/sci/ - Science & Math

could someone who majored in Nuclear Engineering do one of these? I'm curious as to the basics of what to expect

>>4138222

copy paste the "what I got" box with whatever field of science you want to study.

>>4138315
This is so true. Real biology is nothing like what you're taught before college. In high school and as a kid it's portrayed mostly as a study of macro-organisms along with a decent amount of microbe research. In reality virtually everything is done at the cellular or molecular level these days. No one gives a shit about ecology or zoology.

everythingwentbetterthanexpeted.docx

>>4138352
That guy's hair reminds me of this.

>>4138198

It's been everything I hoped it would be. 4th year here.

>>4138315

really more in the order of college, uni, job

>>4138389
never said it was hard. Just didn't get enough sleep entire 4 years due to reading.

/r/ the one with sasha grey studying philosophy

>>4138405
alternatively

Should've had a bigger template but oh well.

>>4138398
that's not what "hard science" means.

typical biologist.

>>4138337
That sounds awesome, actually. When I was back in highschool doing Bio, I loved the micoorganism stuff that we were able to do. Especially the units we had on viruses. But I could never see myself studying viruses for the rest of my life.

>>4138433
THIS!!!!

>>4138368
So true. I went into thermo expecting to never have time for anything else, but it's not as bad as everyone thinks. I mean theres alot of work but not a crazy amount.

>>4138384
Oregon state bro.

do you live on campus?

>>4138493
Oh, shit, guys, I went to Oregon for my undergrad. Wasn't in engineering, was in math; I would've gone to OSU for engineering. Aerospace is awesome?

I wanted to organise festivals and bandtours. so far i've just learned theory.

>>4138488
chem engineering:
what I expected: mechanical and biomedical engineering
what I got: petrochemical engineering.

... am I missing something? I think you're a fag who had no idea what you were going into.

For anyone who's done graduate level General Relativity, they should fully understand

>>4138433
>>4138474
planning on studying Electronic engineering, how is it like?

>>4138330
lol'd, allergies suck

>>4138517

Aerospace is indeed awesome, but they don't offer it at OSU so I'm majoring in mechanical. I'm going to grad school in aerospace though.

>>4138493

Beaverfags unite! I don't live on campus but I work at one of the dining centers. I lived in Wilson back in the day, but that was in 2008/2009.

>>4138545
>but I work at one of the dining centers.

WEST?

>>4138538
I took differential geometry. I know what you're talking about.

>>4138545
Very nice. I'm in CS now. It's awesome.

>>4138549

Nah mcnary. My good friend and my sister work at west though... I think ebgb's or whatever it is... I presume you're an engineer?

Does anyone have one for astrophysics? I always see people hyping up space travel, but what, from anyone here's experience, is it REALLY like?

>>4138559

I've heard good things about it. Id like to take some CS courses if I get time, but senior year of mechanical engineering + MECOP = busy as balls. Any CS courses you think would come in handy for mechanical engineers?

>>4138560
I live in a triple at cauthorn which is literally across the street from EBGBs, we go there every night before closing on hot pocket and mountain dew runs.

I'm in chem/bio/env engineering (majoring in chem). i room with an electrical engineer and a manufacturing engineer, but we have a pharmecy engineer and mechanic engineer who come in and hang out whenever they don't have class (high school friends).

>>4138574
>pharmecy engineer

Pharmacist, sorry. typed faster than I was thinking

>>4138574

Hot pockets and mountain dew are serious business. Good man. What do you think of the chem-e program? I have a few friends in it and they like it... I just don't really know much about it. I presume you are a freshman? I remember nerding it up in Wilson back in the day... Oblivion. Oblivion everywhere.

>>4138572
I like a lot of things, but honestly, a lot of the courses are only tangentially applicable. I would recommend trying to understand using parallelism, because if you want to do mech E computations you have to parallelize that shit.

Otherwise, algorithms courses might help you come up with ways to apply existing programs to new problems, as well as writing efficient algorithms to do work you want it to.

Probably anything in computer architecture would be infinitely useless to you, no matter how interesting.

>>4138222

I would, but I'm too busy studying for my reactor engineering exam...

>>4138590
I like it a lot. The lecture took place in one of the new/renovated rooms in weniger and all that happened in that every week was that we had staff/teachers from the different types of engineering come in and talk to us about their history and fields of study. The labs were alright, a lot of fluid mechanics type stuff, but we also did some stuff with like baking soda cars and absorbency ratios and things like that. Having a quiz every week in recitation was ass but we got out early sometimes and it wasn't bad. I like the class a lot, it's not very rigorous. Best part was that I met a girl who is in bioE and she's certainly made it a better experience. that's all from last term. This term we're supposed to be doing a lot of robotics and matlab stuff, is what the guy said. I like OSU a lot, great school.

