ITT: Explaining your field of study and/or work to people not in the field >So anon, what do you study? >Oh, hydraulic engineering. >Wow. You know, I've been having problems with my car lately, would you mind taking a look at it? Surely I can't be the only one who has encounters like this.

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Anonymous Wed Oct 16 23:45:34 2013 No.6095283 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Explaining your field of study and/or work to people not in the field

>So anon, what do you study?
>Oh, hydraulic engineering.
>Wow. You know, I've been having problems with my car lately, would you mind taking a look at it?

Surely I can't be the only one who has encounters like this.

Anonymous Wed Oct 16 23:49:33 2013 No.6095291

> Freshman me asking an upper class man for the 20th time what his specialization is
> Tells me control theory
> Ask him about it
> he tells me it's about choosing signals that go to the wings in aircraft or some shit
> Ask him about the cockpit and buttons and knobs
> hfw
> me 4 years later, I start my masters specializing in control theory
> mfw

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 16 23:59:34 2013 No.6095300 File: 103 KB, 680x434, 1378705990535.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >anon, what are you doing >studying quantum mechanics >oh, what is that? what can you do with it? are you trying to get a job?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 00:03:03 2013 No.6095302 >what do you study? >"chem E" >wow I heard that was hard almost all non stem people have no idea what my field actually entails, but they think something along the lines of chemistry.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 00:06:34 2013 No.6095307 >>6095302 >but they think something along the lines of chemistry which isn't entirely inaccurate...

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 00:15:04 2013 No.6095315 >So, what are you studying? >Mechanical Engineering >So you fix cars?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 00:18:04 2013 No.6095316 "So what are you majoring in anon?" "Electrical Engineering." "Wow that's pretty cool, and very tough!" .... "I had some problems on my phone, think you can fix them?"

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 00:19:04 2013 No.6095317 >>6095315 >So, what are you studying? >Mathematics >Oh, so you f(x) cars?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 00:22:34 2013 No.6095319 >So anon, what do you study? >Oh, biological engineering........plant based >Wow you can make some super weed, or some mega magic mushrooms teehee xD literally everytime

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>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 00:33:03 2013 No.6095331 File: 39 KB, 600x424, 1360983823813.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >what's your major? >biochemistry >lol oh wow dude gonna start cooking meth?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 00:37:03 2013 No.6095341 So anon, what do you study? >Computer Engineering >oh lol, can you fix my computer? I actually can, but that's a different subject.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 00:45:33 2013 No.6095351 >So what do you do now that you're out of college? >I'm a firmware engineer. >??? I didn't think "firmware" was that much of an unknown word, but I'm glad I don't have aunts and uncles asking if I can fix their computers anymore.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 01:00:54 2013 No.6095372 >>6095331 What? How the hell do they get that from biochemistry?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 01:09:24 2013 No.6095386 >>6095315 This is exactly what I was going to put in. Exactly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 01:13:55 2013 No.6095392 >What do you study? >Traffic engineering >Oh, can you fix the intersection at 29th and main, the green light is too slow

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 01:20:55 2013 No.6095398 >So what are you studying? >Nuclear Physics. >Oh, so you're going to build nuclear bombs? Fucking annoying

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 01:25:55 2013 No.6095402 >>6095307 It's pretty inaccurate. Chem E has 95% to do with Engineering and 5% to do with Chemistry.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 01:33:25 2013 No.6095411 File: 2.50 MB, 4016x2992, lab2_bb4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >So anon, what do you study? >Quantitative finance >Oh so you can help me choose stocks right?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 01:38:24 2013 No.6095421 >what do you study? >nuclear engineering >so you want to work in a power plant? isn't that dangerous? >no, and I don't plan on working in a power plant >no really, what plant are you going to work at? There's not much else you can do with that degree

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 01:40:55 2013 No.6095424 >>6095398 Yeah, it sucks that they're wise to your evil plans.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 01:53:25 2013 No.6095434

>>6095341
When dealing with the general public I normally say I'm an electronics engineer instead of computer engineer. I know that's a different degree but my uni didn't offer it. When you say computer engineer most people think you program PCs. I do a lot of programming but on microcontrollers. People don't get that there's a computer in pretty much every electronic device they own.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 01:56:55 2013 No.6095441 >>6095421 Actually they are right. Iodine isotopes? Same thing. Enjoy your gamma rays.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 01:59:54 2013 No.6095444
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>>6095283
>So anon, what do you study?
>Trees.
>Oh, so you're doing environmental science?
>Topology. Tree topology.
>Oh... What's that?
>Topological network structure.
>Oh.

Or at least, that's how it would go if anyone would speak to me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 02:05:25 2013 No.6095462 >implying anyone ever gives a fuck enough to ask me what my field is.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 02:05:54 2013 No.6095463 >>6095444 Maybe people would talk to you more often if you weren't intentionally obtuse.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 02:07:54 2013 No.6095466 >>6095463 You sure catch on quickly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 02:10:24 2013 No.6095468 >>6095411 Hey QuantFin dude. How do you balance the balance sheet on a proforma statement? Accounting student here. This cash plug shit is confusing as hell.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 02:10:24 2013 No.6095469

I just started my freshman year as a comp sci major.

My girlfriend isnt too bright. I love her for how she is but sometimes she says the stupidest shit.

>What's your major again babe?
Computer science
>Oh cool! I like learning about computers and how to do stuff on computers too

youre cute babe gimme a kiss

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 02:12:24 2013 No.6095470 >>6095444 Why didn't you say "computers".

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 02:14:25 2013 No.6095471 ITT >Hey man, what are you studying? >I'm autistic and therefore unable to explain my work. All I can do is give you the full technical name of what I do, and you'll just have to figure it out.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 02:20:54 2013 No.6095478

>>6095471

Actually it goes like this

>Hey man, what are you studying?
[wow intensifies]
[awkward 5 seconds]
sickowierdsmile.png

>I'm autis
[barely mumbling]

>Can't hear you Anon...

>I am autis...
[spaghetti falling from pockets]
[unzip my pants and start fapping]

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 02:29:54 2013 No.6095488 >So anon, what do you study? >Engineering. Specifically, aerospace engineering. >Oh, that's really cool my uncle does that! So you work on like aircraft/airplane technology right? >No sir. I suck cocks. [proceeds to suck cock]

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 02:31:55 2013 No.6095492 >be an electronics technician working with industrial UV devices and PLC programming hey hey anon, my computer has virus... think you can fix it for me?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 02:33:55 2013 No.6095495 >>6095468 >implying a quant finance student would know anything about balance sheets I think you're confusing quants with people who know something about finance.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 02:35:25 2013 No.6095498

>what are you studying again anon?
>Electrical Engineering and Business Modelling
>Wow what's that?
>just a bunch of number crunching and shit nothing too serious, what are you doing?
>You're pretty smart, and I'm becoming a chiropractor
>so can you crack my back or not?

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 02:36:54 2013 No.6095501

>>6095470
Don't study computers, study trees. That's actually not what I say in reality though, I was 'av'n a 'laff, as they say.

