/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9340315
>>your area of study
Mechanical Engineering
>>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
I actually hate engineering. I desperately wanted to major in math but I ultimately chose engineering for the career opportunities. I hate myself every day for not following my passions. At least I am a junior and almost done

gender studies
because black lives matter

>>9340325
go to grad school ya goof

>>9340325
>I desperately wanted to major in math but I ultimately chose engineering for the career opportunities.
B-but autists on /sci/ tell me that "doing what you love" is for brainlets!

>>9340315
financial mathematics
because i love making money

Analytical chemistry (environmental)
Because I get to find out which chemicals are making the frogs gay

>>9340315
biology
because I like to fuck

Medicine
I get to control who lives and who dies, can make a ton of money and bitches get wet when they see a doctor

Otherwise its a vast and interesting field in itself and encompasses most fields of science from biology, chemistry, physics, maths, statistics and also indulges your social iq.

It's literally a field for STEM chads

I can't imagine how miserable it must feel to do a PhD in maths and other meme courses with zero application skills and very low income... math memers have nothing to show for all the years of their lives wasted

>>9340315
Engineering
Because I love the cock

Genetics, because I get to figure out how DNA wrapping on itself, as well as how the spatial orientation of Chromosomes, because I will hopefully be able to finally contribute to the eventual discovery of exactly why OP is such a faggot.

>>9340315
>your area of study
applied maths

>explain what's fascinating about it
nothing, it's shit

>and why you study it
idk, I'm incredibly good at everything except math. Jesus fucking christ I want to kill myself, I miss my dream of being a filmmaker

>>9340387
lol cuck

Where is your 300k starting?

>>9340354
>>9340387
>maths

>>9340330
Probably won't do grad school. I hope to land a good engineering job that leaves me enough time to study math independently. My personality does not to well in school. I get good grades but I have anxiety/paranoia and the stress is unbelievable.

>>9340406
>murrican presents a irrefutable argument

>>9340315
>chemistry
>it's magic nigga I ain't gotta explain shit

but more seriously, since fucking everything you will ever encounter but the sun and gravity is describable in terms of chemistry, unless you get hit by a nuclear bomb

>>9340315
>>your area of study
cs
>>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
dunno, I like types and shit

>>9340315
>>your area of study
math
>>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
don't know, just started this shit this year and I've been fucking with my proofs class, thinking declaring pure math or math phys for my specialization at the end of the year but I'm not too sure

>>your area of study
physics
>>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
4 years ago I probably could have told you but right now I'm a bit burned out and fuck knows why I ever chose to subject myself to this. I guess mostly everything else wants to make me shoot myself even more than physics does.

>>9340328
black isn't a gender

>>9340380
You're lucky I wasn't drinking milk, anon.

>>9340354
Math PhD.s can get finance jobs and make twice what you do starting.

>>9340504
Most reasonably intelligent people can make a lot of money if they sell their soul

>>9340504
And yet they never do, why would someone care about some autistic math PhD when they get ecomists and finance guys?

>>9340412
What area of math?

>your area of study
Applied Math

>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
I don't have to give a shit about what the rest of the academia thinks. I don't care about politics, science, social activities and most forms of entertainment and that's all the rest of my coworkers talk about. I like to sail, swim and go to the gym. Students are a pain in the ass but I've learned how to deal with them. My job is stable and I earn more than I can spend, it requires very little effort, most of the time I feel like I am get paid to learn more and share about my hobby. My research is not very interesting but I can spend all my day studying it without getting tired of it, everything that is not math makes me sick after a few hours of study.

>>9340508
True. I'm not recommending it.

>>9340509
Because they're smarter.

>good day chap i study maffs

>>9340464
what do you think about idris?

Economics

I like it because I get to study humans and society, but in a more removed, quantitative way than other social sciences would allow.

Also it continues to surprise me how many types of math have applications to it

>>9340315
>Your area of study
Marine Biology
>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
Life in the ocean is always fascinating, I have always wanted to study it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mk1MmKT-iQ

Philosophy.
It encompasses all human knowledge.

Ecology
So I can watch Life play with itself. The diversity of organisms and the way they behave, the way their interactions serve as scaffolding for higher level organization, and interdependence. It's applicable to everything living things do, the more you know about the living world and it's actors the more dots I can connect and the more beautiful things become, but I feel the loss more and more as well. I've studied life since I was at least 3, animal encyclopedias where the first thing I ever read or wanted to be read, it's been a natural progression. Ecology in theory is also very beautiful and is canon fodder for philosophy. I study alot of things, Life itself is another big one.
>>9340616 same here, give particulars

Mathematical philosophy. I like math that is meaningful and gives deep insight about reality.

>>9340702
>A natural progression
I should have said "succession" instead of that

>>9340315
>area of study
Surface chemistry.

>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
I get to be a chemist and work with my hands in the lab, but the physics is meaty enough for me to feel challenged and stop my research from feeling like stamp collecting. I also get to play with lasers and take pretty pictures of atom layers.

>>9340325
This but with Computer Engineering.
I want to die, some classes are boring as shit.

>>9340315
Physics.

Literally because I watched a bunch of shit on YouTube that I'd cringe at now. This is why I dislike sci's dislike for popsci, it will get a 17 year old interested in shit even if their math skills are mediocre and the media they are consuming is objective shit. I like learning about mathematical methods for physics the most. I am only an sophomore so who knows what I'll end up liking the most.

>>9340426
My nigga

Studied electrical engineering and landed a job as an engineer at one of the largest memory producers in the world. What's fascinating about it is that I get to witness the next two generations of products (phones, cars, SSDs, fucking everything) we design our memory for before the rest of the world as we work to qualify our memory to be put in customers' products. I work on the cutting edge of semiconductor fabrication and witness my work come up from tapeout all the way to productization. The memory I work on is sold on the scale of billions every year and is in nearly every electronic you could name. I know what my contributions are to the memory we create and I know what its contributions are to society as a whole.
Something I worked on has reached across the world and touched the life of every civilized human on this planet. That is a kind of satisfying feeling

>>9340315
>Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology
>Biohacks n sheet

I study food biochemistry

Yep you heard it right you math meme lords I get paid to play around with, in my case, what makes beer flavorful (strong vs light beer, limearitas, etc).

>>9340504
meme

>>9340315
Computer science, specifically neural networks

Because I like to play god

>>9340315
biomathmatics, because *ALL* major unsolved problems are in biology, and most biologists really suck at math

I opened a pipe welding instructional facility. We produce highly skilled craftsmen that work at the best chemical and refinery facilities in the world.

>>9340809
>>>/b - brainlets/

Optics

Got interested by some teachers, light is fascinating to study. Working in the laser design (TW & PW) aloows one to learn a lot about various field in physics.

>>9340426
>but more seriously, since fucking everything you will ever encounter but the sun and gravity is describable in terms of chemistry, unless you get hit by a nuclear bomb
>studying applied quantum mechanics and claiming it's the best rather than just studying quantum mechanics or, even better, algebra

>>9340488
seconded

>>9340315
Microbiology. Microorganism are cool as shit and were the first organisms on the earth.

