything anyone does have something to do with science? Hard mode would be to find something that you do that has nothing to do with science.

Holiday but afterwards I begin my Masters in Neuroscience (Research).

I'm an art teacher.
Doesn't say I can't be interested in science though.

This week (and the last two) I did the statistics and plotted the figures and wrote the statistical summary for our major study, to be submitted to the journal Cardiovascular Research. I think that counts as real science.

Of course at school it's all read articles and design systems until I find a great one that should solve our problem. I intend on releasing a new software for genome-wide association studies in the spring.

Professional Astronomer when the sky is clear.
Shitposting on /sci/ when it is cloudy.

In the process of graduating in applied physics.

Not really a scientist in the strictest sense of the word, but I do enjoy some of the discussions that come up on /sci/ from time to time. I'm 1 week away from finishing a BS in CompSci though.

Getting my bachelors in the life sciences (1 more year to go!).

>>4017079
Writing a replacement for GNU Make. I already have a prototype that's like 20x faster.

you're right op.

BSc - Honours
Environmental Science - specializing in Earth System Science (physical geography, geology, biogeography, etc..)

Dual major in ming and geotechnical engineering. I'm finding it boooooooring as fuck though.

Economics

Studying for to operate medical imaging devices. I learn shit like the energies of radiation and human anatomy.

BSc in Physics. Come at me.
Also miscellaneous little studies into things. Timing different routes to university, tracking the mould growth on the bathroom ceiling, that sort of thing. Hardly peer reviewable stuff but science nonetheless.

Just finished a book about the german armaments industry in ww2, and I'm going to read Einstein's biography next.
>implying reading about science counts

BSc - Physiotherapy

Taking gen eds so I can get into a radiography program and hopefully I'll eventually be scanning people with MRIs to see inside of them. Mostly anatomy-physiology (biology) right now which is shit tier science but I still find it really interesting to learn how our bodies work. Love /sci/ for the interesting discussion and inspiring educational stories and it's not as dumb as most boards.

>>4018789
doubtful there are very very few astronomers who actually use telescopes on a daily basis.

I annotated genomes

I annotate genomes

I'm finishing a degree in Computer Engineering

I am trying to get some motivation to do pcr analysis. No lying? Ok, I am just slacking.

OP's pic looks just like my calc 2 TA. He was a real hardass

shitposting on /b/

3rd year undergrad questions on raman spectroscopy.

Does anyone in this thread have anything to their name besides being an under/barely entering grad? Do you guys do any research or anything productive from your majors apart from grades?

ITT: Science is only about good grades in science.

>>4019857
I work at a research group in my uni. Already have my name in a few articles too (in high impact journals)..

regards
>>4019759

>>4019857
>Do you guys do any research or anything productive from your majors apart from grades?
>letting undergrads do actual research

Oh, America! You always make me laugh os much.

>>4019857
you sound butthurt that you only got a 2.8 GPA or some shit.

Being intelligent is about being the best at answering questions. Being the best scientist is partly about being intelligent and partly about being patient and lucky.

Being able to do questions better than other people is obviously the purer, more impressive achievment.

>>4019876
I don't really understand this. When I was into my second year of chemistry, as an undergrad, the professor allowed me and one other student to act as research assistants for his studies (positron beams and effects on carbon membranes). It was his main research emphasis, he has received much recognition from those studies.

Do you even know what your talking about?

>>4019884

>Warped framework on how to become a scientist.

loldudeenjoybeingalabtechandnothingmore.

>>4019876
It happens a lot man . not during the year, but you apply to do stuff during hte holidays.

One of my friends co-authored a materials paper that got published in a materials journal during the summer holidays after he had finished his second year.

I know plenty of others who've worked on projects and in labs during holidays, weren't credited on the paper, but will still be able to put down the experience on their CV when looking for jobs.

>>4019885
>>4019899
I'm not saying he's bullshitting me, I'm saying it's stupid.

>>4019857
butthurt

>>4019892
I would have thought it would be obvious from the content of my post that I was not advocating becoming a scientist.

>>4019908
Why?

>>4019932
Are you honestly asking why it's stupid to let someone with scant qualifications do any actual research?

Would you let a med school undergrad perform surgery on you? Would you live in a building designed by an engineering undergrad? Yeah, didn't think so.

>>4019908
It isn't stupid. there are a lot of things that one can spend their time usefully characterising that do not require more than 2 or 3 years of undergrad teaching.

I'm studying medicine and should actually get back to studying in a few minutes

>>4019944
I don't think you understand what research is, or even what being a scientist is.

>>4019958
>medicine

HAHAHAHAAHAH.

Yeah, fuck off, parrot.

Adults are discussing science here.

>>4019944

Dude it's pretty sad how little you know about the subject. Have you considered applying for research, or are you just jilted that you keep keeping snubbed from doing it because the professor found you inadequate?

>>4019966
>>4019976

I think you are brainwashed by your system that lets unqualified people into doing things.

But what do you know, you probably think that there's nothing wrong with the way you let mere Bachelor's into teaching, either.

I am a physics graduate student building a laser system that involves dynamically manipulating the electric field polarization inside transparent materials.