I study tree topology as it applies to population genetics, no interest in computer networks at all. I usually just tell people I try to construct the evolutionary histories using math.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 02:39:25 2013 No.6095503 >what do you study, anon? >physics >oh wow that sounds super hard >yeah, but I love it. You wanna hear about it? >not really >Ok

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 02:40:55 2013 No.6095507 >>6095283 >be mathematician >people then want to know what it is I do >Nigger, you won't understand in the slightest, why ask me this? >c'mon tell me >scene from scanners >every time I'm not your suicide booth, asshats.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 02:47:54 2013 No.6095513 >>6095507 jajaja

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 03:24:39 2013 No.6095563 >>6095372 watch "Breaking Bad" faget

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 03:28:37 2013 No.6095568 >What's your major? >Chemistry >Wow Anon, that sounds really hard! >Nah, it's actually pretty easy once you get the basics down >Easy for you! Every damn time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 03:30:38 2013 No.6095571 She: "What do you do?" Me: "Not much." She: "I mean, for work." Me: "Modelling." She: (looking me up and down) "You don't look like a model." Me: "Not that kind of modelling."

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 06:51:41 2013 No.6095745 "What do you study?" "Electical engineering" "Oh so you're becoming an electrician?" This has happened so many times to me that when people ask me what I study now I just say i'm an electrician.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 06:59:41 2013 No.6095751 Meh the more common occurence is "So what do you do?" "A PhD in quantum physics." "Oh great, I have a cousin who's doing a PhD in biology too." Woah there, do I look like I give a fuck?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 07:10:03 2013 No.6095755 >>6095300 You should tell them, "It's the study of how my penis works."

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 07:18:02 2013 No.6095758 >>6095751 Why do you converse with people? Just tell them to fuck off right from the get go if you dislike conversation so much.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 07:20:03 2013 No.6095763 >>6095315 All the time, but I do fix cars as a hobby...

Crane Thu Oct 17 07:26:03 2013 No.6095766
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>"what do you study?"
>"psychology"
>"oh, now I have to watch what I say"
or
>"omg, i had this dream last night, pls tell me what it means"
>"are you analyzing me right now?"

every. fucking. time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 07:35:32 2013 No.6095771 "What's your major?" "Mathematics" "Oh ew, I hated math once letters started coming in amirite? xD"

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 07:36:02 2013 No.6095772 >>6095372 >>6095563 That's synthetic chemistry fuckwad

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 07:44:03 2013 No.6095780

>So anon, what do you study?
>physics
>You probably know how the mozart effects works so can you explain it to me?

At dinner at my grandma. My uncels wife ask me what I am going to study.

>So what are you going to study?
>Physics
>hahahaha so where are you going to get work?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 08:04:09 2013 No.6095796 >>6095772 I dont think you are getting the point of this thread...

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 08:07:39 2013 No.6095804 > where do you work? > a big tech company > so do you study computer science? > fuck no, mechanical enginering > shouldnt you be making cars or planes? Such is the life of a mech e in a sea of sofware "engineers"

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 08:20:40 2013 No.6095819 EE = electrician mech E = automechanic comp E = computer repair guys chem E = chemistry????????? nuke E = nuclear bombs

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 08:51:15 2013 No.6095858
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>>6095471
Most people get what I'm saying after I explain it to them, but the initial response is always "so you work with cars?", even if it's a person I have reason to believe would know better. For example, I told my high school math teacher what I wanted to major in and his response was, "Wow, that's cool. I love rollercoasters." I guess I can see where they're making the connection, but I didn't think it'd be this much of a recurring issue.

>So you work with cars?
>No. It's actually more to do with waterways and sewage systems. Making sure shit stays out of your water and all that.
>Oh. That sounds hard.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 09:02:44 2013 No.6095878 File: 10 KB, 240x250, 1339479174855.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >What are you doing? Materials Science >What is that? I study and engineer different mat.. >Oh so like chemistry mfw

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 09:03:46 2013 No.6095882 >So, Anon, what do you study? >Electrons, mostly. >Okaaay then...

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 09:05:44 2013 No.6095888 >not just lying and telling people you do something easier to explain It's like you guys don't even know how to pretend to be an architect.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 09:05:44 2013 No.6095889

>>6095882
I should ad that I know it is really shitty statement, but I can't come up with a short description of what I spend my time doing that carries any information about why would I spend my time doing it. And the system I spend most of efforts on is, indeed, just a bunch of electrons.

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>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 09:12:16 2013 No.6095909 File: 295 KB, 730x1095, 1381007453098.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hey anon, what do you study? >bio-engineering Oh wow, can you fix my computer? >s-sure....

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 09:32:51 2013 No.6095962 >>6095758 >not punching ever biologist you meet in the face

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 09:40:21 2013 No.6095981 >Hey man what do you study? >Neuropsychology. >Does that mean you can read my mind?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 09:52:52 2013 No.6095996 >What do you study? >Computer science >Why my Iphone not work????? every time

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 09:56:52 2013 No.6096000 >>6095495 >quantum finance

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 10:03:52 2013 No.6096005 >>6095402 So why don't they call it C Engineering then?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 10:04:51 2013 No.6096006 >What are you studying? Electrical Engineering > So what's the difference between you and electricians?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 10:09:22 2013 No.6096013 >>6095804 Aren't software engineers essentially alpha codemonkeys?

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 10:12:21 2013 No.6096015
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>>6095962
The biologist in the story was the cousin you fucking ning nong. Furthermore you're a faggot. Biologists are superior than to your undergraduate arse in every sense, especially intellectually. Go get a B on your calc II exam.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 10:13:51 2013 No.6096016 >>6095331 lol'ed so hard

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 10:16:43 2013 No.6096020 >>6096013 Yah man!! xD Computer Science is for people too STUPED for real math

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 10:22:42 2013 No.6096027 >>6095283 >So anon, what do you study? >Medicine >Wow. Isn't that hard?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 10:28:12 2013 No.6096031 >>6096027 I get this with maths sometimes, its a good opportunity for a dick joke. >hard like my dick. I worked very... hard to learn to get erections on command specifically for these situations.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 10:37:12 2013 No.6096038

>So you're majoring in astrophysics?
>yes
>So you're a rocket scientist?
>not exactly
>Did you see where they were getting a crew together for mars?
>yeah I heard something about that years ago
>Why do people want to go to Mars so bad?
>I don't know I guess for the accomplishment of it and to learn more about other planets or use it for resources
>Well that's stupid, we have our own problems right here and I don't think we should spend money on that. My taxes...blah blah blah

I am not a punching-bag for your political dissatisfaction. I've had so many people try to talk about BS experiments and research projects like I'm personally responsible.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 10:51:42 2013 No.6096054 >>6095771 every time

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:25:57 2013 No.6096070
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>What u study?
>The application of control theory, or simply put automation.
>Oh, you mean how to maek robots?
>There is some overlap, but it's not really the same thing. It actually encompasses any machine, which has to operate with minimal or no manual control.
>Sooo, you're going to make yourself a robotic sex doll, right?
>mfw I've actually been asked this
>mfw the one asking was a girl no less
>mfw that grin on her face
>mfw a lot of my socially retarded /sci/entologists bros probably thought this was actually some coded message signaling that she wants the D
>mfw we were at a table, with a bunch of other people for the holidays
>mfw she just wanted to rustle muh jimmies
>mfw it worked and I raged internally
>mfw I could only deflect with "that would be an incredibly difficult task that even a team of engineers would find hard. There's no way I could do it alone".
>mfw I'm still sort of buttmad when I recall this.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:28:27 2013 No.6096072 >>6096070 It was a joke you autist. You were supposed to smile or laugh back and make another joke.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:34:28 2013 No.6096075 d00d i love these threads! grabs popcorn and prepares to lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:35:58 2013 No.6096078 >>6096075 grabs you by the throat BACK THE FUCK OFF!?!?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:38:57 2013 No.6096080 >>6096078 starts rubbing your crotch ara anon-kun, if you want some special attention you just have to ask~

