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Anonymous Sat Feb 5 21:28:49 2011 No.2482788 [Reply] [Original]

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 21:32:49 2011 No.2482801 Man, I'm too lazy to make this properly but still >Major Maths >What people think it is Numbers >What it actually is Letters

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 21:35:49 2011 No.2482822 >>2482801 That's so true!

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 21:48:49 2011 No.2482899 >Major Chemistry >What people think it is Making things. >What it actually is Solving equilibrium and thermodynamic problems.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 21:50:49 2011 No.2482912 >Major Cognitive Neuroscience >What people think it is the matrix >What it actually is the matrix u mad boring major fags?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 21:51:49 2011 No.2482925 >Major Computer Science >What people think it is The Matrix, if Neo were an IT guy >What it actually is Theory everywhere, bending you over and forgetting to lube up

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 21:51:49 2011 No.2482926 >Major Computer Science >expected A heavy focus on how computers work and methods to manipulate them >what i got a light focus on what comprises a computer and programming i could of learned this shit on my own

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 21:52:49 2011 No.2482937 >>2482912 >>2482925 mindlink...?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 21:53:49 2011 No.2482943 >>2482926 What a shitty school you must attend. You pay money for that?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 21:56:49 2011 No.2482958 >>2482912 Fuck yeah, fellow neuro-related majorfag here.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 21:56:49 2011 No.2482963 >Major Bio >What people think it is Doctorology >What it actually is Filter classes. Filter classes everywhere.

>>	poorengineer Sat Feb 5 21:58:49 2011 No.2482973 >Major Electrical engineering >What people think it is academic people: apollo 13 business majors: resistors faggots: fixing light bulbs >What it actually is shit that makes modern society work

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 21:58:49 2011 No.2482977 >>2482963 >What it actually is Trust fund babies and football jocks buying into the delusion that they'll be the next House

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 21:58:49 2011 No.2482980 >>2482963 What do you mean by filter classes?

>>	poorengineer Sat Feb 5 22:00:49 2011 No.2482990 >>2482973 >what it actually is (more) interesting math, physics chem and some faggotry graduation requirements

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:00:49 2011 No.2482991 >>2482973 theres like 164167456753786737 EE students and that's why I chose chemE. and the "shit that makes modern society work" would hurt my pride if I had one;.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:01:49 2011 No.2482996 >Major Physics >What people think it is I had little idea >What it actually is I have little idea

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:02:49 2011 No.2482998 >>2482977 Do you go to a state school? >>2482980 There are a lot of classes thats are completely unnecessary and irrelevant standards to grade someones grasp of Biology by. It's one of the most over compressed majors somebody can bother to take on.

>>	poorengineer Sat Feb 5 22:02:49 2011 No.2483005 >>2482991 yea i considered chemE at one point, but i don't seem to mind EE. chemE = >$300K/year?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:03:49 2011 No.2483006 >Major Psychology >What people think it is A fake science >What it actually is A real science. Haters gonna hate.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:04:49 2011 No.2483015 File: 519 KB, 900x500, www.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] everybody is jelly.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:05:49 2011 No.2483016 >>2483005 i considered EE at one point, but i don't seem to mind chemE. I don't have the balls.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:05:49 2011 No.2483017 >major physics >what people think it is working at a pharmacy or useless theoretical physics >what it actually is fucking simple shit (undergrad)

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:05:49 2011 No.2483022 >>2483006 it's a soft science at best. Not that theres anything wrong with that, but don't kid yourself.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:08:49 2011 No.2483035 >major Computer Science >what people think it is Programming >what it actually is It can be mainly programming if you want, but I've chosen a more theoretical route so I barely touch computers.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:09:49 2011 No.2483042 >>2483017 >physics >pharmacy You've actually met people that think this?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:10:49 2011 No.2483051 >>2482998 What type of classes do you consider filter?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:11:49 2011 No.2483054 >>2483017 >>working at a pharmacy What the fuck? >>useless theoretical physics Well, now I just feel insulted. >>Is a theoretical physicist.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:13:49 2011 No.2483066 >>2483054 Electrical engineering Electrician for big things Shit of bull.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:15:49 2011 No.2483080 >>2483054 my guess is people go full retard and think physics = physician = pharmacist

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:16:49 2011 No.2483091 >>2483051 orgo and physics to start with. Even gen chem is made redundant by high school chemistry and any number of concepts covered in core bio classes.

Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:21:49 2011 No.2483115

>>2483091
Hmm.

Because I'm looking at the list of classes required in order to graduate with my major, which is neurobiology, and I wouldn't consider any of them filter. Maybe it's just because I'm neurobio and you're bio or just how the colleges are set up.

You mind if I ask what school you go to?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:21:49 2011 No.2483118 >>2483017 Don't you mean "(underage)"?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:24:49 2011 No.2483141 File: 100 KB, 1008x403, this is great.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] this works pretty well for Astrophysics

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>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:28:49 2011 No.2483170 >>2482801 UKfag?

Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:35:49 2011 No.2483210

>>2483115
It's all relative and depends on what you want to do with it but I can guarantee you right now, if you are planning on turning that degree into medical school, most of that shit isn't going to come in handy. I go to UCONN but this shit is basically the same everywhere.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:44:49 2011 No.2483258 >>2483210 What the goddamned fuck? I'm going to UCONN, bro. How fucking coincidental. I'm going to be majoring in Physiology & Neurobiology. You still here, bro?

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>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:49:49 2011 No.2483289 >>2483264 Nice choice of stripper.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 22:55:49 2011 No.2483313 >Major Chemistry >What people think it is Mixing chemicals >What it actually is Particle/atomic physics

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:03:49 2011 No.2483350 >>2483307 bawwwww

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:04:49 2011 No.2483359 File: 326 KB, 1277x481, my major.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I wish I could appreciate my major more

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:05:49 2011 No.2483363 >>2483258 That's nuts. It's a pretty great school if you don't mind being that it's in a total farmtown and you are going to be one in a hundred kids in all yours classes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:20:49 2011 No.2483438 Philosophy. Saying whatever you want, or psychology. Rigorous argumentation about abstract topics employing mathematical logic and computational linguistics.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:24:49 2011 No.2483467 >your major Electrical engineering >what people think it is hurrdurr design light bulbs >what it actually is hurrdurr design blinking light bulbs

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:30:49 2011 No.2483491 >Major Biochemistry >What people think it is Oohhh fancy... >What it actually is A-T, G-C, protein folding some other gay chemistry shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:35:49 2011 No.2483520 >>2482801 fuck I was going to post that

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:36:49 2011 No.2483524 >>2483467 this made me lol i'm going to be majoring in pharmacology in about a week, what can i look forward to?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:38:49 2011 No.2483533 >Your major Aerospace engineering >What people think it is Rocket science and/or pre-astronaut >What it actually is Building all of the parts that make up an aircraft or spacecraft.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:41:49 2011 No.2483544 >Major Undecided >What people think it is ? >What it actually is !

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:41:49 2011 No.2483547 >major Economics >what people think it is? NATIONAL DEBT IS OVER 9000!!!! >What it actually is? everything dealing with money and resources... from profitability, risk assessment, and the grand scheme inter-workings of current economic systems.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:42:49 2011 No.2483549 >your major Biology >what people think it is Hurr durr u wanna be a doctor >what it actually is Hurr durr I wanna be a doctor Fuck.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:44:49 2011 No.2483558 >Your major Mechanical Engineering >What people think it is A glorified mechanic. >What it actually is Hurr durr applied physics

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:45:49 2011 No.2483563 Mechanical Engineering I don't think anyone I know knows what MechE is I don't think I know what MechE is, but fuck are the classes fun

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:46:49 2011 No.2483565 >>2483549 I was about to type that. I will now refrain. It's fucking gay though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:47:49 2011 No.2483575 >>2483565 what's gay? The fact that it is actually true for bio majors?