>environmental science
>it's not that interesting but I gotta study something

>>9340315
CS with a specialization in audio signal processing.

The mathematics I've been able to take past the normal code monkey classes have been really really good. Fourier transforms, filter analysis, etc are all very aesthetically pleasing.

Next term I'm taking 2 DSP-related math classes, as well as an intro to partial differential equations. I'm super hyped

>>9340892
Whats it like

>>9340702
>So I can watch Life play with itself
I could send you videos of me playing with myself if you'd like

> pure math

>nothing is fascinating about it really

Its a good feeling to get and understand a proof and you get those "ah-ha" moments but there isn't anything truly fascinating about it

>>9340811
While the guys that come here are no engineers, they make close to 100k a year. I consider that pretty good. I have a masters in accounting and im also a CPA

Physics, more specifically, optics

Quantum optics is an interesting field, you get to study quantum mechanics irl. Although my research is on spectroscopy right now and I don't get to do much QO, but Im learning the fundamentals at least.

>linguistics
>Language is one of the rare cognitive abilities which can be rigorously formalized. The study of what formal patterns appear across languages opens a window to better understanding the architecture of cognitive processes.

Major biochemistry, minor pharmacology at McGill. I became a drug addict at 15. Literally chose my program to learn how to make drugs. I'm one year into the program and can synthesize MDMA, amphetamine & methamphetamine, mescaline and LSD.

Hopefully as I get through the higher courses I'll be able to understand how they work and invent my own.

>>9340354
>Otherwise its a vast and interesting field in itself and encompasses most fields of science from biology, chemistry, physics, maths, statistics and also indulges your social iq

top kek. most doctors have forgotten all the hard science they learned in uni by the time they finish their specialty. my lab presented 3 posters in a neurology conference and the doctors couldn't understand them.

doctors are to biology and chemistry what engineers are to physics and math. i have some respect for surgeons because their job takes actual applied skill, but internal medicine is literally a glorified human symptom checkbox machine. i'd hardly call either a scientist though

>>9340328
Powerful.

>Neurobiology, specifically epilepsy

It's interesting because you slowly get to unravel a huge puzzle in a sense. you also have many disciplines within neurobiology, from nervous system biochem and pharmacology to electrophysiology techniques and programming. It's really stimulating

>>9340937
my buddy at McGill does mecheng
good job

>>9340387
literally me

>>9340488
this

>>9340809
As someone who is uninitiated in these things, what exactly makes pipe-welding a craft rather than just a task?

>>9340315
Psychology.
Control theory applied to a specific domain.

>>9340937
No way you must be lying

>>9340952
>my lab presented 3 posters in a neurology conference and the doctors couldn't understand them.

Depends how old the doctor's were, maybe the doctors in your state/country are just shit? Internal med and surgery are specialities that require chemistry and physics knowledge regularly so I doubt they would have forgotten all of it.

>doctors are to biology and chemistry what engineers are to physics and math. i have some respect for surgeons because their job takes actual applied skill, but internal medicine is literally a glorified human symptom checkbox machine. i'd hardly call either a scientist though

Nice meme but doctors are scientists as well, they do have to do research and learn pretty much everything that most pure science students do in their formative years. Not only that, intense competition requires docs to excel in all their science courses so they are probably better scientists by a considerable margin

CS/CompE
Computers are actually fucking gay.

invertebrate paleontology, morphometrics/physiology approach
it's fossils, man. they're inherently cool. and I can tell all sorts of cool things about how trilobites grew despite that none of them have grown for over 200 million years.

>>9340933
Hopefully one day soon after biophysics/molec bio have progressed and biosemiotics shits out theory, various biosemiotics will be formalized

>>9340315
Is IT or a computer-related job worth it? I just started college and I want to see if it's worth it before fully investing in it.

>>9341389
Go for CE/EE. IT is garbage and being fucked right now

>>9341376
>maybe the doctors in your state/country are just shit?

it was an international conference

> Internal med and surgery are specialities that require chemistry and physics knowledge regularly so I doubt they would have forgotten all of it

what the fuck are you talking about? you think orthopedic surgeons and dermatologists use chemistry and physics regularly? they learn some chemistry and some less physics in the first 2 years of uni (or in premed in burgerland i imagine) and that's it.

> they do have to do research

medicine research is literally cataloging patients, symptoms, treatments and outcomes. they don't even go into the molecular aspect, they simply catalogue and run statistics.

>ot only that, intense competition requires docs to excel in all their science courses so they are probably better scientists by a considerable margin

what the fuck are you talking about i'll ask once more. they take basic physics and chem courses in the early years of uni, that they never again use in their lives.

I can't tell if you're a butthurt med student or a layman that has no idea what he's talking about.

>>9340412
Man I went through such a similar dilemma. Majored in electrical engineering for two years before dropping out. Sought work as an electrician for a few years and now I can make more money than an engineer easily

>>9341403
>he thinks medicine is just writing down name and address of patients XD

Seriously hoW retarded are you? Orthopedics need to have knowledge of physics and apply it in cases of bone accidents and knowing how to repair the damage caused by the accidents. Dermatology is a field that uses a lot of chemicals and they need the knowledge in chemistry for that.

Ever heard of physiology? Anatomy? Biochemistry? Microbiology and pharmacology? They are all courses taught in first year of medical schools
You clearly have no idea how medicine works and what actually goes into making a doctor

>>9341418
>Orthopedics need to have knowledge of physics and apply it in cases of bone accidents and knowing how to repair the damage caused by the accidents

what the actual fuck are you talking about you fucking idiot? you think an orthopedic needs to know quantum mechanics to fix injuries? of course he needs intense knowledge of body anatomy, but he doesn't need to know physics.

>Dermatology is a field that uses a lot of chemicals and they need the knowledge in chemistry for that.

no they don't you dumb fuck. you think they know the exact pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of every single med they prescribe? they know that for x diagnosis you prescribe one of the drugs from the y family of drugs that roughly does z. they know jack shit beyond that, why the fuck do you think pharmacists and biochemists exist?

>Ever heard of physiology? Anatomy? Biochemistry? Microbiology and pharmacology?

so you went from arguing that doctors know as much physics and chemistry and physicists and chemists to doctors know anatomy. of course they know fucking anatomy and physiology, that's their profession. but their knowledge in chemistry/physics/math is basic while they're still in uni and non-existent 10 years after they've graduated.

>They are all courses taught in first year of medical schools

man you must be fucking trolling or extremely retarded. you think taking 2 courses in organic chem (which they don't btw, they do a crash course called "medical chemistry" and in many med schools even biochem isn't mandatory) puts you at the same level as someone who did their fucking phd on organic chem? do you have any idea how academia functions?

at this point i'm sure you're trolling, you can't be this ignorant and yet this patronizing

>>9340621
>>9340802
lol sure

>>9340764
based

>>9340764
how much do you make?