>>4019857
I posted here >>4017169
and yes, yes I do.

In regards to your other statement about letting undergrads partake in research: Where do you think professional researchers come from? A beauty of science is the lack of any sort of authority. Who knows, the next great breakthrough might come from an undergrad. No one cares about the "qualifications" (we're not lawyers), the science speaks for itself.

>>4019981

>supermadbro

>>4017166
Constantin?

>>4019988
Nope, Costanza.

Masters in Chemical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines.
Shit is dope

BA in Wildlife Management
MS in Environmental Science

Data Analyst
Right now I'm figuring out the health of watershed flows that pour into the Chesapeake bay by analyzing the decline of crustacean and bivalve population strength. This is the third project this year, and most of them are different (I've determined where to make controlled burns to prevent forest fires, and acted as a consultant on a TS level clearance project - meaning i can't talk about it - for analysis of jet noise on the surrounding environment for the Air Force.)

Hey, environmental science may be a hodgepodge of "real" sciences, but I'm making moneys. More than most of you "proper science" fags can say.

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>>4019885

Finally, some people with actual worth on /sci/. Thank you for doing your shit, bro... your an inspiration.

>>4019857

Forgive us for not winning any Nobel Prizes you fucking faggot.

>>4019981
Your problem is that you have no idea what "doing things" in science means.

>>4019966
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>>4019984
>>4020036
>never had to work in a lab with undergrads

>>4020046

>never worked in a lab

Calling your bullshit.

>>4020061
>buttmad undergrad

>>4020046
>never been in a lab

If I didn't have undergrads taking care of time consuming inane shit, I'd never get anything done.

>>4020011
Environmental Scientist here
TY, my favorite part of it is that I actually get to run around the woods and collect data sometimes (when it's not too cold, like now, then we get the Interns to wade around in the streams with seining nets). When I was choosing my path, all I wanted to do was smoke bud and run around the woods. Plus, I work for a government agency, so unless the funding is cut (which unfortunately is very likely with every Republican candidate talking about how protecting the environment "kills jobs") I basically have to fuck up HARD in order to lose my job.

Also, a warning to everybody in school right now planning to go into a /sci/ related field - work on your goddamn people skills. If you end up working for a university or a government agency, a quarter of your job will be lobbying for funds.

>>4020046
>implying pfizer, unilever, bp and many other companies don't get undergrads to intern in their labs
>implying universities don't frequently have opportunities for students from other universities to work in their labs during vacations

Yeah , those guys have no idea what they're doing.

>>4020071
>bp
>undergrad interns
>suddenly oil spill is explained

>>4020073
>>4020073
Impressively idiotic.

>>4019876
>>4019944
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>>4020046
>>4020073

Samefaggin'. Trying to save face, even though he got told in this thread.

NIGGA GOT TOLD!

>>4020084
>jokesonyouiwastrollinglol.jpg

>>4020084
You know you've lost an argument when you have to resort to calling out samefagging.

Environ/Sci/ here again
as far as the undergrad thing goes... I did soil analysis for a major construction projects when I was an undergrad. There are plenty of opportunities to "Get in the lab", just don't expect to be writing any breakthrough papers - or if you do, expect your adviser to put his name on it and take all the credit.

>>4020089

Haha what? You spouted a bias, idiotic opinion and were informed that you were incorrect. Then you got backed into corner where you attempted to provide misinformation. Your a fucking moron. Take this thread as a learning experience on how academia usually works, apart from getting good grades in class.

to the two guys aspieing each other
thanks for killing a decent thread! Maybe we'll have another one in a week or so.
I'm out.

IT student. Hardest sciene of them all.

>>4020122
mfw they shut up because they actually were aspies.

>>4017079

Right now? Nothing.

Generally: Ühysics stuff. Waiting for my degree.

>>4017109

Either you're full of lies or you're a massive attention whore.

I study graduate level texts whilst skimming through my 2nd year at uni
I left highschool at 16, then studied like mad in my own time for the next two years, then applied for uni when I was 18
also, studying maths and physics on my own and physics at uni

Majoring in rocket science with a minor in brain surgery. plz

>>4020228

Why did you leave high school? Do you regret it?

If your first answer isn't : Cause I'm a fucking idiot, then your a fucking idiot.
If your second answer isn't : Yes, then your a fucking idiot.

>>4020240
cool close-mindedness bro

He is in university.

>>4020245

So it's a good decision to leave high-school?

>>4020263
Not saying that.

In his case, it probably was.

In 99.999% of other cases, no, it's not a good idea.

>>4020263
yeah dude
I left school in 9th grade and make a nice amount of money as an street pharmacist.

pic related

I work as an electrical engineer

>>4020240
I left because I was being bullied by people in all of my classes and I couldn't stand it anymore

and I liked chemistry in highschool, so if I stayed I'd probably be about to finish a chemistry degree without knowing the wonders of physics so I wouldn't say I regret it

I wouldn't say it's a good idea to leave highschool at 16 however, I'm guessing me finding a passion for maths and physics shortly after I left isn't the standard thing to happen with people who drop out

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