/sci/ - Science & Math

>no mathematics and technology overlap
what is theoretical computer science then faggot?

shit image, saged/10 hidden and reported

>>7304146

>Major?
Architecture
>grad/undergran?
Undergrad
>what year?
senior
>why this major?
Because I enjoy it.
>thoughts on field
An interesting field that combines mathematics with aesthetic quality. One of the few fields that has high paying demand for a sense of aesthetics.

>>7304162

Look again.

>>7304163
Literally the worst possible start to this thread

>Major
Mech E
>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad
>Year?
2nd
>Why?
Robotics
>Thoughts?
I dont know enough about Mech E as my first year was a qualifying year of general engineering education.

>>7304146
aerospace
undergrad
graduating in like 2 weeks
i picked the first major on the engineering list
every aerospace job wont let me smoke pot

>>7304162
>theoretical computer science

Using babies' first set notation doesn't make it mathematical

>>7304167

Saw that coming from a mile away.

>>7304146
>What's your major?
pure math minor CS
>Grad/Undergrad?
Wundergrad
>What year are you?
2 going to 3
>Why are you taking that major?
for the keks
>Thoughts about your field?
probably jobless, already looking to get to grad school, and if that doesn't work out at least I can speak multiple languages or at least I self taught web design

>major
Environmental Resources Engineering
>grad/undergrad
Undergrad
>What year are you
going into sophomore year
>why
I wanna save the world
>thoughts about your field
It's growing and there will be a lot of money plus its what I wanna do

>>7304146
>>What's your major?
>>Grad/Undergrad?
Philosophy,Mathematics.
No minor, there is no such thing in my country.

>>What year are you?
Final undergrad

>>Why are you taking that major?
I like them both since highschool. Not my only interest, I'd like to study literature and history but I don't have the time for it right now.

>>Thoughts about your field?
I hate that most of my classmates in math courses seem to have a sort of complex of superiority with respect to humanities majors. I hate that most of my classmates in philosophy courses think that math classes are full of autists and people worring about mindless abstractions.
In the end it seems that wherever I go, people like to think they're above someone with respect to something to satisfy their ego.

>>7304332
>>why
>I wanna save the world
>>thoughts about your field
>It's growing and there will be a lot of money plus its what I wanna do


Have fun next year when you find out you're just another brick in the wall :^)

>>7304163
>high paying demand
>70/hr week unpaid intern for 4 years before you can do anything

or is this just a meme? because that's what it sounds like

>>7304146
>>What's your major?
Chemistry
>>Grad/Undergrad?
Bachelors holder
>>What year are you?
>>Why are you taking that major?
...
>>Thoughts about your field?
Qualitative, not quantitative dominate the field 70-30. Don't be a chemistry major if you want to learn about the sciences.

A true major for those interested about the physical world would be applied math, physics, mechanical engineering (which covers the basics at least), or chemical engineering. If you happen to major in those, and do well in them, we chemists know. Yeah we know, don't tell us about how we're a weak science. We know you could get through our material compared to the most of us. Don't tell us that biology majors who are an entirely qualitative field earn more per annum than us, and are in higher demand, we know. The other 30% of us who actually love physical chemistry, we know about the meek prospects ahead. I think most of us are realizing that material science has replaced us as a major.

In all honesty, I should have walked out with the accounting classes because that pays fairly well, and is rather straight forward.

>>7304146
major?
math
Undergrad
basically first year. I am back in school after a long break from school and decided on math after I had not taken a math class for like a decade.
Math is the coolest thing I could think of to learn.
I am intimidated. I want to contribute though.

>>7304344
>Wise
you will have a happy life

>>7304364
I'm switching out of economics to study Chemical engineering because I feel like 10 years of experience is more like gambling whether I will be accepted to a firm or not so fuck it.

Chemistry is not a BAD major as opposed to liberal arts, social work, or gender studies, but it would help if it was actually appliable such as in chemical engineering. For me, I breeze through tests when I take them and physics for me was not a hassle

>>7304146
>>What's your major?
Computer Science
>>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad
>>What year are you?
1st
>>Why are you taking that major?
Many employers require it. Also things like discrete math and programming were always easy for me and I really enjoy doing it.
>>Thoughts about your field?
I can't wait for all these "I just wanted to makes games" faggots to drop out.
All of my older friends who aren't idiots didn't had much problems in finding IT job in my city, so I will probably easily get decent job as well.

see youve jumped on the vidya hate train
some of those faggots will end up making more money then you
probably fuck your girlfriend too
probably

>>7304344
>In the end it seems that wherever I go, people like to think they're above someone with respect to something to satisfy their ego.

That's the definition of /sci/

>Major
Math and Astrophysics
>Undergrad
>Year
Junior
>Why?
I watched Cosmos in the early 2000s thought space was dope so I decided to study it.
>Thoughts
People think it is a field that guarantees million dollar paychecks, when really its just me sitting in a room with a professor debating if something should be squared or square rooted to make an equation that fits the data.

>>7304399
professors do that?
the physics teachers ive had just sort of looked down on the undergrads with disdain

>>7304402
You either had shit professors, professors with no self worth or that felt threatened, or shitty peers. Maybe even a combination of the three.

>>7304388
But I don't hate people who make games. You know, I want to start working in next month and one of my favourite job offers I got is programmer in some company that make video games.
But I hate people who go study CS just because they want to make games/websites/have well paid job. They just bitch about every math class and how they had been 'scammed' by university because they have to study something that is not their hobby. They are annoying as fuck, especially when they realise that you can into math and want you to help them.


They won't fuck my girlfriend because she is 2D.