>>9340315
Biochem, it's cool. I like having a sense of underlying principles behind why things function, because I'm interested in how dysfunction causes disease. It's neat to have the perspective down to the level of amino acids. I feel like Bio really benefits from having the molecular perspective.

I'd like to go into grad school for Cell Biology because I like the idea of piecing together signal cascades and how it allows for intracellular trafficking and stuff like that. Seems applicable to figuring out stuff like neurodegeneration.

I kinda got interested in Bio because of that jackass Aubrey De Grey and I'm still kinda curious if by contributing to this area of work we can help people live longer and healthier lives. Not really expecting anything but I want to take things as far as I can, because I feel like these advances can do a lot of good, and I don't really get as much joy in science that doesn't have that kind of underlying context.

>>9340702
You seem like a person who i would not like

>>9340315
Astrophysics, because space is cool

>>9341364
Why would I lie?

>>9342177
Living the Walter White lifestyle. Not bad.

Computer Science.

Because I hate you all, faggots, and one day you all will be replaced by a few elegant lines of code.

>>9340937
>Literally chose my program to learn how to make drugs

fucking kek

Astrophysics.
It's the coolest shit ever, I love what I do. Specifilacally I'm doing instrumentation, so like the production and design of detectors and space technology.

>>9340315
>optics
It's cool I guess. I don't really care what I'm doing too much. I'd just like to make money.

>>9342202
Edgiest man itt

Computer Science

There's nothing fascinating. "Fun" programming is 5% maximum of most jobs. 95% is straightforward, "muh code quality" and bullshit processes.

>>9341536
Okay

>>9340339
My nigger
finance math is the wombocombo

>>9342177
Doing science for all the wrong reasons. I like it. Keep us posted famalam.

>your area of study
Electronic/Electrical Engineering (B.Eng currently, gonna specialize in DSP)
>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
My dad's an Electronic Technician(Masters) and I currently have a journeyman degree.
I've just always liked electronics. Been soldering and tinkering with electronics since i was 10 years old(because of my dad).

And i'm an active electronic musician, so being able to build and repair all kinds of shit is really handy.

>your area of study
Philosophy
>explain what's fascinating about it
I have always loved thinking about science more than doing science. I plan to major in logic or philosophy of science in master.

Computer Engineering

I was always amazed at how we could turn electricity into some of the amazing things we see on tv screens, primarily 3D video games. Second year and still enjoying it.

>>9340702
I wish I had money to study shit like this

>>9340315
math
because /sci/ told me it was the only respectable major and I think it'll hide my brainletism

Medicine

Humans are interesting, it's also interesting how the body works and the ways in which it can fail.

Then the whole hospital life isn't normal but strangely enthusing

>>9342919
No interest in philosophy of language?

>>9340315

Genetics
You get to imagine DNA as a very complex, structurally dependent information molecule and learn how all life is connected

I'm fascinated by applications and further understanding how things connect

>>9340937
If this is real than you are the most smart and practical drug addict I've ever saw.

>>9342177
based

>>9340523
Proffessor, right?

>>9340531
2 plus two is 4 minus one thats tree(3) fast-growing maffs

>>9342981
Thanks for the ego boost.

>>9341391
That's because it is oversaturated with all the "lol anyone cand code" brainlets and pajeets, right?

>>9342202
Authomating online roleplaying, I like it.

>>9340764
Aww. I wish more people like you were on this board. What advice can you give to an EE undergrad?

>>9340325
>another self loathing ME like myself
at least 3 of the ME's I talked to expressed disappointment at not choosing a more computer based discipline.
It's too late for me. I'm a 5th year senior with bad GPA.

>>9340523
>t. complacent wagecuck
While you are wasting taxpayer money jerking off I will be exploring the free market and finding the best work I can, regardless of job security. Grow up kiddo, the real world is waiting...

>>9343071
I'd also like to add that I can actually answer the second half of the OP though.
>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
My biggest inspiration was Mythbusters and How It's Made. I didn't know what I wanted to be at the time, and ME just seemed so much more versatile than the other majors that I ended up entering.
ALSO, if you want to work for popsci or any other cool science magazines, you don't get in with journalism. You need the STEM side and then you need to be good at writing, which I am.
If all else fails, HVAC is immortal.

>>9342177
>>9343036
>DMS, MeI, LAH, fucking PBr3?
Must be nice being able to get your grubby little fingers on this shit and not having to go with a "greener" route. Although if it were something I was going to ingest I'd rather steer clear of alkylating reagents anyway.

I also call bullshit on being able to make LSD unless you somehow have access to purified ergot alkaloids.

>>9343123
Not him but culturing ergot is not very hard

>>9342242
What do you make research on?
This is my last semester as a Physics undergrad and I'm planning on taking a Masters degree either on Optical Physics or Optoelectronics.

>>9343071
What exactly do you dislike about it? I'm an ECE thinking about minoring in Mech E.

>>9340779
>bioinformatics
why does BLAST take so fucking long to do one simple task

>>9340315
>area of study
bacteriology (emphasis on metalloenzyme biochemistry)

>what's fascinating about it and why i study it
honestly i love biochemistry and microbiology and this shit is pretty much my jam. mostly looking at how bacteria use selenium as an energy source and it's weird as shit because it's essentially the same as sulfur but bigger. trying to figure out why they evolved to even bother using selenium, and it's pretty cool

only problem is getting funding for a purely biochemistry paper

>>9341446

Med student here.

Med students are increasingly coming from more advanced science backgrounds. Many of my classmates have masters or even PhDs or were engineers in a previous career. I did an advanced pharmacology degree + research beforehand.

Organic chem 1 and 2 are required to even apply to med school (i personally took 5 orgo classes because i was interested) Biochem is pretty much required for most.

The way med school is taught is they throw a ton of basic science shit at you in the first 2 years. At least at our school, it's not just superficial, it goes pretty deep into the mechanisms and current research being taught by PhDs.

Obviously, a doctor isn't going to know basic science as indepth as any PhD doing arcane research in their field would, but they certainly have the chops to understand it. I know doctors with basic research labs too (not just clinical) so there are certainly a fair share of them that I would consider scientists.

tl;dr i would consider doctors scientists if they do research.

>>9343123
This is the best I could do. I know that you can make it from 3-indolepropionic acid but I'm not sure how to form the third ring. My guess is clorinating the carboxylic acid group using SOCl2 and then having it undergo an electrophilic aromatic substitution using AlCl3

>>9340785
dope, one of the microbiologists on my committee studies bacterial fermentation in beer

>your area of study
B.Eng Electrical & Electronic
>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
I majored in industrial automation. I like the work I do because it takes jobs away from people who are less fortunate, which makes me happy.

>>9341376
>doctors have to do research

unless you're MD PhD, then you're doing meme research like epidemiological smoking studies and shit as a doctor

>>9341418
>taught in first year of medical schools

this is good bait

>>9343267

I have worked with doctors with only MDs that do basic science. And they do it well.