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:40:59 2013 No.6096087 >>6096072 Yep. This. >>6096070 Come on mate you've got to do better than this. You're making us look bad. She probably would have wanted the D if you handled yourself better in social settings. You should practice.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:42:28 2013 No.6096089 >Neuroscience You'd think that it's pretty self explanatory. The science of neurons. But for some reason people often think it's a medical degree, treating sick people and shit, which would be neurology.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:44:57 2013 No.6096092 >>6095471 this

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:47:58 2013 No.6096094

>>6096072
>>6096087
>bitch said she enjoys "picking on people like me"
>just a harmless joke
Sure, fuckwads. She wanted to anger me and it worked, I just didn't spill spaghetti all over the place and deflected. Laughing when you don't find something funny doesn't exactly come naturally.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:49:28 2013 No.6096098 >>6095283 >grad student and neighbor studying psych asks me what i'm writing my dissertation on > i tell him possible world semantics >"oh like traveling to other dimensions" >mfw

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:50:28 2013 No.6096099 >>6095758 But it's a terrible conversation point. There is no possible follow up. What the fuck are you supposed to reply to that? "Oh nice." "..." "Look like the weather is getting worse."

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:51:58 2013 No.6096102

>>6096094
Fair enough, you were there and we weren't so you're in a better position to judge. But you've got to admit if you saw someone telling that story on /sci/ you'd be inclined to think they were socially inept. Still though, if you find yourself troubled by such interactions I think you should try to relax more, I doubt she's as evil as you think she is.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:51:58 2013 No.6096103 >>6096098 >semantics so basically writhing a dictionary, right?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:52:57 2013 No.6096104 >>6095878 To be faire MatSci has to be one of the widest field.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:53:58 2013 No.6096105 >>6096103 modal metaphysics, Haecceitism, counterfactual identity, perdurdantism

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:54:58 2013 No.6096106 >>6095889 Computational electronics or just straight up pure QED?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:55:58 2013 No.6096107 >>6096105 You're doing a fantastically poor job at explaining what it actually is.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:55:58 2013 No.6096108 >>6096038 >So you're majoring in astrophysics? The only correct answer to that is "lel good job getting a position anywhere faggot".

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:59:29 2013 No.6096112

>>6096102
>I doubt she's as evil as you think she is.
She isn't and we actually had a few pleasant conversations after that. The last time I saw her we hugged goodbye, so it's not like we were on bad terms. We barely know each other actually, she just knew people that I know. What I was describing was only the rage of the moment.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 11:59:58 2013 No.6096110

>>6096099
"Oh is he? Do you know what his research is on?"
"Something to do with X"
"Oh okay, I can't say I know much about X, but best of luck to him, grad school can be pretty draining at times, but its really great being on the forefront of research, (ley/pop-aspects of quantum mechanics) got me interested in undergrad and now it seems like I'm so far down the rabbit hole, it just gets more enthralling. Sometimes I wish I'd gotten a real job though!
or "Oh X! That's cool I find Y and Z ley/pop-aspects of the area really interesting. Do you know much about it?"
...
"You wun sum fuk?"

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:00:59 2013 No.6096113 >>6095469 > comp sci major > girlfriend obvious troll 1/10 for making me respond.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:03:04 2013 No.6096119

>>6096112
See, now I feel even more like she was flirting with you. People often ask questions like that in the initial stages of flirting, if you deflect like you did it goes no further, if you rage out directly they decide not to like you, but if you give them a response that makes it seem like they contributed something worthwhile to the conversation, the flirting escalates.

Again though I wasn't there so I just have no idea really, for all I know you're a ladies man. If not though its worth thinking about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:04:01 2013 No.6096124 >>6096110 Meh you're probably right. I behave like a soulless robot since I started the PhD anyway. >any conversation >the only thought going through my head is "YOU COULD BE WORKING RIGHT NOW"

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:06:30 2013 No.6096127 >>6096119 Maybe it's best he did shut up though, I'm picturing an anon in this situation replying: ">implying I don't already have ur mum"

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:07:30 2013 No.6096129 >mom knows im a biology major >ask me why every medical question there is in the book THEY TEACH ME ABOUT PLANTS MOM NOT MEDICINE

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:08:01 2013 No.6096131

>>6096107

If the world wasn't the way it actually is, would proper names still refer to the same individuals? Are you still you in some alternate course of events?

second-order and third-order logic comes into play a lot. Theories of identity over time and identity over possible worlds.

>>	MaineFag !!VqpxjX1nvYl Thu Oct 17 12:15:30 2013 No.6096137 >Biochem >>YALL GONNA MAKE SOME DRUGS?!? >Not that kind

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:19:01 2013 No.6096147

>>6096119
>See, now I feel even more like she was flirting with you.
Trust me bro, she wasn't. From my limited interactions with her, she's pretty overt about what she's doing and is the kind of person that tells you what they think to your face, without putting much sugar on it.

>for all I know you're a ladies man
No. Apprentice wizzard actually.
>If not though its worth thinking about
Too hateful and cynical, with just enough social aptitude to get by. I prefer to keep to myself.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:28:31 2013 No.6096170 My grandparents aside to my father: >is maths even a program you can actually take? I try my best to explain but I think they simply don't care enough to listen.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:31:31 2013 No.6096180 >>6096137 Actually you can. >LSD-25

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:33:01 2013 No.6096182 >>6096113 Pure mathematics student here with a super cute physics student as a girlfriend.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:39:31 2013 No.6096187 >>6096070 >mfw a lot of my socially retarded Dude from the sounds of it, this is you

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:45:30 2013 No.6096202 >>6096187 >implying that I think I'm not socially impaired Read the rest of the thread plz.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:48:01 2013 No.6096208 >>6096127 This post made my evening of data analysis much less painful. Thanks anon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:48:02 2013 No.6096206 >>6096182 sounds like pedophilia

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:50:01 2013 No.6096212 >>6096147 Fair enough. I guess its unreasonable of me to assume that the same things that motivate me will motivate you, but I'd have been looking for sum fuk.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:52:30 2013 No.6096215 File: 979 KB, 500x461, > space.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6095291 >mfw I don't see a face but a space after every >

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:53:01 2013 No.6096216
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>>6095283
I have the same small set of experiences every time so now I don't bother explaining

>what do you research in?
>maths
>oh right what sort of maths
>do you know anything about maths
>yeah i mean what i did in school
>you know nothing, this conversation is over

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:54:01 2013 No.6096218 >>6096206 We are both 18. Undergrads. So yeah. Sounds like it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 12:55:00 2013 No.6096221 >>6096216 Way to give people a chance to understand your righteous god-worn holiness, bub.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 13:02:01 2013 No.6096229 >>6096221 You clearly know nothing of math.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 13:03:00 2013 No.6096233 >>6096221 Obviously I'm slightly more polite than that. But they almost always don't care, and any attempt to explain anything would be pointless. >>6096231 Noncommutative algebra.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 13:03:01 2013 No.6096231 >>6096216 What is your research in?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 13:07:01 2013 No.6096238 >>6096182 >tfw super cute physics student girl always asks me for help with math >tfw I constantly think she wants the D

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 13:11:00 2013 No.6096246 >>6096229 Actually I do.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 13:15:19 2013 No.6096252

>>6095316
I am pretty sure I could give better advice about broken phones than a technician or customer support.

