/sci/ - Science & Math

[That is all. No.2594521]

1.What I Majored In

2. What I Expected

3. What I Got

[Anonymous No.2594524]

1. Math

2. Abstract theories and shit

3. See number 2

[Anonymous No.2594529]

1. Computer Science

2. Maths

3. Java

[Anonymous No.2594537]

1) Biochemistry

2) Endless amounts of useless information, some serious knowledge, laboratory skills and entrance to medical school

3) See 2.

[Anonymous No.2594548]

1. Recursion

2. See above

3. See above

[Anonymous No.2594558]

1) aerospace engineering
2) actually being a fucking astronaut or making FTL travel like star trek
3) 3 degrees in fluid mechanics, 20 extra pounds, and a blood pressure problem

[Anonymous No.2594564]

1. chemical engineering
2. badass salary and mad props
3. conservation of mass and energy

[Anonymous No.2594570]

1. Math
2. Proofs and applied statistics
3. Proofs and applied statistics

[Anonymous No.2594572]

1. geophysics
2. easy crap, no math
3. double major in math, spend most of my time doing math

[Anonymous No.2594581]

1. Economics
2. Just a BA, work at an insurance company or whatever
3. The keys to the world

[Anonymous No.2594584]

>exercise science
>gym teachers
>premed

[That is all. No.2594588]

>>2594558
Damn bro :(

1. Undecided

2. AHA! That's what I want to do!

3. I still have no fucking idea.

[Anonymous No.2594589]

1. Computer Science

2. Programming

3. Math

4. JMP 3

[Anonymous No.2594590]

1. Business

2. Lots of money.

3. Lots of money; BORING AND FUCK. No real skills. Did a 1 year a post-bacc in math while still working. Doing a 1 year no-name master in math now. PhD or bust...doing it the long way.

[Anonymous No.2594591]

>>2594558

lol

This made my day.

[Anonymous No.2594593]

1.Math

2. compex formulas and proofs. Complete understanding of the most beautiful laws of the universe.

3. Applied addition :\

[Anonymous No.2594601]

>>2594590
>he still thinks a phd boosts his career chances

[Anonymous No.2594608]

1. Mechanical Engineering

2. Battlebots

3. lots of bros, keggers, and general debauchery. possibly a drinking problem

[Anonymous No.2594610]

1. Anthropology and Computer Science

2. Fun.

3. Fun.

[Anonymous No.2594611]

>>2594588
>>2594591
heh, fyi, i stated it that way more to just be funny. i enjoy the hell out of my work =)

but i definitely am not the ripped, healthy undergrad i once was...

[Anonymous No.2594622]

1. Women's studies
2. Pussy and ass all over
3. Hipsters, easy classes, typical dyke-persona chicks who are actually interested in my penis, my articles being published.

As a side note, I'm also minoring in statistics and do reporting work.

[Anonymous No.2594647]

>>2594601
Johnny Greentext missed the point. Math: feels good man.

[Anonymous No.2594653]

1. Pediatrics
2. CP
3. CP

[Anonymous No.2594655]

1. Physics.
2. Working for NASA.
3. No jobs in Physics. Enlisted in military. They're always hiring.

[Anonymous No.2594675]

1. Economics
2. Understanding of how markets work with minimal math
3. Math everywhere. Ideas summarizing the entire free market system, how to exploit it, and how to analyze and quantify human factors

I never knew this shit would be so interesting. I took it for the enormous paycheck, but now I feel like I'm a God with all this knowledge. If money is power, I feel that economics is the gateway to greatness.

[That is all. No.2594679]

>>2594622
Seriously? Women's studies?

[Anonymous No.2594692]

>>2594675
>yfw economists dont actually make money but study it
>yfw you can't control the market
>mfw money is nothing after death

wow so delusional. going to a degree for money is sure way NOT to make money cos youll be bored as fuck, im glad you enjoy economics but protip: economists dont earn that much, contrary to a popular belief

[Anonymous No.2594702]

>>2594622
Is women's studies just people complaining about men and blaming men for every problem? Or is there more to it?

[Anonymous No.2594710]

>>2594702
>women's studies
>study women
>study how to get women
>study how to pleasure women

Where do i sign up

[Anonymous No.2594713]

>>2594622

Agreed.

