/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9955303
I’m not interested in field work but always liked animals

Props on you for following your dreams anon, all the best in your studies

>>9955303
Is the engineering stuff just a meme or do they really shit all over people who don't do it?

>>9956084
Engineering can attract a lot of arrogant people, I have a lot of engineers in my family though and they don't seem to be doing it out of passion and a lot of their work seems mundane not the sci fi shit about changing the world that schools push.

>>9956084
Not all engineers are bad dudes, but they've got a bit of arrogance since they go through a separate admissions process and over half the engineers in my state went to this school.

Mostly the people in it for the money and spergs are what gives them a bad rap.

>>9955303
I'd love to be doing life science, but nobody gets to do much field work anymore

>watched crocodile hunter
>instead of kratt's creatures and Zoboomafoo

>>9955303
It could be worse, you could be a social science fag.

>>9955303
I really like people who fight for their dream, I wish the best of luck to you

>>9956352
you can always just go do field research, the literature is readily available, go learn the science and practices methodology.
You can get pretty far with something like botany just by reading and going out in the field, throw in the soil survey and the ecology literature and even better/ you could do that while studying something like floristics, you can get goods like this. best to commune with big bio biologists to learn your stuff, you can send pretty much anyone an email. The hardest part is the horrible absence of life in the world nowadays.
Doing field work as a passion is really the only way to do things, people who cant keep themselves out of the field, or the lab or wherever are the people that contribute to science, especially with life sciences, the systematic study of the living world is what we humans have always done, we shouldn't be detached from life, we shouldn't let how we live be capitalized like this. People dont really have traditional systems of knowledge anymore or have many real connections to the world around us, so its essential to our health to go out and seek it.

>>9956542
yeah that's a nice load of bullshit but real academic scientists don't get to do fieldwork, they write grants and analyze samples in labs. at least that's been my impression.

>>9956548
plenty of people do fieldwork and nothings stopping you, you just have to try hard enough

>>9956365
>Zoboomafoo
You faggot I will smash your head in if I overhear you mention that cum sock again

Life scientist. Do limited field work because the stuff I want to do is descriptive and there's no money in it. Lot of the science stuff gets boring within the bog down of trying to run a particular project particular ways but there are worse things I suspect

>>9956121
Pretty much this. I took civic engineering because in the military I thought building bridges and canals in Iraq was fun. Although my job pays pretty well I didn’t end up doing what I’d think I’d be doing, and all throughout my college courses was a bunch of hotshot douchebag types who thought they knew everything and were better than everyone in the class.

>>9956694
but he's everyone's favorite lemur

(kratt's creatures WAS better tho)

>>9956724
Army?

>>9956736
Muhreens. After the invasion hearts and minds dictated we build them bridges and roads and they’ll like us more. Ironically, I was shot at while building said bridges

>>9956747
heh. i was a seabee. i'm in the private sector now but as soon as something cushy pops up on USAJobs i'm going to go crawling back to uncle sam.

>>9956755
Uncle Sam pays pretty well. Make sure you put an army sticker on the back of you car no mater how cringe you think it is, it increases the chance an officer will give you a warning instead of a ticket

>>9956724

yeah i dont get along with those hotshots
because im the motherfucker who will challenge their bullshit and prove they are totally full of shit

if i dont like you, there is a 99% chance that you are full of shit
coincidentally, people i do like, however, are not full of shit
very strange how this works