/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.4942797]

What is your degree, /sci/!

[Anonymous No.4942807]

BA in psychology

feelsbadman

can i please have a reroll

i repent i repent

[Anonymous No.4942804]

>using degrees
>not radians

fucking pleb

[Anonymous No.4942813]

Working on a neuroscience degree. I am feeling more and more attracted to biomedical engineering, though, so I don't know. I might declare a second major.

[BodaciousCloudacious !!BKTHZoQvp+h No.4942822]

atmospheric and oceanic science

[Anonymous No.4942823]

Chemistry, then a masters in pharmaceutical chemistry.

[Anonymous No.4942827]

Civil Engineering Master Race

[Anonymous No.4942828]

Going for a BS in Physics. Starting this year.

[nasafag !wzudPCLQ7s No.4942834]

>>4942822

Me too! B.S. in meteorology, M.S. in Atmospheric Science.

Haven't been around in a few weeks...been SUPER busy at work.

[Anonymous No.4942835]

B.Sc computing
M.Eng computing next year

> My math knowledge is high-school at most, all I do is writing shitty java code

[Anonymous No.4942840]

dental hygienist then onward to nuclear chemist

[Anonymous No.4942846]

liberal arts combined honors

feels good man

[Anonymous No.4942847]

B. Eng in Software...


>lulz

[Anonymous No.4942850]

BS astronomy
BA physics

going for MS in Optical Engineering or Space Sciences, can't decide

[Nautical Ambassador No.4942851]

I have a masters degree in video games, majored in graphics and game design

[Anonymous No.4942859]

Care someone to explain USA education? I can't correlate major, minors, degrees, BS and MS. For example, I'm studying Physics in University (this takes about 5-6 years) and after I finish it, I would be called Licenciate. What would be the equivalent in USA?

Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous No.4942867]

>>4942859
What is your country?
(frenchfag, can't explain the american education system)

[Anonymous No.4942868]

>>4942859

Masters.

associate= 2 years
BS= 4 years
MS= 6 years
Doctorate= 8 years

[Anonymous No.4942872]

>>4942867
I'm from Argentina

>>4942868
Thank you, that explains something.

[Anonymous No.4942888]

BS degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering
BS degree in Physics
and majors in Mathematics and CS.

[Anonymous No.4942908]

>>4942872

And a BA takes the same amount of time as a BS. BA is Bachelor of Arts, and BS is Bachelor of Science. It isn't literal though, you can get a Bachelor of Arts in a scientific field, it just means that you don't do quite as much math.

Once you have a Ph.D., you gain the right to be called "Doctor," though it is different from being a medical doctor. Thus, you can be a "Doctor" of physics.

An M.D. is a medical doctor. They have to go to medical school, which can take many years to get all the way through. They're also obviously called doctors.

[Anonymous No.4942916]

BSc in Computing

haters gonna hate

[Anonymous No.4942932]

>>4942807
gtfo lol have you no shame
>>4942846
no right to even read /sci/

BS and MS in mathematics, finishing PhD in two years probably (I'm ABD this fall, so I just have research left now, also on grant so hopefully it'll go fast)

[Anonymous No.4942933]

I have an associates in drafting, that doesn't even count does it.

[Anonymous No.4942938]

BS in Mining Engineering
Going for a MS in Geophysics.

[Anonymous No.4942929]

Chemical Engineering demigod race

[Anonymous No.4942973]

So if you do a Doctorate in medicine, are you a doctor doctor?

[Anonymous No.4942981]

>>4942908
Thank you very much.

[Anonymous No.4943018]

Architecture.

[Anonymous No.4943026]

I have a PhD in Liberal Arts.

[Anonymous No.4943039]

>>4942797
Zero punctuation, sweet

[Anonymous No.4943049]

Mechanical Engineering. MS in Aerospace Engineering next year!

[Anonymous No.4943182]

>>4942823

How do you find it?

Planning on switching majors to pharmacology soon

[Anonymous No.4943204]

Going for my BS in Nursing.

Laugh and criticize all you want; still a guaranteed job anywhere after I graduate.