[Anonymous No.2594727]

>>2594702

Yeah, but if you play along with blaming all the other "douche" men, but don't act like a fag and can be handy then they'll gobble it and you.

[Anonymous No.2594732]

>>2594702
Not the person you're asking, but in my experience, it isn't like that at all. I took a women's studies course at Berkeley for GE credit. It was quite interesting. It was really more about performance art, women in art, etc. than any specific issue in society. The teacher also explicitly said that the class wasn't about men or blaming men for anything, and she was quite true to her word. It was an interesting class, but obviously is a joke of a major that will land you a job at McDonald's.

[Anonymous No.2594744]

1. Nothing

2. Nothing

3. Unemployed.

[Anonymous No.2594746]

Nuclear engineering

Building nuclear bombs and shit

Graphs, graphs everywhere

[Pinkie Pie !dCR16Yv6n2 No.2594750]

Economics
Assumptions
Assumptions

[Anonymous No.2594753]

>>2594732
Or maybe as a professor teaching Women's studies ?

[Anonymous No.2594756]

1. enology

2. drink wine all day eerrr day

3. actual work

[Anonymous No.2594763]

1. Nuclear science

2. $50kpy + beer

3. Free sunglasses

[Anonymous No.2594773]

1. Computer science and math dual major
2. Computational math, applications in finance and biology
3. Actually got into cryptography and data mining. It's really interesting stuff. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys the complexity of math working in harmony with computer science.

[That is all. No.2594780]

>>2594746
Nuclear Engineering sounds so fucking cool, why can't majors match my mental image of them?

(I pictured a scientist cackling madly as he watches a hydrogen bomb destroying a city. But I suppose that's not a skill that's in demand in today's job market.)

[Anonymous No.2594785]

1. Physics and Astronomy
2. THE UNIVERSE
3. UNEMPLOYMENT

:(

[Anonymous No.2594789]

1. Electrical Engineering

2. fucking shit up with electric bolts of doom

3. PSpice, PSpice everywhere

[Anonymous No.2594803]

>>2594521
1. Dual major: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2. Career in the relatively (1980's) field of Robotics Engineering
3. No way to pay for school, ended up working instead -- no degrees at all. Shit sucks, man.

[Anonymous No.2594812]

1. Mathematics
2. Abstract fundamentals and well-paying applied skills
3. Tutoring undergrad, teaching as a grad, and loving all the strange nuances of math as I look further into my subjects

[Anonymous No.2594843]

1. History and Economics
2. Reviewing the folly of mathematically modeling and manipulating human behavior for profit throughout time
3. Confirming my preconceptions by analyzing delusional people like >>2594675

[Anonymous No.2594846]

>>2594780
Actually, It can be. Theres a huge shortage of people in the defense industry with the know-how of creating atomic weaponry. If you wanted that as a career path, you could probably do that if you wanted too.

[Anonymous No.2594859]

>>2594846
Having the know-how is one things. Doing anything with it is another. I think that's the problem right now.

[Anonymous No.2594861]

>Political science
>Learning how people think and how the government works
>Trash. Every class was a worthless waste of time.

I switched to engineering a year ago and luckily I had decided to pursue a minor in math when I started my undergrad. If everything goes as planned, I should finish up in another year and a half.

[Anonymous No.2594865]

>>2594859
*one thing

[Anonymous No.2594866]

[Anonymous No.2594885]

[‮‭‮‭‮Anonymous‬‬‬ No.2594894]

IMAGES, PEOPLE

[Anonymous No.2594909]

1. Physics
2. Math
3. Sometimes a particle in a box isn't in the box.

[Anonymous No.2594919]

1. Neuroscience
2. Analyzing neurodegenerative diseases
3. Falling into depression as I interview the mentally ill

Seriously, this stuff is not for the faint of heart.

[Anonymous No.2594922]

People saying no jobs in physics must not realize that a BS in Physics means nothing. You need a PhD to be taken seriously.

[Anonymous No.2594925]

1.What I Majored In: Engineering technology

2. What I Expected: Engineering for dummies

3. What I Got: Engineering that you do, not that you theorize

[Anonymous No.2594933]

>>2594846
Guy who is majoring on nuke e here.
You got source on that? It would be great to know that what you are saying is actually true.

