/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.11436617]

Uni hate thread

This place, (I study engineering)
>half of my coursemates just want to fuck off to finance after graduating
>half are unbearable nerds that have been building robot dogs since the age of 5
>professors aren't given an opportunity to teach, they just prepare us written notes and the rest of the year we 'work independently'
>I've never had teaching in a group smaller than a classroom size (meanwhile in oxford and cambridge you get 1 on 1 weekly tutoring)
>I have never meaningfully spoken to the professors who have been teaching me for 4 years

>most of the students are private school kids for whom this is an extension of highschool
>they spend most of their time throwing fashion shows and discovering themselves as DJs
>theres a few brilliant people who made it here against all odds and they're all just waiting to graduate and gtfo of here

[Anonymous No.11436655]

Wow I thought all unis in the UK had tutoring. Although to correct you, supervisions here at Cambridge are 2-1, not 1-1.

[Anonymous No.11436665]

>>11436655
We, and I assume others, have 'academic support tutors' who we can see any time, but they aren't there to help us with the course and they certainly can't set us any assignments or anything. Its a false advertisement basically

[Anonymous No.11436709]

>>11436617
Do you know if the maths course is equally shit? I was planning on putting them as my insurance because I thought the town seemed nice

[Anonymous No.11436856]

>>11436709
The mathematicians I know seem pretty content with it- I think they get regular assignments etc and there is actual progressive learning through the year. I did a maths module in my 1st year and it was the only one I had weekly homework for. It wasnt my cup of tea but I did learn stuff.

The town itself is pretty good, everything is walkable and convenient, as long as you're not in the hill colleges in 1st year.

[Anonymous No.11436962]

>>11436617
t. oxbridge reject

[Anonymous No.11436973]

> live in Sweden
> go to best technical University in country at the most competitive CS program (major)
>people barely more intelligent than high school
>Half of Math profs are semi-stupid and teach in memorization type of way
>Almost no research opportunities
>No one even recognizes my uni abroad, making it more difficult to get into competitive PhD program or quantitative finance.

Epic

[Anonymous No.11436983]

>>11436973
>KTH
>shit math teachers and zero name recognition abroad
You´re full of shit, Sven.
>no research opportunities
KTH has more than enough funding for research. Your problem is mediocrity.

[Anonymous No.11436985]

UCLA
>try going to class
>get harassed by notorious black man whose been shaking people down for money for literally like 25 years straight daily
>dodge him and get to the cafeteria
>three homeless people taking up three whole tables with their trash bags, all smell like piss
>go to nearby donut shop off campus
>no tables inside, sit outside
>roving group of black dudes insults me and fucks with my donut as they walk away
>time for registration
>look at the awesome list of courses I can take for my major
>out of 20, 7 of them are offered once every two years, 5 are from different departments and get completely full and closed before my major gets to enroll
>get number of girl
>get ghosted
>get number of dude
>get ghosted
>haven't made any friends my entire time here, but have gotten like 20 numbers
>air quality is constantly China-tier between ten million commuters and mexicans clogging freeways daily and california periodically burning to the ground yearly

Please just be happy that you get to live in a first-world country, OP.

[Anonymous No.11436986]

>>11436962
i'm a tab but I was rejected from edinburgh and st andrews

[Anonymous No.11436993]

>>11436655
I'm not the person you're replying to but still have a couple of questions.
What's the median 70th percentile intelligence at Cambridge?
What do you study?

I don't live in UK but at my uni (which is the most competitive in the country for engineering), people turned out to be much less intelligent than I expected. Think like slightly dumber than Neil Degrasse Tyson on average. I am curious if it similar at top unis abroad.

[Anonymous No.11436999]

>>11436856
Alright, cheers. I'll probably stick with it then.

[Anonymous No.11437003]

>>11436993
Yes everyone is dumb here. But oxford people are 10x dumber.

[Anonymous No.11437009]

>>11436983
What do you study pleb?
What math courses have you taken?

Retard I meant research opportunities during my degree (bachelor's and master's) not PhD. Btw half of KTH researchers produce trash research and I am being concervative.

KTH is not well known outside of Sweden and prestige is definitely different depending on what program you study. The implication is that highly competitive programs prestige gets reduced by the majority of easy programs.

Can you give me an example of KTHs high reputation?

[Anonymous No.11437015]

>>11437003
Could you give me a reference? Take any public figure or researcher you'd like.

[Anonymous No.11437021]

>>11437015
70 percentile would be like

[Anonymous No.11437027]

>>11437021
like....?

[Anonymous No.11437041]

>>11436617
What's wrong with working independently?

[Anonymous No.11437045]

> Be pleb whos built robots
> Self taught
> Unfortunately need to work with a bunch of University 'intellectuals' who fancy themselves political activitsts
> Fucking hierarchy yo

Universities are a fucking useless shit storm.
Universities are fucked

[Anonymous No.11437193]

>>11437009

Their algorithm group is very good.

[Anonymous No.11437761]

>>11437193
P*r A*str*n, J**an H**tad and Dan**on Na Non**ai.

Are you referring to these three?

[Anonymous No.11438142]

>>11436985
Got interviewed here for grad school, thought about attending

[Anonymous No.11438154]

>>11438142
Yeah I mean if you like the research then go for it, that's what matters most after all, but if there are any other places you like more I'd avoid LA. Some people really like it though. Or so I've heard.

[Anonymous No.11438295]

Any AUS fags ?
I went to RMIT and Swinburne (literally the best universities in my post code) and they sucked cock - is it really MelbournU or die, or is Monash a good alternative too ?
I'm a CS fag btw

[Anonymous No.11438320]

>>11436617
Doesn't' Durham have a big drug problem (all IUK universities do) and suicide problem?

[Anonymous No.11438337]

>>11438320

Every (good) university has a big suicide problem.

Especially Bristol

[Anonymous No.11438338]

>>11438154
Either UCLA, Cornell, or NCSU. UCLA and NCSU have the program I'm into, so it's really b/w them. But yeah, I fucking hate Cali

[Anonymous No.11438350]

>>11438320
Most high class unis have a suicide issue. Drug issue isn't really that bad in most of them, though. I mean, there are obviously lots of people smoking pot and trying LSD, but there isn't a real hard drug problem going on. Most drug problems in unis are actually related to benzos, antidepressants and other meds that students with anxiety issues run to

[Anonymous No.11438369]

>>11436985
UNC (and i guess all public schools) is like this in terms of classes but thank god im not in commiefornia

[Anonymous No.11438480]

That's every uni, retard. It's all about the degree.

[Anonymous No.11438490]

>>11438295
bump

bros, cmon - it's 2pm
I know you cubts are at least lurking in your phones

[Anonymous No.11438494]

>>11438480
Not really, if you go to a meme school with many internationals then half those things won't apply (including intelligible students and sometimes even the teachers will be SEA/Indian with work visa )

[Anonymous No.11438565]

>>11437761

yes, especially Danupon

[Anonymous No.11438685]

>>11438295
Monash, x10 better than chink infested Rmit.

[Anonymous No.11438697]

>>11438295
My bro went to Monash for a meme business degree and he said it has its own fair share of internationals paypigs
Also, is aus like america where "legacy" is a thing ? Because I applied to Melb with a 90 WAM, and they didn't even bother responding...

[Anonymous No.11438701]

>>11438697
Meant for >>11438685

[Anonymous No.11438732]

>>11436655
>Wow I thought all unis in the UK had tutoring

Nope. Durham is literally "you're on your own" from what I've heard. Even at my shitty red brick we'd have weekly tutorials of about 6 people with an assigned lecturer, not a PhD student.

>>11436617
>half of my coursemates just want to fuck off to finance after graduating
>half are unbearable nerds that have been building robot dogs since the age of 5

To be fair that's a pretty healthy mix. It's usually 95% one way or the other on Engineering courses.