>>7304364
Sucks to suck
I'm a student of chemistry and I'm doing fine

>>7304409
having a 2d gf just means you share her with some unknown nerds somewhere you dont know

>>7304356

>I know nothing about the architectural field

>>7304417
That's not how it works. Everyone has his own merchandise, fantasies and can do whatever they want with their waifu at any time they want and no one had to share anything or compete in anything or even acknowledge that other exists.
Also because my waifu is Miku it makes her even more personal. Everyone has their own interpretation of her and imagine her in different way so it doesn't feel like anyone has the same waifu as mine.

Undergrad, first year mechanical engineering, no such thing as minors here.

I'm taking it because I like mechanical things hand have a higher than average understanding of mathematical concepts so I find it way too easy.

Not quite sure, no idea how the people that work as a ME are but the students sure are mixed. A lot in my class are just there to pass and get the job and dont actually want to learn any techniques or even the subjects.

>>7304146
Currently a philosophy major, but since I don't want to be a barista and math interests me, I want to add a math major. Do you think passing all the lower div classes indicates sufficient ability for the major? Obviously it will be way more difficult in upper div, but just from your experience.

>>7304344
This is exactly what I want to do. How is the combination? Is it hard to do all the work for both majors?

>>7304344
Great post, if only there were more people like you.
>what's your major?
Mathematics and philosophy with a minor in physics.
>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad
>What year are you?
Starting Junior year in the fall
>Why are you taking that major?
A combination of passion, innate aptitude, and deep seeded desire to improve my intellectual capacity.
>Thoughts about your field?
I feel like my experience with philosophy will in no way aid me in any of my attempts at acquiring a job, but I find it to be a positively compelling field that allows me to examine the fundamental nature of my inner self, as well as the world around me in a more humanistic manner than the sciences can offer. I ultimately wish to learn as much about the fundamental nature of reality as humanly possible in my unending quest for self-actualization in the highest form. I do not, however, wish to to inflict my natural dispositions upon the populous in the way that an egotist does, but rather embrace the disparate differences that allow us as humans to advance in ways that no other known species can, intellectually.

>>7304146
>>What's your major?
Pure mathematics with a computer science undergrad (focused on theory, not programming)
>>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad.
>>What year are you?
Fourth Year.
>>Why are you taking that major?
I'm very interested in mathematical logic and foundations. With regards to the computer science minor I'm mainly taking the theory based courses (my university is very relaxed about what we can take and they offer many advanced courses at the undergrad level including proper recursive function theory).
>>Thoughts about your field?
Many of the topics I find really interesting other mathematics students don't care or know much about (I get the same impression from the grad students except a few in the computer science department). At the same time many of the topics that other mathematics students seem to go crazy over I just don't find that interesting. I mean I see the value in the field and how it applications to other parts of mathematics but it's often just not useful or interesting to me. I feel like I spend so much time hopping back and forth between the computer science, philosophy, and mathematics departments that I don't really fit the "pure mathematics student" archetype.

>>7304483
*physically and intellectually

>>7304441
>That's not how it works. Everyone has his own merchandise, fantasies and can do whatever they want with their waifu at any time they want and no one had to share anything or compete in anything or even acknowledge that other exists.
This is the truth. The sooner people realise that everyone with the same waifu actually have different waifus, the better.

>>7304146
>>What's your major?
Chem
>>Grad/Undergrad?
Under
>>What year are you?
4th next year
>>Why are you taking that major?
Because it's cool, great mix of intuition and logic, lots of room for interesting tricks and has an intrinsic beauty to it
>>Thoughts about your field?
I feel really bad for the people who think it's a good, generic field to major in with little passion. I know job prospects are mediocre, pay might not be great, but I can at least enjoy what I do and constantly learn new things.
Unfortunately, it feels like most significant research has been done decades ago (organic), and right now we're either just collecting data, mining for novel molecules, or fixing what we're pretending is broken. I'm not sure how much longer I can be entertained by simple, well studied reactions, and every time I try to do (semi-) original research, improving conditions/selectivity, my colleagues will pull some old reference that ends up working flawlessly.

>>7304162
It really doesn't

>What's your major?
Applied Mathematics with CS minor

>Grad/Undergrad?
Recently got Bachelors

>What year are you?
About to go grad school

>Why are you taking that major?
Wanted to coast through college, and decided on math since high school stuff was easy and I liked math (back then still thought of it as plugging and chugging). Got wrecked by Analysis course in freshmen year and almost gave up. Finally became passionate after doing Algebra and Topology.

>Thoughts about your field?
Although the degree says applied math, I only learned about certain tools (PDE, real & complex analysis, functional), but not how to apply them. My current advisor is edging me towards existence theory for PDEs, and he says that it's considered applied. Then I see his toolkit consists of Algebraic topology and variational calculus...

So for now I plan to continue learning new tools, and hopefully try to do something useful with them (looking at Machine learning for now)

>>7304516
>This is the truth. The sooner people realise that everyone with the same waifu actually have different waifus, the better.
Unfortunately people who doesn't take love and life in general rationally are often unable to understand that. There are people who believe that love is something magical and can't be explained or understood. Some of them even believe that they have to throw shit at people with the same waifu just because this is part of being in love or other shit like this. They either get upset and jealous or they try to shitpost them hoping that they will stop having waifu, which obviously doesn't happen if their feelings are genuine.
This is insane.

>>7304146
>What's your major?
Math and Philosophy, Music minor
>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad
>What year are you?
Junior
>Why are you taking that major?
They're both things I enjoy. I really like foundations of math, which fits well with both.
The music minor for fun.
>Thoughts about your field?
Math/phil is a great combo. It feels like philosophers care more about foundations than mathematicians do, but it's such cool material. Stuff from math courses, especially logic courses, has been really useful in philosophy courses. In my opinion philosophy is best done mathematically (if only we all did philosophy with formal proofs, like the Hartshorne/Godel ontological arguments)

>>7304483
>>7304344
>>7304491
I like you people

>NO MASTER RACE PHYSICISTS ITT

Into the trash this thread goes.