[Anonymous No.2594942]

>>2594789

[Anonymous No.2594957]

>>2594922
Major implies a bachelor's degree, which is what the OP asked for.

[Anonymous No.2594958]

1. Physics
2. Interesting theoretical physics
3. ERROR ANALYSIS ON EXPERIMENTS

[Anonymous No.2594974]

>>2594763
FREE SUNGLASSES?! COOL!

[That is all. No.2594976]

>>2594846
Please tell me you're being honest.

Because that would be fucking sweet.

[Anonymous No.2594979]

1. Medical Physics
2. Blast people with radiation
3. blast people with radiation.

[Anonymous No.2594980]

[Anonymous No.2594999]

1. Chemistry
2. /sci/'s approval
3. Misery

I'm going to switch to something better, possibly MechE.

[Anonymous No.2595033]

>>2594608

[Anonymous No.2595075]

1. Chemical engineering in nano-materials

2. improving nano-science in Singapore or South East Asia

3. Teaching English in Bangkok and cannot pay of student loans

[Anonymous No.2595102]

>>2595075
Is that you, Sean?

[Anonymous No.2595125]

Majors: History and German

What I Expected: To study things I enjoy and learn a lot more about those subjects


What I Got: Exactly what I expected

Fuck yeah.

[Anonymous No.2595138]

>>2595102

That is my name, who are you?

[Anonymous No.2595139]

God damn it why are people saying this shit is hard

[Anonymous No.2595161]

[Anonymous No.2595163]

1.Computer Science
2.Java
3.Chinese peers

[Anonymous No.2595174]

>>2595139
Because, while you'd expect college students to be above-average, they're mostly just as stupid as every other group of people (on average).

I don't think it's possible to take a freshman course in anything where the subject matter is hard. Professor can make it hard if the tests are obtuse or they can't teach, but the courses are inherently simplistic. They're meant to be.

[Anonymous No.2595195]

>>2595174

I think E&M can be pretty hard if you've never done it in high school. Certainly a lot harder than classical mechanics.

[Anonymous No.2595208]

>>2595174

made to be easy enough to pass, but hard enough to weed out students who do not study/care: 10x more true for science majors. I learned that the hard way, spent an extra year in University with another $50,000 added in student debt

[Anonymous No.2595211]

>>2595102
Yes

[Anonymous No.2595212]

-Math/Statistics double major

-doomed to become an accountant or math teacher

-job as a biostatician for Johnson & Johnson

everythingwentbetterthanexpected.jpg

[Anonymous No.2595227]

>>Culinary Arts (what a joke)
>>cooking, more cooking, learn spanish, become alcoholic by my 30's
>>3 years and $75k+ worth of debt later I lament the fact that I could have gone to U of A with most of my expenses already taken care of but no...precious little anon was not allowed to leave mommy's sight and was forced to go to the goddamn Art Institute up the street.

Fuck her. I'm happier being a poorfag in another state and attending community college than I would ever be working as a McManager (that's the best a B.A. at AI ever got me) and living with my ignorant whore of a mother.

[Anonymous No.2595232]

1. Biology: Genetics
2. Lab works, indoor clean lab work with samples and data.
3. Fucking sampling out in the field sampling bears. FUCKING BEARS.

[Anonymous No.2595235]

1.Philosophy
2. Interesting and insightful discussions about the nature of life and reality.
3. Suddenly cannabis, cannabis everywhere.

[Anonymous No.2595238]

>>2595227
Why did you let your mom decide where you go, especially if it's more expensive?

[Anonymous No.2595255]

>Computer Engineering
> Building computers, learning about computers
> Math. Math everywhere.

[That is all. No.2595262]

>>2595232
Sounds better than the lab :D You get to meet and give hugs to cuddly bears!

Don't forget your mace! (But seriously? Bears?)

[Anonymous No.2595267]

1) Physics and Astronomy

2) Research team or a teacher!! :D

3) Legal Assistant $95k

[Anonymous No.2595271]

1. Chemical Engineering

2. Building chemical plants/oil refineries

3. Minor in petroleum engineering. Worked on liquid/SC CO2 thickeners. $2 all you can drink beer parties from AIChE.

[Anonymous No.2595273]

1.Computer science
2.Lots of maths
3.Not that many maths
Feels good man

[That is all. No.2595275]

>>2595267
Legal Assistant? Lolwut?