I agree that clinical research is generally a meme. Basic science is much more impressive to me, as far as work required and ability to publish in high impact journals.

>>9342177
good ol fashioned hand-drawn synthesis, i dig it

>>9343277
Thanks, they have us use ChemDraw for lab reports and that shit is aids.
>>9343254
Btw, keeping to the subject of the thread. I might have dropped out without this drug, or may even be dead by now. It is THE drug that made me choose biochem; so please tell me if I am wrong. I want to do it justice.

>>9342976
How many decades are we away from DNA computing in your opinion?

>>9343318
Not the person you're asking but we still don't know what half our genes do

>>9343254
>>9343293
That may pass on a undergrad ochem exam but I doubt it would be that easy to get selective bromination at those positions with something like PBr3. There are plenty of gentler modern methods and reagents that are better suited to synthesizing delicate compounds like ergot alkaloid derivatives.

I came across this paper a while ago in the course of unrelated research but its applications to your type of research should be pretty obvious given that plain old lysergic acid amide can be found in several types of plant seeds. I think it's really interesting that apparently nobody realized until 2011 that this type of transformation was possible with fairly benign conditions.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201107348/abstract

>>9343318
there's a mad scientist of a biochem professor in the chem department working on DNA logic circuits and DNA thermometers or some shit

so idk

>>9343369
Thanks bookmarked it.

Dual major in CompSci and Math.

I truly enjoy Mathematics, and I like Computer Science as its my favorite application of math (as opposed to engineering)

>>9343213
The code is very complex, ncbi is for cucks.

>>9340937
They don't teach you that shit you liar.

t. MSc in biochemistry

Engineering Mathematics
It's basically just a dumb cs/engineering/maths hybrid but I enjoy it

>>9343445
I'm sorry that you cannot piece together knowledge.

>>9343032
Yes, I have a master's degree and am studying to get my Ph.D. Actually I did not apply for my PhD yet and I'm studying alone, I didn't have enough money to spend four more years at uni so I decided to teach for while and make some bank. Things are moving nicely though, I think will apply in 2019 with most of my work already done.

>>9343080
Good luck. I will keep jerking up and lifting weights being paid by the government to teach engineers that pi = 3.14 while you obey Goldenberg rules and stick money up your ass. I am okay with that. I am enjoy jerking up quite a lot.

Machine Learning.
Because it extracts knowledge and functionality from raw data and it is a bit similar to our cognitive processes.

>>9343032
Yes, I have a master's degree and am studying to get my Ph.D. Actually I did not apply for my PhD yet and I'm studying alone, I didn't have enough money to spend four more years at uni so I decided to teach for a while and make some bank. Things are moving nicely though, I think I will apply in 2019 with most of my work already done.

>>9343080
Good luck. I will keep jerking up and lifting weights being paid by the government to teach engineers that pi = 3.14 while you obey Goldenberg rules and stick money up your ass. I am okay with that. I enjoy jerking up quite a lot.

English with a minor in arabic

>>9343537
Minors in languages are the biggest joke on planet Earth. Even most foreign language majors in America can't even speak the fucking language after they earn their degree.

Geology

I like using all different aspects of science and maths and for it to be applicable to a world where such skills are in demand. eg construction, mining, resource extraction, engineering, water and others.

>BS environmental studies & BA Anthropology

There needs to be a dialogue between our cultural, ecological and economic disciplines; without it, we ded.

>>9343171
>fluid dynamics will make you want to kill yourself
>Thermo wasn't too hard for me but I can see how it would get really nasty really quick, and it seaps out of the brain way too fast
>The math heavy (I mean, more than usual) stuff like Control Systems Engineering is EXTREMELY hard to get into and get excited about
>It's true that you get a little bit of everything, which is how I discovered my appreciation for circuits and programming, but you'll feel like you never have enough of what you like to do when splitting time with the bothersome things
and finally
>depending on which college you're at, be prepared to feel like you're being pushed toward another more specific field of engineering.
Here at UC Davis, I just wanted to learn more about manufacturing, but we don't even do industrial/ manufacturing eng majors. Our "intro to mechanical engineering course" consists of 50% aerospace propaganda, 10% manufacturing and materials, 10% HVAC, and 30% transportation.
The fact that a ME/AE double here is only 2 extra classes for ME says it all.

As an ECE you already have your niche, and you're essentially trying to double into the most general engineering there is. You might be thinking that you've found yourself a brilliant way to be a master roboticist with an ME/ECE double but in reality they only hire 1 ME for each robotics project and the rest are diving into the sea of code.

>>9340937
Could you send me some instructions on drugs that can be made that are administered via pill?
Throwaway:
googleemployee@myself.com

>>9340315
Computer Science
>On the career side, you can create valuable products in your underwear at home on your computer if you know how
>There are no material requirements such as for instance circuit boards for EE and cement and wood for Civil Engineering
>Has the most interesting philosophical questions regarding AI sentience, decidability, P vs. NP, etc.
>One of the best return on investment of any degrees

molecular plant science

i'll feed every single shitskins and piss off /pol/.

>>9340509
That's cute. Haven't talked to a lot of quants have you?

>>9340509
Haha retard finance/econ/biz major BTFOd

Nobody wants you idiots, only math/stats/ML PhDs matter in finance.

Molecular biology. It's one fuckin' hell of a drug, and to me represents the best of all worlds in studying. Going through my early college years, I was a real chemistry buff, but after taking a systematic approach to biology course that covered how we model biological systems from a molecular, to cellular, to organism, to population, to species & ecosystem made me rock hard for all of the applications to the study of biology, as well as understanding how things relate on different levels.

I have 4 more quarters to go of my molecular bio bachelor, and then I think I'm going to grad for Genomics, because bioinformatics makes me diamonds. I just need to work on my R skills a bit, desu.

>>9340937
Can you sell me cheap amphetamine over the deep web

AI/Machine Learning

Because I'm autistic and have had an obsession with robots/video game AI since a young age. Unfortunately now my field is being overrun by chads, asians and pajeets because there is big money involved.

>>9340547
As a personality psychology researcher, economists still have a lot to learn about how people work and interact. Even """behavioral economics""' is a leaky abstraction, because it still hasn't progressed nearly enough to really be able to abstract away all the psychological dynamics involved in a real society. Until economics starts talking about actors in terms of Orderliness/Industriousness/Intellect/Creativity/etc, it's gonna have a hard time coming up with sound models.

So if you're really into studying humans and society, start here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_Aspect_Scales
https://selfhacked.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/10-Aspects-of-the-Big-Five.pdf

Needless to say, I got into this field for much the same reasons as you. But also because I did my undergrad in CS and was disappointed in the lack of progress in strong general intelligence research.

>>9340315
computer engineering

I think it's incredible that every keystroke, every line of code, every pixel on your screen "exists" as a collective state of billions of transistor

Software Engineering

I unironically want to become a l337 hax0r and penetrate secure servers. My focus is in embedded systems and web & mobile if I can manage the workload.