>>7304631
Present

>>7304163
What's up with architecture? You'd think it'd be a more obscure major, but I know at least 3 architects in the family, and about ~6 people from my highschool class applied and got into architecture. All I want to know is why?

>>7304661
hnnnnn

>What's your major?
Mechatronics engineering
>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad
>What year are you?
Halfway through second year. Currently on swot vac and obviously posting on /sci/ instead of studying.
>Why are you taking that major?
Well it's a growing field and the potential applications are pretty exciting to me. It was this or maths, but the employment prospects in maths are pretty dismal where I live. Most likely would have ended up as a teacher and that's honestly my worst nightmare.
>Thoughts about your field?
A little bit disappointed in the standard of maths we do. I mean it's pretty much guaranteed good marks with fuck all study, but a bit boring. I figured, though, with the amount of material available (albeit illegally) online, I can self study my way through an undergrad maths curriculum on my own time, so I chose engineering instead because I can't self study a certified engineering degree or self study the lucrative jobs that become available with it.
Also there are some genuinely fucking stupid people in engineering, though hopefully they'll be gone by final year. At least I wish there were some women in this course, dumb or not.

>>7304146

>What's your major?
Computer Engineering
>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad
>What year are you?
technically, 1st year, I never bother to take any humanities classes or any other classes that have nothing to do with CE
>Why are you taking that major?
I have been obsessed with designing systems/algorithms since who knows when. I could have just went with CS but I also wanted to get into physics(mainly electromagnetism). I have come up with shitloads of algorithms for almost everything
>Thoughts about your field?
I hate the lack of rigor in my engineering classes, I might have to study CS, Math, Physics by myself

>>7304631
>A safety net major for people who fail out of pure math
>Master Race
I lol'd.

>>7304661
H-Hi ~ :)

>>7304689
Hi bby :3

Why does /sci/ look down on CS majors? Is it because they associate 'easy' with 'useless' or do they just like to wave their dicks on about how their major is hard as fuck and think it's more of an accomplishment?

>>7304696
Because 90% of the CS majors just go into it because they think it's about making video games so they avoid all the interesting theory based courses. The remaining 10% are fine but they aren't really that noticeable.

In my university specifically the math department shares a building with the computer science department. The running joke amongst the math portion of the building is that you can identify the CS students because they don't shower, they wear bring shit and fedoras, they sleep on the ground in the hallways, they use the lab computers for video games and porn, and they're dumb as fuck. Also, from the women in particular (in the math department) I've heard that a after taking any CS class they always have guys from that class trying to hit on them years later still introducing themselves as a guy from said CS class (I think this is because there's virtually no women in CS).

There's also one autistic dude on /sci/ who shitposts in every thread about how shitty CS is. Here is one of their typical posts. >>7304175

>Finance
>Undergrad
>Senior
>I like financial economics and the way the financial system works
>Thoughts?
Most business majors are stupid people. They're usually frat bros and "I went into marketing because lol math" type airheaded women.

If I did it again, I'd double major in Math and Econ. At least I added a math minor, so I can hopefully get into grad school and actually experience rigor in economics.

All that aside, it's an interesting subject, and I have benefited from the thinking required to analyze economic issues.

Double major chemistry + neuroscience

Undergrad, 3rd year

I couldn't decide between the two so I took both; they fit nicely anyway

Realistically I'm going to be working on drug design and such. I'm not as bummed out about my job prospects as some of the other chem majors that posted; >>7304540 is right in that it's hard to find more things to do in improving methodology and shit, my lab basically applies those methodologies to create biologically active molecules. My professor has done a fair share of methodology work back in his day (and he's responsible for a large chunk of the work that's been done on tin-acetal protecting groups in carbohydrate chemistry), but largely we focus on synthesis now.

>What's your major?
astrophysics
>Grad/Undergrad?
undergrad
>What year are you?
year 2
>Why are you taking that major?
I love math and like physics, I didn't have the ball to get into math. so astrophysics it was.
>Thoughts about your field?
it's not as romantic as people like to think. especially amateur astronomers. we can look pretty deeply into space, have insane catalogues now, it's mostly become data mining

>What's your major?
Electrical Engineering
>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad.
>What year are you?
First.
>Why are you taking that major?
I didn't wanna do tube engineering.
>Thoughts about your field?
I should've chosen tube engineering.

>major
Material science, no minors in my country's system, but I'll be taking topolohy and differential geometry classes


Undergrad


>year
3rd in fall

> why are you taking that mayor?

Because of the vastness, applications and because i like studying many disciplines., i'll probably end up in material thermodynamics.

> thoughts
Field is relatively young, albeit productive, in my country, so most of the top are either physicists or chemists. We're going to see a shift to people specifically educated in material science, and that could mean an evolution of the field.

>>7304837
>first year of EE and already wanting to quit

Confirmed for not making it

---

>Major
Electrical Engineering masterrace
>Undergrad
>Year
Junior
>Why?
I've always been fascinated with electricity from a young age.
>Thoughts?
Pretty awesome stuff really. I'm still not entirely sure of all the available jobs in this field. I talk to my advisor regularly and it seems every time we talk I find out about more bad ass jobs. Heavily leaning toward electromagnetics for now though. So grad school here I come!

