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When will /sci/ fags learn it's not their major that makes them smart, it's their school.

MIT Econ major right here

>How does it feel to know that I would have been better at your major than you?

>> No.3409087

No one gives a shit if you're are an aerospace engineer... at Arizona State

>> No.3409089

What do you call an engineer who graduated from low-tier-state-school?

What do you call an engineer who graduated from Caltech?

>both engineers

>> No.3409099

>>3409089
But the Caltech guy is killing it in Silicon Valley while the low tier guy is programming fart apps

>implying the Caltech guys education wasn't FAR better than the other guys

>> No.3409116

Econ = BEM, lol

At least get a Bio major, pussy.

>> No.3409118

>> implying "good" schools are actually better at teaching and don't simply attract and and therefore "produce" more successful students due to a false sense of prestige

I could fill a community college with the top 0.1% of outgoing highschool students, teach them extremely poorly and still have a fantastic crop of graduates.

>> No.3409125

How does it feel to major in the most dismal science, where rationalizing oppression becomes a job?

>> No.3409126

>>3409084

nice.

Econ major master race reporting in.

>> No.3409128

>>3409099
Intelligent people with a bachelor's education (shitty or otherwise) can educate themselves to any level with the fundamentals and a general knowledge of the field under their belt. especially in modern ties where information is so freely available

>> No.3409131

>implying one's native intelligence isn't the dominant factor in success
The only reason "education" seems correlated with success is that highly ranked schools are very selective regarding who they admit.

Those Caltech students would still kick your ass, even if they'd never seen the inside of a classroom.

>> No.3409134

>>3409099
meh, engineers get hired more on their experience (and connections). not that graduating from caltech wouldn't have any bearing--it would certainly help when it's a big name. but the low tier retards aren't totally fucked by any means.

>> No.3409135

>>3409118
or you could teach them brain melting stuff that CC profs don't know, make them create brain melting stuff that CC profs don't know, stick them in a lab, and teach them how to science.

>> No.3409137

>>3409131
Exactly. Which is why I laugh at Oklahoma State kids pursuing math majors.

>> No.3409146

>>3409137
True dat. Some Schools don't even teach math majors proofs until junior/senior year, whereas in a good school, everyone learns it during Freshmen year.

>> No.3409151

>>3409084
Economics is like trying to steer a car by looking in the rear-view mirror.

You guys have NO idea what the fuck is going on, and no amount of Ivy league education can fix that.

Economists... Heh.

>> No.3409150

I'm just saying if you don't want to completely fuck your career at least transfer to Cornell or some shit lol

>> No.3409161

>>3409146
by "math proofs" do you mean epsilon-delta type shit in standard caculus? because if you mean abstract algebra and/or real analysis (typical intro to pure math courses) then typically students don't take them until junior year. never heard of first years being taught that stuff.

>> No.3409168

>>3409151
You think economics majors become economists?? Hahahah being at MIT I can waltz into any Wall Street job and make 100k coming out of my freshman year.

Youre probably a butt hurt astrophysics major studying your ass off to prove youre smart to battle your inferiority complex.

>> No.3409170

This is prob a troll thread but I will give my 2 cents on the subject.

I recently graduated from a small, private, christian (GASP) university with a double biology and chemistry major. I did an REU (the highest paying one I believe (so it naturally attracted the most applicants) and was very nervous about being compared to a bunch of people from prestigous public universities. There were kids from very prestigious universities, ones that had much larger and much more respected departments than mine. I however stood out as the premier researcher (at least in the mind of the program coordinator). Sure they had a lot of laboratory experience than I and had more course requirements with more rigorous titles, but they didn't understand the big picture nearly as well as I did. I didn't have a great GPA, only have a few months laboratory experience, didn't even take the GRE subject test, and still got offered a position in the graduate department at a UC school. (I believe my interview and personal statement were key).

This is probably disjointed and poorly written but all I am attempting to convey is that a small school can produce great science students.

>> No.3409180

>>3409170
i.e. harvey mudd

>> No.3409181

>>3409168
Nope, I'm a history major. No inferiority complex here. I know I'm smarter than you.