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>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:49:49 2011 No.2483584 Your major Economics >What people think it is Learning complex financial regulations in an attempt to make money >What it actually is Doing matrix math to find out the percentage demand had the role in the price increase of good A in a market B

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:51:49 2011 No.2483595 >Major Mechanical Engineering >What people think it is Building cars and shit with your hands >What is actually is Thermo, fluids, vibrations, structures

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:52:49 2011 No.2483596 >>2483584 i have a math degree and a economics degree. don't pretend your "matrix math" is anything special, at all. Economics is the degree of choice for those who get kicked out of the business school for letting their grades drop too low.

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Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:55:49 2011 No.2483614

If you are a biology major and aren't blown away by the shit you learn every single fucking day, you are doing it wrong. Yeah, theres a fair amount of bullshit you need to deal with in the way of lab reports and secondary classes but honestly, I can't imagine any other major making me feel so insignificant and so complex at the same time for the same goddamn reasons. It's an incredible major and does not need more faggots taking it for granted.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:57:49 2011 No.2483621 >>2483025 So you battle undead Templars with your math?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:57:49 2011 No.2483625 >Major Actuarial Science >What people think it is Some sort of engineering >What it actually is Statistics

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:58:49 2011 No.2483632 File: 112 KB, 1189x681, 1295193282238.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] My perception of archaeology was severely skewed as a child.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 5 23:59:49 2011 No.2483638 >>2483029 So true man, so true.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:01:49 2011 No.2483643 >Your major Dropped out >What people think it is Flipping burgers >What it actually is Driving around smoking weed all day a la Pineapple Express

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>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:02:49 2011 No.2483652 >>2483632 same here. luckily, i came to my senses before i began my studies.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:03:49 2011 No.2483660 >>2483363 Doubt you're still here, but I don't think I will mind that.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:04:49 2011 No.2483663 >>2483575 That and the fact that everyone assumes you're premed if you're a bio major. If I was premed, I'd have any other major to distinguish me from the ungodly number of biofags applying to med school. I'm not even human bio.

Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:04:49 2011 No.2483664
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>>2483596

>i have a economics degree
>Economics is the degree of choice for those who get kicked out of the business school

so you got kicked out of business school? why bother majoring in it if you hate it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:05:49 2011 No.2483672 >>2483524 >>2483524 >>2483524 >>2483524 >>2483524 >>2483524

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:06:49 2011 No.2483676 is majoring in electrical engineering worth it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:06:49 2011 No.2483677 File: 810 KB, 900x500, 1296959316963.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw you nerds are jelly

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:09:49 2011 No.2483696 >>2483663 Medical schools are looking at your GPA and MCATS more than anything else. Being a bio major doesn't give you any real edge when applying but tot being a Bio major is definitely a strike against you in a lot of places

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:09:49 2011 No.2483698 Get Engineering Degree Any cock I want 300K starting

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:10:49 2011 No.2483705 >>2483677 Switch the last 2 pics and it seems about right.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:11:49 2011 No.2483707 >>2483677 enjoy learning to hate music via theory

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:11:49 2011 No.2483712 >Major: wildlife biology >What people think it is: hurr durr save the animals >What it actually is: hurr durr save the animals

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:13:49 2011 No.2483724 >>2483647 better check the polarity on your image editor.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:14:49 2011 No.2483726 >Major Political science w/ premed >What people think it is Hurr durr person must be retarded to take easy courses >What it actually is Any med school I want.

Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:15:49 2011 No.2483732

>>2483696

Why should I have to fucking study music to be "appealing" enough to med school committees.

If I wanted to be a musician I'd study music.

But no, I want to be a doctor, and biology is involved in medicine. I find biology interesting. It's fucking annoying that knowing what my fucking passion is makes me 'boring'. Fuck that. Fuck all the faggot music majors that want to go into medicine. They don't want it enough. I'm studying biology so I know every last facet of life/biochemistry/the human body and biological function, so that when the time comes I might be able to save someone's life, develop a novel drug, etc...

So what the fuck.

Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:18:49 2011 No.2483744

>Major
Biochemistry
>What people think it is
Hurr, you want to be a doctor (a lot of my fellow biochemers thought that too)
>What it actually is
Law School bitches. With my science degree and patent law specialty, I'll make more than all but the most well-paid doctors.

White coats don't make green

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:20:49 2011 No.2483751 File: 355 KB, 900x500, yourmajorphilo.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2482788 And you know what? I'm perfectly alright with this.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:21:49 2011 No.2483753 >>2483744 I want to be sick.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:21:49 2011 No.2483756 >>2483614 >>2483614 So fucking true. I'm a Bio major with an Astronomy minor, both kick my ass into a chair daily with the grandeur of the universe laid in front of me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:22:49 2011 No.2483757 >Major Fine Arts >What people think it is lolol easy mode college hipster >What it actually is still life, still life, still life, still life

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:23:49 2011 No.2483760 >>2483726 hard times coming

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:26:49 2011 No.2483770 >>2483563 Please see >>2483307

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:29:49 2011 No.2483780 File: 100 KB, 1277x481, whatIgotpsychology.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This version of the meme is way better than OPs.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:32:49 2011 No.2483793 >>2483780 LOL i should have studied psychology.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:32:49 2011 No.2483795 >Econ >Finance >Psychology Where did you people come from? The deleted boards? This is literally the first time we've done this that I've seen more than a few non-science/engineering majors.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:32:49 2011 No.2483796 >>2483596 not poster who you where talking to but that's why I'm getting a BBA in economics

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:37:49 2011 No.2483817 >>Your major Psychology w/ premed >>What people think it is Easy way into medical school. >>What it actually is Fuck yeah!

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:46:49 2011 No.2483862 >>Your major Double major in aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering, with a minor in math. >>What people think it is Genius rocket science. >>What it actually is Fucking fun.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:48:49 2011 No.2483874 >Major Network security and analyzing >What people think it is Hacking >What it actually is Hacking for money

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Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:53:49 2011 No.2483886

>>2483596
>>2483796

Anybody, and I mean anybody who's serious about become a professional economist has to take advanced math courses, whether its required by your university or not.

Graduate school committees won't take you seriously otherwise and it's why probably over half the people who pursue a Phd in economics are from math or engineering disciplines.

captcha: hedonic regrs

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:57:49 2011 No.2483905 >Major M.B.A. >What people think it is Cash >What it actually is CASH, CASH FUCKING EVERYWHERE!

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:58:49 2011 No.2483915 >Major Horticultural Engineering >What people think it is Sooo, like farming or something? >What it actually is 2 words: Hydro. Ponics.

Anonymous Sun Feb 6 00:59:49 2011 No.2483918
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I really don't understand why everyone gets neuroscience and neurosurgery confused. Yes, they both have the word "neuro" in them, but one is a fucking medical field and the other is a scientific discipline.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:01:49 2011 No.2483933 >Major Mathematics >What people think it is Long division to the umpteenth digit >What it actually is Beautiful art

Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:07:49 2011 No.2483966

>>2483732
Agreed, this recent trend of "we only want interesting people" is really pissing me off. It's not just med schools either, but law schools, corporations, and really any form of higher education that isn't grad school.

It's really stupid considering that a guy who's qualified out the ass but has devoted his life to that one area will get passed over in favor of a person with only a passing knowledge of the subject but who boasts a wide range of "life experiences" like club activities, study abroad, and volunteering.