[Anonymous No.4943259]

>>4943204

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.4943266]

>>4942807

I got my BS in Psych. Now I'm a grad student in a federally funded Ph.D. track for Human Factors/Ergonomics Psychology. I'm programming a driving simulator that we'll use specifically for doing cell-phone/driving studies. Average starting salary of someone in my field?

85k.

You go psych, you go girl.

[Anonymous No.4943279]

>>4943259
>implying nurses don't make decent salaries without drowning in student debt
>implying there isn't a high demand for nurses espically male nurses

[Anonymous No.4943283]

MChem

Doing a PhD in theology, laugh all you want.

[Anonymous No.4943317]

>>4943283

[Anonymous No.4943321]

>>4943279
Why would they 'need' more male nurses? That's almost as bad as saying we 'need' more women in STEM.

[Anonymous No.4943327]

>>4942797
Masters in Philosophy
Come at me.

[OP No.4943330]

Double major in anthropology and biology.

Finishing Ph.D. in anthro in a year.

>that feel when you already have a job lined up, thank the Great Spaghetti Monster in His mercy...

[Anonymous No.4943331]

BSc Pharmacy
plan is to work parttime after I graduate and continue going to post secondary

[encephalon !!shxfCFb4+j/ No.4943336]

>>4943266
Rock on.

Also a B.S. in psychology, but my education was substantially more broad. I conducted research in computer science, ecology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Currently a (fully funded) Ph.D student in Neuroscience in a top ten institution.

[Anonymous No.4943341]

>>4942797
Getting a Ba and MA in Electric Engienering

[Anonymous No.4943342]

I will have my B.S in mathematics in May 2013.

I will desperately be applying for some sort of mathematical finance masters, whether it be a computational finance, financial engineering or mathematical finance ( different school call it different things but M.F.E is the most renowned imo).

but My GPA is mediocre going into my senior year (im a CC transfer, my CC grades were stellar but my university grades aren't great. My math(only) gpa is above a 3.2 though. Hopefully the fact that I am taking courses in stochastic processes, finance, C++, numerical analysis and Partial differential equations along with high GRE scores will make admissions overlook my moderately low GPA. (I might end witha 2.7 ish with only a few As and Bs, a bunch of Cs and several Ds.)

[Anonymous No.4943349]

I have a BSc in Biology. What now?

[encephalon !!shxfCFb4+j/ No.4943353]

>>4943349
Get over a 32 on your mcats, do a postbacc for biomed research and go to medical school.

[Anonymous No.4943354]

BS Electrical Engineering
MS Electrical Engineering

[Anonymous No.4943362]

>>4943039

it's fucking 4chan you fool

[Anonymous No.4943368]

>dropped out of 3rd year of math degree
>became sales rep, now 26 y.o.
>work 15 hour weeks, make 190k a year

and yes, I take every available opportunity to laugh at my grad school friends

[Anonymous No.4943371]

Aerospace engineering

Someone has to get us to the moon and Mars or build something that goes mach 100 to kill all of America's enemies plus keep our allies under our boot. It sure as hell isn't going to be pussy faggot ass pure science majors.

[Anonymous No.4943372]

I'm majoring in Public Health. I have no idea whether I want to do medical school or law school, but I have to decide relatively soon because applying to both would be awful.

[Anonymous No.4943374]

B.S. Physics
Minor in Comp Sci
haven't finished yet though

[Anonymous No.4943383]

>>4943368

teach me, wise overlord

[Anonymous No.4943389]

>>4943374
O wise and powerful /sci/ board, tell me:
Should I do the comp sci minor, or something else to go with physics?
I still have time!

[Anonymous No.4943393]

>>4943383
don't be an aspie, actually work hard when you're working

[Anonymous No.4943399]

>>4943374
what do you mean by minoring in comp science i want to take the same track you are just wondering

[Anonymous No.4943420]

>>4943399
It means I dont have to take as many classes in that field but I can still have some sort of degree.
This is the program sheet for comp sci degrees at my school:
http://www.catalog.hawaii.edu/schoolscolleges/arts-sciences/departments/ics.htm
As you can see its about half as many classes...

I'm not motivated enough to double major but still want something on top of my B.S.

[Anonymous No.4943424]

BS Computer Engineering
BA Math

[Anonymous No.4943427]

MEng in Chemical Engineering starting this year.