>>I have never meaningfully spoken to the professors who have been teaching me for 4 years

I've also had friends go here who said staff are total cunts. Apparently the city is beautiful though.

>>11438320
Bristol has the biggest suicide problem, another issue is that students mysteriously get sick there, like hospitalisation level sick, it's fucking creepy as shit. Also the town is gay as fuck and full of somalians.

[Anonymous No.11438783]

>out of 20, 7 of them are offered once every two years, 5 are from different departments and get completely full and closed before my major gets to enroll

And I think the professors in the UK get away with too much shit, it sounds like US ones get to do literally anything they want

[Anonymous No.11438795]

>>11436973
The worst thing are all the kårmonogon dancing around in their overalls when you're walking from the subway entrance desu

[Anonymous No.11438799]

>>11436985
i go to berkeley, feels very familiar lmao

[Anonymous No.11438822]

>>11436985
this seems to be too good of a larp to be true

[Anonymous No.11438853]

>>11436985
I wish I wasn't so autistic and would just go to officer hours to chat with my professor but I don't even know what to ask.

[Anonymous No.11438870]

>>11438822
>larp
If only you knew how bad things really are.
https://dailybruin.com/2019/03/07/bruin-tea-is-the-question-man-on-bruin-walk-who-solicits-money-from-students-legitimate/
>>11438799
Godspeed anon, from what I hear San Fran is basically like LA but somehow shittier. At least you got more prestige than LA, but you're paying for it with your quality of life.
>>11438853
Some professors are autistic and hard to talk to and some will just casually shoot the shit for 20 minutes before you get on topic. I'm assuming you're at UCLA, and if so, then there will probably be like 50 other students there too who will all have questions. Just write down some questions and fucking go. If you really want a topic then look up their research and ask them about it, a general law of social situations is that people love to talk about themselves.

[Anonymous No.11438914]

>>11438870
don't worry i'm hoping to come to LA for grad school so banking on another 5 years of this shit

[Anonymous No.11438917]

>>11438870
>only you knew how bad things really are.
>https://dailybruin.com/2019/03/07/bruin-tea-is-the-question-man-on-bruin-walk-who-solicits-money-from-students-legitimate/
Did you read what you posted?

>TL;DR: Oliver has received permission from the school to solicit on Bruin Walk and donates the money he receives to a nonprofit organization

He's not 'shaking people down', he's legitimately collecting money for charity, you autist.

[Anonymous No.11439136]

>>11436655
Is Imperial better than Cambridge for Computational Sciences?

[Anonymous No.11439144]

>>11438295
Honestly SCU is great. People talk shit about it calling it the 'ghetto' uni. But it's one of the best unis I have ever attended. One problem is they will give out scholarships to non-white idiots who can't speak English at all.
Lismore campus is one of the most comfy unis I have ever been to. Reminded me of a comfy old tafe.
Every single other uni I've heard of/been to. No one gives a rats ass about you.

[Anonymous No.11439204]

>>11438320
Idk about suicide, but 2 years ago, they searched newcoming freshers with sniffer dogs on the first day of university.

[Anonymous No.11439239]

>tfw no qt posh gf

[Anonymous No.11439269]

>>11438917
For charity or not a shakedown is a shakedown.

[Anonymous No.11439272]

Just have some fun OP

[Anonymous No.11439273]

>>11436617
I worked in the astro physics bit for a few weeks interfacing some computer stuff to an instrument they had made. I thought it was a really nice place to be.

[Anonymous No.11439277]

>>11437009
KAW TEE HAW. Full of swedtards all thinking they are important.

[Anonymous No.11439282]

>>11437003
Cambridge means they can do math/science. Oxford means they can write a nice story.

[Anonymous No.11439283]

>>11437015
teresa may. defo oxford.cant add up.

[Anonymous No.11439285]

>>11438320
naw, when I went there I could not find anyone to sell me any weed.

[Anonymous No.11439286]

>>11439273
That's because Durham put all their eggs into Physics and Chemistry. They don't give a single shit about engineering.

>>11436993
Cambridge is full of autists that do nothing but study and there's nothing else to do in Cambridge. Oxford is for toff twats and popular sluts.

[Anonymous No.11439296]

>>11439277
Fuck KTH
t. DTU-fag

[Anonymous No.11439303]

>>11439296
Ah you are Danish. My commiserations.

[Anonymous No.11439307]

>>11439303
>swedcuck
Dilate

[Anonymous No.11439309]

>>11439286
Yeah maybe. The astro physics dept at durham was full of practical people. Cambridge though, dunno. A girl from there with a degree in maths could not explain inverse la place transforms to me, but an EE from cambridge did ( in between taking turns at pool, he just knew his stuff).

[Anonymous No.11439314]

>>11439307
Why do your butchers have silly bowler hats?

[Anonymous No.11439316]

>tfw go to a cucked uni
Who else /tu berlin/ here?

[Anonymous No.11439403]

>>11439239
posh girls are pretty qt to be honest. Spoilt brats that need a daddy.

>>11439272
This is epic, but this ball costs like £120 to enter and you need a white tie outfit

[Anonymous No.11439405]

>>11439272
The absolute lengths of cope Oxbridge rejects will go to....

[Anonymous No.11439460]

>>11439282
Lmfao based

[Anonymous No.11439643]

>>11439269
Are you too much of a pussy to just say no if you don't wanna donate or what?

[Anonymous No.11439667]

>>11436617
Universities are long obsolete if you think of them as of places sharing some knowledge with you. But they're not, they teach you some skills. One of the most important of those skills is obedience.

[Anonymous No.11440186]

>>11436617
yeah durham is shit, what college you at? im doing chemistry and its been fuckin awful

[Anonymous No.11440220]

>>11436986
>imagine getting rejected not only edinburgh, but st andrews as well
i feel like you belong in durham buddy

[Anonymous No.11440230]

Oxford physics
exact same shite

[Anonymous No.11440237]

>>11436973
Tell me more about KTH

[Anonymous No.11440339]

>>11440220
That's it. This will be the last time I've posted something unflattering about myself to console an anon. I hope you're happy.

[Anonymous No.11440340]

>>11438732
I go to Bristol and I fucking hate it. Tell me more about the mysteriously sick thing that seems interesting.

[Anonymous No.11440347]

>>11436617
Lol, stop whining faggot. I go to a university ranked 40 for engineering.

[Anonymous No.11440353]

Reading threads with people at name-brand universities makes me depressed.

[Anonymous No.11440452]

>>11438338
what program?

[Anonymous No.11440481]

Omfg. You faggots, universities exist to brainwash you and take your money.

You dont learn shit.

Smart people don't go to school.

.t 160IQ

[Anonymous No.11441225]

>>11440481
>you don't learn shit
>t. <95 IQ

[Anonymous No.11441323]

>>11436709
In enjoying Warwick Maths if that helps

[Anonymous No.11441332]

>>11440481
Ok, anon. If you say so.

[Anonymous No.11441622]

>>11436617
>professor spends the lecture talking about irrelevant stuff
>get first test
>you were supposed to learn all of this on your own outside of lectures x-dddd

>practical
>2 instructors per 20 students
>have to show your progress after every task
>instructors spend the whole time guiding one thot through the tasks

[Anonymous No.11441625]

>>11436617

lol @ all of these eurotrash universities

American schools beat all of them
even our lowest state university

Only thing you guys have is name recognition because some stupid inbred royalty failson attended it like 200 years ago

Enjoy mediocrity, and let America pave the way for technological progress, while you guys argue over which side of the road to drive

[Anonymous No.11441630]

>>11438295
I'm a monash bro, currently studying eng/science double degree. The physics and maths units in science are kinda meh, but some of the dumbfucks you meet in the ENG units, holy shit! I swear, I'm never gonna step foot on another bridge in my life.