Call me crazy, but if I find myself looking for a doctor I want the boring nerd who knows the most inane details about biology, not the ex-sorority girl who spent a summer building schools in Africa.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:09:49 2011 No.2483979 >Your major Chemistry >What people think it is "oh good for you!" or "wow that's hard" >What it actually is Should have went into chemical engineering. Dumber chemistry, phenomenal pay and job prospects

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:11:49 2011 No.2483990 >Major Engineering >What people think it is Gay sex >What it actually is Gay orgies

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:11:49 2011 No.2483997 REQUESTING OPINIONS ON MAJORS: 1. Genetics 2. Statistics 3. Neuroscience

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:12:49 2011 No.2483999 >>2482963 >>2482963 fucking this. at least at undergrad level. theyre great tho. challenging means i've always learned more

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:12:49 2011 No.2484000 >Major Physics >What people think it is Nuclear bombs and shit >What it actually is error analysis

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:12:49 2011 No.2484001 >>2482899 fucking undergrads, honors/PhD/Post-doc = making shit

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:13:49 2011 No.2484006 >>2483997 >/sci/ >REQUESTING OPINIONS Ugh.

Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:13:49 2011 No.2484007

>Major
Computing and Mathematical Sciences (programming)
>What people think it is
Hours slaving away at a desk, staring into a computer screen all night long.
>What it actually is
Minutes slaving away at a desk, staring into a computer screen, the rest of the time doing whatvever the fuck you want.

>>	Anonymouse Sun Feb 6 01:14:49 2011 No.2484017 >>2483647 >>2483647 >>2483647 >>2483647 lol glorified plumbers

Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:15:49 2011 No.2484024

> Your Major
Physics
> What people think it is
Learning all about cool abstract theories, memorizing trivial facts about the universe, and being Gordon Freeman
> What it actually is
Lots of tedious mathematical work, some theory as background for the methods used to solve various problems, and working harder than non-physics majors

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:17:49 2011 No.2484029 >>2483614 >>2483614 FUCKING THIS I HATE FUCKING PREMEDS IM TAKING BIO BECAUSE OF BIO FAGGOTS NOT TO BE A DOCTOR FUCK /capslock

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:18:49 2011 No.2484034 >Major Mathematics >What people think it is Long equations, graphs, and statistics >What it actually is How to think logically and philosophy. My mind is blown every day.

Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:18:49 2011 No.2484036

almost every girl i talk to doing psychology seems to be under the impression that they're some kind of genius because they're doing "science" while all their friends etc are doing arts n shit

my god

Psychology is a joke
Neurology is the true science

people try to say "oh but psychology is so similar/same" but it's not, not enough

sure a top tier psych student will probably go on to do work that a neuro student would, but honestly...if i had to give an analogy

a typical biochem student can't do what a chemist can
but a typical chemist can do what a biochem student can

true shit

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:18:49 2011 No.2484037 >>2484024 lol no if linear algebra and quantum are hard you aren't cut out to be a physicist. error analysis for experiments is the hardest thing there is.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:20:49 2011 No.2484042 >>2484036 almost every girl i talk to doing psychology seems to be doing it in a vain attempt to solve their own crushing psychological issues

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:20:49 2011 No.2484044 >What I majored in Undecided >What I expected Aha! That's what I'll do! >What I got FUCK I don't know what to do!!! Someone halp!!!

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:24:49 2011 No.2484063 >>2483933 Math is indeed beautiful art. I wish someone would incorporable that in to a textbook the likes of Vesalius.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:25:49 2011 No.2484071 >>2484042 yes. very true. i seriously wonder how far some of these bitches get? these people and those that get degrees in "business" where do these people end up?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:28:49 2011 No.2484079 >What I majored in Chemistry >What I expected Chemistry >What I got Chemistry I knew what I wanted, and I got it. Boring but true.

Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:30:49 2011 No.2484086

>>2484037

You're a faggot. Did I say linear algebra was hard? No.

I said physics majors work hard, which is true unless your college is a fucking joke. Even when the work itself is easy, we get fucktons of it, and it takes forever.

Furthermore, error analysis is absolutely not the hardest thing in physics. It's the easiest. You must have taken physics at a community college.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:34:49 2011 No.2484095 >>2484086 >>2484086 Trolled hard

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:36:49 2011 No.2484102 >>2484095 99% of the users here are trolls, but it's still hard not to call them out on their bullshit. Yes I mad.

Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:38:49 2011 No.2484111

Major
Anthropology focus historical archaeology

What people think it is
Indiana Jones

What it actually is
Living on per diem, drinking to much, excavating at the break of dawn to beat the heat. being dirty. shoveling like a ditch digger. naming your trowel. writing grants. writing unit summaries. writing a dissertation. writing journal articles. drawing on maps. having a jeep full of shovels and machetes. teaching undergrads. eventually being a broken down old man like an iron worker or brick layer. possibly being an iron worker or brick layer if you dont get tenure.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:42:49 2011 No.2484121 >>2483997 I want to hear what genetics majors think of their major as well.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:42:49 2011 No.2484122 >major Architecture technology >what people think it is contracting, building, constructioning >What it actually is ...i don't know so far. mostly computer drafting so far. no other architectbros? ;_;

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:43:49 2011 No.2484126 Management Information Systems WHAT IS THAT Essential to any serious company MIS is more of a science than psychology.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:46:49 2011 No.2484136 >>2484122 this is unrelated but do you know any good architecture blogs? That stuff, specifically urban design, interests me greatly but I can't ever talk about it because I don't know the first thing about it.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:52:49 2011 No.2484154 My Major >Forestry What People Think It Is > LOL lumberjack What it actually is > GIS

Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:57:49 2011 No.2484179

Major
>Engineering Technology
What People Think it Is
>Engineering for idiots
What it actually is
>Engineering with less of a focus on theory and other fluff and more of a focus on using the proven principles of engineering to solve problems in the real world

Anonymous Sun Feb 6 01:57:49 2011 No.2484183

>>2484145

Is geology interesting? Do you like it? It never crossed my mind as a major choice because biology, chemistry, and physics are always emphasized as THE sciences (and math) so I never had any exposure. Maybe I'll take an intro class next semester and see what's up.

Anonymous Sun Feb 6 02:01:49 2011 No.2484197

>>2483997
Neurofag here

It's a science that's got something for everyone. Biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, anthropology, psychology, hell, even economics; all of that has managed to carve a niche in the field. Of course, the flip side to that is that you also have to have at least a basic grounding in all of those sciences as well (the one exception being computer science, but if you do know how to program you'll go VERY far just off that alone). It's not enough to be a quantitative or qualitative guy like you can be in the other sciences, you have to be good at everything.

Also, be aware going in that your current perceptions of what neuroscience is and how the brain works are probably completely wrong. For one thing, "brain chemicals" don't really matter much in the scheme of things. That's what we manipulate with medications, but what neuroscience is really about are the (cellular, molecular, and electrophysiological) properties of neurons and the networks they make. Also, things that probably sound easy to a layman like brain scans, neuron recordings, and looking at brain sections under a microscope are, in fact, extremely time consuming, monotonous, and stressful to carry out.

Anonymous Sun Feb 6 02:03:49 2011 No.2484205

>>2484183
Yeah. Earth science in high school is bull, but in college you realize it's a lot more than the study of rocks. Watch out for what class you take though. Many intro classes are just "rocks for jocks" classes. Things only get interesting in the upper division and grad level.

-Marine tectonics
-Paleoclimate research using isotope analysis of ice cores and seafloor sediment cores
-Geophysics studying Earth's magnetic field
-Seismology not only the study of earthquakes themselves but using waves to study the composition of earth

-Geohydrology

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Some faggot !!ONWP7kBmJbB Sun Feb 6 02:08:49 2011 No.2484234

Psychology

Social-science bullshittery. Not entirely wrong here.

Getting paid to be a friend who gets to be an asshole but seem nice about it. Basically, trollface.jpg. Seriously. I listen to people talk for an hour or so, make notes, analyze the data, and tell them "Yep, you are(nt) suffering from this, this is what you do (not) want to do: "

Then I go home and study quantum mechanics.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 02:09:49 2011 No.2484239 File: 36 KB, 329x357, feelsgood.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2484234 >be psychologist >fuck that happy perky "feel good" bullshit >get hired by CIA >torture people all day, e'rry day >mfw