>>7304146
>>What's your major?
Chemical Engineering
>>Grad/Undergrad?
Grad
>>What year are you?
1st year of M
>>Why are you taking that major?
Interesting, diverse exposure to many science fields, unit op approach is a great way to think in terms of modelling reality, both technical and business/social.
Control and Reaction engineering are both extremely useful and fascinating.
Because you have a background in so many different fields you can catch up quickly and do research in any other field. It's great to have an overview of so many fields from management to bio to physics.
Also I want to start my own company and ChemE is truly the best degree to equip you to do that because of all the management and legal courses you take on top of the most lucrative and industrially useful technical.
In terms of why I chose it for undergrad, it is by far the most useful to get an engineering degree for your undergrad because being able to get your Pr.Eng. is far more useful while your options for grad-school remain wide open (while doing pure is a waste of time because even if you go to engineering grad-school a bachelors in engineering is still far more valuable since you can't actually become a Pr.Eng. with a post-grad). I originally intended to do Physics in grad-school, but I found chem. thermo and mat sci to be far more interesting (and because I'm doing SS anyway, it's literally under the same research chair shared by the ChemE and Physics departments)
>>Thoughts about your field?
Would not recommend to the autistic. There's a lot of politics in this field and you need to be very extroverted, energetic and be willing to lead idiots to survive. Unless you're extremely ambitious I recommend studying pure science like chemistry/physics if your sole interest is research in academia or study law/medicine/finance/accounting if your sole interest is money.

>>7304703
most people don't go into theory of computation because it doesn't get them a job, or enough jobs.

what other courses even count as "theoretical", i'm pretty sure most of what an undergraduate would learn is practical in CS.

>>7304175
the greatest irony is that this guy wouldn't be able to shitpost without computer science


also haha 3mb file limit 4chan is in the past

>>7304575
I think it's also because a lot of them are insecure enough that they feel like they're getting cheated on if somebody else loves "their" waifu

>>7304890
>wouldn't be able to post without computer science
>implying not electrical engineers

>>7304146
>>What's your major?
Physics
>>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad
>>What year are you?
1st yr reporting
>>Why are you taking that major?
Thought it's what I should be doing since I'm not a retard, help humanity solve whatever pressing problem whatever.
>>Thoughts about your field?
An endeavour suited to people with a sound financial position to fall back on. As a poorfag I don't really feel I'm on good enough footing on that front to devote myself to it and pursue a PhD and no PhD no point. Probably going to change into comp. sci.

>>7304865
What are your thoughts on EE with emphasis in Computer Engineering? Do you think it's worth it? I'm thinking that it would be better than "pure" computer engineering because I get a broader base, but I'm not so sure.

>What's your major?
Aerospace engineering
>Grad/Undergrad?
PhD
>What year are you?
2nd post doc
>Why are you taking that major?
I like flying, rockets and bombs!
>Thoughts about your field?
Nice mix of theorie and practise

>>7304904
>I like flying, rockets and bombs!
What self respecting person doesn't like flying, rockets and bombs though?
What kind of reason is that?

>>7304907
Sure, but I like to know how things work and I want to use this knowledge. I find pleassure in creating "things": Machines, gadgets, toys, programms, whatever...

>>7304893
electrical engineering is not needed, the greeks made a clockwork computer powered by a hand crank and charles babbage designed mechanical computers that would be powered by hand cranks or steam

algorithms are understood by humans therefore you do not need a computer to conduct computer science

>>7304924
That anon I replied to what talking about posting on 4chan though. I am well aware of Babbage's work, as well as the ancient computers. However, you can't have a mechanical internet.


unless you have some crazy idea for how to do it?

>>7304904
how does it feel knowing that chemical propulsion will become obsolete in the near future?

>>7304942
Alternatives to chemical propulsion will certainly be more common in the future (space flight), but chem. prop. will never become completely obsolete.

>>7304934
without understanding how to make software for computers the computers themselves would be useless and there would be no TCP/IP or ARPANET or a stanford packet radio van doing anything of importance

as for a mechanical internet you could make the mechanical computer choose 0 or 1 and then it would tug a rope that registers at another computer as a 0 or 1 depending on which rope was tugged which would pull back on a lever that would signal a 0 or 1 to the computer
then you connect ropes to another computer and you have internet
i don't know if ropes count as mechanical or whatever, but you can replace that with some equivalent.

Computational science with a focus in physics
Undergrad
Going to be a freshman this fall

Seemed like a really interesting program at my uni, more interested in math and computer science than physics

Anyone have anything to say about computational science? I haven't met anyone outside the schools program doing a similar major.

>>7304992
prepare to get anally raped by the trinity of failing incompetent STEM students
newtonian physics, calculus, and c/c++ or some other intro programming
not that they're hard, but people fail them for some reason

>>7304600
>Math and Philosophy, Music minor
nice

>>7304472
If you want to take all the courses each semester for both majors it will be very hard. I don't regret my decision, but I usually recommend doing one or another and not taking more than 4-5 subject each semester or you will go crazy (in my first years I came home late at night after six hours of medieval philosophy and aesthetics to wake up early in the morning and run to linear algebra II barely awake, worth saying, I failed linear algebra II and had to take it again the next term).

The problem will not be so much mathematics but philosophy, not that the latter is harder, but it requires and awful amount of reading about pretty much everything at first (history of philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, logic, etc) and unless you're a very fast reader it's unlikely that you will have a lot of time to do math exercises after you finish your reading.

>>7304483
>I feel like my experience with philosophy will in no way aid me in any of my attempts at acquiring a job, but I find it to be a positively compelling field that allows me to examine the fundamental nature of my inner self, as well as the world around me in a more humanistic manner than the sciences can offer.
Leaving aside your commentaries about the nature of your inner self and stuff, a branch you may be interested is philosophy of mathematics, or mathematical philosophy. The first worries about the metaphysical foundations of mathematics, say for example, the 'usual' math we learn rests on classical logic and its techniques to solve problem (e.g: ~~p->p) than in the end rest on a very strong realism, this is known as mathematical platonism (this is, mathematical object are abstract object as real as you and me, not just a human construction); alternatively we have the several critiques to the strong realism of platonism in mathematics and the view that mathematics is a human construction, thus, resiting in intuitionist logic.