[Anonymous No.11441637]

>>11441625
>Enjoy mediocrity
>meanwhile, a person is running the US who on every fucking possible occasion tries to undermine the public's trust in science, and scientists are leaving the country because of it
but what do I know, I'm only a scientist experiencing this first hand

[Anonymous No.11441676]

>>11436985
if ucla was so shit, then students and authorities would do something about it

[Anonymous No.11441718]

>>11441622
And you faggots pay tons of moaney for this shit? Are you some masochists craving to be told what to do, so you just can't wait when you have a job where you'll be even payed for it?

[Anonymous No.11441728]

>>11440339
Nah mate. To be fair, you shouldn't feel so bad. I graduated St Andrews with Computer Science and, after realising it was shit around my second year, decided to just ditch the UK and do my Masters abroad. And St Andrews is always one of the top rated universities for CS in the UK, which is completely baffling as there is NO mandatory maths throughout the course whatsoever(you need to do a double major or take maths as a minor, otherwise you're screwed). Tutor hours you get in your first 2 years only, lectures are as you described. And the thing is that companies like Google, Amazon, Bloomberg, Skyscanner, JP Morgan, etc. send recruiters all the time.

There are good departments though, Maths is pretty good, Physics too. But CS is complete shitshow, only redeeming quality is the nice facilities. Again, baffled how CS in St Andrews is rated that high every year. I can only imagine how shit the other unis are. Cambridge is the real deal though, same for Oxford. I feel like the reasons for the popularity of the UK unis is due to them resting on some very old laurels, as well as due to smart people throughout Europe going there, due to English being the prevalent language in the world. German, Swiss, Austrian, Dutch and Scandinavian universities are much better in terms of education, and probably on par or even better in terms of research.

[Anonymous No.11441735]

>>11441728
And, of course, there are much more investments due to companies having offices in the UK rather than in non-english speaking Europe.

[Anonymous No.11441752]

Any Exeter Engineering students here?

[Anonymous No.11441778]

>mfw 2nd year mech e at Salford uni
Going to apply to Manchester for a masters

[Anonymous No.11441786]

>>11441778
Consider Europe friend. Almost every masters is in English, so you can go wherever your heart desires. The UK is a shithole, flights are cheap, and you can go back to the UK if you for some strange reason get homesick.

[Anonymous No.11441800]

>>11438295
Go to swinburne and I think it's terrific.
But I'm doing EE/Finance so I wouldn't know what our CS major is like

[Anonymous No.11441811]

>>11439136
Anyone?
Also are any other European universities on the level of Oxbridge?

[Anonymous No.11441836]

>>11439136
>>11441811
I guess you are asking for masters, as most bachelor programs would require the language spoken in the country (bar Netherlands). For CS, check ETH Zurich (if costs aren't a concern) in Switzerland, TU Delft in the Netherlands, LMU and TU in Munchen, Germany and maybe KTH in Sweden, although an anon said research there is shitty. I have also heard that Politecnico di Milano is really good, and you have the added benefit that you will live in a place with beautiful people and nice weather.

[Anonymous No.11441838]

>>11436617
>half of my coursemates just want to fuck off to finance after graduating
Why wouldn't they? If you're money driven, there is no reason to devote your career to engineering.
Engineers in the UK are not respected, heck, the title isn't even protected when the technician coming over to fix your boiler gets to call himself a "boiler engineer", or the BT guy calls himself "phone engineer".
And if you do manage to get yourself in an engineering position, you'll start out at £25k if you're lucky, you'll be a CAD monkey for 2 years until you get into another position and your salary gets bumped up into to maybe £32k

After more experience, the only place you can get promoted into is management, so maybe after 5 years you get into management and make £45k.

£50k is ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM, you will NEVER make more than £50k in engineering, NEVER. And with that kind of money you can ONLY live in the north of England, forget about London (though why'd you want to live in London is beyond me, some people wank themselves to sleep over moving to London). Meanwhile, finance guys make £80k easily after a couple of years of experience, you just need good connections (which let's face it, the posh boys will get boomer daddy to hook them up with their best boomer mate in the city)

Fuck me, I hate those guys over at r/UKPersonalFinance who are always like "guys i'm working for a startup pumping out javascript and migrating to a new framework every 6 months and i'm making £80k, should i invest more in my pension or should i buy a house" FUCK OFF

Why the fuck did I choose engineering... Oh yeah, I was fucking passionate about Nuclear Engineering. I'm going to fuck off to Europe (prob France) thanks to my EU passport, the UK is going to become like the US after Brexit

[Anonymous No.11441840]

>>11441838
Also forgot to mention, when you get promoted into management, the Peter Principle will start kicking in and maybe after a year or so your superiors will be pissed at your performance

[Anonymous No.11441848]

>>11441838
>£50k is ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM, you will NEVER make more than £50k in engineering, NEVER.
Is this actually true? I find this hard to believe.

[Anonymous No.11441859]

>>11439272
holy... i kno where im goin now

[Anonymous No.11441860]

>>11441848
I've yet to find someone working in an engineering related role making more than £50k. The only exceptions could be executives or sales people, but those aren't engineering related roles.

[Anonymous No.11441865]

>>11441838
>>11441848
50k in bongs is the average salary for chartered engineers. Average. Not max, that anon is full of shit.
Also, who the fuck wants to live in London. It's a complete shit hole.

[Anonymous No.11441866]

>>11441865
Show me someone who makes more than £50k

[Anonymous No.11441897]

>>11441866
https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/chartered-engineers-earn-an-average-of-63-000-a-year-survey-finds

median average salary from 2014 is £63,000, it’s probably increased since then

[Anonymous No.11441902]

>>11441838
t. from croydon

[Anonymous No.11441904]

>>11436617
>hear that all these fancy unis with nobel™ alumni
>look up some lectures
>its a power point presentation just like any other uni
>class room full of well situated(wealth wise) students
makes me think honestly

[Anonymous No.11441932]

>>11441718
That's for the taxpayers to figure out, once I move abroad after finishing my free degree.

[Anonymous No.11441944]

>>11441838
>I'm going to fuck off to Europe (prob France)
Only people from top schools like Polytechnique are respected here. Since you're not from here you will not get respect even if you're good, because you don't come from a French school. Being a foreigner is no excuse here, and wages are garbage in general.

[Anonymous No.11441949]

A lot of spoiled whiny cunts ITT that don't appreciate how good they have it. Wish I could knock you cunts out.

[Anonymous No.11441960]

>>11441949
Yeah right, being consigned to wageslavery in a bullshit job for long hours only to remain barely above the poverty line despite being smart and driven only because one's parents had no connections or did not invest in one's education beforehand is the dream. Cuckold. Meanwhile a lot of money is put in assuring survival of tons of illegal migrants who steal our jobs and drive wages down (thanks to conspiring corrupt companies who support smuggling them in, either illegally or through trolling factories).

[Anonymous No.11441963]

>>11441897
>2014 article
>survey
>why does Figure 7 of the report on the survey show a mean salary of £66,646 for engineers in the "Professional, scientific, & technical" industry? Were many of them working as contractors, rather than permanent staff? Were they senior managers, rather than hands-on engineers?
Try again.

[Anonymous No.11441966]

>>11441866
I'm not your research assistant. Why are you posting opinions when you haven't done even rudimentary research?

[Anonymous No.11441969]

>>11441966
You clearly have no real hands on experience in the UK industry and are only relying on what research institutes pump out and gets onto the first 2 pages of google results. You also have no clue as to the kind of statistical manipulation (i.e. cherry picking) that these engineering institutes do, so as to make engineering look better than it actually is.

[Anonymous No.11442053]

>>11441969
I'm not the person you're replying to, but you seem like an idiot. If someone posts a report that clearly refutes your point, the best you can do is
>hurr durr cherry picking
how about you post income statistics instead you faggot?