Obviously the focus is on theory and math, especially during the first 2 years.
At least where I study, we learn more than just partial differential equations, quantum mechanics, z-transform and MOSFET/BJT/...
I already had everything from fluiddynamics, elasticity, discrete math and so on to OOP, assembly, network security (the list goes on) and the actually important part for this: how a computer or phone is built and works.

I would not repair your phone but I could narrow down the problem and give you solid advice about what to do / how to solve it.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 13:18:50 2013 No.6096257

>>6096216
Sorry bro, but you sound like a giant elitist douche.
Did you master all philosophies, humanities and sciences before majoring mathematics?

I put you now to the other side of the conversation with a potential person:
>You: what do you do for living?
>He: I am a doctor
>You: Oh in what field of medicine?
>He: Do you know anything about medicine?
>You: Maybe a bit
>He: I am an Otolaryngologist.
>You: .... a what?
>He: You know nothing, this conversation is over!

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 13:19:19 2013 No.6096259 >>6096233 Then why don't you just tell people about the applications for QM? People love to hear about QM...

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 13:53:50 2013 No.6096301 >>6096094 You couls have laughed it off and said to her "You wouldnt want that, itwould make you obsolete" with a cheeky smile.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 14:14:43 2013 No.6096332

>>6096301
>giving a clear indication that I'm annoyed and prompting her to keep at it by being confrontational.
>might escalate into a "yo mama" style insult-em-up
If any of you ever find yourselves in a similar situation, only do this if you're feeling lucky.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 14:18:42 2013 No.6096339 >>6096259 Yeah, but what if the application isn't to QM so much as it is to orbifold conformal field theory?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 14:22:13 2013 No.6096345 File: 857 KB, 320x240, damnitguys1.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6095317

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 14:27:14 2013 No.6096353 >>6095819 Petroleum engineering here I get confused with a gas station manager.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 14:32:43 2013 No.6096356

>>6096339
Doesn't matter, you should know enough about algebra to talk some shit that's related anyway. Just say "well its a similar kind of maths to this stuff that led to quantum theory, blah blah blah, my research isn't directly related to quantum theory but its a nice example of why its important that we investigate abstract mathematics, etc etc."

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 14:42:43 2013 No.6096364 >So what are you studying? Philosophy >why? I never know how to respond.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 14:51:36 2013 No.6096373
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>>6096353
I must confess, that got a laugh out of me.

Could be worse. You could be a sanitation engineer. According to my friend, the general consensus on them appears to be:
>Oh, that's just a garbage truck driver trying to sound fancy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 14:52:08 2013 No.6096374 File: 11 KB, 256x256, cant know.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6096364 >I never know how to respond. That's obviously because you've realized the ultimate truth of this world and live your life accordingly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 15:09:43 2013 No.6096395 >>6096374 Obviously

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 15:15:42 2013 No.6096407 >What are you studying? Engineering Physics >What's that like engineering but more theoretical >but whats engineering problem solving

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 15:19:42 2013 No.6096414 >So anon, what do you study? >Oh, I'm an algorithmic trader. >Wow. Sums it up.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 15:39:13 2013 No.6096444 >>6096414 No you're not. You're a quant finance student. Two very different things.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 15:48:13 2013 No.6096462

Two actual conversation I had:
>"What are majoring?"
>"Physics."
>"Why would you do that?! That sounds horrible!"

a few month later:

>"So what are you majoring?"
>I hesitate for a moment
>"........Physics"
>"Eeeeewwwww! Why?!"

After those encounters I always think about answering "engineering" instead.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 15:51:36 2013 No.6096470 > What do you study? > Finance & Banking > Cool. Can you lend me some money?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 15:52:35 2013 No.6096473 >>6096462 I don't understand people's revulsion with mathematics and sciences. >>6096470 >No, but I can lend my fist to your face.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 15:55:35 2013 No.6096479 >hey man, long time no see. What have you been up to? Well, I have been studying economics and politics > So what is it like? Basically, I know shit tons of high end maths that I will probably not even use since maths in economics do not work.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 15:57:05 2013 No.6096487 >>6096479 >economics and politics >I know shit tons of high end maths wat

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:00:36 2013 No.6096494 >>6096479 Derivatives are not "high end maths", pal. And if "maths in economics do not work", then you're doing it terribly wrong.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:01:36 2013 No.6096495

>>6096487
That is what you get when you study in a good university. I thought this shit would be easy, but I ended up having 2-3 lectures a day only about math. I mean by no means this is quantum physics, but one thing I can tell you - calculating probability with tons of variables is a bitch.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:03:06 2013 No.6096500 File: 109 KB, 648x864, 20130919.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6096494 you don't know economics very well

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:06:36 2013 No.6096504 >>6096494 Derivatives are learned in high school. Economics is basically maths with a lot of assumptions in them. So sit your ignorant ass down.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:09:06 2013 No.6096510 >"whats your major" >mathematics >"Oh uh what are you going to do with that? Be a teacher?" Or sometimes >"what's 46884 times 139740?!"

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:09:34 2013 No.6096512 ITT: Betas saying that they get asked for help (nearly) unrelated to their, noone of them says he denied it and said "no that has nothing with my field, we do things like ..."

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:13:28 2013 No.6096520

>>6096504
>>6096479
I have a question, because I have no idea what you are doing in an economics class:

If you study economics, how much time is spent on outlining and discussing different economic philosophies (Arachno-Capitalism, Communism, Protectionism, free trade, etc)?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:15:29 2013 No.6096523 >>6096510 Do people really believe that mathematicians are more or less trained to be human calculators? If you think 3 seconds about it, everyone should realize that that can't be the case.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:15:29 2013 No.6096524 >>6096495 >high end math Top kek. Are you even familiar with Ito's lemma? If not then you're not even baby-tier money-math. Let alone 'high end math'

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:17:28 2013 No.6096527 >>6096520 Arachno lol, sorry anarcho

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:17:58 2013 No.6096528 >>6096512 see >>6095858 >>6095878 >>6096170 >>6096407

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:18:30 2013 No.6096529

>>6096520
Not much actually. In general we learn the maths and how to apply them, and such things as discussing economic philosophies rather than learning the ones that are most relevant today is mostly up to you since such things like context of politics and economics are additional lectures.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:20:29 2013 No.6096531 >>6096523 I get the teacher comment most of the time but I do get human calculator remarks. I usually try to answer them just so they keep thinking that's the case. They think higher of a human calculator than an actual mathematician.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:21:58 2013 No.6096533 >>6096529 What mathematics are you doing? >>6096531 Yeah I get both but I actively dispel the myths. Anyone who thinks I'm a calculator is in for a lesson in geometry or number theory or something relatively simple that demonstrates what maths is.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:25:58 2013 No.6096538 >>6096533 I've tried that a few times, they usually think it's a waste of time to study. I've had some success when linking math to real world applications.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:29:59 2013 No.6096543 >>6096529 ah ok, and what are you calculating exactly? Can you give an example maybe?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:30:59 2013 No.6096545 >>6096538 Please demonstrate.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:36:29 2013 No.6096553 >>6096462 Know that feel bro. Had one persons start making puking noises at me once. I seriously considered whether to punch him or not.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:44:29 2013 No.6096570

>What do you study?

>Mathematics.