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 02:13:49 2011 No.2484259 >Major Psychology >What I expected "How does that make you feel?" >What I got Philosophy, medical science, neurology, semantics, logic, sociology, Jung > Freud, Psychiatry, chemistry, reading, psychoactive analyse.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 02:14:49 2011 No.2484266 >>2484234 >>2484239 >>2484259 Pathetic.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 02:17:49 2011 No.2484277 >Major Broadcasting >what people think it is camera/microphone holder guy >what it actually is bringing celebrities coffee and spending hours editing background music for sarah palin's reality show on shitty 2006 macs. But mostly coffee.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 02:19:49 2011 No.2484283 >Major Biochemistry >What people think it is You mix stuff together and blow stuff up and cure cancer with chemicals! >What it actually is Drawing pictures and memorizing pictures.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 02:21:49 2011 No.2484287 >>2484277 i like coffee

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 02:24:49 2011 No.2484297 >Major nursing >What I expected feeling good about helping the sick, 'hey i'll never have to go back to food service again!' >What I got 'can i take your order please, you germ spreading sick, rude organism you?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 04:00:49 2011 No.2484636 >>2484283 who the fuck thinks biochemistry involves blowing stuff up?

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 09:05:49 2011 No.2485382 >Your Major Computer Games Development >What people think it is LOL PLAYIN GAEMS AL DAI >What it actually is Plane equations, Iconix process, software development methodology seminars, connectionism vs computationalism in AI.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 10:35:49 2011 No.2485647 >>2483862 Holy shit I want that SO hard. Goddamn Eastern Europian education system w/o double majoring and minors.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 10:41:49 2011 No.2485675 >>2485516 I hope you're trolling. It makes me sad to think that a physics student makes so many errors in their writing

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>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 10:52:49 2011 No.2485705 >>2483677 Fuck yeah, Foxy Shazam

Anonymous Sun Feb 6 10:53:49 2011 No.2485707

85% my as after 3 years in a uni that goes at you from first year to sort the wheat from the chaff we barely lost 30 out of 165

>you benefit from learning math in you free time
>don't have to memorise things
it's physics you know math or you wont pass
and you do have to memorise a fuck ton of equations and other stuff

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 10:53:49 2011 No.2485708 >>2482926 Too bad they did'nt teach oyu gramamr.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 10:56:49 2011 No.2485715 Major >Aerospace Engineering What people think it is >Rocket science What it actually is >Fucking calculus

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 11:00:49 2011 No.2485722 Major >Aerospace Engineering What people think it is >Projecting planes What it actually is >Having sex with horses

Anonymous Sun Feb 6 11:08:49 2011 No.2485746

>Board
/sci/
>What people think it is
Discussion of natural based phenomena and its explanations up to current theory.
>What I got
-Bunch of faggot high schoolers struggling to deal with their Sunday school.
-How do you do my homework guys? Help!
-So imma 16 and imma thinkin I want to be einstein--should I major in theoretical physics or awsome studies. im genius level so i will have no probs.
-If i do the impossible, what will then happen to the impossible guys. omg a pardadox.
-A serious, interesting science inquiry--> page 15 in two minutes.
etc.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 11:13:49 2011 No.2485770 >>2485746 you forgot religion talks. they would be nr. 2. >>2485675 sry, me no good engrish >>2485707 well good for you, but at my uni at least 150 died. also, I don't memorise (thanks for the s) nothing. what would that be good for.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 11:47:49 2011 No.2485903 rofl so true.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 11:47:49 2011 No.2485906 File: 121 KB, 900x500, lolol.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] actuarial studies...

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>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 12:16:49 2011 No.2486007 >>2485906 I've always seen actuarial science as people who haven't the talent or the courage to get into finance and selected a more chill, riskless major. The actuarial guys are soooo boring when they talk.. It's such a stereotype.

>>	Anonymous Sun Feb 6 12:23:49 2011 No.2486024 Mechanical Engineering Boring redundant math over and over again "What if we built it like this? have the computer run the math, then build a prototype." Its actually quite nice to use computers. Makes this bullshit a lot easier.

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