[Anonymous No.11442059]

>>11442053
https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/mechanical-engineer-salary-SRCH_KO0,19.htm
Average Base Pay
£34,447/yr

[Anonymous No.11442068]

>>11442059
>base pay
>goes up to 48k
>scroll down
>Mechanical Engineer
>ExxonMobil
>£67,563/yr
>Show me someone who makes more than £50k
there you go

[Anonymous No.11442079]

>>11441752
Harrison is haunted

[Anonymous No.11442089]

>>11439282
>>11437003
i got accepted into maths at oxford, how bad is it?

[Anonymous No.11442103]

>>11441865
>chartered engineers
I don’t get this meme don’t u gotta be an engineer for like 8 years to get to this point? And u can only do it if your uni was actually accredited and you got either an MEng/MSc in bongland even tho most MScs I look st aren’t even IET accredited even at Edinburgh/Durham

[Anonymous No.11442106]

>>11441848
If ur a britbong yes if ur an american you will be making that much the moment you graduate

[Anonymous No.11442114]

>>11441838
>the UK is going to become like the US after Brexit
.. are you retarded? This is a good thing. The USA has basically the highest starting and average wage out of any country for engineers. I made a chartered engineer salary the moment I graduated in the US. Oh wow I don’t get the NHS... what ever shall I do...?

[Anonymous No.11442134]

>>11441969
You can go on multiple job sites and look for the average salary for any job, retard. The government also publishes figures. Average is about 52k.

[Anonymous No.11442136]

>>11442103
No you have to have 4 years experience in industry and a masters degree. If you did a 12 month work placement after your second year, that counts as 1 year.

[Anonymous No.11442148]

>>11436617
my schools getting shut down partly due to queer clubs

[Anonymous No.11442318]

>>11440452
biomath

[Anonymous No.11442363]

>>11440340
what's to hate about it? what do you study? studying at bristol myself and love the uni and city

[Anonymous No.11442438]

>>11441848
>>11441838
Re: engineer salary debate

£50k is the maximum you'll get in a long-term job. After people reach this point they usually become contractors, working in companies for a few months or years, earning up to £100k. This is true in aero-engineering at least.

But this is still fucked up.
By the time you get to contracting age (35-40) you'll have a family, and your job will require you to either move them every half a year, or for you to live alone without them.

In my internships I've met some 40 yo retard who had to live in the Netherlands while his teenage son was growing up in the UK, and dweebs who were living in shared apartments instead of with their families, just like I, a broke intern was doing.

This is no way to live. Engineering is truly fucked in this country. But slaving away at some finance corporation is soul-destroying

[Anonymous No.11443037]

>>11441848
It's true throughout europe but not in north america. Europe is backwards as fuck for all technical domains.

[Anonymous No.11443056]

>>11439136
I'm at imperial for computing. Go to Cambridge it's better. If you can't get into Cambridge go take EIE/EEE instead of computing. You'll do better stuff.

[Anonymous No.11443059]

>>11441752
Hoping to study Marine Biology at Exeter, what it like over there? Is it posh?

[Anonymous No.11444031]

>>11442318
was thinking about bioinformatics or biostatistics. ncsu supposedly pretty good

[Anonymous No.11444530]

>>11441838
everyone with both sense and means is leaving the UK

[Anonymous No.11444543]

Constantly surrounded by either the most stereotypical rich chads or the most insufferable feminists/gays.

Math and CS/CE programs are honestly pretty good tho even if Purdue is vastly superior in both.

[Anonymous No.11444561]

rerolling for cambridge maths in this year cycle. was rejected by oxford. which college should i pick? is gonville and caius okay? im prob applying with no step taken so trinity seems impossible

[Anonymous No.11444629]

>>11440339
Don't worry about that guy anon. Some people are just dicks. You empathized with someone and tried to cheer them up, that's a nice thing to do. Don't let some cockgoblin jumble it up for you

[Anonymous No.11444638]

>>11441637
Good. Science is a progress and not an authority.

[Anonymous No.11444642]

>>11441637
i love that the only thing atheists have is anebulous deification of "love" and "fucking science".

[Anonymous No.11444646]

>>11444561
Go for something that's central and that has money. Outside of that it doesn't matter too much, college "prestige" is a meme but where their halls are located and how much they can spend on you will vary. Caius is probably OK, or John's, for example.

[Anonymous No.11444656]

>>11444638
>don't trust progress
ok boomer

[Anonymous No.11444662]

>>11444530
And go where??

[Anonymous No.11444687]

>>11436617
Any poli hue?

[Anonymous No.11444761]

>>11444656
okay nigger

[Anonymous No.11444882]

>>11436973
Feel you. Altough I go to UU which is way worse. Litterally no one knows of it abroad and we are barely top 5 in Sweden.
Imagine applying for a job abroad with a degree from mediocre uni in a shithole country.

[Anonymous No.11445021]

>>11442363
It’s complicated really. My course is a joint honours one and is awfully put together. Further, my house is kinda dead so it’s not the nicest place to hang about. I had some friend/housing drama re next year and that kinda lead to me effectively losing a lot of mates (that might change however) leading to a pretty shit term. And I have lots of mates but I don’t really have a core group of people/a person who I really like as a mate. So I’m kinda lonely. The city’s great, as is clubbing/the music scene, but it would be nice if I had a small group of mates who I really cared about and could do shit with.

[Anonymous No.11445051]

>>11441949
Good post. I've been in your place before, and know exactly what you mean

[Anonymous No.11445075]

>>11444687
The fuck is a poli hue? You mean a brazilian polytechnic school, or what?

[Anonymous No.11445227]

>>11444543
>tfw no qt btown gf

[Anonymous No.11445538]

>>11440230
Please elaborate on why.

I almost applied to Oxford physics program but decided against it last minute. Have since contemplated if it was a mistake or not. Still not sure desu but my current uni is underwhelming.

>>11440237
What do you want to know more about?

>>11441836
Why do you suggest KTH? I am very curious as I study there.

>>11444882
What program? Employers in Sweden won't care much but I feel your pain about applying abroad.

[Anonymous No.11445543]

>>11441904
Disagree.
Have you seen MIT opencourse lectures? If their real lectures are even close as good they would be much better than my (and I assume most) uni.

[Anonymous No.11445545]

>>11439309

that's not really a fair comparison anyway, since EE people use transforms on pretty much everything , while mathematicians have to specialize in it to know it profoundly (more so than EEs ofc)
chances are she just learned it for an exam and then forgot it because she is specializing on something else

[Anonymous No.11445573]

>>11445021
>it would be nice if I had a small group of mates who I really cared about and could do shit with.

Without that uni fucking sucks balls. Best to find ones doing the same course as you, I fell for the flatmate meme first year and that was too much drama and faggotry and I'll be glad if I never saw them again.

[Anonymous No.11445837]

>>11444687
Unicamp. What course lad? What are you thinking about it?

[Anonymous No.11446216]

>tfw flyover state
>tfw flyover uni
>tfw premeds and math autists flagellate themselves over not attending T20 world unis
>tfw just happy to be R1 and studying genetics

[Anonymous No.11446307]

Anyone got Nottingham uni? I’m thinking of doing a masters/phd in behavioural economics

[Anonymous No.11446359]

>>11446307
A friend of mine did his MEng there. Apparently his course was full of pajeets and chinks, but he enjoyed it.

[Anonymous No.11446398]

>>11438337
Why is the suicide rate so high in Bristol? I’m doing my PhD there and it doesn’t seem that bad.

[Anonymous No.11446622]

>>11446398
Zoomers cannot handle independence and Bristol provides no support for them.

[Anonymous No.11447245]

>>11445573
this

>find group of madlads
>rent a house together
>throw regular parties
>invite lasses
>???
>profit

[Anonymous No.11447489]

>>11441637
stop listening to NPR you brainlet.

[Anonymous No.11447564]

>>11436617
Is the CUIS at Cambridge any good?

[Anonymous No.11447726]

>>11444561
Tit Hall has the only free pool table, a 24 hour library, and Malcolm the porter. The other colleges are pale imitations.