[Anonymous No.2595281]

1. MIS

2. no clue

3. Work from home programmer $48k salary

[Anonymous No.2595291]

>>2595271

Fucking love AIChE!

[Anonymous No.2595312]

>>2595271

damn, we didn't get beer at our meetings!

[Anonymous No.2595323]

1. Fine Arts/Illustration
2. People who are dedicated to their artwork on a technical scale for the moment, work hard at improving said skill, and love art history in general
3. Pretentious hipsters that think they're deep. Everywhere.

I'm literally quitting because I can't stand the people in my humanities and social science classes. Thank god I'm only a semester behind my science/math sequence so I can jump right into orgo and calc II

[Anonymous No.2595326]

>>2595271
If you are not hung over the next day you were doing something wrong.

Most of the people in my major are retards. I just go to the parties because it is impossible to get blackout drunk on $2 any other way.

[Anonymous No.2595337]

>>2595195
so true. one of my most difficult classes, though i do blame the professor.

[Anonymous No.2595338]

1.Physics
2.Working on research teams
3.Ripped apart by an intrinsic field subtractor

[Anonymous No.2595365]

>>2594958
> 1. Physics
> 2. Interesting theoretical physics
> 3. ERROR ANALYSIS ON EXPERIMENTS

Is this becoming a popular troll tactic on /sci/? Or do your colleges really have such terrible physics programs?

[Anonymous No.2595388]

1. Chemistry
2. Make breakthrough discoveries
3. Meth

[Anonymous No.2595391]

>>2595388

Oh Hai, Walter White.

[Anonymous No.2595409]

Mechanical Engineering.

Making machines.

Differential Equations. Differential equations EVERYWHERE.

[Anonymous No.2595439]

>>2595267
>>2594785
>>2594655
Are jobs in physics really that hard to come by?

[Anonymous No.2595481]

1. Farm Management
2. to work for myself, help save the world and increase awareness of our natural surrounding coupled with bouts of not giving a fuck
3. so far so good

[Anonymous No.2595504]

1. Mechanical Engineering
2. A job
3. Nothing

[That is all. No.2595567]

>>2595481
That picture made me LOL.

[Anonymous No.2595570]

>>2595481
I respect that

[Anonymous No.2595575]

>>2595504
Yea dude you should have known better. There are so many unemployed mechanical engineers right now with decades of experience in the field, laid off during the recession

[Anonymous No.2595602]

>>2595504
>>2595504
>>2595504
>>2595504
>>2595504


I have the following pieces of software (in full, no virii) installed on my computer:


Siemens PLM NX
Creo Elements
Catia
Solidworks
Autodesk AutoCAD
a very generously low estimate is that the total combined value is ~$10,000.

though some of that stuff can go for a lot more in a large enterprise environment (the Siemen's Software is used by Porsche/VW, MB, BMW, Fiat/Ferrari, etc)

[Anonymous No.2595613]

[Anonymous No.2595616]

1. microbiology

2. job at a place like monsanto

3. calculus, calculus everywhere

[Anonymous No.2595618]

>>2595365
>>2595365
>>2595365


no. but only naive fuckwits think that Theoretical Physics is a great line of education if you want a job.


seriously, about 99.99999% of all theoretical physics Ph. D. (astrophysics, HEP, etc... NON "real world" application based mathematical physics) NEVER EVER EVER get jobs in their field in industry.

they either switch into a programming or electronics job...

or stay in academia for the rest of their lives.
there is no in between. Engineering companies do not hire physicists who calculated the free electron density of a neutron star, or the probability density functional of a Pi meson.

[Anonymous No.2595625]

>>2595616


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA


what did you have to solve some first order linear differential equations with a bunch of equilibrium/steady state assumptions?


how sad.

[Anonymous No.2595631]

>>2594933
Type into google "Shortage of nuclear scientists" Theres this boston globe article lamenting how nobody wants to build atomic bombs anymore for the U.S. government.