You said you're majoring in Mechanical at OSU? How's that?

love doing actual astronomy

better than expected

>>4138592

Yeah, that's about what i figured. I was thinking of taking an algorithms course because I'm specializing in fluid mechanics so I will probably need to be able to code like a bawse for simulations, etc. Thanks for the insight.

>>4138604

Sorry, switched to laptop...

Right on. I think a lot of the intro courses are pretty similar... That sounds a lot like ME 101.

As for mechanical engineering, I love it. I'm learning everything I thought I would and more. The challenge is there also. there is a reason OSU is famous for engineering. The opportunities for internships/research are awesome too. I'm doing research for one of my professors and I'm in MECOP so hopefully I'll be set for grad school/work. I fricking LOVE the engineering program.

I remember hearing about those baking soda cars... Our design competition when i was a freshman was a "space elevator" (device that climbs up and down a string autonomously). I always remember recitation being much more interesting than lecture... I haven't had a recitation since I was a sophomore. I T/A the ME 101 recitations on terms when it works with my schedule. It definitely makes you really learn your stuff. It's hard to understand some things, but explaining them to someone is even harder.

You're a lucky son of a cock to have met a girl in engineering... I remember when i was a junior, i counted all the girls in one of my classes. There were three, one of whom is attractive. This is a class of 175 people. needless to say it's a pretty male dominated major...

>>4138198

>>4138222

>>4138416
>yfw you look up wallstreet quant salaries

>>4138594

Who gives a fuck about worksafe, post that fucking picture.

>>4138594

the fuck does that mean

feels ok man

>>4138657
Well, let's say you represent a fluid mechanics problem as a vector field, with mass flow indicated by the vector. Then you have some time step, and you estimate what happens next. You can iterate some procedure, and you'll get a steady state eventually, but maybe you have millions of points. This actually creates a really really tricky parallelism problem, because every point affects its neighbors on every time step, so if you just split it into regions, every thread has to communicate with every other thread on every step, and that creates a lot of synchronization overhead, which slows it down a lot.

>>4138725

Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Thanks for the heads up. I'll definitely look into that.

>>4138730
One trick is to use some overlap. If each thread's region overlaps the other threads by 6 points on each side, then after three iterations you can sync back up. In subsonic flows, the rate of propagation of information is limited to the speed of sound, so you know that the middle of the region is still accurate.

There's some REALLY cool stuff in parallelism.

>>4138750
That doesn't seem so bad.

>>4138755

Shoot. That sounds pretty intense. I definitely can't wait to take some courses in this stuff. Thanks for all the great info.

>>4138766
That I actually learned about from my dad. It's a common problem to iterate a grid based on the last values of its neighbors, and it applies to many problems.

>>4138773

Yeah, I remember solving some problems that way, but I definitely didn't understand why it was done that way.

>>4138779
Good luck! The best parallelism course I've had was actually a compilers course.

>>4138750
>mfw

Why are there so many girls in biology who dye their hair a dark reddish color?

Anyone have an econ one?

>>4138800
>>4138800
i'm not in economics but i think this holds true for many people

>>4138819
>implying economists got guns and butter

>>4138819
Oh man that pic made me laugh so hard.

>>4138798
Because it's oh so fucking sexy.

>>4138798
To spy on the irish

any bioengineers?

That look about right?

>>4138819

I'm studying econ, and its true that a lot of people were thinking it was a business major without the management and shit like that. They didn't last long in the program.
Some people just couldn't get in a business school because of bad grade and they ended up in econ were they failed their first year and dropped out.

So yeah, I guess the first two box are true.
I don't get the gun and butter. In my department, its always bread and beer

>>4138867
Well what do you study, then?

>>4138867
really? i thought guns and butter were a staple example in econ, used to illustrate the idea of a production possibilities frontier for two goods where resources used to make one cannot be very efficiently allocated to make the other.

i only took ECON 101 (microeconomics) at university, not majoring in it like i said. friend is an econ major though.

>>4138819
>>4138866

What level of econ are you guys in?

I hate those stupid "Draw the triangles, whats the consumer surplus" questions. I am glad I am over that part.

>>4138899
He said econ.

Monitering this thread now.
I'm considering a Master in Econ.

>>4138867
So bread and beer would be great examples of goods competing for a common resource. Demand for one will cause the price of the other to rise.

>>4138927
No, i mean what would he put in the last panel?

>>4138939
Bread and beer.

:( Math Teacher

>>4138594
no dangerous experiments allowed im assuming
>>4138433
doesn't seem so bad, circuits are circuits.

Taking Electronics Engineering soon

>>4139041

That doesn't look so bad.

Also, I second the notion for an astrophysics one. We seem to have so many astrophysicists on this board that surely somebody actually has to be employed.

>>4138545

DUCKS RULE BEAVERS DROOL!!!!!

Enjoying superior education here in Eugene

>>4138222
I did. I thought I'd be working at a Lab. I'm a "custodian".

>>4139079
>seem to

Well there's your problem

>>4139101

If by "superior education" you mean "liberal arts, debt, and future unemployment", then congrats!