>>7305017
The other I mentioned was mathematical philosophy, you can consider it as an application of mathematical to philosophy (and very much used in the analytical tradition).
I suggest you to check the website of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy if that's of your interest:

http://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/index.html

>EE
>Undergrad
>Junior
>I'm good at it, and it can get me dosh
>Seems like I'm going to have to deal with a lot of ignorant fucks.
I transferred from a CC, so I don't know like, any of the people at Uni, but at least a third of the engineers are not American. The MechEs are all chadbros, which makes me want to die because no woman loves EE.

I get pissed that I'm constantly getting shit from anyone I have to deal with. It's like, nobody can just do their fucking job, and everyone is trying to be the most asinine bureaucrat they can be. I'm glad you posted this thread, I need to call some people and see if a woman actually submitted a scholarship I wanted her to, which I suspect she didn't because she's a tremendous bitch.

>>7304703
>all that description
To be fair, my friend has a Master's in AI and Minor in Comp Sci, and has 0 debt from it. N O T H I N G.

Of course he immediately went home for five years to stay a 340lb whalelord that plays MMOs, watches animes, and jerks off to lolicon. He's down to 290lb after convincing him to change diet and exercise a bit, but he's still the same degenerate faggot inside.

He's literally panicing right now because he's been running out of games. The thought of not-gaming terrifies him so much he'll try shit games.

Civil engineering with emphasis on structural. Following my dads footsteps into the construction industry.

>>7305011
Thanks for the warning, luckily I've had taken a basic courses in Calc, mechanics, and Java and am working through K&R. I feel like I'll be alright because I have a pretty good work ethic. I'm just excited cause not a lot of schools offer computational science as an under grad.

>>7304904
What master did you do, I'm looking to get into an aerospace master coming from physics, and I'm curious to see what people in the field recommend.

>also, Delft?

>>7304146
>>What's your major?
Mechanical Engineering
>>Grad/Undergrad?
Graduate
>>What year are you?
2nd year? masters
>>Why are you taking that major?
I like math and physics
>>Thoughts about your field?
not enough math, too much chemistry

I'm a 6th year physics PhD candidate. I picked it because I like physics. If I didn't, there is no way in hell I would have been able to put up with the last 6 years of pretty much continuous work. My thoughts on my field are that it is pretty good. If you go into a computational discipline, you have a wider range of available industry tracts to take and your background is generally flexible enough to go into several different research fields and be well qualified for a wider range of postdocs than if you go straight theory. Experimentalists, especially those that do a lot of sample growth, probably have the most opportunity to continue in research, but they are more limited overall from what I can tell now that I am looking for a job before I defend.

>>7305011
>not that they're hard, but people fail them for some reason
I think it's mostly for the "shock" they take, as in their first contact with "more advanced" notions on exact sciences, it's just like how you as a child probably found it harder to multiply and divide when you first met it

>>7304865
please help
>>7304901

>>7304491
I'm in line to take a philosophy of natural sciences class in the fall and look forward to taking further upper level philosophy classes that specialize in the philosophies of mathematics, science, and logic.

>NEET
>NEET
>0/NEET
>learn on my own
>pretty neat

>What's your major?
Math
>Grad/Undergrad?
Grad
>What year are you?
First (well I'm gonna start my Master's)
>Why are you taking that major?
Because it's interesting and I didn't like anything else
>Thoughts about your field?
I've just started to notice that I have no idea what math is. It's not a science and I can't explain what I do to people ("well basically I read all day"). I'm sad because I'm starting to feel like a philosophy student. I still love it but it's a thought I've been having recently.

>>What's your major?
Physics specialized in astronomy
>>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergraduate
>>What year are you?
Sophomore
>>Why are you taking that major?
I've always enjoyed explaining things and trying to wrap my head around something bigger than ourselves, logical choice are objects in the universe
>>Thoughts about your field?
I'm still pretty new to it, but so far its telescopesarecool/10

>>7304901
Sorry was at busch gardens kek


If you want to work on computer shit then do EE with emphasis in comp eng. I say this because knowing both will help your programming skills since you will understand the both software and hardware sides and how they interact.

>>7304146

>What's your major?
EE
>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad
>What year are you?
Going into 3rd year
>Why are you taking that major?
I always thought electricity was cool as fuq, you can see mechanical work but circuits and computers work behind the scenes.
>Thoughts about your field?
I enjoy it. Might do some grad work on electromagnets or power systems. Deep down I wish I did my undergrad in math but I can just read the books on my own time, which I have been doing.

Also 90% of the people in my class are stupid money grubbers.
>WHY DO I HAVE TO LEARN THIS
>WHEN WILL I USE THIS ON THE JOB

This is almost a cringe thread.

The autism is literally emanating from my monitor.

>What's your major?
EE
>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad
>What year are you?
Junior
>Why are you taking that major?
Trying to learn the most I can about science while being employable, any engineering would've done the job.
>Thoughts about your field?
Badass. Circuits are the shit and I have 2 job offers lined up for when I graduate.

There, answer like fucking men not little bitches. Jeez what the fuck is up with all this faggotry

>>7306126
How much money do EE grads usually expect to make. Just wondering.

>>7306133
Starting is usually 70k or more, six figs at mid career

>>7306113
>be in circuit analysis 2 class discussing power loss in transmission lines
>professor has a doctorate in EE concentrated in electromagnetics
>extremely interesting discussion regarding length of transmission lines and propagation of electromagnetic waves and how it relates to power loss in long distance transmission lines
>after class some kid with a D/barely skating by with a C says "when will I ever need to know this crap!"


