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ITT: Post prejudices concering your university course.

Computer Science:
Wooow, you know all tricks of Windows 7, can u show me?

>> No.3320313

psychology

I feel depressed today, tell me why!

>> No.3320314
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Astrophysics:
"Oh really? Where does gravity come from?"

>> No.3320319

Biology
"Whats your favourite animal"

>> No.3320322

>engineering
>gay anal sex

>> No.3320323

Also astrophysics:
"How do you even know if physics works on other planets if you haven't gone there?"

>> No.3320324

physics

will you be like einstein and sort of work on a new theory or what the fuck are you gonna do after university?

>> No.3320327

first year chem

LOLOLLOL HOW DO I SYNTHESIZE WEED

>> No.3320328

>>3320323
how do you know?

>> No.3320346

Computer Science:
That I know anything and everything about any vaguely technological device ever conceived and all the intricate details of your computer that I have never seen or used.

Also I know where all your programs were installed and how to work them.

>> No.3320350

"I'm a Physicist."
"Oh really? Well I have this bad back..."

>> No.3320355

Professional writing.
>Oh yeah, I love books too, like have you heard of [author]? yeah, their stuff is just so deep.

>> No.3320358

mathematician

"...omg..."

>> No.3320362

>>3320346
This makes me rage every fucking time

>> No.3320378

moar

>> No.3320387

>>3320362
-This window pops up every time I start my computer. Can you get rid of it?

-Me: Sure I'll try.
30 min. of looking at obscure already semi-uninstalled programs/obscure files with no result. And I have tried all the tools that I know.

-Me: Sorry I can't get rid of it. It seems to be some sort of incompatibility error and I can't find where the file causing it is located.

- So what do you know then? Huh?

Just to clarify I'm first year electrical engineering student (yes mainly the hardware and low level bits) - not even close to random obscure software issues.

But the phrase "so what do you know then?" is just a pure furious-rage igniter and the best part is that usually people who use the phrase don't even understand how annoying it is.

>> No.3320388

Electrical Eng.
Hey my refrigerator was acting kind of funny do you know what is wrong with it?

PS: Gay anal sex. >:(

>> No.3320391

>Mathematics

>HOW MANY DECIMALS CAN YOU NAME PI TO?!

>> No.3320398

>>3320391
Well you can just give/derive them the iterative formula for it (all the decimals). But I admit it is a pointless calculator style question.

>> No.3320412

Computer Science

That I even know a bunch of random shit about your processor or monitor, rather than programming, math and algorithms.

>> No.3320415

physics, now specializing on low temperature physics

>but germany sure is a warm place, do you want to go to canada or something?

this is probably the stupidest thing I ever heard in my lifetime

>> No.3320422

>>3320415
It sure is warm right now.

>> No.3320427

>>3320415
You might think it's funny, but (as you should know if you work in the field) the lowest temperature yet achieved was reached in a laboratory in Reykjavik.

>> No.3320450

Economics:
>So I was thinking of starting up this business....

The fuck? I'm not doing marketing/management, nor accounting. Go pester someone else with that crap.

>> No.3320452

computer science

"my pc ain't working, take a look"

>> No.3320453

Economics

>how come you can't predict where the economy's going?

>> No.3320454

mathematics

>wow you're going to have a great job and not end up being a high school math teacher

>> No.3320479

Mechanical Engineering

>can you fix my car?

ALL MY RAGE

>> No.3320480

Mechanical Engineering:

Oh so you wanna be a Mechanic?

Physics:

>I'm not gonna bother talking to him he'll be boring with no interests or hobbies.

>> No.3320485

biomedical science

"oh so you're like a doctor?"
...
...
...
...

>> No.3320486

aerospace engineering

>wow so you work with rockets and shit?

imokwiththis.jpg

>> No.3320496

Veterinary Medicine:

>"So you euthanize pets all day? How depressing."
Or even worse:
>"Oh, is that a 2 year degree?"

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EE

"so you're like an electrician?"

>mfw i design MRI systems

>> No.3320540

mathematican

"so you can calculate like one billion divided by seventy-two without a pocket calculator?"

>> No.3321295

Mech Eng student entering 3rd year

...Apparently according to my entire family I'm training to be either a machinist or a car mechanic

>> No.3321310

Countryside management

"So, you tell it what to do?"

>> No.3321333

Mathematician
>"so you really make 300k?"
yep

>> No.3321357

civil engineering

*tumbleweed*

>> No.3321378

>>3321357
you build targets.

>> No.3321391

>Mathematics
Oh, so you're gonna be a teacher?

>Statistics
What's the line on the Super Bowl?

>> No.3321397

Applied Mathematics

"Ooh, you're gonna be a teacher?"

Why do people ignore the "applied' part, ignore the countless jobs available with a math degree, and the fact that I'm going for a PhD?

>> No.3321409
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The top mathematician at Peterhouse here.

>On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

>> No.3321414

>>3321397
future college teacher detected

in it for the tenure?

>> No.3321420

Mathematics
> What's the use of that now that computers can calculate everything

Physics
> How can the big bang be true?