[Anonymous No.2595644]

>>2595631
>Theres this boston globe article lamenting how nobody wants to build atomic bombs anymore for the U.S. government

Wha....but that has to be the worlds most awesome job.

[Anonymous No.2595647]

>>2595625
my school puts pretty much everyone who goes into the science college into mandatory math until they fall off.

I am not saying its horrible, but it isn't what I expected.

>captcha related

[Anonymous No.2595659]

[Anonymous No.2595660]

1. Cognitive Neuroscience

2. The matrix

3. The matrix

U MAD?!?!?

[Anonymous No.2595664]

[Anonymous No.2595686]

>>2595644
Most people have an ethical issue doing that though. I for one, would have no issue designing smart bombs that generally kill "bad" people, destroy infrastructure used by an enemy that wants to kill us. I do however, have an issue with building something that is designed only to cause mass casualties. I think we're a bit more refined than that.


Besides, from what I've read up about that career field (I was contemplating on getting a PhD in nuclear chemistry), the pure bureaucratic bullshit you deal with in that job is terrible, because:

1) you have to live life with a top secret security clearance; the amount of freedom you give up is an enormous amount (and in my opinion, unacceptable).

2) If you work for LLNL or LANL (where they construct the things), your run by a company known as Bechtel, which from what i've heard, operates more on a profit motive than a technology advancing one (again, from rants that people have posted from working there on blogs).

#3 You need a PhD, which automatically won't be the most pleasant part of your life.

It would be an interesting career field, but the amount of bullshit would be immense to get into it.

[Anonymous No.2595696]

>>2595481
Oka, so what's your plan to save the world

[Anonymous No.2595711]

>>2595696
by acting like god and doing nothing and slowly influencing the world with bullshit

[Anonymous No.2595712]

>>2595686

See, I have no problem designing and constructing WMDs because I understand and appreciate their role as weapons of deterrence, not weapons of war.

[Anonymous No.2595717]

>>2595075


lol wut ??

I'm studying polymers and inorganic materials ... But probably gonna end up with nano-materials .. Always heard just great shit about it ..??

How did you manage to fuck this up ?? It's not like you have useless diploma or shit ??

[Anonymous No.2595725]

[Anonymous No.2595741]

I have no face for when I'm a physics major waiting to hear from graduate schools and my back-up plan is becoming a novelist and writing science fiction.

[Anonymous No.2595746]

>>2595741
Comp+Psych here, my plan is to write novels (already started), then get a programming job if that doesn't work out.

[Anonymous No.2595749]

1. Chemistry

2. Fucking FMA!!!1

3. TISE and bullshit curly arrows ¬¬

[Anonymous No.2595759]

>>2595749
I thought about doing chemisty but it's just so bohring. To each his own I guess

[Anonymous No.2595762]

>>2595749

> 3. physics - rigour + curly arrows

fix'd

[Anonymous No.2595781]

[Anonymous No.2595808]

>>2595717

Well it is my own fault. Married a girl there, thought i could take a year off to teach, found out no one in asia would employ me for engineering after a one year gap (not even singapore), and decided to stay because I make enough money to support myself, but my loans will not be paid off for another fifty years. I enjoy teaching though, but maybe i gotta head back to the states >_>

[Anonymous No.2595839]

>>2595781
nick?

[Anonymous No.2595846]

>>2595839

no

[Anonymous No.2595848]

>>2595846
alright

[Anonymous No.2595854]

>>2595846

ok

[Anonymous No.2595912]

>>2595854
>>2595848
>>2595846
>>2595839
Get back to /b/.

[Anonymous No.2595922]

>>2595912

How was that "/b/" dialogue?

[Anonymous No.2595940]

>>2595227
What kind of pussy are you?
>U of A

Oh, I see. An Albertan.
girlslaughing.exe

[Anonymous No.2595969]

>>2595940
Possibly Alabama

[Anonymous No.2595984]

>>2595969
They have a university?

[Anonymous No.2595987]

>>2595969
Arizona, Arkansas, there are a few "U of A"s.

[Anonymous No.2596011]

>>2595781
>Business
>Math
What sort of fools do you take us for?

[Anonymous No.2596020]

>>2596011

Are you joking? Any respectable business school requires at least calculus. Not saying its very hard mind you, just not what i expected.