>mfw
---
Also I'm this anon >>7304865 from earlier. Electromagnetics is the fuckin SHIT

>>7306133
If you sell your soul around 80k/year (In US) starting. If not a more realistic starting with no experience is around 60-70k/year, theres a ton of room for growth

>>7306135
>>7306139
Thanks. I'm just curious. Not exactly sure what major I'm going to pursue. I want a job that will allow me to travel though. Most types of engineering could work.

>>7306144
There is a growing job market overseas if you're interested and the pay is usually much better.

>>7306148
I've heard. What would a degree in mechanical, computer, or chemical engineering get me?

Also what's better generally. A degree in EE or CE. I have heard the differences are trivial.

>>7306149
I'm not sure, I only know about EE since that is my field of study and my opinion on those other fields are just as good as yours. A Lot of people who go into CE, from my experience, like working more with embedded systems than circuitry, but then again I don't know shit.

>>7304667

If you live near a dense urban area they're more common. The only person I've heard going into architecture on a personal level is my supervisor's son. The big field that everyone seems to be going into is physical therapy.

>>7304870
What are the advantages of studying chemical engineering rather than mechanical engineering, which is more versatile?

>>7304146
>>What's your major?
Pure math, physics (would be astrophysics but it's not offered) with a French minor

>>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad

>>What year are you?
Just finished junior year

>>Why are you taking that major?
I was in aerospace engineering one semester and hated it. It felt like just plugging and chugging without fully understanding the problem. e.g. I asked where Bernoulli's equation came from and the prof refused to explain because not everyone had taken calc yet. Physics and math feels like the closest you can get to understanding the fundamentals of the real world.

>>Thoughts about your field?
Fucking awesome. I'm doing research I never thought I'd ever do. I'm about to get my first research paper published and I'm getting poached for grad school.

>>7306352
Sounds like you had shit professors. I'm EE and our professors ensure that we are of full understanding of how all problems and stuff we learn

>>7306366
Yeah, I've been told that before :/ I wonder if I'd had better intro professors if I'd have stayed in engineering. Either way, I love my majors so I'd never switch back now

>What's your major?
Mechanical Engineering.

>Grad/Undergrad?
Under.

>What year are you?
Junior year.

>Why are you taking that major?
I like machines.

>Thoughts about your field?
It's a big field, probably the biggest. Bit I'm not liking it. It's not what I expected to be.

>>7306390
>but
Fix'd.

>What's your major?
Physics with a minor in mathematics

>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad

>What year are you?
About to be a senior. Almost done :'(

>Why are you taking that major?
I've loved physics since I was little. Science fiction really pushed me into it as I saw physics as a pathway to the future, as a field that always is looking forwards while it stands on the achievements of its past. Just love the shit too. It's like chaining the beast that is nature.

>Thoughts about your field?
The best there is. Humanity's greatest weapon, along with chemistry, biology, and mathematics.

>>7306505
Sometimes it's chaining the beast, sometimes it's completely surrendering.

>>7304379
There's introductory physics and then there's engineering.

>>7304146
That's not a proper 4 category Venn Diagram. Here, try this instead.

P.S. My Discrete Math final was pretty tough.

>>7306550
This was on my DM final. It was bad. You were given some values of some of the larger categories, and you had to deduce the smaller categories. 6 categories was a fucking nightmare.

>>7304146
Mathematics with a Literature minor
Undergrad
Junior this fall
Because math is fucking awesome and I'm a high functioning autist.
Currently working through Dummit&Foote, Munkres' Topology, and Marx' Das Kapital Vol 1. Hoping to work in differential geometry, not sure what exactly but Riemannian Geometry is pretty cool and my department excels at that. Group Theory is really cool too but I'm not too knowledgeable about algebra.

Visual Art and Computer Science double major

Undergrad

5th year, graduating in a week

Why? I liked art, did that for half of college, realized I was going to make shit money, switched to CS, able to finish both, now have no idea how to sell this double major and get a decent job

I like programming, but don't like the vast majority of CS students (either asocial or immature video game nerds)

But seriously, how the fuck do I get a good job

>Major
Chemical Engineering
>Grad/Undergrad
Undergrad
>Year
Junior
>Why?
Material seems like it will give me the tools that I need to solve the problems that I'm interested in.
>Thoughts
Very diverse field. Research covers pure chemistry, computer simulations, optimization, process design, genetic engineering, materials science, etc. I think I've seen everything except for pure Chemical Engineering.

>What's your major?
2 majors. Comp Sci and Math.

>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad

>What year are you?
Graduated.

>Why are you taking that major?
<3 programming.

>Thoughts about your field?
Have a job for a while. Lots of money. Great work hours. Great people. <3

>>7306554
why? what's the point?

>computer engineering
>undergrad
>just graduated
>it seemed kewl when I was younger
>maximum regret. no jobs for people with only a BS. I will probably just fuck off to the world of code monkeys.

>>7304146
>>What's your major?
Business Analytics
>>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad
>>What year are you?
Rising senior
>>Why are you taking that major?
Because I didn't want to associate with liberal arts or engineering students and I'm too much of a bitch to study finance
>>Thoughts about your field?
It's great. Lots of opportunities to pursue a longer academic career and even more to land nice jobs. Get to learn from cool academics during the school year and cool Wall St dudes in the summer.

>What's your major?
Chemistry (biochem concentration) and Dramatic Art
>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad
>What year are you?
Rising junior
>Why are you taking that major?
Chemistry because I like it and I thought I was gonna try med school after I graduated. Dramatic Art because the major is only 8 classes and I've done tech theatre since I was a kid.
>Thoughts about your field?
If I were to pursue a career in Chemistry I'd be forced into going into grad school and grad school for Chemistry sounds fucking miserable. I'm most likely going to get an MFA in either Lighting Design or Architectural Lighting Design because it's something I could see myself doing and not be nearly as miserable as I would be if I were doing anything else.