FFUUUUUUU

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Electronic engineering MSc

"so, my guitar amp make that strange sound, could you give a look at that?"

Now I only say i have an aerospace and aeronautics MSc. People tend to shut the fuck up.

>> No.3321426

Chemistry:

Them: Hey, can you show me how to make X drug/will you make this for me to sell?

Me: No.

This happens at least once at every part I go to. The ones who are really persistent are the worst.

>> No.3321432

Pharmacy

>"Lol what's that?"

>> No.3321454

chemistry: make me some E's etc

or

If you mix (random thing) with (random thing) what happens

>> No.3321461

chem:
>so you make explosions, right?

I fucking wish

>> No.3321463

>>3321414

Sure enough, and to avoid being behind a screen 40 hours a week for the rest of my life. And math is fun.

>> No.3321468

>>3321461
>Implying you can't

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>Algebraic, numerical and arithmetical methods minicourse
>Oh wow, can you tell me what's 75*84?
>Work it in my head
>6300
>mfw everybody elses face

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mathematical finance

>oh wow so you'll like be an analyst in new york and play the stock markets and do cocaine

yep

>> No.3321525

>>3321512
Teach me your ways, sensei.

>> No.3321531

>physics
>"Oh like Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory?, Schrodinger's cat, string theory, double slit lol BAZINGA"

>> No.3321560

Not really prejudices, but I did Nuclear Engineering as a mature student and one girl doing Biology honestly thought she was going to contract radiation poisoning from me and die.

>> No.3321596

>>3321512

I am a financial engineer by trade. I went to uni for Bio-Chemical Engineering.

I have been asked if I caused the market crash in 07/08 as if it was my fucking fault.

The drug comments ( about chem ) are so true, but most of the stuff they ask can be done with relative ease. It just gets old.

The sad thing is very few people work on the exchange. And if you are a QA guy then you just feed shit to the traders. While I am sure there are still tons of drugs being done it's no where near what it use to be. The fast and high life of a trader has died down. However, get your self at a semi-decent firm and you are in for a fucking ride. But don't expect it to be like movies.

>> No.3321628

>Mathematics
>So you want to be a teacher?

>English
>So what are you planning to write?
>What do you think of _author_? His stuff is so cool!

Fuck you

>> No.3321675

>>3320350
Physiologist here, I get that.
But asking a physics student? That is full retard

>> No.3321729

>>3321560
I've heard of people blaming nuclear engineers for Fukushima.

>> No.3321756

Pharmacology
>lol, you want to be a farmer?

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Philosophy:

Want to fuck?

>> No.3321816

MSc in Technical Cybernetics.

>>WTF is that?

>> No.3321823

ChemE
>Oh, whoa, sounds hard
>Hey make me drugs/bombs/elixir of life

>> No.3321841

>>3321422

It's better than "oh, so can you hook up my new subs??"
or "LOL MY HOUSE DOES THIS FUNNY THING WHEN I TURN ON THE VACUUM CLEANER"

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Me: "Astronautics"

Them: "What's my sign??"

Fuck you.

>> No.3321855

law:

lol u can be my lawyer xD

>> No.3321856

>>3321426
>>3321454
>>3321596
>>3321823
Seriously though guys, can you make me some E?

>> No.3321866

ITT: fake stories

We all know you don't talk to anyone in real life.

>> No.3321889

>>3321397
>>3321463
Hey dave

>> No.3321891

>Linguistics
>Have you really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

>> No.3321914

>>3321891
"o hay colorless green ideas sleep furiously you know who said it huh huh its chomsky!! your favorite guy rite??"

>> No.3321922

>>3321866
>projection

>> No.3321927

>game design
>cool can you teach me how to draw?

>> No.3321940

>>3320346
>>3320412
>>3320452
Yup yup and fucking yesss!
As if i was gonna say
>'puter's broken, bro, i can tell from some of the bits and having quite a few 'puters in my time.

>> No.3321969

>>3320324
Valid question.

>> No.3321983

ITT people bitch about specialization and can't into small talk. No wonder all of you are alone.

>> No.3321990

Biology

>All just memorization, huh?

>> No.3322004

>>3321990
>implying you aren't mad cause that's true

>> No.3322049

>>3320391
Mechanical engineer here.

Could you be a dear and solve that whole Navier-Stokes Existence and Smoothness shit? Because CFD sucks right now. Even structured solvers. There is really no good way to model turbulence, and at low Reynolds numbers (like in wind-turbines) you're pretty much expecting large dynamic-stall events, and we have no analytical, numeric, or theoretical model to really deal with it.

Thanks.

>> No.3322074

>Mathematics
"What's the square root of 2647403?"

>> No.3322080

law

"yeah bro you gon get me out of jail right lol"

>> No.3322081

>>3321990
>Implying that's not true

>> No.3322087

>Physics
"So can portals exist?"

>> No.3322106

>Nuclear physics
OMG, Y U WANT KILL PLANET

>> No.3322115

>EE

hey you could do my wiring for me! I can't afford an electrician.

Actually I am a certified electrician, but that's not the point...

