/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4761560

But guys.... you were undergrads once...

Although grad students probably do look down on undergrads the same way undergrads look down on high schoolers... and the same way high schoolers look down on middle schoolers, and so on...

>>4761580
Not my beloved EE.

>>4761580
lol oh anon, electrical engineering students look NOTHING like that.

saging for inaccuracy

Just some tips for people looking to go to college:

If you're majoring in psychology or sociology, you're likely going to end being picked up by advertising agencies.

If you're majoring in electrical engineering, you're likely going to end up working as a mere electrician.

If you're majoring in physics or chemistry, you're likely going to end up in a team that's doing someone else's research rather than your own.

If you're majoring in mechanical engineering, you're likely going to end up working as a mechanic.

If you're majoring in organic chemistry, you're probably going to end up as a drug dealer.

Chemical engineering, probably going to get hired by companies that make cleaning products like Clorox.

Majoring in biology, high school teacher.

> Publish or Perish

Is that a Spivak reference?

>>4761587
You forgot one. Post-docs look down on us grad students like we look down on undergrads.

>>4761608
You serious?

Its an ACADEMIA reference.

>>4761609

Just to add with my experience (economics and math double major)

If you are an econ major probably gov't work (I am and several of my friends). Very decent pay btw and even better w/ Master's degree

Math majors can work almost anywhere. Usually in some kind of analytic position.

>>4761609

>implying EEs will know how to do an electrician's work
>implying MechEs have the ability to do a mechanic's work
>implying organic chemistry is an undergrad major, and even if it were they'd be making drugs (protip: orgo kids only know what carbon is)
>implying psychology/sociology majors get jobs at all

>>4761609

are there any science jobs that aren't dull shit?

>>4761670
No

>>4761609
>Majoring in biology, high school teacher.
LIES!

>Pic related. How true is it?
How true is what, exactly? The idea that people keep pointlessly pickering about it? Yeah, that's true.

>>4761703
>implying they're not all shit tier
Do you silly undergrads realize how retarded you look everytime you post that?

Still arguing about which of your shitty programs is shittier?

>>4761609

What about mathematics? I've heard that phd can do most anything he wants but i've also heard that an undergrad degree, or even a masters, won't really get you anywhere.

Hey gonna enter University.

What would you consider Computer Systems Engineer?

Thoughts on Electrical Engineer, and Industrial Engineer.

>>4761762
>Industrial Engineer
Did you mean statistician?

>>4761762
>Computer Systems Engineer
Did you mean IT?

>>4761762
>Electrical Engineer
Did you mean stressful and no free time?

>>4761777

Ok ok

What would you consider

IT
Statictians
Stressfull and no free time electrician

??

With a good, bad, shit tier rank im ok and good payed and underpayed as well.

>>4761790
I don't understand what you are asking. If you are asking for tiers
EE is god tier
Industrial is mid
and compsyseng is shit

>>4761762
industrial engineering is baby engineering, its for kids who would be business majors except that they can do basic math, it pays pretty well but boring as fuck imo, electrical engineering is definitely the hardest of those which youll almost definitely get a job but it probably wont pay as well as industrial, computer systems engineering sounds like lol itt tech

itt: another circlejerk of freshman EE faggots.

>>4761790
If "Computer Systems Engineer" is just Computer Science or Engineering or even just programming, it's OK. You're almost guaranteed to get a well-paying job if you can do decently. I just thought "Computer Systems Engineer" sounded suspiciously like IT.
As for EE, I don't know why people do it. And I don't even know what "Industrial Engineering" is supposed to be.

grad school is a lot different than undergrad though

after undergrad i felt like i put myself in debt by 100k for an education i could get for $1.50 in late fees at the library

after grad school i really felt like my mind had been twisted, stretched out and reassembled

>>4761813

>i put myself in debt by 100k for an education i could get for $1.50 in late fees at the library

Shamelessly refuses to acknowledge that this a good will hunting quote

>>4761663
>>implying psychology/sociology majors get jobs at all
Oh they do, just mostly from businesses who want/need to find out how to manipulate people into buying their shit.

>>4761813
>after undergrad i felt like i put myself in debt by 100k for an education i could get for $1.50 in late fees at the library

i have a year left of undergrad and this is exactly how i feel. i learned some interesting stuff, but literally nothing that i couldn't learn just by picking up a few books and/or watching a few youtube videos.

unfortunately, i didn't become buddy buddy with any professors and i have no one to write me letters of recommendation. looks like no grad school for me.

>>4761810

This. I teach some introductory engineering classes and people like this comprise 90 percent of the class. Don't worry, they mostly drop out after the first year. The later years are better. Less cancer.

>>4761611
as well as middle school kids look down on elementary school kids, and elementary school kids down on preschool kids, and preschool kids down on babies. and middle age people look down college students, high school students, etc. way to pad out the point he was making

I'm in high school and I want to get a bachelor in general sciences and then stop at that. How much am I gonna get fucked over?

Undergrads are great! Especially the first years, they come, they ask for directions, we send them the opposite way. Fun for everyone.

>>4761986
Also they pay me lots of money to help them solve trivial problems. Without undergrads I'd starve.

>>4761986
I secretly love you now.

>>4761854

if you were top 5 in their class, you could email them and see what they can do. i got about 10 letters as an undergrad from the professors that i liked, one of them actually told me to write a rough draft of the letter and send it to him to finish

>>4762153
the shitty thing is that the one professor whose classes i raped in the spring 2012 semester is leaving the university, after being here for 20 years.

i'll probably ask around but honestly don't expect anything. the guy i was most likely to get one from is leaving and he taught two of my classes, one class was taught by a post-doc that barely speaks english, one i didn't do so hot in, one by a guy that's lazy as fuck.

i wonder if the professors that i will take in fall would write them for me before the semester is over. two of them will be women so i guess they will be more likely to agree as not to seem like assholes.

if i get desperate i guess i can always ask the guy whose lazy and maybe the post doc if he still sticks around.

Geology major here.

I love rocks and beer.

>>4762222
>geology
>hard science

Anyone here go through Caltech undergrad? Specifically engineering?

What's hard about it, other than the penises?

What about aeronautical engineering?

>>4762222
So you're a dorf?

>>4762226
ah.

I get it.