>OH GOD!
>Why?
>I always hated maths.
>I was never good at maths.
>What can you do with that?
>What's 18 times 18?
>Do you want to become smart?
>I know someone who studies something similiar it's called General Management or something like that.
>So you want to become a physicist?
>And what else? Astronomy?
>Are you a genius?
>Can you become anything besides a math teacher?
>What use does it have?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:46:29 2013 No.6096575 >>6096570 >I know someone who studies something similiar it's called General Management or something like that. wait, what

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:50:58 2013 No.6096582 >>6096570 >Do you want to become smart? I think that guy called you stupid..?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:51:29 2013 No.6096586 >>6095421 >There's not much else you can do with that degree I hope this is your response http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP2oWvh6I44

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:51:58 2013 No.6096587 >So anon, what do you study? >Mathematics >What's (big number) * (other big number)? >I don't know >Shouldn't you? >No

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:53:25 2013 No.6096591 File: 24 KB, 286x250, 1333684017596.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >what do you study >applied math and computer science >can you help me turn google+ in a classroom? >not any more than you can >do they teach you anything

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:53:25 2013 No.6096592 >>6096582 If only you were smart enough to know for sure.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:53:25 2013 No.6096594 >>6096587 >So anon, what do you study? >Mathematics >What's (big number) * (other big number)? >A big number >wat >exactly

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:53:26 2013 No.6096590
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>So anon, what do you study?
>Finance, financial analys and risk management
>Oh, so can you help me chose a life insurance?
>Oh, can you help me invest 1000$, I want no take no risk and double that amount in no time.
>Oh, so you work for evil corpotation
>Oh, so you contribute nothing so society
>Oh, working behind a desk is soooo boring
Or /pol/tard
>Well banking is evil and we should go back to a gold standard

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:54:56 2013 No.6096596 File: 13 KB, 220x220, 1317762754706.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6096594 playing basketball >anons a math major, he can keep score

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:56:27 2013 No.6096599 >>6096596 >anons a math major, he can keep score >anon: shit man I don't remember how to count

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:58:57 2013 No.6096605

>>6096462
>After those encounters I always think about answering "engineering" instead.
It doesn't help.

>be poorfag reporting in to shitty leaflet distribution job
>boss asks where I study
>answer
>why did you chose to go to a technical university anon? Isn't that hard?
>boss is a high school teacher
>mfw

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 16:59:26 2013 No.6096608 >>6096545 Just easy stuff I remember from diffy eq like substances mixing in drinking water or vibrations.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:00:56 2013 No.6096609 File: 9 KB, 250x250, costanza.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6096605 >mfw I failed to attach face

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:01:56 2013 No.6096611

>>6096462

literally every single conversation i've ever had about what I do.

Being a physicist is like being a fucking leper, every time you tell someone about it they recoil in horror and generally avoid you.

Though now it's changing a bit, the responses are more like "oh you're like sheldon from the big bang theory".

I think i'd rather be treated like a Leper than be thought of as that raging asspie sheldon.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:02:56 2013 No.6096614

>Anon, can you do my taxes?
>No
>Aren't you a maths major? What do you even DO?
>I study various topics that you're probably familiar with, only more in-depth. For example, do you remember what equations are?
>Yeah, why would you want to study that stuff anyway? There's no "x" number, so what's the use?

why

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:04:25 2013 No.6096616
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>>6096611

Usually with me it's like:

>What are you gonna be after you graduate anon?
>A physicist.
>Oh wow! I think it's great you wanna help people! Have you thought about which medical school you wanna apply to?
>mfw

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:05:25 2013 No.6096618 >>6096616 yeah i've also had the dreaded "physicist-physician" mixup. sometimes I play along if its a girl and they get all moist thinking about snaring a rich doctor.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:06:57 2013 No.6096619

>>6096611
>"oh you're like sheldon from the big bang theory"
That one is becoming more and more frequent.. I hate it so much and all I can do is smile and nod because I don't want to start a 15 minutes discussion why I don't love TBBT because it is about science and physicists.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:09:57 2013 No.6096627
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>>6096611
>>6096619

If you're in a science related field, it's bound to happen for even the most mundane shit. I have "interesting" conversations with coworkers at my retail job.

>Anon, aren't you going to eat that?
>No, it's not time for my lunch yet. I'll eat it then.
>You have an eating schedule? Wow, just like Sheldon from BBT!
>mfw

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:11:27 2013 No.6096631

>>6096619

it drives me crazy, i fucking HATE that show. They are all such a bunch of pathetic social retards.

Sucks because my girlfriend loves that shit and always tells all her friends that she's dating Sheldon.

Worst part about it is new physics undergrads fucking love that shit and always organize viewings of it and invite everyone in the department over to nerd out and drink soda while they watch an entire season.

Meanwhile I'm at the bar drowning my hatred for a world I apparently don't belong to.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:15:25 2013 No.6096635 >>6096631 >my girlfriend loves that shit and always tells all her friends that she's dating Sheldon. I'd commit sudoku if I were you.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:20:55 2013 No.6096643 >>6096631 >Sucks because my girlfriend loves that shit and always tells all her friends that she's dating Sheldon. Oh god that has to be the worst

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:21:56 2013 No.6096647

>>6096631
>Sucks because my girlfriend loves that shit and always tells all her friends that she's dating Sheldon.
Why aren't you telling her that it is fucking insulting to be called an arrogant, unempathetic, weird aspie.

>Worst part about it is new physics undergrads fucking love that shit
I know and I really don't get it.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:23:19 2013 No.6096651

>>6096631
>Worst part about it is new physics undergrads fucking love that shit and always organize viewings of it and invite everyone in the department over to nerd out and drink soda while they watch an entire season.
Wow.

Asking if I watch TBBT or am like Sheldon happens to me too? I also get compared to the guy in A Beautiful Mind a lot, probably because it's the only mathematician a normal person has ever heard of. It'd really like to say "thanks for telling me I'm mentally ill and have a superiority complex".

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:24:20 2013 No.6096654 >>6096635 It's funny that no one has ever asked me if I was good at solving sudoku's.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:29:20 2013 No.6096659 >>6096627 That's actually pretty autistic, to time your eating so fussily like that. You're the weird one here.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:29:20 2013 No.6096660 >>6096651 >I also get compared to the guy in A Beautiful Mind a lot So you're either a schizophrenic or an economic genius?

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:30:20 2013 No.6096665

>>6096631
>Worst part about it is new physics undergrads fucking love that shit and always organize viewings of it and invite everyone in the department over to nerd out and drink soda while they watch an entire season.

You know, you could just not go. Presumably you're a postgrad, so why not just ignore the undergrads?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:30:50 2013 No.6096667 >>6096651 "And also for implying I can make a smart, hot chick moist by insulting her proof, and get all of my friends laid through strategy." Why would you want to be associated with someone who could command a nice piece of ass at will?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:32:49 2013 No.6096672 >>6096659 Do you even /fit/?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:34:20 2013 No.6096674 >Do you watch Numb3rs?

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:46:50 2013 No.6096686

>>6096659
I wasn't aware that wanting to save food for later was autistic now.

I am willing to assert that the vast majority of people have an eating schedule even if they don't think of it as one, because people are creatures of habit.

>Wake up
>Shit it's time for breakfast.
>Looks like it's about noon
>Think I'll have lunch.
>It's getting kind of late.
>Guess I'll have dinner now.

Not to mention that we have an actual lunch schedule at work to try to ensure the floor has sufficient coverage, which was why it was extra confusing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:48:49 2013 No.6096691 >>6096686 > which was why it was extra confusing. Becoming confused over minor disruptions to regimentation is a further sign of autism.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:50:50 2013 No.6096697 File: 73 KB, 418x467, dodged that bullet.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw the only exposure I've had to TBBT in real life is a colleague who once asked me if I watch it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:53:19 2013 No.6096703 >>6096686 >I wasn't aware that wanting to save food for later was autistic now Everything is autistic on /sci/.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:56:49 2013 No.6096705

>>6096691
I should probably also mention that we get write-ups for eating on the floor and repeated write-ups can lead to termination of employment.