>> No.3409190 [DELETED] 

I mean at least be at a flagship state school like Cal,Michigan, or Texas

I seriously hope you guys don't just fuck yourselves by stayin at U of Kentucky for all four years

>> No.3409196

>>3409161
abstract algebra
(ok, not all first years, I took it as a s'more)

>> No.3409197

>>3409084
>economics

Ha! Enjoy your pseudoscience.

>> No.3409203

>>3409170
what uni?

>> No.3409208

>>3409197
I will. Enjoy knowing I would have been a better science student than you.

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3409221

So, OP, you're right because?:...(insert logic fallacy here)

>> No.3409218

>>3409190
ooohhhh dat UT brofist

>> No.3409219 [DELETED] 

women's studies major at harvard reporting in.
you jelly OP?

>> No.3409224

>>3409203

for graduate or undergraduate?

>> No.3409229

>>3409219
Nope. Elitist brofist? lmao congrats on dat Harvard acceptance though. Only college that dinged me :(

>> No.3409231

>>3409196
I see. well at my uni the way it works is that there's a series of three calculus courses required to be taken in order and you can only test out of 2 with AP. and this final course is a pre-req for any proof based class. and also a pre-req for linear algebra which is in turn a pre-req for abstract algebra. so earliest possible to take abstract algebra is sophmore year (which I did). would've loved to jump right in though..

>> No.3409238

>school prestigue
>for a bachelors
only applies to the following : MBA, PhD, JD, MS

>> No.3409239

>>3409224
Undergrad, but why not grad too?
(just curious)

>> No.3409245

>>3409239

Concordia University Irvine (graduating chem class of like 3 lol)

UCSC (before you go lol STONER SCHOOL they actually have a very good Molecular Biology program, were robbed of a nobel prize 3 years ago, and have a higher endowment per laboratory in my department that almost any other UC.

>> No.3409252

>>3409208
>bragging to strangers on 4chan about being better than them

I want you to think about what you're doing right now. Pathetic isn't it?

>> No.3409260

>>3409252
No I'm trying to help people realize the importance of looking good to employers and help them escape their future fuck hole lives. - side note I am actually an MIT transfer

>> No.3409261

>>3409252
Give him a break, Its not like he has friends.

>> No.3409264

harvard econ major here.

harvard > MIT

>> No.3409266

Story behind OP pic?

>> No.3409268

>When will /sci/ fags learn it's not their major that makes them smart, it's their school.
hmmmm.. idk OP, but maybe you have something there.

>MIT Econ major right here
.... ... HAHAHAHHAHAA

>> No.3409267

1. I'm a dual major: pure math / physics at
UC Berkeley

2. In state tuition + scholarships + financial aid means I pay 2$ tuition / year

3. Economics is bad and you should feel bad;
have fun upholding mankind's silly little contrived resource management system, because it'll soon end anyway.

MIT is for fags now; admissions policy is bullshit.

Stanford's a way better school, but personally I like berkeley more than both.

yeah you suck.

>> No.3409270

>>3409267
>UC school

im surprised they're still giving out scholarships

>> No.3409271

>MIT Econ major right here

Talk about wasted opportunity right there.

>> No.3409274

>>3409267
How does a guy that used to be in gifted classes, knack for all things mechanical and a high IQ but NO college experience to speak of get into a engineering path at one of these schools?

>> No.3409282

>>3409264
>>3409267
Caltech > MIT > Harvard
UC Berkeley/Stanford are equal to any of them, depending on what courses you take and how much research you get into.

>> No.3409294

>>3409267
Enjoy making less money than your Haas counterparts faggot

>> No.3409308

>>3409294

I definitely will.

I'm a little insane, in that I have this thing about me where I value insight, learning and personal growth above becoming a corporate slave

>btw my breed wipes the academic floor spotless with HAAS kids and they all fucking know it.

>> No.3409322

took me about 10 mins to understand it but OP that pic.. fucking L O L

>> No.3409340

>>3409271

MIT has one of the best econ programs in the world.

>> No.3409346

>>3409340

shut up OP. you lose. get it?

>> No.3409350

ITT why everyone hates /sci/

>> No.3409358

>>3409350

no u shuddupo

>> No.3409398

>>3409270

Getting paid over $27,000 a year to go there starting in a month or so

>> No.3409406

>>3409398

You realize that you're lying, right?

>> No.3409600

>>3409406

Dude, L2graduate chemistry. Google stipend.