>>9340937
My inspiration

>>9340937
a real human bean

>>9340494
Not with that attitude

>no one else ITT studying statistics

embarrassing

>>9343645
Well said

Neurochemistry with Molecular Neurobiology

Gonna kill psychology once and for all.

>>9341462
Base salary is around $144k in the bay area

>>9343058
EE is too broad to give any real advice beyond the generic "study and go to class" sort of answers. For my specific position, there are only two specific things I would change if I could do it over:
- Take as many semiconductor physics and VLSI design courses as possible
- Don't blow statistics off as if it was one of those "I'm only taking this because I have to" classes. I spend a LOT of time doing yield analysis where a strong grasp of stats is necessary. When I was in undergrad I had no idea I would actually be applying that knowledge on a daily basis.
This is as a product engineer in the memory industry, though. If you're pursuing a different field as an EE then my suggestions probably don't apply.
All you really to do is take the FE as soon as you can and pursue an internship and you'll be fine. You chose one of the few degrees that allow you to set foot in almost any industry of your choosing. Every company needs EEs for something.

>Study
Biochemistry
>Why
I saw Jurassic park as a kid and wanted to do that. Now I'm looking at how antibiotic resistance develops.

>>9343824
>watched Jurassic Park as a kid
>was more interested in the lab than the dinosaurs
now that's autism

>>9340315
>>your area of study
Physics
>>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
Could care less about my classes now, but starting research in Theory Astrophysics is probably the best thing I have decided to do.

>>9343659
:(

>>9343682
>>9341468
>>9343824
So many biochemistry students on /sci/. Tell me what is so different about it and what sets it apart from just pure biology or pure chemistry major? And what is the coolest shit you've learned pursuing this field, either from labs or theory?

Pure math is like a lovely anime waifu who will always be perfect even if she's never real.

>>9343887
Most interesting things I've learned so far have been molecular biology related desu.
>Genes throughout the entire genome can be silenced using RNAi
>We have parasytic genes that move throughout our genome and self replicate, causing mutations occasionally
>We can modify the genome using a protein from ecoli
>We can create mice that literally have their thoughts controlled by inserting channelrhodopsin into their neurons

>>9343887
At my university, Biochemistry is quite like a Biology degree but just has a few specialty courses that go into topics like Transcription and Translation from the perspective of amino acids and their interactions, or how lots of bodily reactions work with esters and amines.

Pure chemistry would probably include a lot more math and actual chemistry, meanwhile I'm just kinda some asshole who learned enough to get by in order to explain biological phenomena. Right now I'm in senior year, taking a pharmacology class as an elective (among other classes); it's cool because I feel like I can begin to appreciate how medicine actually works, and we've gone over how specific chemical groups lend to functions, or limitations of delivery.

Coolest shit ... hard to say because I feel like I broadly appreciate the whole thing. Alternative Splicing is a cool area of genetics. I also really enjoyed Organic Chemistry lab because I actually got to apply some of what we learned to making drugs and whatnot. Biochem 2 was an awesome course, if a bit challenging; we got to see how cancer can override cell metabolic pathways, or how mutations can occur from errors in DNA synthesis.

There's lots of other stuff I could talk about, but I think the strength of the program is just that it left me feeling like I can basically do any bio field I want. Except maybe bioinformatics because I don't know shit about programming. I'll have to correct that.

Coolest shit about biochemistry?
computers are just now starting to get used for crazy shit like protein structure in 3d.


the future will be when someone figures out how to predict protein folding. will be nobel prize 5 sure

>>9343887

i used to be autistic about chemistry like >>9343682 but then i started getting involved in research in molecular biology and biochemistry and realized that this shit interested me more than optics and polymer chemistry

>coolest shit

hmmmmmmm, bacterial stress response is really cool desu. if you piss off the little bastards by fucking with their environment (pH changes, temperature shock, etc), they'll literally start transcribing genes to cope with the amount of stress. two-component regulatory systems are a good example of this

first year grad student, AMA, no bully

>>9340764
What degree did you need to get into fab?

>>9343071
>at least 3 of the ME's I talked to expressed disappointment at not choosing a more computer based discipline.

the fuck

I'm finishing up a master's in CS and constantly wish I had done ME

>>9344031
There's a sea of code to be written and you never need to worry about finding work, anon.
Fluid Dynamics kills people. I don't know what the hard part of your major is, but it can't be anywhere near as bad as learning about nozzles in Thermofluids, which is just harder thermo and fluids combined.

>>9343887
I'm actually really interested in the molecular evolution aspect of stress testing. Like, sequencing a population's genome, applying some selection pressure, and then measuring not only allele changes for existing alleles, but which mutations take hold.

With advancements in computing technology, and how goddamn cheap it is to sequence whole genomes, it might be possible to even take issues of genetic conflict, and then measure how certain alleles change molecularly in response to one another- such as an immune system's genes and an infection, or even something more macroscopic like taking a bioinformatics approach to comparing genes for, say, the sharpness/length of claws or teeth vs the genes that control for the prey species' defense mechanisms. Of course it's easier to do with non-adaptive pressures like fucking with pH changes and temperature, which leads to a better understanding of what's going on molecularly with evolution, but the idea of a comprehensive system for understanding evolutionary mechanisms is a beautiful thing to think about.

Especially like you >>9344013
say with regulatory systems with multiple components, trying to gauge the likelihood of which adaptation pathway will occur in response to stress.

>>9343940
>strength of the program...
I feel the same way. The molecular bio at my school prepares you for almost any field of biology, if you want to do that. People meme nojobs with biology, but that only seems applicable if all you study is evolutionary/conservational biology. If you go into any good bio program, you have the world open to you, from lab to hospital to data to field work, especially if you learn some skill like programming or statistics (which you don't even need the degree for, just certification).

>>9343236
I study chemistry, about to choose a masters in physical chemistry, but I started with molecular biology, is there any overlap between pchem and molbio (micro/bacteriology), I miss the biology bits

should I just continue down the pchem path and find microbiology related projects?

>>9340315
CS, planning on Econ DM
Want to unleash the power of general AI on the world and be elected hegemon of Earth because only I will know how to control it

>>9344061
not really sure because pchem and molecular biology seem to be a little isolated from each other. i never got that far in chemistry to really know anything about pchem, and it really depends on the lab you choose

>>9340616
Yea keep fucking fish buddy

>>9340764
sounds like a response post to one of your peers on BB.

>>9340354

All these nerldets sperging on med-chad.

Don't listen to them anon - they just lack the ability to socialize with people and can never make it in the field.

>>9343597
I started as a geology major, but I ended up switching to applied math as a junior because I enjoyed the quantitative side of geology more than anything.
You make a good point, though. Geology is basically applied math/physics/chemistry/biology.

Electrical engineering.
It's like CS/CE but more interesting, with higher demand and higher wages.

>>9344042
TELL ME MORE ABOUT THIS SHIT. What textbooks. What programs? Which professors? Major papers published?