Looking forward to having no social life.

[Anonymous No.4943439]

>>4943420
oh makes sense im going into my sophomore year of high school. can I take college classes now like the pre-reqs and then go straight into my degree I don't want to deal with any of the boring shit not related to my degree.

[Anonymous No.4943446]

Bio-Mechanical engineering.

[Anonymous No.4943568]

What is master race of Engineering disciplines

[Anonymous No.4943576]

>>4942827

How's that treating you? I'm studying it now, about to be my second year. How does it get from statics and beyond? I except differential equations to be a cunt.

[Anonymous No.4943595]

I'm thinking of going into software engineering, anything I should need to know or expect? Any other tips such as different degrees I should get as well?

[Anonymous No.4944590]

Elementary school.

[Anonymous No.4944596]

>>4943595

Do Computer Science and Mathematics instead.

[Anonymous No.4944604]

>>4942797
photo = typical engineerfag, putting themselves on a pedestal

[Anonymous No.4944610]

>>4942804
i chuckled a little

[Anonymous No.4944626]

>>4942868
BS is only 3 years in germany

[Anonymous No.4944630]

B.S in Chemistry and Earth Sciences.

[Anonymous No.4944638]

>>4943204
>Laugh and criticize all you want; still a guaranteed job anywhere after I graduate.

not with every other idiot going in it for the money.

at least pharmacist have it good because most people aren't willing to go through the pharmacy school. same can't be said for nursing.

[Gearbox No.4944650]

>>4944638
My school has a well known pharmacy program and it;s actually really competitive. There are a lot of people willing to go into it, and only a select few that actually make it.

[Anonymous No.4944675]

JUST GOT MY EXAM RESULTS THROUGH THE POST

WE UNI NOW

FUCK YEAH

[Anonymous No.4944683]

>>4944650
i'm pretty sure it doesn't even compare to how many people go into nursing. some of the daftest cunts i've known in high school are now in nursing.

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.4944688]

>>4944675
why'd you blank out the uni? it's not like any1's gonna be able to know who you are just coz they know your uni, theres like thousands of people there, brah.

[Anonymous No.4944692]

BSc in Biochemistry

[Anonymous No.4944707]

>>4942938
Whats mining engineering like? I was thinking about enrolling beginning of next year and it interested me

[Anonymous No.4944708]

>>4944688
well considering he didn't black the url, his university initials are everywhere, and his student ID are still there i wouldn't exactly call him overcautious.

[Anonymous No.4944712]

Advanced diploma electronics, will do a degree later....however electronics is dying in Australia, till then I like the the practical side.

[Anonymous No.4944713]

Chemical Engineering...

...

...MASTER RACE.

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.4944721]

>>4944708
oh yeah! only just noticed that, wtf??
kinda makes blanking out the uni quite redundant then
>your personal ID is 1089293800

[Anonymous No.4944719]

>>4944713
whats it like? Took a year off after school and was thinking about either it or mining engineering. I was 1st in my highschool courses in chemistry if that means anything

[Anonymous No.4944731]

>>4944688

It's /sci/

If it's not Oxbridge you get ridiculed.
It's Strathclyde University.

I don't even know why i'm "embarrassed" to reveal that, it is a decent Uni especially for engineering.

I applied for both Glasgow and Edinburgh but they rejected me within a day because apparently exam results have an expiry date of 3 years(I'm 21).

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.4944739]

>>4944731
wtf? 21 and you're only going now?
why the wait?
3 fucking years? what the fuck have you been doing??

[Anonymous No.4944756]

>>4944739

I joined the royal marines straight out of school. Which I know regret sort of but it was a good experience. I never knew i'd think about going back to school after my Highers(A-levels) but the Military didn't work out as a long term career.

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.4944759]

>>4944756
holy shit thats awesome!
>but the Military didn't work out as a long term career.
why not? im honestly curious.

[Anonymous No.4944760]

>>4942797

[Anonymous No.4944764]

Starting 2nd year of Medicine and Surgery MBChB (UK).

[Anonymous No.4944766]

Biomedical Engineering, no idea where that's going to take me or if I even want to do it.