I can wait two fucking hours to eat a muffin if it means I can maintain my job stability. It is probably not THAT good and college typically doesn't pay for itself.

(In case you were wondering, the muffin wasn't that good.)

>>6096703
Apparently so.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 17:57:50 2013 No.6096706 >>6096705 >(In case you were wondering, the muffin wasn't that good.) I wasn't wondering. Providing excessive information which isn't asked for is yet another sign of autism.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 18:00:49 2013 No.6096711 >>6096131 that's shit and useless and i hope while you starve to death you have enough time to reflect on what poor choices you have made.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 18:03:20 2013 No.6096717 >>6096105 So is this philosophy or linguistics? Because it honoestly sounds like a little of both.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 18:18:31 2013 No.6096735 >>6096591 >can you help me turn google+ in a classroom? I don't even understand the question.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 22:17:54 2013 No.6097195 >>6096332 How you say things has a far greater impact than what you say. >"You wouldnt want that, it would make you obsolete" wink (playful banter) > "You wouldnt want that, itwould make you obsolete" scowl (insulted 12 year old)

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 22:25:23 2013 No.6097224 >What do you study? >nanotechnology engineering. >"what's that?" >well... >in English? >well... >"It's kinda complicated for me to understand but it sounds cool" fuck this planet and everyone that lives on it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 22:31:54 2013 No.6097242 >>6097224 you can't expect people to understand hard things like that

medfag !BqcQeeA4HA Thu Oct 17 22:36:55 2013 No.6097251

The problem with saying I'm going to be a physician isn't that people don't know what they do. But that a lot of what they think they know about medicine comes from horrible sources.

That and I always, always get the follow up: "What kind of doctor do you want to be?"

Sometimes I fuck with people when I get this question, though.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 22:47:24 2013 No.6097268

>So anon, what do you study
>any STEM major
>so you think you are going to make megabucks but will live off you parents for 30 years before getting your first job as a high school math teacher
>ummmmmm
>shoulda gone to business school FAGGGGG
>3 guys in polos jump out of the bushes and beat me with garden hoses while laughing

This happen to anyone else quite often?

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 22:51:23 2013 No.6097276

>>6096611

No. People will only have those types of assumptions based on your personality and the way you present yourself.

If you're socially inept, well then I have some bad news for you. People who can fit in with everyone else and enjoy their social life during college wouldn't have those types of problems.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 22:55:53 2013 No.6097282 >civil engineering >oh what's that >Bridges, tunnels, airports, ports and stuff. I want to specialize in transportation engineering >Oh that seems hard. You're really smart >Yeah. I like it, though. Every time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 22:57:52 2013 No.6097287 >>6097282 >civil >seems hard hahahahahahahahaahah

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 22:59:23 2013 No.6097292 >>6097287 I don't give two fucks if it's hard or not. I like it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:00:22 2013 No.6097294 I study computer and network security in layman's terms. >What the fuck does that mean? I'm a layman and I study computer and network security.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:00:53 2013 No.6097295 >>6097292 Your mother's worldview.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:01:23 2013 No.6097297 >>6097282 >civil engineer >smart hahahahahahahahahaha, my fucking sides

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:01:53 2013 No.6097298 >>6095478 >unzip my pants Lost it

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:04:55 2013 No.6097301 >>6095503 fucking this

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:08:23 2013 No.6097308 >>6096510 ALL THE FUCKING TIME

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:08:52 2013 No.6097307 File: 306 KB, 310x243, frankie.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6095317

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:09:52 2013 No.6097312 >>6096005 Engical Chemineering

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:11:23 2013 No.6097314 >What do you want to do with your major? Became an Actuary >A what?

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:14:52 2013 No.6097319

>>6097242
you people get 50 years plus or minus 50 to learn, you're all expected to know everything the history of science has laid out for you or AT LEAST have a general idea or understand what a fucking atom and molecule is. If your dream is to be a baker instead of a molecular gastronomist in the 21st century, then you should let someone else live your life.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:24:23 2013 No.6097327 >>6096089 ah, yes, neurology - the study of neurons, as opposed to the far more easily deducible nueroscience, the science of neurons.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:28:53 2013 No.6097333 >Biochem >>Can you make me some drugs This conversation happens way more than it should

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:38:53 2013 No.6097345 >so what is your major? >astronomy >oh to fix mars?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:40:53 2013 No.6097349 >>6096070 but seriously /sci/ should get together and make a sex doll or at least a prototype we can patent and sell to a company to improve

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:41:52 2013 No.6097352 >>6097349 >implying japan's won't be infinitely better than ours

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:45:23 2013 No.6097356 >>6095780 >>hahahaha so where are you going to get work? Every fucking time ;_;

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:45:53 2013 No.6097357 >>6096599 lol this

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:48:54 2013 No.6097360 >>6096038 >>Well that's stupid, we have our own problems right here and I don't think we should spend money on that. My taxes...blah blah blah Fuck I hate those faggots.

Anonymous Thu Oct 17 23:56:53 2013 No.6097374

>So anon, what do you study?
>economics
>cool, can you help me with accounting?
>no, economics isn't businesses
>What stocks should I invest in?
>I've got no idea, economics isn't finance
>so you think money can solve anything?
>Money is just practical store of value...
>How do you defend big corporations polluting in the third world?
>I don't it's terrible
>I thought all economists were uber-capitalists
>no, economics doesn't have anything to do with ideology. It's basically just mathematical models
>so what do you actually do?
>I'm just trying to model altruism into utility functions
>Altruism? isn't that like the opposite of economics?

And then I simply started saying I was a statistician

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 00:00:54 2013 No.6097382

>so... like what do you study?
>athletic therapy
>oh so kinesiology right i have a friend in kine-
>no, athletic therapy. i work with athletes
>yeah i have a friend who does that
>no i work as a health care professional providing acute care, injury prevention, and rehabilitation of musculoskeletal and neurovascular injuries especially those pertaining to sport to a wide range of patients from recreational weekend warriors all the way to national level or professional athletes and olympians
>so you do kine

all of my why

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 00:03:24 2013 No.6097391 >>6097382 Admit that you just wanna touch some gymnasts

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 00:07:24 2013 No.6097394 >>6097391 more like women's indoor and beach volleyball it's a plus lel

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 00:29:51 2013 No.6097416 >>6097295 Oh snap.

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 00:36:22 2013 No.6097420

>>6097374
>So anon, what do you study?
>economics
>cool, can you help me with accounting?
>no, economics isn't businesses
>What stocks should I invest in?
>I've got no idea, economics isn't finance
>so you think money can solve anything?
>Money is just practical store of value...
>How do you defend big corporations polluting in the third world?
>I don't it's terrible
>I thought all economists were uber-capitalists
>no, economics doesn't have anything to do with ideology. It's basically just mathematical models
>so what do you actually do?
>I'm just trying to model altruism into utility functions
>Altruism? isn't that like the opposite of economics?
>Yeah, but we calculate a price for it. Like putting a value of having this conversation with you
>I am worthless?
>Basically
>Bye

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 00:42:51 2013 No.6097432 >>6097420 b-but utility functions doesn't involve prices

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 00:45:51 2013 No.6097439 >>6097432 don't you use econometrics? from that point you can clearly lie to him Goofy please!

