/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.11095582]

>tfw fall for the STEM meme
>required to take a full courseload of difficult classes, commit 20+ hours/week to research lab starting your freshman year (if you want to ever use your degree after graduation), and also take general education classes on top of your science courses.

>Humanities chads get to have sex and build muscle, while not needing to commit to anything difficult
>Humanities chads/stacies become your boss in the future because they put their stats into CHA instead of INT.

[Anonymous No.11095584]

>>11095582
>Not finding "difficult" courses enjoyable
Yup, you don't belong in STEM

[Anonymous No.11095587]

>>11095582
this webm, I just can't. what the fuck.

[Anonymous No.11095592]

>>11095582
>commit 20+ hours/week to research lab starting your freshman year
how does this work?

[Anonymous No.11095593]

>>11095584
Nigga, I'm a junior and salty that my entire Sunday is going to be spent writing a paper on slavic folklore and taking a quiz on slavic folklore. I don't get a single day off because I also have to go into the lab on weekends/evenings because science is a 24/7 thing. My life would be so much easier if I didn't need to commit so much time to humanities courses.

[Anonymous No.11095595]

>>11095592
You're supposed to email professors/grad students/post-docs to see if they'd be willing to take you on in their lab. Generally, the PI doesn't even step foot in the lab, so grad student/post-doc is your best bet.

[Anonymous No.11095597]

>>11095593
>Actually having to do any work outside of labs and lectures
Again, maybe you don't belong in STEM

[Anonymous No.11095603]

>>11095597
Explain.

[Anonymous No.11095613]

>>11095587
Quite depressing.

[Anonymous No.11095614]

>>11095603
Labs/lecture/tutorials should be all you need to do to get an A in any undergrad STEM course. If you need to do anything outside of that you should consider a liberal arts degeee

[Anonymous No.11095615]

>>11095595
is everyone expected to do this?
Why isn't it a part of the curriculum?
I've tried but all the professors are ignoring me

[Anonymous No.11095619]

>>11095593
You are probably from some country in Eastern Europe where students at universities have so called "general education classes" apart from the subjects which are most relevant for their specialties. Yes, that's actually pretty shit. In most western countries students don't have many of those "general education classes" or don't have them at all.

[Anonymous No.11095624]

>>11095619
eastern europe isn't like that. america is

[Anonymous No.11095625]

>>11095582
Philosophy Chad here. Can confirm, had sex and much fun. Now going back to uni to study STEM because it's based and I want a job that isn't working in a fucking call center.

[Anonymous No.11095626]

>>11095582
Imagine the smell

[Anonymous No.11095627]

>>11095614
Maybe he is from some country in Eastern Europe (Russia or Ukraine, for example). University is generally harder there than in the western countries.

[Anonymous No.11095628]

>>11095582
The smell in that room must be heavenly

[Anonymous No.11095629]

>>11095624
why do you think so?

[Anonymous No.11095633]

>>11095629
any country with a 4 year bachelors is like that

[Anonymous No.11095639]

>>11095582
>that webm
Fucking white people...

[Anonymous No.11095660]

>>11095619
Everyone is required to take general education classes if you're in a STEM.
4 courses in lower division humanities
2 courses in upper division humanities
1 upper division arts course
1 year of English (usually done first year)
As well as learning a language.
Mathematics and physics are technically general education, but it's integral for being a scientist I guess.

Basically 50% of my degree is what I want to study. 50% other shit. Now that I'm in my upper divisions, the workload of the upper division humanities courses has increased.The worst part is the instructor thinks/expects you to actually give a fuck about their bullshit.

If I studied humanities/lib arts, I'd only need to take some shit-tier basic science course for a year and maybe rudimentary algebra.

[Anonymous No.11095676]

>>11095615
It's a bit lowkey implied if you go to a big research university. I did say try to get in touch with graduate/PhD students. They're more approachable and are the ones who will be showing you the ropes anyway until you're able to independently function in the lab without their assistance.