[Anonymous No.4944792]

>>4944759

I got bored. Done a 4 month tour of Afghanistan as a replacement and that was largely boring as well.
Felt like I had missed out on University life. Shit money as well.

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.4944799]

>>4944792
i would expect it to be anything but 'boring', but what the hell do i know.

anyway, i think engineering is actually a really good choice. trolling aside, its a very worthwhile subject.
i hope you do well.

[Anonymous No.4944810]

BA in Cognitive Science

[Anonymous No.4944816]

>>4944719
>whats it like?
Loving every minute of it.

>was 1st in my highschool courses in chemistry if that means anything
Trust me when I say your high-school marks don't really mean shit, everyone in my programme -with very few exceptions- was top of their class in high-school and their grades at uni are completely different from high-school (including people who getter higher grades now, but slacked during high-school).

Also, chemistry is actually a very small part of ChemE, thermodynamics is probably the most important aspect of the field, but you'll also get a solid background in classical Physics and Mechanics, Phys-, o-chem&material science, Electrical Engineering (especially power generation), biotechnology and the usual calculus (almost everything you do will require calculus) (up to PDE's) and statistics.

>Took a year off after school and was thinking about either it or mining engineering.
I always recommend doing the traditional engineering disciplines (ChemE, EE, MechE and CivilE) over specialized disciplines unless you are 100% sure you want to go into miningE. The reason for this is that you can, for example, easily enter the mining industry with a ChemE degree, but you can't do much else beside mineE with mineE. Do some research, make sure it's what you really want.

Also taking a year off after high-school will have a very negative impact on you (a lot more than you would think), I suggest you check out the sticky and start preparing for your first year courses (especially calculus).

If you have any more question I might answer them later (on archive.installgentoo.net/sci/thread/4942797)

[Anonymous No.4944828]

BS biochemistry
MD

Currently PGY-1 aka butt rape intern year. Haven't had a real nights sleep in days

[Anonymous No.4944839]

PhD in Advanced Faggotry

[Anonymous No.4944859]

>>4942797
i find that picture offensive. engineers would have nothing to engineer if it wasn't for scientists

[Anonymous No.4944861]

>>4944859
typical cocksucking deluded egotistical engineer

[Anonymous No.4944866]

Final year of B.Sc. Biology

Was going to specialize in biochemistry, then undeclared it because I personally found it uninteresting. Don't feel like doing grad school in my field (plus my grades aren't the best) so I'm going into education. I'll be teaching high school chemistry and biology.

[Anonymous No.4944868]

>>4944866
I find it frightening that an anon will be educating the next generation.

[Anonymous No.4944872]

>>4944866
Those that can't do, teach

[Anonymous No.4944904]

>>4944872
Pretty much. High school around here is so goddamn easy that I had no work ethic going into post-secondary. I fixed that around my sophomore year but it obviously wasn't enough and it came back to bite me.

I do REALLY like teaching though, it's a newfound passion of mine. I facilitate at the local science center teaching kids about basic circuitry and physics, it's been the most rewarding thing I've done.

[Anonymous No.4944916]

>>4944904
At least you like it. Every bio sci pre med failure uses teaching as a fallback.

[Anonymous No.4944955]

First year BSc
Probably going to major in Biochem or Genetics.
Still deciding whether to switch to a Science/Engineering dual or a Business/Science dual next year.

>>4944816
How much of ChemE is actually math? And what does a ChemE actually do on the job? I'm considering picking up ChemE as another degree, but I find the maths (And sheer amount of men) daunting. I find every aspect of biology easy to comprehend, I'm good at basically any chemistry that isn't organic (Hate the everloving shit out of organic chem). Would you recommend it to someone like me?

[Anonymous No.4945063]

>>4944955
>How much of ChemE is actually math?
ChemE is one big problem solving course using calculus with a few scientific principles.

>And what does a ChemE actually do on the job?
The field is extremely diverse, I can't give a general answer here.

>sheer amount of men
You shouldn't be trying to date woman in your class anyway...
The "math" isn't that difficult (you use it a lot, but it's not difficult), if you can do everything up to PDE's with ease you shouldn't have much trouble.