[Anonymous No.11447898]

>>11442114
I'd rather have a lower wage than live in a country where the employer will fire me if I get involved in an accident that is too expensive for him to cover

[Anonymous No.11447962]

>>11447726
>Tit Hall has the only free pool table
Bullshit. I've been in at least 4 other colleges with free pool tables.

[Anonymous No.11448013]

>>11437045
>Unfortunately need to work with a bunch of University 'intellectuals' who fancy themselves political activitsts
Fuck, you're so right about this one. I hate how universities have to bloat themselves by trying to get into as many different aspects of students lifes as they can. Universities were meant to provide education, no more and no less. Universities are not supposed to run a housing business on the side, they're not supposed to act as a platform for anyone to spew their political beliefs, they're not supposed to be this one giant nightclub where all you do is drink and party and meet people, and then do some studying on the side. Many of these things, such as connecting with people and finding your interests come naturally when studying, but fuck, you don't have to make it the central point of your institution. Universities are a joke

[Anonymous No.11448050]

>>11446398
You being a proper member of a department and it’s academic life probably gives you a good sense of community. At the undergrad level it kinda feels like there’s no sense of community - the university’s campus, it not having anywhere central to get hot good food (hawthorns doesn’t count), courses not really having much requirements so you end up not going into uni much all contribute to this.

[Anonymous No.11448237]

>>11447489
>brainlet
>scientist
you may pick no more that one

[Anonymous No.11448728]

>>11436973
why did you choose cs if you want to be a quant? or do you want to be a quant dev?

[Anonymous No.11449201]

>>11448050
That makes a lot of sense. I did my undergrad and master’s in the US so I have no idea what the undergraduate experience is at Bristol. My advisors are very nice—with weekly meetings over breakfast and other meetups.

[Anonymous No.11449240]

>>11442148
Tell us more. What do you mean shut down?

[Anonymous No.11449401]

oops i didnt see this thread was still up so ill post it here too:

ucl or icl for an ee-related MSc course?

[Anonymous No.11449405]

>>11439403
imagine getting coom on a rental tux. the horror

[Anonymous No.11449409]

>>11448050
Bristol's non-campus is one of the main reasons I said no to it. That kind of situation doesn't work unless the university is collegiate.

>>11449401
lol don't do science or engineering at UCL.

[Anonymous No.11449448]

>>11449401
I imagine ICL is significantly academically far better - they’ve got an exchange with MIT for gods sake. And i think the lack of sociability is probably a tad exaggerated idk - it’s nice that it’s a centralised campus with a sweet green space.

[Anonymous No.11449477]

>>11449448
what isn’t over exaggerated tho is the male to female ratio is like 2:1 or worse. im 100% for women in stem programs and gender diversity quotas. i need to fucking COOM.

[Anonymous No.11449499]

>>11436617
Anyone at Surrey here?

[Anonymous No.11449502]

>>11449477
Hey if you need to coom a london STEM uni isn't the best place for it. Go to an Arts one.

[Anonymous No.11449541]

Any anons attending RPI? I've visited over the summer and I like it, and I'm thinking of attending since I got a ton of financial aid, but I'm not sure if I should go because of all the shit online about their shitty social life. Then again, I don't know if it's just normie cope.

[Anonymous No.11449561]

>>11449541
What major? Social life is kind of below average compared to similar sized/bigger colleges but if you're not an antisocial recluse you're probably fine. Could always just join greek life.

[Anonymous No.11449586]

>>11449561
Electrical engineering. I am an introvert, but I actually wanted to get out and do more normie stuff sometimes. From what I've heard and like you said, social life isn't as great, and even the Greek life is being suppressed by shitty administration or something.

[Anonymous No.11449603]

Anyone from Bath here

[Anonymous No.11449626]

>>11449586
I mean there are a lot of clubs (200ish) if thats your thing. Theres other colleges in the area to go to parties and things too. The administration does suck and seems to be sucking more as of late. Where else are you looking to apply?

[Anonymous No.11449628]

>>11437045
could you show me some of the robots you built ? im interested

[Anonymous No.11449679]

>>11444543
I live in a third world shithole. My fluid mechanics teacher got his PhD in aeronautics at Purdue. Absolute beast.

[Anonymous No.11449721]

>>11439144
t. Brainlet

This is your brain on a sub 98 atar lmao

[Anonymous No.11449740]

>>11436985
>>11438799
How are your job prospects, cus I’m not getting shit for data science as an undergrad

[Anonymous No.11450184]

>>11448728
Bsc. Math is not respected in Sweden, it's about "civilingenjör" diploma which is given to 5 year programs. These programs consist of 3 year bachelor's and 2 year master's. Long story short I will receive bachelor's in CS and I'll eventually probably choose applied mathematics or pure mathematics for my msc.
Don't want to out myself but I am/will be taking plenty of math courses beside my CS curriculum so the difference between me and a pure math bsc. will hopefully be negligible.

[Anonymous No.11450303]

>>11450184
heh probably should've mentioned I'm also a kth student, I was just a bit curious because I'm first year student studying open entrance or whatever its called in English and I was set before on studying indek but now that all the maths/physics courses have gone better than I excepted I've become quite unsure on what to study so now I'm trying to explore all the alternatives, and CS interests me quite a bit but the amount of math in eng. physics is also quite appealing. I have no interest in academica though so it probably dosen't matter that much anyway haha, as long as I get a decent job.

[Anonymous No.11450406]

>>11449721
t. brainlet
This is your brain when you attend unis that cost 10x the amount only to use the exact same slides and have non-white lectueres.

[Anonymous No.11450456]

>>11439272
what the hell

[Anonymous No.11450518]

>>11449586
Some other slightly higher and lower ranked privates, but I think their engineering programs probably aren't as good as RPI. I was looking at UPitt, but I'm not getting much financial aid. If I were to choose any school over RPI for sure, it would be a top 5 UC or USC if they gave me more than peanuts.

[Anonymous No.11450712]

This coming march 14, I have an exam that covers the entire program. Am I going to make it?

[Anonymous No.11450826]

>>11445538
>Please elaborate on why.
same reasons as OP hates Durham engineering. Either people who don't care or smug pricks, with no in-between. No-one I was with was interested in group study either, they were more concerned with partying or getting their finance career sorted. Fuck the bloody lot of 'em.

[Anonymous No.11450940]

Any based /sheffield/ posters?

I graduated there last year and I'm starting a masters at Imperial this year.

[Anonymous No.11451006]

>>11450940
Is it hard to transfer for your master's to a different uni in UK? I was told that you basically got to stick with whatever you selected till you get a master's. Also how hard is it to get in Imperial? Cause looking at the entry requirements they have for their different master's programmes, it seems suspiciously easy

[Anonymous No.11451045]

>>11451006
>Also how hard is it to get in Imperial?
this is what im wondering. and how easy is it to get into a decent msc in general? ill graduate with first class, good extracirriculars (president of a society among a handful of other things), and 2 internships (both totally unrelated to my degree and very short but paid).

im hoping that's enough. it seems like it should be. the only unis that require a first are imperial/oxford/cambridge. even UCL has a 2:2/2:1 entry req. it's kind of bizarre. i went from getting a 3.0 gpa in community college in the USA to deciding to study in the UK, then i realized it's about 100x easier to get a 1st than it is to get a 3.6+ gpa, and now i feel like i have a good chance to get into a top uni. even though i'm pretty fucking dumb. like really fucking dumb actually.

[Anonymous No.11451115]

>>11449448
What are the placement offers like for Advanced Computing Master's at Imperial ?

[Anonymous No.11451161]

>>11449740
For bio things are looking pretty good if I want to be a research assistant or manufacturing associate or something. Kind of shit pay though, will definitely go back for a PhD in a year or two. But the jobs are there.