>>7306662
I might try doing med school when I'm older or something along those lines. But right now I couldn't live with myself if I didn't at least TRY pursuing something with theatre.

>>7306643
Where did you go to school?

>>7306643
>computer engineering
>no jobs for people with only a BS

I don't know much, but that seems like bull. If it really is true, why not just go to grad school. Stop wasting your time.

>>7306198
If you're too retarded to do your own research at least fuckoff to >>>/adv/.

>Major
Bio, minors in microbiology and ecological preservation
>Grad/Undergrad
Undergrand
>Year
Junior
>Why are you taking it
I like it.
>Thoughts about your field
Gonna go into mycology but I would also like to own the world's first protozoan zoo

>>7307584
You are a woman.

>>7307669

No. Nature is just very important to me.

>>7307674
I don't care if you suppose you were born with a penis you are most definitely a women.

>>7307575
I fucking hate people like you. Is it illegal to ask anyone for help? Didn't most internet resources come out of someone asking for help. Fuck off nigger.

>>7307679

Why? Because I'm into biology?

>>7307689
>Is it illegal to ask anyone for help?
No, asking someone on fucking 4chan to do your research (ie. read any of the thousands high quality articles, communications and archived Q&As) for you is both arrogantly presumptuous (ie thinking your time is more valuable than ours) and outright retardedly inefficient considering the answer will be deleted within a matter of hours. If you really must ask people at least do it on sites/boards that intended for those kinds of questions like stackexchange or /adv/. /sci/ is one of the last places for you to post your stupid off topic questions.

>>7307696
And because you write like a women.

>>7307715

I don't understand.

>>7304146
>Physics

>undergrad

>1st year

>I enjoy solving problems, as well as math in general.

>Love it, I am only afraid at the prospect of getting out of university into a failing job market

>>7307712
But he's asking someone who already has a bachelors in ChemE about ChemE. So the guy is knowledgeable and probably doesn't have to do any research to answer his questions.

>both arrogantly presumptuous (ie thinking your time is more valuable than ours) and outright retardedly inefficient considering the answer will be deleted within a matter of hours

Nope. Are you seriously saying that others can't ask others for help? You'll never get by in the world doing that. Plus good advice is only good when few people know it.

Why don't you fuck off anon. I'll do as I please as it benefits me.

>>7307730
I thought Physics had good job prospects? Please say yes, I'll be starting a Physics degree this october

>>7307715
>like a women

>>7307742
I'm not going to waste my time arguing with you, it's against the rules period >>6646405.

>>7307718
That's exactly what a woman would say

>>7307752
>following the rules

newfag

>>7307752
>I'm not going to waste my time arguing with you, it's against the rules period

He didn't ask about homework or about the specifics of college or university. He asked about one field compared to another in a thread where people were talking about it anyone. Fuck off nigger.

>>7307755
>>7307764
Samefag detected.

>>7307771
Nope.

>>7307755
The only rule worth breaking is posting NWS material on blue boards. All the others are actually useful rules

>>7307771
nope

>>7307779
Screenshots are extremely reliable.

>>7307790
Could've at least used a different theme or something.

>>7307796
this looks shopped.
I can tell by the pixels and I've seen a lot of shops in my day.

>>7306550
>>7306554
Discrete Math difficult?
You guys must go to a better school than I

>>7307796
Nah dude, you're just being a cunt and other people are noticing.

>>7307804
No you actually can't tell by the pixels because they are all .png format, which is also suspicious in itself that the poster would post two samefag denying screengrabs with the same format that is less common that .jpg.

>>7307808
>>7307804
>All posts >1 min apart

God you fucking suck.

>>7307813
>which is also suspicious in itself that the poster would post two samefag denying screengrabs with the same format that is less common that .jpg.

It's MS paints default format.

>>7307815
:)

>>7307815
Dude pls, I'm reading a book.

>>7306566
My major is CS, minor Visual Art.
What do you mean good job? You can program, and you can do it elegantly.

Video Games is actually a perfect field for you. Or some kind of interactive design. AI. Whatever. You didn't screw up.

At least your not shooting for a masters in Psych like I am.

>>7307816
>>7307817
>>7307821
Oh great, now you proxied up/fetched your cell. Well congrats fuckhead you really went all out for shit no one cares about. I hope it was worth it.

>>7307826
lol

>>7307826
>he still thinks one person is talking to him

>>7307826
I'm not him. I just think you're butthurt is funny.

>>7307747
That's what I keep hearing, but I feel like I am going to over-specialize.

>Biological/Animal Sociology
>undergrad
>3rd
>I like nature
>It's pretty gurreat

>>7308280
what college?
I want to get into that too, but almost every Sociology degree is more focused into contemporary struggles like feminism and queer/urban studies

>>7306604
What do you work in?

I'm currently a pure math major with a comp sci minor but considering just doing a double major. In your opinion, is it worth it?

>What's your major?
Mechanical Engineering

>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad

>What year are you?
3rd

>Why are you taking that major?
Seemed like the broadest engineering field that would allow me to make stuff

>Thoughts about your field?
-Not enough classes with fabrication, not that industry workers make anything, to my knowledge.
-Will definitely need to get related internship for summer after junior year; I've done minor stuff here and there so far, but haven't gotten actual industry experience yet, though that's mostly my fault for procrastinating
-fluids/thermo classes are pretty boring, design classes are ok, dynamics is very interesting
-may branch off into aero or gain more ee knowledge at some point

>>7308460
PLEASE take circuit analysis 1 as an elective. It teaches you how to analyze DC and AC circuits and gets a bit into three phase AC.

It could help you at some point on a multidisciplinary engineering project. So basically every project you ever do.