[Anonymous No.2596034]

>>2596020
>Implying first-year calculus is hard
The guy posted Schrodinger's equation like I'm supposed to believe business majors actually study. I sometimes feel like fraternities were designed to keep business students as far away from other students as possible.

[Anonymous No.2596042]

>>2596034

Who was implying it was hard? I suppose it hard reading three sentences.

[Anonymous No.2596061]

>>2595712
Interesting. I was under the impression most scientists and engineers in your field advocated for nuclear zero.

[Anonymous No.2598274]

1) Law
2) Divorced Milfs + justice
3) WRITING AND READING USELESS SHIT NOBODY CARES ABOUT + fuckton of money

[That is all. No.2598785]

Any Biology majors?

[Anonymous No.2599026]

1. Computer science
2. 4.0
3. 2.69 (yea you can laugh)

[Anonymous No.2599041]

>>2599026
LOLOLOLOL

No just kidding, I admire CS majors. I barely comprehend that stuff.

[Anonymous No.2599043]

1. Political Science
2. Continental Congress
3. Special Ed

[Anonymous No.2599046]

>>2599026
Eh, not a huge deal because CS isn't entirely dependent on GPA, unlike some majors. You can always do (notable) side projects.

[Anonymous No.2599048]

>>2599041
It's more math than programming at my uni. I thought I was good at math until I had to do integral calculus and then a discrete math course.

[Anonymous No.2599055]

> What I Majored In
Forensic psychology

>What I Expected
Easy, bullshit pseudo science

>What I Got
LAW SCHOOL

WHAT THE *FUCK*

[Anonymous No.2599066]

>Engineers, engineers everywhere
Why are you people so spiteful towards anyone that isn't either an engineer or in "hard sciences"?

[Anonymous No.2599077]

>>2599043
>>1. Political Science
>>2. Continental Congress
>>3. Special Ed

Lol, I know. I sat in on a lecture in a Poly Sci majors class (because I got extra credit for it for my Poly Sci 101 GE class). Talk about a pack of dummies. Holy shit.

[Anonymous No.2599107]

1. Law
2. Sex, girls, and drugs
3. Sex, girls, drugs, and tons of cash.

Yea I was gonna be an engineer but getting poontang was more important.

[Anonymous No.2599668]

Which major would give me the most money for the least effort?

Lazy-fag here.
captcha: ofirp philosophy

[Anonymous No.2600575]

>>>Premedicine
>>>Intelligent people and an MCAT that was entirely based on intelligence
>>>Buncha faggots that care nothing of what they are learning it is only a means to an end (Med school) Everyone who has ever done well on the MCAT has taken 3000 dollars worth of classes, and Med school seems like a huge popularity contest.

Kept the bio major, added a chem major, just got accepted into a PhD program at a moderately respected school. Feels good man.

[Anonymous No.2600611]

1. Applied math
2. Pure math, but gets you a job!
3. Calculations, CALCULATIONS EVERYWHERE. Not a lot of theory. Fuck this... I hate making a stupid calculation error... goddamn it why can't i be more careful!?!??! These small mistakes are making me depressed and wanting to stay away from the applied, outside world. Maybe that's the problem; I'm just afraid to face the moment and I shrink away into my subconscious mind, and let my mechanical hands take over, not thinking, not seeing the beauty of the work. I'm never in control, only passing. But I want to see the world.

[Anonymous No.2600635]

[Anonymous No.2600698]

1. Physics (officially Physics & Astronomy)
2. A good jumping off point for either earth science or astronomy.
3. A data analysis job with the government for a few years, a master's in environmental/civil engineering, and currently a well-paying civil/env engineering job running models of rivers and dams and shit.

[Anonymous No.2600804]

>>2600698
Holy shit that sounds pretty awesome.

[Anonymous No.2601341]

pure math

cool ass rubber sheet geometry (algebraic topology/homotopy theory)

fuckin boring category theory up the ass...

[Anonymous No.2601352]

>>2600635
are you fucking retarded? you really expected to study complex variables and strange attractors in first semester calculus?? go back to your faggoty engineering club, dork.

[Anonymous No.2601364]

>>2595725
fixd