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 00:52:51 2013 No.6097448 >>6097439 What does econometric have to do with specifically prices? Anyways I need to figure out a way to actually test it before I get into empiricism

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 00:52:51 2013 No.6097450

>>6095471
it's 50% anons being awkward fucks who can't do smalltalk and 50% plebian normalfags reusing really hack jokes incessantly

before I went back to school it was fucking
>So, anon, what do you do?
>I'm a QA tester for a videogame company
>Hahaha awesome so you get to just play videogames all day????

you don't really hate that one because it's stupid or unoriginal as much as you hate it because it makes your job sound fun when really it's fucking horrid drudgery

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 00:55:21 2013 No.6097452 >>6097450 Whenever someone says videogame tester I just imagine someone jumping at a wall for literally an hour trying to glitch over or through it

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 00:57:32 2013 No.6097455

>>6096353

I study PE too. I told a (now ex) girlfriend that I had an interview with Shell. She thought I was applying to work at a gas station and gave me a disappointed look.

Usually people don't say anything when I tell them what I study, they just kind of blank out. So I just say that I study engineering and change the subject.

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 01:00:01 2013 No.6097458

Verbatim from some passerby at my school nosing in my business.

>omg is that a horoscope chart?
>It's a circle of fifths
>like, what is that?
>It's a musical chart depicting the relationship of major and minor chords.
>that's so boring

She wasn't even hot. Later she was kicked out of the cafeteria for having a fistfight with her boyfriend.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 01:00:31 2013 No.6097459 >>6097455 Do you even need to apply to work at a gas station?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 01:02:02 2013 No.6097463 >>6097459 I don't know, but I doubt you'll be wearing a suit to an interview with one.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 01:07:02 2013 No.6097470 >>6097450 After reading The Trenches I give every QA guy I meet 50 bucks and tell them to get some mid-shelf liquor on me, if I can afford to.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 01:09:02 2013 No.6097472 I study mol epi/infectious disease >Oh look at my pimple am I gonna die? At first: I am not a physician and can't give medical blah blah blah Now: Yep. Looks like smallpox.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 01:14:01 2013 No.6097481 >>6097452 That's the fun part, honestly most of the time it's "do every possible menial task in the game to make sure the latest version didn't break basic functionality"

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 01:21:48 2013 No.6097487 >>6097481 ...and then do it again with a different screen resolution

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 01:57:46 2013 No.6097548 File: 12 KB, 233x217, 1381785629222.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6095317

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 02:01:17 2013 No.6097556 >So anon, what do you study? >Mining Engineering >Wow!! Can I have some money after you gradute?? You're gonna be rich xDD~~~ Everyone I've told have seriously reacted this way, thats what I get for doing a degree with a 100K grad salary...

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 02:02:47 2013 No.6097558 >>6097556 >a 100K grad salary 'Murica?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 02:06:17 2013 No.6097572 >>6097558 Australia, average of grads from my uni is actually like 90-95k, but a fair few people do hit 100

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 02:06:47 2013 No.6097575 >>6097556 >100K grad salary Bullshit. There's not a fucking grad student in the world making 100k.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 02:07:46 2013 No.6097578 >>6097572 That's a starting salary, not a grad salary.

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 02:09:16 2013 No.6097582

>>6097575
>>6097578
You guys don't have to believe me but you're wrong. All the grads I know were on somewhere from 85-110K their first year out of uni, its not as much as it sounds because cost of living is so high, you also have to live in the middle of nowhere

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 02:10:47 2013 No.6097583 >>6097575 Grad salaries for software engineers at top companies are 100K+

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 02:12:17 2013 No.6097587 >>6097575 >>6097582 >>6097583 Are we talking Australian or US dollars here?

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 02:13:16 2013 No.6097589

>>6097582
>out of uni
You're being dumb man, that is a STARTING SALARY. A grad salary is something you get while you're still in uni. Namely when you're a grad student.

Also as a mining geologist in Kalgoorlie I think you'd be surprised how much I know about what I and my colleagues cost of living is... Also what we earn. Also what we earned in grad school.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 02:14:46 2013 No.6097590 >>6097587 100k AUD obviously. So that's about 100k USD.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 02:20:46 2013 No.6097595 >>6097582 >85-110K their first year out of uni In most European countries that would be the maximum tax rate. > its not as much as it sounds because cost of living is so high ..Are you living in a hotel while you are at work?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 02:30:16 2013 No.6097601 >>6097595 Its just a high cost of living, driven by the mining sector. http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_result.jsp?country=Australia&city=Perth

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 02:35:17 2013 No.6097608 File: 67 KB, 368x368, 1367263236600.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"What's your major?" >Oh, I'm in Psychology: Brain and Cogniton >Oh so you want to be like... a neurosurgeon? mfw

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 02:41:46 2013 No.6097613

> be studying telecommunication technologies engineering
> "Oh so you're going to work for the BND?"

(Nachrichtentechnik = telecommunication technologies engineering, BND = Bundesnachrichtendienst = German NSA)
Every fucking time I have to explain that my field of studies is concerned with the TECHNOLOGIES that allow telecommunication to be conducted. It's in the fucking name, people.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 03:39:54 2013 No.6097668 >>6095283 Mechanical engineering here anon, i feel you.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 03:47:23 2013 No.6097674 >>6096070 >dat autistic reaction >not just saying "Well, with your help I wouldn't be in need of one" or "Yeah, but I'll need some animation samples from a real life specimen wink wink"

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 04:03:23 2013 No.6097688 >so what do you study, math or physics? >physics >wrong answer ...bitch

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 04:43:31 2013 No.6097714

>>6096070
>>There is some overlap, but it's not really the same thing. It actually encompasses any machine, which has to operate with minimal or no manual control.

I can just imagine you saying this in a whining, sing-song autistic voice, completely out of context for a conversation.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 04:45:31 2013 No.6097715 >>6097587 It's pretty much the same.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 04:53:01 2013 No.6097718 >what do you study? >mathematics >oh i hate math probably not the first person to say this

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 04:54:31 2013 No.6097719 luckily its easy to explain enumerative combinatorics in a few sentences. i leave out the asymptotics part because it's impossible when talking to people who dont know what limits etc are

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 05:10:30 2013 No.6097724

Im normally into physics. But for a few weeks i took a chainsaw course. And every conversation went like this.

>so anon, what have you been doing lately
>i took a chainsaw course a few weeks ago
>oh, so you are going to do a chainsaw massacre?

Its like everybody thinks of murder, and not cutting down trees when hearing the word "chainsaw"

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 05:15:31 2013 No.6097728 File: 34 KB, 640x427, PhD in mathematics.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6095962 you're amazing

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 05:43:31 2013 No.6097743 >>6097282 what do you object to about this conversation?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 05:53:01 2013 No.6097757 >>6095319 One of my stoner friends applied for bio engineering at pretty much every single university in his country that offered it in the hopes that he could one day develop super weed. I need new friends.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 06:45:06 2013 No.6097815 >>6096257 >Otolaryngologist Who the hell doesn't know who otolaryngologist is?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 07:01:36 2013 No.6097825 >Physics > So you'r going to be a teacher? everytime

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 07:09:35 2013 No.6097830 >So what do you do? >Social engineering. >Wow, so you can make me ask stupid questions?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 07:14:05 2013 No.6097834 >Computer Graphics >oh, my little nephew does that as well, he's really good with photoshop

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 07:18:06 2013 No.6097837

>So anon, what do you study?
>Marine studies, majoring marine biology and ecology
>Ohh ok. I went fishing with my dad last year, I caught a fish but I didn't know what it was. It looked like [insert vague description of a fish shaped animal here]. What species was it?
>I have no idea, sorry. We don't know every fish, we really just have to know the major biological processes that are running the joint
>Ohh, well it was an awesome fish.