>>4139110

>Law school
>Top 10 education program
>Best computer science in the state
>Go ahead and email me your resume, I might hire you as a receptionist someday

>>4139101
Which department?

>>4139110
If by "Liberal arts, debt, and unemployment" you mean "Computer science, fucking bitches, and grad school" then yes.

>>4139116
Smallest math department to get the MAA's highest ranking for mathematics departments, too.

>>4138750
Hahaha that is so true. It's weird how psychology atracks so many bitches.

ITT FRESHMEN/SOFTMORES

>>4139110

Just do it

>>4139123

UO comp sci fag here.

YES, so much this yes.

>>4139140
How long have you been at UO? If you were there two years ago, you probably know me.

>>4139181
Which, now that I think about it, is scary. Maybe I don't want to know.

>>4139135
How is high school treating you?

>>4139217
>what i studied
>high school physics textbook
there's your problem right there.

>>4139217

>study physics
>have 3.2 GPA
>all profs say I should have 4.0
>Profs don't think it's worth taking me on for research unless I have a 4.0
>They tell me I have to have a 4.0 to get into grad school
>can't get a job with just a physics BS
>lost touch with all friends, study constantly, still make mediocre passing grades
>constantly worrying about my seemingly bleak future

I literally had a 9mm handgun to my head in my car 3 days ago until my roommate called me and I managed to temporarily snap out of my funk.

>>4139255
I'm in grad school off a 3.4ish. It can happen, if you're doing well at what you love.

feels good man

>>4139255
You were going to kill yourself over a 3.2 GPA?
And what research were you trying to do that had a requirement of a perfect 4.0 GPA?
Seriously, if that's true that's a fucked up story.

>>4139255
thats good enough if you have some experience. get a research assistant-ship with one of the professors at your school or an internship or something. also ace your GRE. otherwise you're fucked

>>4139280
I've met with 4 profs in the last month to discuss their research. None of them want to bother to take me on b/c they're only interested in working with undergrads who are also certainly going to be going to grad school here and continuing any research. I said that I was indeed planning on applying to my school's graduate program and one of them actually said "You could save yourself the application fee if you didn't" and said "We only accept a minimum 3.6 overall and 3.8 physics GPA, and only if you've had a3 semesters of significant undergraduate research"

>>4139140
TELL ME YOU GO TO GAME NIGHT, MOTHERFUCKER.

>>4139310
transfer to a university with lower standards.

>Physics
>Physics
>Fucking programming

Shame it feels like I've learned dick all over these last three years. I guess that's why they make you go to graduate school, eh?

>>4139435
East Tennessee? Go to a UC Women's Studies class if you want to find hot lesbians.

Mine has more to do with the work associated with it than the education. Seems like all the design you do in school, you only get to do on the job after a masters or 10+ years with your company.

>Physics
>Astrophysics
>Computational Astrophysics

i.e. programming. at least I'm doing half of what I wanted to do.

>>4139255
>mfw Im going into psychology at UCONN and I know there are crazy bitches waiting to get fucked,

>>4138750
and dude you need to calm down. While we are the generation of people who cant get jobs, as long as you do average in college and get a decent GPA and dont fiscally fuck up your life, everything will work out.

Just work hard, be smart, and make connections with people. I don't worry because while I am not the smartest guy in the room, I am definitely the most encouraging, positive, and happy person.

People can always respect that

>>4139528

Tell me more anon

Where the hell are the geologists?

>>4139571
>>4139646

damn, anon
those pictures have effort in them

>>4139646
Geochemistry brother!

I'm actually in environmental engineering, but my work is essentially geochemistry. I do reactive transport of uranium in micro and nano-scale devices that I fabricate in the cleanroom.

>>4139646
Paleo student here. YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
What I study: paleontology
What I expected: DINOSAURS
What I get: ...more emphasis on marine invertebrates, really

>>4139749
here ya go fossilbro, I know that feel.

......

>>4138750
I wish I was you

>>4140181

I love how all of you guys expected fun gifs but actually got charts. I'm so sorry for all your pain guys, finding out studying involves more studying than hanging around with hot chicks and dinosaurs.

Sad.. very sad

>>4140670
You tried to study math, and you got philosophy? Doesn't sound like any math I know.

>>4140699
Why? That looks awesome, whatever it is.

Literally 100% of my class is Chinese. Not a single person of any race other than asian, and among the asians there are only Chinese.

>>4141175
>Statistics
>Literally 100%

you are not doing well right?

>>4141184
Ok, maybe 95% Chinese since there are 20 people in the major, including me.

>>4138819
You're incapable of feeling why the butter gunned supply and demand? I always felt economists didn't know what they were talking about, thanks for the confirmation.

I love these threads. Thank you.

Anyone have an environmental engineering/hydraulic engineering one?

can anyone who majored in chemical engineering tell me if they recommend it/ what they do and it's pay