Electrical Engineering
Wanted to major in math or literature+philosophy but wasn't viable in terms of job opportunities, I just swallow and say at least I'm contributing to society in terms of technological and industrial progression this way, but what I enjoy of it is the physics and math I do actually get to do this way.
But in hindsight if I wanted to keep my love of math as a career I could've gotten into physics or computer science, or for philosophy/literature politics or psychology instead. But I think I prefer this instead unless I'm trying to persuade myself otherwise.

why are TAs such little bitches

>your area of study
Computer science with cognitive science specialization.

>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
I really enjoy the human mind, how mysterious it is, and trying to understand how we are as intelligent as we are.

I mostly did the computer science part because I felt like I might have a higher chance of getting a job. I honestly find programming immensely tedious and entirely uninteresting.

>>9340764
What is the state of the Resistive random-access memory in the industry (ReRAM)? Is it promising?

>>9345176
say it to my face bitch

>>9345982
why are TAs such little bitches

>tfw you're an EE switching into ME
>tfw you like virtually everything from digital systems to matsci
I think I'm gonna go to grad school for mechatronics

>>9340764
Nice LARPing fag

I study English literature and education. It's fascinating because it lets one hone the craft of writing and interpretation of text. It can be hit or miss, because sometimes you have teachers that push marxist ideology and the idea that there is only one way to do, read, or see anything. However it can be great fun. I have always been good at writing and have no interest in math or science. I look forward to helping young Americans learn to communicate and read better, an area in which we are falling behind in. (However, this is less pressing than our falling behind in math and science.)

>Major:
CS and Math.
>Why:
CS satisfies the holy trinity for me: interesting/technically challenging, significant impact on humanity, excellent job prospects. I do Math simply because its fun, and I deeply enjoy solving puzzles. Not to mention it complements my CS major fairly nicely and provides me with a new found appreciation for the underlying theory of cs.

>>9343887
reading all the responses you got, makes me want to reconsider my switch from molbio to chem

fugg

>>9340315
>>your area of study
Software eng
>>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
I make more money as an intern than my mother with her fulltime job

>>9340315
>>your area of study
Invariant theory
>>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
It has a great history (pioneered by greats like Cayley, Noether, Hilbert), ties to mathematical physics, dynamics, representation theory, has both theoretical and computational aspects, and it is applicable (in computer vision for example)

>>9340325
>>9343071
>>9343084
I can relate. I had to switch due to circustamces to CompE and I think I like it better anyways.
>>9344031
Well
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/33

>>9346460
>technically challenging
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>significant impact on humanity
HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>excellent job prospects
HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>9346463
Don't. Mol bio is slightly higher level than chem and you'll basically learn the same thing.

>>9346716
im this guy >>9344061

im just trying to find a way to mix both and do a masters/phd that combines them

Statistics and actuarial "sciences". Because I like math but, sometimes, I also like to eat.

>>9340387
I always wanted to be a filmmaker too.

Damn this hits hard

>>9346603
jealous pajeet?

Mechatronics engineering. It's fascinating because I like to be autistic about designing systems. Also before I started I wanted to learn how to code, learn about electrical engineering aswel as mechanical engineering.

>>9340852
based

>>9340883
>chemists thinking they do a real science

>>9340315
>>your area of study
ChemEng
>>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
Idk. thinking bout switching to Mech or Electrical

>>9340315
>>your area of study
music education with minor in computer science/digital arts

>>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
because i love arts and music is the coolest of them. i also enjoy science. and computer science is the most affordable to DIY. also, who isn't fascinated by education/learning?

>area of study
Synthetic Biology

>fascinating aspects
Studying how we can engineer living beings is pretty cool, since I wanna reprogram myself to delay death as much as possible.
Neet stuff being done with stem cells rn but a lot of shit still has to be done to make it an effective and mainstream therapy. Systems Biology is also cool desu.

>>9340315
>your area of study
Neuroscience (i'm a sophomore in undergrad, though)

>explain what's fascinating about it
I'm interested in the physiological reasons behind why people think the way they do, and I find the fact that there's so much that hasn't been discovered about the brain pretty cool.

>why I study it
i'm interested in it and biology in general, have a family history of mental illness (my dad killed himself because he had bipolar disorder and refused to seek treatment for it), and I don't want to put myself into hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt just so I can be miserable and make a bunch of money that I won't do anything worthwhile with

> Physics
> Theoretical
> Causing me depression

I have no idea.

Physics

Materials physics is pretty interesting and I love R&D

Physics.
I enjoy math and physics has answers I want to know about how things work.
I'm constantly afraid I'm not smart enough for it though and constantly panic over it. Plus mental illness makes it hard to study consistently and not get too uncomfortable to focus in lectures. I probably shouldn't bother, I'll likely never preform relevant research and make an impact on the field.

>>9349180
:( As you've said, physics is about the physics. Try not to get hung up on whether you'll make a huge impact or not, most people don't. Regardless, you'll still contribute to societal knowledge and that's all that matters.

>>9340339
Ah, a fellow quant. When do you think the bitcoin bubble will crash?

>>9343710
Sick meme

>>9347050
grow up brainlet

I have a month left to apply and still not sure what to study

Which means ill probably be better with something broad to begin with. Anyone here doing geoggrapy, biology, botany, earth sciences?

>>9340315
>>your area of study
Philosophy.
>>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
I love it in the same way a pure math major loves doing pure math even though it only results in absolute autism.

>>9342919
>philosophy of science
Based anon. That's my plan as well. Already applied for Fall of 2018.

>>9343445
You must be retarded or old.
One of the labs at my directional state degree mill has a fucking poster depicting how to make meth via the Nazi method and some other method, along with how to make crack and differentiate between different types of heroin.

>area of study
Biology undergrad, mostly on the molecular level, focusing on stem cells, aging, gene regulation and bioinformatics for now.

>fascinating aspects
Therapeutically stem cells have immense potential and are a booming field because of it, both in research and clinical trials. And aging is one of the more fascinating biological problems with multiple underlying causes. I also want to get a taste of dry lab with bioinformatics because it's needed pretty much everywhere and labs want people with experience in both dry lab and an understanding of the underlying theory.

Biggest problem is that wet lab is a lot more repetitive than any of us was led to believe, the joy of doing something groundbreaking fades out after the 12th time you have repeated it. Which is why I think it's better to work from the computer for research.

My only regret regarding the degree is not taking any neuroscience-only courses, I guess I'll have to download the uni material and self-study.

>>9340325
If you do math, you're nothing more than a proof engineer.
dont worry to much about it/

Geology Engineering.

More math stuff than Geology. More money than Geology. Can major in Geophysics.
>why do you study it
I'm studying planet's composition. Magma kills everything and makes earthquakes and eruptions happen. Also the earth's core has significant ammount of uranium probably. It's amazing if you like to predict and study an incomplete model of earth's rock formation.

>>9340315
>entomology
I find it facinating to learn about a world that most people don't really see or pay attention to. Field collection and classification through morphology are also really fun to do.