[Anonymous No.11095680]

>>11095587
Snakes mating have more elegance

[Anonymous No.11095696]

>>11095582
>Humanities chads get to have sex and build muscle, while not needing to commit to anything difficult
Pretty sure being a competent attorney and guiding multi billion dollar businesses as well as mediating in diplomatic conflicts in an attempt to preserve the stability of modern society is more difficult than being a secluded STEMrat who works on a worthless theorem maybe 3 people are ever gonna bother reading about. But go ahead, continue telling yourself for your field to be complex. I'll be over here, dealing with humanity's most pressing questions you wouldn't be able to wrap your head around in 500 years time.

[Anonymous No.11095705]

>>11095696
Exactly my point. I should've became a humanities chad.

[Anonymous No.11095767]

>You have to take a million humanities classes to “communicate” better
>grad student Zhang doesn’t have to take a single one even though his English sucks

>You have to be educated not to be racist and to accept diversity
>Zheng won’t talk to anyone who isn’t Chinese

>Zhang will be a million times more qualified because he took all the advanced classes he needs
>I’ll have to take online python courses

It makes me seethe with fury

[Anonymous No.11095803]

>>11095639
True that big brain anon! The degradation of white people has been TOTALLY organic

[Τροφώνιος !!IhpVDzr2WYA No.11095807]

>>11095582
>>Humanities chads get to have sex and build muscle, while not needing to commit to anything difficult

I can say that it is the exact opposite in the philosophy department.

[Anonymous No.11095815]

>>11095582
>twerking
LITERALLY THE MOST RETARDED THING EVER

they look like they're trying to shake loose a sticky turd that hanging on after going poop

God i am so disgusted with humanity and the stupid shit people do

[Anonymous No.11095842]

>>11095815
What's it like being an underage virgin?

[Anonymous No.11095847]

>>11095842
Tell me

[Anonymous No.11095851]

>>11095767
Its coz whitey bad, especially in the US.

Thankfully here in the UK we havent been forced to take these types of classses yet and its all subject focused. Our student unions are a fucking cesspit though.

[Anonymous No.11095853]

>>11095842
What's it like being a nigger?

[Anonymous No.11095868]

>>11095853
not a nigger, by my bf is~

[Anonymous No.11095942]

>>11095582
>80s black culture slut dance

[Anonymous No.11095994]

>>11095633
I'm in America and my degree requires about 4 humanities semesters total in 4 years.

[Anonymous No.11096440]

>>11095582
As someone studying the humanities who regrets it completely but it's too late to change, I can guarantee you there are no Chads in humanities. Most people are blue haired freak women who always whine about muh feminism

[Anonymous No.11096453]

>>11095582
This retarded wave of useless humanities graduates being in middle management will pass, anon. As long as you're doing practical STEM like Engineering you'll be fine

[Anonymous No.11096479]

>tfw shitton of AP credit
>tfw went to a CC that accepted it
>one year later transfered to a university that normally doesn't take give that much AP credit for humanities but accepted my CC transcript anyway

Feels good bros. Getting a 5 in AP English Lang and Lit was the best thing I did in HS. The university versions of those classes would have been a billion times more annoying and time consuming

[Anonymous No.11096768]

>>11095582
god I hate women so fucking much

[Anonymous No.11096775]

>>11096479
Anon you did exactly what I did, and currently in a PhD program with 0 debt. It's fucking amazing how well the plan worked if your end goal is graduate school. Everyone should do this, especially if CC credits are mandated to be accepted by state schools

[Anonymous No.11096782]

>>11095624
Nigga Americans go to school like two days a week and take 4 classes a semester. In eastern europe they have school 5hrs a day for 5 days a week and you have to take literally several years worth of humanities classes from a variety of subjects to get a STEM degree

t. anon who s studying math in the US and who's brother studied economics in Moscow

[Anonymous No.11096819]

>>11095625
I'mm planning to do something similar. Just wandering about the order: would it be better to get a stem degree first and a phil degree later? Or the opposite^

[Anonymous No.11096833]

>>11096768
this, women's rights are the downfall of civilizations.

[Anonymous No.11096854]

>>11095582
Do you work full time? 15 hours of class plus 25 hours of study is 40 hours a week. This is perfectly doable to have a social life and get good grades in stem.

Unless you have to work a full time job and go to school full time, then stay strong