>>7308465
not him, but at my school we take instrumentation lab which is basically crash course electrical engineering.
no 3-phase stuff, but a quick course on building all sorts of circuits from basic RC to op-amps to ADCs and DAC

>>7306612
I believe it had something to do with AND and OR statements, so boolean logic. So the information given was represented like A n B n C n D = 3 and so on. You were supposed to figure out which statement coordinated to which section / intersection. The 6 categories was mainly just the professor being a colossal dick and trying to get people to run the clock getting stuck on that problem. It was the 2nd question on the final, so it trapped some people who got stuck on it and forgot about the time.

>>7307807
The class wasn't bad. It was incredibly informative and it was only hard to follow at some times. I got an A (college doesn't do A+, but my percentage was >100%), but the only difficult times were when the professor glossed over something important, or gave us questions like the one I posted about. There were pretty much 1 or 2 per test, and sometimes he couldn't solve the questions. But other than that, it was a great class. It was very helpful for me, being a CS major.

>>7307807
or to one with very bad teachers

>>7308465
Already took it, and will be doing the crash course >>7308483 mentioned as well. Both are required for me. I was referring more to whether or not to take more advanced stuff, either the electronics class (transistor stuff) or digital design (boolean stuff).

>>7308486
nigga use your fucking inclusion exclusion properly and it aint hard

>>7304146
>>What's your major?
Food Sci and Technology
>>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad
>>What year are you?
going into 4th
>>Why are you taking that major?
Used to be chem major, but switched because its fucking awesome
>>Thoughts about your field?
Do not confuse it with biotech, or nutrition. My professor accurately described it as "everything that occurs to food from the field to the box"

it's the little shit that everyone takes for granted, and no one ever notices it.
currently im an intern for a firm that is designing a new method of PUV+PEF processing targeting L. monocytogenes.
there's tons of routes you can take (i.e. food engineering, food processing machinery enginerring, food chemistry, sensory evaluation, product development, food materials and packaging)

i love it and there is actually a fair amount of demand. i see it as just chemistry with a marketable title for the food industry. next year im joining my professor's research group. theyre trying to find ways to repurpose pomace, a fatty pulp "waste" product of olive oil production. its not really "waste," its actually plenty nutritious but rather bitter, and there is no demand for other than for industrial processes. the goal is repurpose it in food, for example, pasta with 25% pomace and 75% durum and semolina content. the final trick is to get consumers to buy it, but thats not our job

>>7304600
How (and where) do you even end up in a Math/Philosophy major with music minor
I love maths and philosophy but such a combination is impossible in Europe as far as I know

>>7304146
>What's your major?
Mechanical engineering
>Grad/Undergrad?
Undergrad
>What year are you?
2nd year
>Why are you taking that major?
I like the thought of slapping my name on something built by others
>Thoughts about your field?
Pretty cool so far, but I've been told it gets harder

I studied English literature and art and now I'm a school teacher in an international school in Paris.

No majors or minors in bongland although personally I feel that we should have them.

>>7304364
This is one of the most depressing posts I've ever read on /sci/.

>>7306198
MechE is generally considered more versatile, if you aren't sure do MechE, only exception is if you're dead certain you want to work in the chemical process industry because the only thing MechEs aren't really legally allowed to do is to design reacting systems.

>>7306574
>I think I've seen everything except for pure Chemical Engineering.
Heh, there's this running joke in my department that ChemEs don't know what their major is about until their senior year and it's kind of true. Most programmes don't start control and reaction engineering until their senior. Pretty fun, but difficult as fuck especially if your school stacks vanilla reaction with biochemical reaction engineering. It kind of draws on everything you've done especially in chem solutions thermodynamics, transfer processes and continuum mechancis. Non-ideal mixing and solid catalysts implies a bitch of coupled non-linear PDE systems to solve, make sure you're very comfortable with a high-level programming language if your curriculum has those later chapters of Fogler.

>What's your major?
biochemistry
>Grad/Undergrad?
undergrad
>What year are you?
first
>Why are you taking that major?
because I want to know how life works and because biotechnology is awesome
>Thoughts about your field?
Memorizing pathways was more tedious than I thought, but later on I don't doubt I will enjoy stuff like genetics and protein chemistry. In general it's a versatile field that is very relevant to both basic research and industry as far as I know.

>>7309389
>i dont doubt I will enjoy stuff like genetics

I've got some bad news for you sunshine...

>>7311136
He has no idea what he is getting into.

>>7304162
>being this retarded

They all overlap you idiot.

>>7304899
stick to physics, in the long run you'll advance the world of science. go for a PhD and you'll end up with enough money to pay your school debts and live well enough

>>7311869
>go for a PhD and you'll end up with enough money to pay your school debts and live well enough

In that case, you should just go for maths, and the 300k starting meme.

>>7311829
99% of undergrads

>>7311871
double major in math and physics kills two birds with one stone... go for a PhD in physics
thoughts?

>>7311890
refer to >>7311136

>>7311136
Whats wrong with genetics?

>Major?
Chemical Engineering
>G/UG?
Undergraduate.
>What year?
Going into junior.
>Why are you taking that major?
The thought of developing new technology excites me much more than pure science per se (not that pure science isn't awesome and necessary). It's also the only engineering field that lets me study Thermodynamics and Chemistry beyond a freshman level, and the pay/demand is fucking fantastic in comparison to science degrees (and even most engineering degrees).
>Thoughts about your field?
Pharma/biomed, energy, and electrochemical engineering are all interesting industries to me and seem to have a demand for good chemical engineers, which is good. On the other hand, I fear that a lot more people are going into the major these days, and certain not-that-great schools are gradually dumbing down their undergrad curriculum to accommodate for that. Thankfully I'm transferring to a better school this fall, with a more rigorous curriculum and a much better reputation.