I find it hard to believe no one wants a data scientist. On the UCLA research portal like everything wants programmers and data analysts. Did you check that? Are you a senior? Most companies just ignore anyone who's not a senior like a month or two from graduating.

[Anonymous No.11451162]

>>11451045
I know loads of people who got into UCL and ICL for their Master's, whereas UCL didn't even conduct interviews afaik. I'm only familiar with ICL's MEng programmes myself which have different criteria.

[Anonymous No.11451164]

>>11450456
The Police said they can't have one this year either. They (along with the Polo Club) are extremely pissed off about it.

[Anonymous No.11451167]

>>11451006
>>Is it hard to transfer for your master's

Depends. If it's an integrated (undergrad) Masters most unis will not accept a transfer. If you complete a BSc and want to do an MSci at another uni that's more than possible, usually pretty easy to do as well since unis love accepting postgrad money on taught courses.

[Anonymous No.11451186]

>>11451161
>I find it hard to believe no one wants a data scientist.

Everyone wants to be a data scientist, but companies want experience data scientists. So you end up having way more people applying for entry level jobs and not enough people going for mid or senior levels.

[Anonymous No.11451197]

Anyone else here a Lincoln bro? For a fairly low tier uni surrounded by smelly homeless smackheads their engineering faculty is actually fairly decent.

[Anonymous No.11451221]

>>11451186
1. go on linkedin
2. look up "data science" [city you want]
3. apply to any and everything with the green clock next to it
4.???
5. profit?????

Works for biotech, dunno why it wouldn't work for everything else.

[Anonymous No.11451240]

>>11451162
>whereas UCL didn't even conduct interviews afaik
ah nice to know. this is what i thought because i couldn't find any info on whether or not they did. imperial interviews seem kind of fucked. i made the mistake of making my personal statement "too good" and now i need a miracle in the interview

[Anonymous No.11451280]

>>11451115
Job offers* . Anyone?

[Anonymous No.11451322]

>>11451164
durham sounds based

[Anonymous No.11451334]

>>11451164
cant they just host one not as a society, or not there? like what can they really do if people want to party and fuck?

[Anonymous No.11451366]

>>11438320
UEA here and we're #1 for people topping themselves. There's a big lake on campus for it.

[Anonymous No.11451399]

>>11449626
See
>>11450518

[Anonymous No.11452198]

>>11450712
What kind of course/exam covers all that shit?

[Anonymous No.11452259]

How long until the concept of Universities collapses?

[Anonymous No.11452262]

Where my /deutsch/bros at?

[Anonymous No.11452274]

>>11451197
Lincoln, NE?

[Anonymous No.11452293]

>>11450518
Stevens and WPI are a bit below RPI rankwise and are private. Still good tho. Depends a lot on your career goals too though; some schools have more established co-op programs than RPI's if you're looking to get into industry right away but RPI has more opportunities for research than those smaller schools obviously. You'd prob have a better idea of where to go once you start getting accepted to places and getting financial aid offers

[Anonymous No.11452443]

>>11436985
I love Andre cause of all the seethe he generates

[Anonymous No.11452531]

>>11452259
give it another couple thousand years

[Anonymous No.11452654]

>>11450940
Went for medicine offer day at sheffield, went around with these paki muslimfag brainlets and literally turned me off the uni so much.
They had 3 C's at A level and could resit for 3B's to study medicine. These our the future qualified """"""""""doctors"""""""""" of a once pure country. If you want good healthcare dont step inside a Sheffield hospital for the next 30 years or any hospital outside of London for that matter

[Anonymous No.11452661]

>>11451240
Just make the right noises and youll get an offer easy. Search the web for common questions at ICL for your course

[Anonymous No.11452664]

>>11451197
Who?

[Anonymous No.11452673]

Got an offer to study medicine at St George's, uni of london, but feel that barts or UCL are just a lot better. Does any one have experience at these unis?

[Anonymous No.11452786]

Is cambridge worth the over 50k pounds per year for international students? i was planning to do the 3 year bachelor in natural science, then see if i can get some scholarship for the MSCi and if not just fuck off. Is the cambrige brand worth the price? also i'm from a third world country and want to go to Europe after graduating so a degree from the UK might be good for that.

[Anonymous No.11452835]

>>11449541
>why not change the world? ®

[Anonymous No.11452883]

>>11452259
As soon as you find something more efficient, schizo.

[Anonymous No.11453013]

>>11451280
Anyone?

[Anonymous No.11453016]

>>11452786
It's rare for international students to get scholarships in Cambridge. The job prospects ultimately compensate for it though.

[Anonymous No.11453067]

>>11453016
i can afford (barely) the 3 years for the ba, but then i'm off to hopefully get some decent paying jobs. would you say that even with just a BA the cambridge brand will make my resume stand out?

[Anonymous No.11453080]

>>11451197
I visited Lincoln when my parents rented a cottage their for a weekend. I really don't know what students could possibly do there outside of study.

[Anonymous No.11453213]

Guys I'm kinda freaking out. What's a good PhD program you can get into with a 3.5?

[Anonymous No.11453296]

>>11453080
I've considered going there and it does seem like like it has almost zero opportunities available, therefore not a good place for young people, although it is an inexpensive place. You can have a good, modern one-bedroom apartment for maybe $800 per month.

[Anonymous No.11453298]

Who /hildbede/ here

[Anonymous No.11453454]

If you want weed in Durham, Viaduct is your friend.

[Anonymous No.11453602]

>>11449541
Holy shit. Don't come here. Stupid administrators, nothing to do for fun, everybody hates it. Did you know our president gets paid six million dollars a year?

[Anonymous No.11453637]

Any /seaniggers/ in here?

[Anonymous No.11453870]

>>11453454
WHO? HOW DO I FIND THIS MAN

[Anonymous No.11453884]

>>11453298
>Who /hildbede/ here
Me. I was in fucking belvedere

Tbh there is nothing wrong with the college, theres good people and its easy to party from it, but I wish I was more mature in 1st year so I could have been less autistic, maybe should have taken a gap year.

[Anonymous No.11453910]

Imagines spending 80,000 dollars just to make no friends

[Anonymous No.11453916]

>>11453884
who is this

[Anonymous No.11454048]

>>11443056
Isn't EIE/EEE different from Computing?

[Anonymous No.11454130]

>>11454048
I'd say yes, but in my uni they're in the same department

[Anonymous No.11454166]

>>11453213
here's a list:

[Anonymous No.11454173]

>>11453910
Literally me T____T
>>11453916
>who is this
My name is abdullahirahmad

[Anonymous No.11454432]

fucking shitting bricks with the number of chinese at my uni at the moment lads

[Anonymous No.11454458]

>>11453870
Viaduct is the area dummy, you know...under the viaduct.

[Anonymous No.11454472]

>>11454458
IM RUNNING THERE NOW MEET ME THERE IN 10

[Anonymous No.11454515]

any1 from LSE here ?

[Anonymous No.11454528]

>>11438295
WA doesn't have much choice.
I tried curtin for a semester, hated it.
Massive classes and undergrads for tutors. Curtin's course structure is not bad for their CS course. Don't know anything about their mathematics course. curtin's postgraduate courses are actually extensions from the undergrad which is a nice change.
uwa is decent but they expect you to double major which is fine but the second major doesn't seem to tie in very well with the first. I don't see why they don't just have a more rigorous CS or mathematics course that takes up the required credit points.
uwa has the best math department out of all of them and is the place to be for undergrads in WA.

ECU is hit and miss. Some courses are decent others are barely a step above tafe.
CE, EE, mechanical are decent courses as the engineering department is great. ECU motor sport is sweet.
CS at ECU is mediocre and flooded with Indians that complain that the course is too hard.
>mah cyber security
I'm sorry but without a decent CS and math education, "cyber security" grads are going to be useless.
The joondalup campus is growing fast and has brand new facilities. Lots of opportunity for grads or researchers to get paid, which isn't common in WA.
DO NOT DO MASTERS BY COURSE WORK AT ECU.