>I find every aspect of biology easy to comprehend, I'm good at basically any chemistry that isn't organic (Hate the everloving shit out of organic chem). Would you recommend it to someone like me?

> Would you recommend it to someone like me?
That depends on what industry you would want to work in, if you want to work with biotech for example you can easily get a job with a graduates in biochem and some reaction/kinetics engineering electives.

Overall I would not recommend it to you, but
>Science/Engineering dual or a Business/Science dual next year.
Engineering would infinitely more valuable for your career, a business degree is basically worthless (even in the business side of the company a engineer is more useful) and everyone in the industry knows it, but there's no need to get an engineering degree (it will help a lot, but make your undergrad hell) if you want to be doing R&D for example.

[Anonymous No.4945078]

>>4945063
Mathfag here who's learned some chemistry in the past. Many concepts in chemistry are actually disguised math concepts. Balancing a chemical equation for example is actually just finding the nash equilibrium in game theory.

Physics and Biology use mathematics in lots of ways as well, but for some reason they tend to use different branches.

[Anonymous No.4945089]

B.Pharm.Sci
B.Med.Pharm.Sci (Hons.)
PhD Pharmacology

[Anonymous No.4945093]

b.eng. mechanical engineering in the home of mechanical engineering (Germany)
Masterrace reporting in!

[Anonymous No.4945105]

>>4945063
So just basic calculus, with PDE/AUC being the worst kind I'll encounter? Sounds easy.

I have a girlfriend, I just prefer working with women. More sociable, generally harder workers, and I'm not competition for them. Most of my friends of females (Male minority in my major).

Biotech is my passion, but it's not even emerging in Australia yet, I'd probably have to go to MIT/UCB. The Biotech/Chem Eng dual at my university seems useless, it's just a limited BSc/BE with a cool title.

Ideally I'd like to work as a manager in genetics/biomedical engineering. 300k starting etc (Money is crazy important to me). I've been considering business management because I'm highly sociable, persuasive etc, but I realise it'd have a crazy low median salary. I think I'd like to manage engineering projects and employ small teams in areas I'm well versed in. Sorry for the WALL OF TEXT.

[Anonymous No.4945112]

BS Math & French
MS Pure and Applied Math
PhD Applied Math - Concentration in fluid dynamics and tissue engineering (graduating in January)

[Anonymous No.4945119]

Computer Science degree

Now studying physics, 1/4 of the degree achieved.

I hope the combination of the leads me to some interesting places. Maybe the ability to decently create physics simulations could be a plus. Any ideas?

[Anonymous No.4945120]

>>4945112
Real master race reporting in

[Anonymous No.4945199]

BA in Psychology
mad, /sci/?

[Anonymous No.4945326]

>>4943595
>do a co-op
>be overwhelmed by all the jobs
>sudden summer paralysis


>play brink ad d3 RMAH instead of using degree

>laugh as you wonder if you even want a job
>more understanding of the world than a philosophy degree
>more job opportunities than a doctor
>doing nothing is the only luxury i have now. and even that has yielded some stellar code

[Anonymous No.4945331]

>>4944799
>the only career advice EK is allowed to give belongs in >>>/ck/

[Anonymous No.4945340]

>>4945331
Since when does EK offer career advice?

I notice the sexism, but she is actually not a particularly talented cook.

[Anonymous No.4945392]

I ain't got no degree. But if all goes well I'll have a BS in physics and one in math by July next year.

[Anonymous No.4946318]

>>4945105
>Sounds easy.
Understanding the math and the science behind engineering problems is the easy part, producing a creative solution to the problem as a whole is what makes engineering difficult. Seriously most exam problems I've had up until now (3 semsester in) in core classes (ie engineering modules, not science/calc ) have been open book exams with 100's of data pages and problems that could be solved with simple algebra and knowing that mass/energy IN=mass/energy OUT, you can take any cheat sheets/wikipedia articles you want into the exam...they don't help much...

>I have a girlfriend, I just prefer working with women. More sociable, generally harder workers, and I'm not competition for them. Most of my friends of females (Male minority in my major).
No offense to the exceptions, but I've always found the females in my course to be completely incompetent in everything except memorization. I always have to hold their fucking hand in the labs whenever critical thinking is required.