>> No.3322120

>Civil engineer
"Shut up and put the gag on"

>> No.3322152

>>3321461
I didn't think I could relate to any of these until I saw this one.

Chemistry
>Oh, you wanna blow shit up!

Wouldn't be all that bad, actually...

>> No.3322165

>>3322152
well, technically speaking you could get a job at a munitions company.

>> No.3322282

>Electrical Engineering
>Hey, can you figure out why my ___ won't turn on?

Most of the time it's because it's not even plugged in, asshole.

>> No.3322329

>>3322049
So, mathematicians don't sit and add numbers nowadays, they sit and solve differential equations?

>> No.3322365

>>3322152
>>3321461
yeah indeed if you want to do that its the way to go.
the prof that did a pre-uni speech to students-to-be was an explosives expert. He was in an investigation about overseas shipping safety regulations of fireworks (china -> world).
So he showed us a clip of him going to test ground and igniting a sea container full of fireworks. Kabloom!


But its not like all there's about chem is explosions and they surely arent on the curriculum for experiments anytime, anywhere.

>> No.3322419

>>3322329
No generally mathematicians are called when Physics and Engineers can't be bothered to solve their stuff on their own - which means their numerical program takes ages to solve their task so they ask mathematician if it can be made 10x faster or not by suggesting some random theorem or algorithm which is 100 years old and well known.

Or they are called by some financial people who can't be bothered to get out of their Jacuzzi to do their work.

>> No.3322429

>>3322419
so mathematicians are betafags? wow. i seriously thought they were alpha like a true boss...

>> No.3322475

Computer Science:

Hey, that faggot over there is pissing me off, hack his Facebook and computer yeah?

>> No.3322477

>>3322429
Everyone who does a useful job is beta. Engineers are "beta" as well.

If you have a look usually every organisation needs some management. So as it goes this management has higher salary etc. then the once who are managed.

But that still doesn't stop me from looking at "alpha" politicians and managers like on pathetic worms. - And personally I have very high respect to people in research/engineering/artists/truly intellectual work in general regardless how they are paid.

>> No.3322489

Bio-Chem

"Just choose one already" - Chemists.

>> No.3322521

>>3322477
Yeah, I was just trolling. You're being too polite to carry on, you bastard. :P

Thanks. I will soon become a betafag too I guess. I want to become a CS teacher when I get to university. Not sure how far I can go mathematically, but I guess that will determine which level I teach at.

oh, and trolling aside, I have nothing but respect for real mathematicians. It's a god tier field and all that.

>> No.3322528

>>3322489
Actually sorry to address it to you but I understand that bio and chem are very closely related but what is bio-engineering about? As far as I know bio-eng are some mixture of mecheng-EE-medicine-maybe something else, are they the people who develop all the medical equipment? Because quiet frankly I can not imagine a bio-eng. to compete with pure EE at say sonars or neural signals post-processing. Usually EE's and mech-eng are the once that end up doing medical equipment so what do bio-eng and med-eng do if not semi-pure medicine (where medics are better) then? Do they just end up like consultants mainly?

>> No.3322537

>>3320310
>Economists
>actually knowing anything

>> No.3322547

>Genetics

Inevitable 'Playing God' comment

>> No.3322560

>>3321391
>Mathematics
>Oh, so you're gonna be a teacher?
This. Always fucking this. Why is this such a widespread stereotype? No, motherfuckers, I want to DO MATH

>> No.3322568

>>3320310

AI:

How does it work?

>> No.3322577

>>3322528
Bio-eng has nothing to do with building medical equipment.
Bio-Eng is the application of engineering to fuck around with living things.
They'd make medicine, not medical equipment.
They'd make a cancer cell mutated to detect uranium, not a geiger counter.
etc. etc.

>> No.3322601

>>3322577
I see. Thank you for explanation. I knew that I misunderstood something before but I wasn't sure what it is. - You have clarified it thanks.

>> No.3322612

>Creation science
>So the fossils were buried by Satan?

Every. Fucking. Time.

>> No.3322641

>>3322612
>Creation
>science
pick one

>> No.3322649

>>3322429

Depends on how you define the "means" and the "end".

For most mathematicians, further exploration of mathematics is the end in itself. For physicists mathematics is a tool whilst their understand of the universe is the end. For the average Joe physics is the means by which he get to live a more comfortable life with ever improving technology.

>> No.3322658

>>3322577
Where do you go to school?

My school's BioE department does a good bit of research into medical devices. They also work closely with the medical school.

Chemical/Petroleum engineering:
>you should go work for X company that makes batteries
>you should go work for Y company that makes defibrillators

The rest of the people I talk to are reasonably smart. They ask about the oil spill in the gulf and shale gas drilling.

>> No.3322697

>>3322612
Go away.
We don't want you here.

>> No.3322722

>>3322658
Well they do work a bit on equipment, just like how physicists sometimes work on their own lasers.

>> No.3322726

>>3320310
Particle Physics
"Why don't you hurry up and invent teleporters?"

>> No.3323539

>>3322577
then what is "Bio Eng with concentration in Bio electronics?"