I don't know anything about Murdoch other than their campus needs some renovations.

[Anonymous No.11454530]

>>11454432
Kek

[Anonymous No.11454539]

I go to a shitty uni ranked about 40 for engineering and its like spot the white man. Almost everyone is an indian, arab, or a paki.
Even the lecturers.

[Anonymous No.11454541]

>>11454539
thats because white people are inferior anon

[Anonymous No.11454544]

>>11454541
I know, anon, I'm from Croatia studying in the UK.

[Anonymous No.11454559]

>>11454432
Same here. Which uni you at? Although I guess it doesn't matter, you can find Chinese colonisers everywhere these days

[Anonymous No.11454565]

>>11454559
>>11454432
me too but the only kids in my course doing better than i am (and they are doing way better) are 2 chinese kids. nobody even pays attention or asks questions but the chinese kids. i run a society and the chinese kids are the only ones who actually participate and do what i ask of them.

im actually starting to hate everybody but the asian master race. at first i thought they were annoying because some of them talk out loud to themselves in class and dont push their chairs in, and then hog the professor after class so i have to wait 45 minutes for them to get their questions answered but honestly its better than pure apathy

[Anonymous No.11454571]

90% of problems with (American) universities would be solved if they were strictly segregated into STEM and Humanities/SS schools. Even our top STEM school (MIT) has meme women’s studies degree.
If they were segregated we could have campuses with all resources and space dedicated to classrooms and labs for learning, and not have to deal with fucking hourly political protests and overcrowding

[Anonymous No.11454577]

>>11454565
Huh, that's weird. The Chinese that I study with are the most passive people ever. Then again, everybody here is unmotivated and passive, but these guys doubly so

[Anonymous No.11454580]

>>11454571
>hourly political protests
Is this true for the US?

[Anonymous No.11454593]

>>11454580
not him but its true for the UK. the only professors that don't protest at my uni are the engineering ones

[Anonymous No.11454892]

>>11454580
True for UK, sorta. It depends on the University really. Durham (where I go obviously) is sorta mixed. Most STEM lecturers aren't on strike. Yet most humanities lecturers are, save for the History, Classics, and Theology department where not even half of them are striking iirc.

[Anonymous No.11454897]

>>11454539
Well yeah outside oxbridge and durham engineering is all pajeets everywhere else. And even then oxbridge is full of chinese mathematicians doing engineering because maths was full.

[Anonymous No.11454980]

>>11441225
>Spend two years learning high school level math. and abunch of useless GE courses.
>Year 3 OK ready to start my real education.
>Honors math courses gated by out of major gpa
>3.8
>enroll anyways, always get A's, but they don't count.
>Dropout year 5 after taking every honors/ graduate course I could.
>realize I could have just read all of langs books and learned more.

[Anonymous No.11455000]

>>11454571
>90% of problems with (American) universities would be solved if they were strictly segregated into STEM and Humanities/SS schools

Yes but the STEMfag sucide rates and artsfag overdose rates would go through the roof.

[Anonymous No.11455044]

>>11450712
Honestly, the vast majority of college students would fail a trigonometry exam that is at the level of "prove all the equalities used in calculus or higher"

[Anonymous No.11455049]

>>11454571
99% if GEs went with them.

[Anonymous No.11455130]

>>11453067
yes

[Anonymous No.11455136]

>>11454515
fuck that place

[Anonymous No.11455145]

>>11453067
yes but only for 5yrs usually. afterwards they don't care.

[Anonymous No.11455225]

>>11450303
I assume you can't apply for engineering mathematics? That would be my nr. 1 choice but of course I'm mostly interested in finance /machine learning so it's subjective.

I don't want to work in academia either obviously. Why do you consider indek? Not trying to sound elitist or anything but the work sounds pretty boring.

[Anonymous No.11455645]

>>11442114

Die of coronavirus because of all the uninsured people you're surrounded with who can't afford healthcare.

[Anonymous No.11455649]

>>11446307

May as well do a Phd in English lit as both amount to the same thing - fiction and fantasy.

[Anonymous No.11455657]

>>11453067

You can add the Cambridge brand to your resume for $0 - just lie about it. Nobody checks, and it doesn't sound like you're interested in learning what they have to teach you anyway.

[Anonymous No.11455664]

>>11454432

I'm a mature student at Liverpool. My uni is 20% Chinese now. Many of them are starting to look like this one, enjoying the atmosphere of the Kop on Saturday.

[Anonymous No.11455733]

>>11455657
based

[Anonymous No.11455743]

>>11452259
The current 'you have to spend 80% of your time studying things unrelated to your major so I make money' unis will go under if employers ever start recognizing third party certificates

[Anonymous No.11455756]

>finishing my 4th year undergraduate chemistry
>year is about 50% social retards who don't know how to interact with humans - 25% are edgy meme bois and the rest are in a near permanent ketamine trance funded by daddy's credit card
>people can't I to the most basic maths - I know it's chemistry but still, some people in finals year still didn't know how the fucking chain rule works
>first 3 years of undergraduate course are pure shit - no choice, lots of material.
>professors write the course so you end up having to learn lots of shit that they personally find cool but is completely tangential to the topic (3rd year catalysis comes to mind where we just had to learn a bunch of catalytic reactions)
>inorganic paper 2 is the apex of bullshittery - literally recite fun facts about these 6 compounds for 20% of the mark. Zero logic, pure memory
>Chinese professors left and right barely able to speak English
>Labs are awful with wrong instructions, painfully slow reactions (literally one step of a synthesis a day). Some of the demonstrators are so fucking uppity, make your life a living hell
>final year (research) is hella comfy tho - my research group is nice & work is going well

Any fellow oxonian chembois stick in there - 4th year is worth all the suffering (assuming you didn't pick organic in which case you're fucked lmao)

I'm actually planning to do a PhD (elsewhere but still) so clearly Oxford didn't ruin me the way I thought it would

[Anonymous No.11455850]

>>11455756

Permanent ketamine trance lol. Maybe daddy is paying for them to really understand the molecule?

[Anonymous No.11455932]

>>11455645
fuck off schizo nobody on 4chan besides butterfly is old enough to die of the coronavirus

[Anonymous No.11456097]

>>11436985
I went to UCLA between 2013 and 2018 and didn't make a single friend. I have to admit 2017 was the peak of my life though. I made made over 6 figures from bitcoin and was fucking some tight 18 year old pussy. Looking back it doesn't even seem real. South campus major too.

[Anonymous No.11456112]

>>11436617
University of Washington Seattle
This place is too SJW for me. I prefer equality over equity.
>>11456097
Almost got a virgin 19 year old on the hook.

[Anonymous No.11456117]

>>11456097
>I went to UCLA between 2013 and 2018 and didn't make a single friend

Okay that's actually really good to hear I sort of thought I was fucking losing it.
> I made made over 6 figures from bitcoin
Good shit. Wish I had money.

[Anonymous No.11456118]

>>11456112
I grew up in Seattle and miss all the girls with the art ho look. Pixie cut and colored hair. In LA the girls are definitely hotter, but they all have either a normie or slutty style.

[Anonymous No.11456120]

>>11456117
If you saw someone wearing rick owens all the time that was me.

[Anonymous No.11456122]

>>11436617
>>I've never had teaching in a group smaller than a classroom size (meanwhile in oxford and cambridge you get 1 on 1 weekly tutoring)
>I have never meaningfully spoken to the professors who have been teaching me for 4 years


Do you not have "office hours" or even email to communicate with them? What the fuck dude. That's awful.

>most of the students are private school kids for whom this is an extension of highschool
>they spend most of their time throwing fashion shows and discovering themselves as DJs

What? Just what?