>Ideally I'd like to work as a manager in genetics/biomedical engineering.
Well an engineering degree will get you closer to that goal tbch(generally management is more about experience though, most senior engineers are in managing positions), pure science would be more ideal for R&D.

[Anonymous No.4946335]

Starting third year of my Economics degree.

I'm not sure if I'm going to enjoy this at all. Feels confused man

[Anonymous No.4946525]

BA in History

[Anonymous No.4946531]

>>4946525
>>4946525
looks like some boys from Akwesasne.

[Anonymous No.4946614]

BS in Mech E. Going to get a JD though. Law theory is very interesting. It's like correcting someone's math, but them feeling bad afterwards.

[Anonymous No.4946646]

Mechanical Engineering

[Anonymous No.4946651]

>>4946531
I'm not that guy, but those are the 'filthy thirteen'.

http://www.stripes.com/news/filthy-thirteen-veterans-recount-their-antics-during-wwii-1.85075

[Anonymous No.4946652]

>>4946646

spam spam spam

[Anonymous No.4946658]

>>4946646
why does curiosity's tire have those holes in it?

[Anonymous No.4946659]

>>4946652

[Anonymous No.4946661]

>>4946658

It's morse code.

And it let's the dirt fall out of the wheel cavity

[Anonymous No.4946667]

>>4946661 morse code for JPL

[Anonymous No.4946674]

>>4946659

[Anonymous No.4946677]

>>4946674

[Anonymous No.4946684]

>>4946677

[Anonymous No.4946712]

I'm doing my BS in MechEg.
i'm not sure yet if i will enroll into a master course.
but Economics seems like a good course to master in, just because i want to own my business and i want to have a good knowledge of that area.

[Anonymous No.4947105]

ms mathematics. i push boxes around for not much more than minimum wage.

[Anonymous No.4947120]

I can't take you faggots seriously

[Anonymous No.4947127]

>>4942868

LOL MASTER TROLL HEHEHEHEHHE

[Anonymous No.4947226]

Master race mathematics reporting in

Going to be an actuary.

Basically, it means I'm going to start fight club

[Anonymous No.4947253]

>>4947249
you probably did, look through your old notes/textbooks

[Anonymous No.4947249]

Mathematics

I am 22 and I stopped going to school for financial reasons, but I'm going back in the spring to finish things out. I'm nervous that I have forgotten important processes.

[Anonymous No.4947319]

Accounting and Economics, along with a management minor. Should I leave?

[chemfag !Hzum9Tvcag No.4947358]

>>4947319
pls

[Anonymous No.4947362]

>>4947319
>>4947319

Accounting is instant job tier with possibility of 200k+ Partner status in 7 years. So it's pretty bro.

Econ assist is nice too

[Anonymous No.4947402]

Did biology, got into dental school. Happy here, but damn, if I failed, I would've loved to go into entomology as a back up.

[Anonymous No.4947406]

Got my BA in Psychology.
Now I'm working on my masters in International Law and Diplomacy at the Sorbonne.

Go figure.

[Anonymous No.4948271]

BA economics, about to start biz masters in business intelligence.

Toughts?

[Anonymous No.4948320]

>>4947120
wtf

[Anonymous No.4948839]

>>4946318
So it's more about the way I think than understanding mathematical concepts? Am I on the right track if I assume a difficult engineering problem is like a riddle?

That's probably the case in engineering now I think about it, granted I am in biology so it is largely memorization/conceptual stuff.
Righto, I'll take another look at the BE/BSc then, you don't really need to be trained to manage people I suppose. I just wanted to have the option to go on and get an MBA.

[Anonymous No.4948843]

Masters in English language. Now making 300k anyjob I want.

[Anonymous No.4948845]

>>4948320
Nothing 'wtf' about it. The LSAT is mostly a logic test so it makes sense that Philo would score fairly high.

[Anonymous No.4948889]

>>4948320

Why wtf? That's about what I would have guessed.

[Anonymous No.4948894]

structural engineering

now I work as a big engineer type guy in an office and use words like document control and transmittal revisions.

it's ok

[Anonymous No.4949021]

Don't you guys worry about the boring shitty jobs you will have for the rest of your life?