Molecular Biology

Recently finished my masters and now working at a biotech firm, modifying fungi to produce a fuckton of desired protein. I spend most of my time in the lab and I am really really enjoying it desu.

I personally like how with every result you get even more questions thrown back at you, living organisms are just so insanely complex. Trying to modify them to do what you want them to do tends to make them do all kinds of weird shit. It makes it even sweeter when they finally actually do what you expect/want them to do.

>>9349460

Study both...or fall like the rest.

> I was chosen, you dont apply.

>>9340616
The Lord of the Deep is my Master.


>>9340702

There are only four types of animal, one plant and viruses. Seven i count, but Im physicist...what do I know.

>>9340325
This. Only for EE.

English.

Want to go to law school after my undergrad, and English is a good pre law degree. It's also easy so it will help me fix my GPA which suffered when I inexplicably thought I could be an engineer and did poorly in math classes.

>area of study
ME
>what i like about it
I like the project management and operations aspects of the field, I don't actually care too much about R&D or design, but based on my internship experience I really like the management and big picture stuff

>>9340315
Chemistry
My IQ was 1 point too low to get into materials science

Natural language processing/speech recognition

Because I want to work in meme processing.

>>9340315
statsfag

statsfag

>>9340509
Because they are essentially the same thing

Physics
How mathematics can be applied in real world

>>9340354
https://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-researcher-discovers-integration-gets-75-citations/
Med school brainlets explain

>>9349180
Like looking in a mirror

>>9341335
Not getting shitty leaky and distorted pipelines is the first thing up my mind. And I dislike welding.

>>9350455
>cocktors BTFO

>>9340426

thanks bob

>chemistry
>we literally get to reorganize matter at the level of atoms, then we get to probe it with light and interpret the results using quantum theory

>>9349411

any day now

>Field
Physics / Quantum Info
>Why
Quantum seemed weird, wanted to understand it more. Now I spend my life on it.

>>9349908
How do you like working there btw? Could you describe more of what you do? It sounds like you're fucking around with natural products, but I don't know if you're working in drug discovery at all.

I'm doing my master's in biotech right now, mostly doing protein work with bacteria atm. Trying to figure out if I wanna go for the PhD or just deuce out after the master's and find a firm to work at

>>9349930
>Study both...or fall like the rest.
What?

>>9349908
Biotech firms take molecular bio bscs, huh? I always worry about whether I might've shot myself by not doing BioE or ChemE, and instead I went with molecular bio because I found it more enjoyable.

>>9342238
How do we remove the humanities scum from universities?

>>9351353
Nothing drug related, mostly enzymes that used in stuff like detergents or used in industry. A big thing now is enzymes that can be used to degrade plant mass to allow easier fermentation for biogas/bioethanol production from that plant mass.

>>9351532
Well, my MSc is biotechnology but since I have always focused on the molecular side I consider myself a molecular biologist. I never bothered with any of that process technology stuff. Anyway, I think its always good to work for a while before doing a PhD. I have worked for 6 months now and I am already infinitely better at everything both in and out the lab than I was before. I have a lot of practical experience from my time at uni too but its just not the same. Working in a company where everything is streamlined and optimised is a great experience, its much less chaotic than on universities and it really shows you how things should be done. I think that some of that practical experience will really benefit you when doing a PhD. The retarded things I have seen PhD candidates do at my time at uni is just absolutely tragic, when I look back with my current experience in mind.

Materials Science

because i couldn't decide between chemistry and physics + better job opportunities

>>9352009
Do you think they look for someone whose PhD will be in molecular biology? My masters was in entomology, but mostly focused on bioinformatics and molecular evolution

So mostly focus on functional genomics and transcriptomics, and am decent at bioinformatics and coding and shit since I spent my whole masters doing it. I want to work in biotech or bioinformatics, I don't wanna be stuck in academia forever it sucks. My only lacking area is that I'm not so familiar with wet lab procedures like DNA/RNA extractions and purifications and shit, although I do have some experience

Give tips how to work at biotech firm pls

>>9345217
Every company has some form of RRAM or PCM in the works. NAND is going to be the dominant force in the market for the foreseeable future but as materials science improves a variant of one of these is going to edge its way into the market. RRAM isn't going away, if that's what you're asking.

>>9340315
>> Explain area of study
Biology, specializing in Biodiversity
>> Why
You get to explore, appreciate , and conserve all that eco shit around you. Living in a biological hotspot zone, is fun.
I am also trying to cram weird mathematical biology concepts to make this field weirder, that's why I love it.

>>9342238
so much so that you needed a picture to validate your choice

>>9340354
>I get to control who lives and who dies, can make a ton of money and bitches get wet when they see a doctor
yup doctors and especially surgeons score significantly higher on psychopathy evaluations than do the average population. Most of them are vain, narcissistic, do not respond to stress like a normal human and have an incredible sense of entitlement a lot like a university department chair or a major senator or governor or police captain would
>It's literally a field for STEM chads
You mean maths and physics? yeah those are for brainChads. Anything not related to them is just for people LARP'ing as scientists who are "too good" to be economists, lawyers or doctors which are really the only respectable professions left on this god forsaken planet

>>9352370
well I just lucked out, did my final internship there and a spot became available right when I was about to finish it. I really did not feel like doing a PhD so this was perfect for me.

The issue for you is that most (if not all) people would go for a PhD after finishing their masters in life fields like biotech/bioinformatics. Its very abnormal to go straight to work. I doubt there are jobs to be found in bioinformatics looking for someone with a masters degree but no PhD. I know for wet lab work theres a ton of analyst positions where they will be glad to have you with a masters degree, but I dont think thats the case with bioinformatics.

Probably just gotta do that PhD and go to a company afterwards, its the way most people do it. Only few people get 'stuck' in academia, there are way too many PhDs to fit in universities, most of them are in companies.

>>9340315
>>your area of study

Psychohistory

>>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it

it's real.

>>9343720
I just realized that a few weeks ago. Shit is so fucking cool.

>>9342211
That shit isn't very hard to learn but where are you gonna get the equipment and reagents?

>>9340937
Why isn't there more LSD floating around out there? It seems fairly easy to make and would sell for so god damn much but it's fucking nowhere to be found. That one guy who was busted in 2000 was making 95% of the world's supply of that shit and it still hasn't re-emerged 17 years later

>>9343071
>>9340325
>MFW I'm a self loating ME with bad GPA feeling disappointed I didn't choose a more computer based discipline.

ME seemed versatile and product development seems like a fun job but every day at university I feel jealous of my buds in cybernetics and computer science. I try to take as many courses from those as I can

>>9340547
Mahnigga.jpg

> bachelor of science
because I want to discover shit
> masters in biology
life is complex and cool to understand
> bachelor of computer science
because you can't get a job with the first two and AI is cool

currently working as a data analyst the amount of data out there on us is absolutely fucked working my way towards being a data scientist trying to leverage it

CS. I feel that in a world increasingly dominated by technology it is integral to your autonomy to have a deep understanding of how it works.