Either that or something about dolphins/whales/any other 'cute' marine life being the greatest, most interesting animal ever.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 07:43:56 2013 No.6097859 >>6097837 Should've made something up, doofus.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 07:52:56 2013 No.6097865 >>6095471 yeah, seriously, you guys are worse than the funny man of zimbabwe

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 08:03:27 2013 No.6097876 File: 30 KB, 640x416, seriouscat.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >software engineering >OMG MAN UR A HACKER CAN YOU HELP ME GET INTO MY COWORKERS COMPUTER? >mfw

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 09:41:56 2013 No.6097978

>>6097195
Did you even read what else I wrote? This is the kind of shit I thought would happen. Retards thinking she was "being playful", when she flat out told me she enjoys messing with "people like me". I don't really know what that entails, but whatever, her words.

>>6097714
>completely out of context for a conversation
So let me get this straight
>get asked directly to explain what I study
>try to do so in an understandable way
>the one asking comes back with total bullshit, which was in no way related to the explanation
Yet you people call me an autist?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 09:45:56 2013 No.6097983 >what do you study? >particle physics >what is that or >what is particle?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 20:51:24 2013 No.6099175 File: 109 KB, 209x193, 1378465926297.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >What do you study? >Philosophy >How are you going to get a job? >My job is life

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 21:04:54 2013 No.6099213 >>6097876 I actually have little idea what a software engineer does. My best description. Either a code monkey or the leader of a bunch of code monkeys. what do you actually do?

>>	IHΠ Fri Oct 18 21:14:22 2013 No.6099228 File: 43 KB, 445x482, 1356058586828.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6097312

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 21:26:22 2013 No.6099246 >>6096524 >Are you familiar with something unpractical and fucking stupid?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 21:30:54 2013 No.6099255 >>6095331 iktf Everyone in my chem labs always ask the TA's if they know how to make meth/ watch BrBa

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 21:43:23 2013 No.6099266 >>6099175 what do they say after that? >haha come on really though, anon? >panic >uhh well I want to do something related to music or movies

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 21:50:52 2013 No.6099281 >What are you doing anon ? >I study maths >Oh, interesting >For instance, this year I started studying distributions theory, which basically is >I think I've heard enough. Do you like music ? Nobody wants me to explain them what I do.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 21:52:54 2013 No.6099285 >>6099281 sounds like when I want to teach my little brother some things and he never wants to feels bad

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 21:55:52 2013 No.6099295

>>6096538
Funny but whenever I say I'm a math student somehow the conversation ends up revolving around the philosophical implications of mathematics and how it's related to human knowledge in general. People a generally ready to assume that math can be both interesting and useful, even if they don't like math themselves. But again, I live in a country that's pretty keen on math so that may be why.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 21:59:54 2013 No.6099304 Why do you guys hate on biology so much? I'm studying biochemistry and microbiology, and while I see that it's not the same thing as being a bio major, you guys make it seem like biology is irrelevant because the major is easy...

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 22:09:50 2013 No.6099317 >>6097459 Yep.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 22:11:19 2013 No.6099319 >>6099246 >Ito's lemma >unpractical It's the most basic formula of computational finance you shit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 22:15:49 2013 No.6099325 >>6097718 That appears to be the general reaction to anything math-related. I'm not a mathematics major but I always get looks of extreme disgust if I happen to mention that I'm taking a math class.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 22:16:48 2013 No.6099327 >>6097815 I think most people know it by the abbreviated version.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 22:18:20 2013 No.6099329 >>6097983 But what IS particle? What does particle like? Does particle have hobbies? These are questions that need answering.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 22:21:19 2013 No.6099334 File: 436 KB, 1200x797, Engineer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw this is what most people think of when you say you are an engineer

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 22:22:49 2013 No.6099337 >b-but utility functions doesn't involve prices I am earning several utilions by telling you that you're wrong.

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 22:24:20 2013 No.6099339
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Literally happened to me yesterday:
>So, anon, what are you studying?
>I'm an anthropology major, which means I get to study people. I prefer archaeology (which is under that umbrella), so a lot of what I'm studying has to do with that.
>Oh, so like a Nurse :)
>.....

I know that you guys don't approve of my life decisions but still....I can't get over that conversation...

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 22:26:49 2013 No.6099343 File: 120 KB, 550x375, 1372270216093.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6099334 There are worse things to be associated with. >>6099339 Wot

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 22:35:30 2013 No.6099357

>>6095283
Nobody has mentioned computer science yet?

Obligatory post, then.

>Oh anon can you fix my computer
>Oh anon I just built the sweetest gaming pc it has blahblahblahblahblah
>Oh anon we should LAN do you play counterstrike?
>Oh anon so what is the best program for <x>?

At this point, I just tell people I read technical manuals for leisure and they generally don't ask much more. ymmv

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 22:39:00 2013 No.6099365

>>6096631
>Sucks because my girlfriend loves that shit and always tells all her friends that she's dating Sheldon.

That's pretty cute, actually. If she weren't dating you that could be insulting, but since she's your girlfriend you can probably assume she doesn't mean you're an unsufferable retard.

>I also get compared to the guy in A Beautiful Mind a lot, probably because it's the only mathematician a normal person has ever heard of.

When you think about it, that's indirectly comparing you to John Nash, which is pretty flattering if you're a mathematician.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 22:41:00 2013 No.6099370 >>6099329 That's not particlelarly interesting.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 22:51:30 2013 No.6099384 >>6099329 When particle is in water, does he get wet?

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 22:52:30 2013 No.6099387

>>6099285
>>6099281
This is the same as almost any career though.

>What do you do for a living, anon?
>I'm a building inspector. I was looking over this building on Thursday and you wouldn't BELIEVE how many Code 47 violations they had!
>Oh, that sounds interesting. Have you seen Gravity?

Unless you're a cop or a fireman, nobody is really going to be that interested in what you do unless they're a close friend.

Anonymous Fri Oct 18 22:54:30 2013 No.6099391

>>6099334
When I was a kid I always thought it meant a person who upgraded people's body armor or set up traps. It always seemed like a boring class in videogames so I never investigated further. I wanted to shoot rocket launchers, not build booby traps.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 18 22:57:31 2013 No.6099399 >>6099266 I tell them I didnt get an education to get a job, im graduating without debt and I've been poor all my life so I dont feel the need to get more. And a philosophy BA aint all that bad compared to other bas

Anonymous Sat Oct 19 02:13:07 2013 No.6099675

>>6099387
>Unless you're a cop or a fireman, nobody is really going to be that interested in what you do unless they're a close friend.
This right here is the truth of the matter. I would add that if your friends aren't sci & math inclined, chances are good not even they will give a shit all that much.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 19 10:59:25 2013 No.6100252 >>6099675 I know that feel. Only person I can talk to about anything sci/math related is my girlfriend, and she doesn't really understand and only does it because she loves me.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 19 16:55:16 2013 No.6100892 bumpppp

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 19 16:59:10 2013 No.6100902 >>6100892 I think 300 is the bump limit on /sci/ anon. This thread is done.

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