[Anonymous No.11456125]

>>11456118
I don't, they're all fucking insufferable cunts. Only reason I miss SoCal is because I'm beginning to forget what the sun looks like, they're also less asians and better tacos.

[Anonymous No.11456257]

I am finishing my master's in economics and pondering on whether a PhD in statistics or economics would be better. Either way I would specialize in macroeconometrics, especially time series analysis, state space models, machine learning applications in macro etc. In principle, I could study these in either program. I plan on continuing in academia afterwards.

Any thoughts? The prof in stats would be better suited for my area of research, but economics could be more prestigious.

[Anonymous No.11456286]

>>11453910
Image my uncle spending 80000$ for me not to get laid, He visiblebly double taked when I said the apartment I got (with his money) had a roommate. But no one will rent to me around here without a paystub

[Anonymous No.11456288]

>>11439403
Is that a lot of money to you?

[Anonymous No.11456349]

>>11452259
Never, it’s too good a tool for the state to channel people into their systems.
(a)It captures the high brow into medical and lawyer fields would would otherwise have the mental space to be disruptive, as well as corrals the rich kids that will never really have to work in the years they are most likely to be impulsive and disruptive,
(b) it captures the low brow into dead end make work trumped up clerical work. Creating a stable consumer class.

[Anonymous No.11456351]

>>11456257
2 questions.

1. What is your mathematics background?

2. What is your opinion on low replicability rates in econ research?

[Anonymous No.11456359]

Just got accepted into pic related a few days ago.
It's the only acceptance I have received (not including state schools). I still will receive notice from like 30 other schools but this is probably going to be the only top one I get accepted to.
Should I go there? I was happy at first but I'm really damn scared. I never got to see Physics with Calculus before and the first math class is supposed to be proof-based (I haven't gone to a proof based math competition in 1.5 years).

[Anonymous No.11456376]

>>11456359
Caltedh is an absolutely amazing school that transcends the shite.
Security actully helps you there. There are no brainlet degrees so you don’t have to worry about all the dumb kids thotteing your learning.
No one here can tell you if you will cut it though.
Easily top 3 experience for smart students in undergrad college.

[Anonymous No.11456387]

>>11436617
My ex was in that uni. She did an MBA.

And she ended up as a project manager at Volvo. Waste of a fucking mba if you ask me.

Incredible tits though.

[Anonymous No.11456394]

>>11456387
>. Waste of a fucking mba if you ask me.
How? What do you expect her to do with a mba? If she is in her early 40s or younger she has time as well.

[Anonymous No.11456426]

Lmao, usa has really shitty universities.
Keep in mind your universities focus on creating semi-qualified workforce rather than spreading scientific knowledge.
Keep whining while on the line for your next mc combo.
Rofl

[Anonymous No.11456437]

>>11441836
No, Milan is a polluted gray city, that's not the Italian countriside of your imagination

[Anonymous No.11456439]

>>11452259
in 20 years if everything works out

[Sage No.11456452]

(((((you)))))
>half are unbearable nerds that have been building robot dogs since the age of 5
You mean, smarter than your midwit, blogging ass. Nice blog >>>/soc/ is that way

[Anonymous No.11456468]

>>11452259
Never, universities we're never meant for the masses. Once the upper class completes their neutering of the middle class, universities will be illegal to attend if you are not of the right stock. The current trend is unsustainable. The natural order of things is for there to be a peasant class and an aristocracy, the banker class is ready to fill that role, just have to destroy the middle class, which is well on it's way.

[Anonymous No.11456469]

>>11456351
1. I have studies a total of 50ECTS in mathematics in our maths department. Calculus 1 and 2, linear algebra, basic vector analysis, probability 1 & 2 and probability theory, diff equations, convex analysis and optimization, and lebesgue measure & integral.

2. Replicability rate is high in the areas I am interested in.

[Anonymous No.11456559]

>>11436617
Unis wont hold your hand. You're supposed to be self motivated. Its your own money/time/life. Stick it to end, or you'll regret it.

[Anonymous No.11456576]

>>11436617
>MIT/Harvard > Cambridge/Oxford
There, I said it. Just going to sit back and enjoy the discussion. hehe

[Anonymous No.11456739]

>>11456122
You've got office hours and emails, but you end up not using them. In oxbridge you have weekly meetings with tutors that also give you assignments, which would be so much better for learning.

and yeah, we've got student fashion shows, lmfao.
>>11456452
Found the nerd outcast. Are you wheelchair-bound?

[Anonymous No.11457157]

>>11436617
so guys how does this work? does a first class BEng mean i can get into any program. even if i applied late (last week)?

what are my chances at a midtier msc like glasgow

[Anonymous No.11457321]

>>11438338
go to Cornell or NCSU
i visited both during my PhD acceptance tour, both are fantastic

[Anonymous No.11457361]

>>11451186
What if... you apply to entry level jobs and work your way up? I imagine most data analysts will have the opportunity to do something involving Data Science skills at some point. Once you have domain knowledge and work experience applying DS to that domain, either get promoted or start applying elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.11457372]

>>11436617
>going to an oxbridge wannabe university
what did you expect retard? you should have gone to imperial if you didn't get into oxbridge

[Anonymous No.11457755]

weird to see bristol people here. I do Physics, it aint bad, but the scheduling of lectures is never done well. Same for all the other unis tho right?

[Anonymous No.11457789]

>>11457755
My uni once scheduled that a class for 70 people should take place in a room on a different campus that seats 10.

[Anonymous No.11457807]

>>11457157
>does a first class BEng mean i can get into any program
No

>what are my chances at a midtier msc like glasgow
probably decent

[Anonymous No.11457912]

>>11457807
>No
then what does it mean? what do they look at?
>probably decent
what factors would take it from Probably Decent to Good

[Anonymous No.11457952]

>>11457912
>then what does it mean? what do they look at?
Grade boundaries are so wide and so many people get a first that it isn't a free pass. Especially for applicants to the more popular courses, everyone and their dog has a first.

The gulf between top of your class and scraping a first is massive, not that you need to be top of your class but what I'm getting at is that a first does not, in itself, really separate you from the masses. Now if you're talking about a very high first then that's different.

In any case, it does mean you won't get autofiltered out because of your grade.

>what factors would take it from Probably Decent to Good
Just a few examples. Research internships as an undergrad if you want a research master's. Grades that stand out (i.e. a strong first). Relevant courses to whatever program you apply to. Any other proof that you've gone beyond what was required by your course to get involved in your field. Good references from relevant people (ones that actually know you).

[Anonymous No.11458016]

>>11456437
The hell you talking about? Of course it isn't a green countryside, it's a metropolis. I wouldn't want to be there right now, placed under quarantine, but it's a very nice city

[Anonymous No.11458084]

>>11457952
>everyone and their dog has a first
see this is what is seems like. but then why does every postgraduate program outside of cambridge/oxford/imperial have 2:2/2:1 requirements? if it's so common why would they even consider students like that

>research internships
i got 1 but its not at all related to my degree program or any im applying to. oh well. i got an easy first but its a little scrape-y so won't stand out or anything

[Anonymous No.11458113]

Who /ivy/ here?

[Anonymous No.11458124]

>>11458084
>why does every postgraduate program outside of cambridge/oxford/imperial have 2:2/2:1 requirements
Even Cambridge, for example, will for the most part only require a 2:1 for their Master's courses. This is the "autofilter" cutoff that I was talking about earlier. Despite requiring a minimum of only 2:1, having a 2:1 certainly will not guarantee you a place in Cambridge, and for that matter neither will a 1st. It's just that if your grades are below this cutoff it's very unlikely you've got the required abilities and drive so they won't even consider you.

>if it's so common why would they even consider students like that
Because there's many other factors that go into whether you're suitable for a postgrad degree, and sometimes people underperform for whatever reason. They want to give people a chance (within reasonable bounds), but you're more likely to be admitted the better your grade is, and most people applying for postgrad got decent grades in undergrad.