>>9340315
>your area of study
Math
>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
Studying algebraic structures makes me fucking tingle.

>because you can't get a job with the first two
ugh this is heartbreaking. I wanna do biology but since i'm from a low income family. muh parents are depending on me to start making dough after i get my bachelors so I might have to switch to CS

>>9353934
sry forgot to quote you.>>9353989

>GIS
>Maps are breddy good
>I majored in Earth science and statistics so it seemed like an obvious fit but mostly I just like making maps

>>9353989
CS is really cool man, in fact i like it better, do as much as you can

>>9353989
Just specialise in bioinformatics after you make a decent capital, working in the tech industry.

>>9353319
Most LSD sold nowadays is in the form of 1P-LSD, which is a prodrug to LSD and indistinguishable besides the offset as your body converts it to LSD. Different chemical structure makes it legal in most countries despite doing the exact same thing as LSD; dealers can buy it in large quantities for a few dollars a tab on the clear net with no risk attached.
>https://www.chem.eu/1p-lsd
It even triggers the marquis reagent; just takes a couple of hours to do so instead of reacting immediately.

>>9353076
A chemstore?
https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/canada-english.html

>>9343619
>the rest are diving into the sea of code
See here's the thing. If I wanted to dive into a sea of code I would have majored in CS. I don't mind designing on a computer if that's what you mean, but I really don't want to debug and write algorithms for the rest of my life.

>>9340616
Mein sea nigger

any speciality?

>>9340702
They should change it to R-cology

>>9343380
Better do more PCRs

>>9353989
you don't need a CS degree to do anything programming related if you just want a job. Just keep studying what you want, and go through this if you want to build some CS skills just in case:
https://pastebin.com/kNzNeqet

>>9340315
Linguistics
Language is a fascinating enigma. It's (one of?) the only things that separates humankind for all other species on earth. Language's ties to cognition and psychology are infinitely interesting. Discovering the universals (or trends) across genetically unrelated languages reveal amazing things about the human mind. Little things like being able to say "abso-fucking-lutely" in two completely unrelated language such as English and its equivalent in Cantonese yet not in 95% of other languages is pretty cool.

Anthropology
A lot of the above reasons. Finding human universals -- religion, art, dancing, swear words -- why do we all have them and how are they evolutionary?

Computer Science
Understanding on a deep level a technology that has skyrocketed the exchange of information, do mass calculations, etc. is very empowering and interesting. Let alone having it open you up to a lucrative field which the above two do not.

Yes I have three bachelor's degrees, get on my level plebs

>area of study
Graduated with a b.s. in aeronautical & astronautical engineering last year

>why
Have always really liked airplanes, and really loved the aircraft design and flight mechanics classes (stability characteristics and shit), theoretical fluids was pretty ass. Now working as an aerodynamics engineer and I get to go on flight tests sometimes :^)

chemtrails dont exist

>area of study
Sustainable Technology
>why
It is a growing field and i want to help move the world for a more sustainable future with the help of clean energy and new technology

>area of study
Graduated with a b.s. in aeronautical & astronautical engineering not too long ago

>why
Have always really liked airplanes, and loved all the practical classes like aircraft design and flight mechanics (stability characteristics and shit). Now I work full time and go on flight tests sometimes, being a wagecuck is pretty fun


can confirm that chemtrails dont actually exist :^)

>>9355652

>>9355538
>humanities/cs shitter
>calling anyone a pleb

>>9340315
tropical medicine graduate student
Trying to get into medical school
Have a 7 page paper due on HIV immunology and vaccination due Tuesday. Its interesting but I fucking hate writing. Presentations are fine, but writing is such a pain in the ass.

>>9340315
Physics

I'm love math and things that go fast.

>>9353989
Look to see if you college has a bio-statistics certificate program and start doing that
There are so many people who need help designing projects and working on how to extract relevant data.

>>9342177
There are easier ways to reduce nitro groups so you can avoid the heavy metal poisoning.

>>9355894
how would you do it?

>>9355851
And yet I'm more intelligent than you with whatever STEM meme you bought into

>>9340315
>>your area of study

Programming.

>>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it

Seeing code is cool.
I study to make cool codes too.

>>9340315
Stats
How to deal with the fact that I don't and can't know everything is an interesting problem

>Medicine

It kinda sucks, but the money will be nice

>>9342177
synthesize dmt

>>9357280
I don't even know what the molecule looks like but I know that you can extract that shit from mimosa tenuiflora

>>9340325
Same here. I'm planning on going into computational mechanics. Any anons have any experiences with regards to modeling and simulations or high performance scientific computing ?

>>9342177
You're fucking amazing.

>>9340315
>your area of study
Mechanical Engineering
>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
I fucking despise it. I just want my monies and to feel good about myself.

>>9340315
>>your area of study
Mechanical Engineering with a focus in Thermofluids
>>explain what's fascinating about it and why you study it
Structural shit is boring as fuck but learning how to make engines, hvac and other thermal systems is neat as fuck. I want to make me some rockets

>>9358078
some

>>9340426
thanks based bob

>>9343597
Hey fellow geology major.

I like the major because I enjoy drawing cross-sections, hydrology, and resource extraction.

Hopefully our job prospects still stay good.

>>9340426

This guy gets it.
thanks based bob

t. Actual /sci/poster with both a job and a degree

>>9352351
>Materials Science
Glad I'm not the only one.

>>9340426
thanks based bob

>>9352351

What degree did you take to get into Materials Science? Chemistry or Physics?

Or did your uni have a materials science major?

Curious because I've been looking more into materials science lately. (I'm a physics student)

>>9340315
>your area of study
BA International Relations and BS in Environmental Science; currently taking prerequisites for an applied math masters; also thinking about a law degree

>Whats fascinating about it
I understand what makes the world go round from the artificial human social constructs like the economy, and can delve deeper into the science of it as well.

Artist here. I dunno how you guys don't get bored of all that science stuff

>>9340426
thanks based bob

>>9342177
Lol absolutely based

magnetic resonance imaging

we use
>superconducing magnets 60,000x stronger than the earth's magnetic field
>RF Amplifiers outputting as much power as radio station transmitters
>Gradients that pull so much instantaneous energy they have been known to brown out hospital grids
>cutting edge reconstruction and signal analysis techniques
with the end result of making high resolution, high contrast, and even functional images of a human body (including in real time at 30-60 fps) with no ionizing radiation

it is the coolest field in human history

>>9343785
>delet dis

Just kidding, fuck yeah, please destroy all human nature paradigms that have centuries old origins

>>9358661
Not OP, but am working towards a Materials Science Degree.

I thinks it's becoming more common for materials Science to be a field of it own. However, most of my professor's usually have BS's in physics or chemistry and then did materials science in grad school.

Honestly, if you're not going into metallurgy or ceramics, a physics degree should be adequate with you only having to take a few intro courses in grad school.

Personally I'm interested in the optical and electronic side of things so I've been researching OLEDs and some of my friends are working on quantum dots. Cool stuff!