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What major you think I should choose, Math or Physics? Why?

>> No.7746477

>>7746475
>letting 4chan decide your major

>> No.7746481
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>>7746475
Whatever you like and want to potentially spend the rest of your life doing.

The very fact that you're asking this question indicates you aren't ready. Don't let the field tier wankery trick you into thinking otherwise.

>> No.7746484

Why not both?

>> No.7746489

>>7746475

Math, it's easier to learn physics on your own.

>> No.7746493

>>7746484
Because in my university you can only choose one

>> No.7746497

>>7746475
Math, believe it or not, will give you better career prospects than physics (if you care about that). Specially if you are not going to shit uni and will actually learn probability, statistics, research methods, and other things you can actually apply.

>>7746484
People who do double majors are autist. Seriously OP, do not fucking double major.

If you really care about getting out of college with as much shit you can show to employers then I'd recommend the alternative of working on projects outside of your classes. This could be anything like working on a software that you can sell when its finished or show to employers (if you wanna work in that) or to ask your professors wath research projects you could join.

Doing a double major will just give you two titles of the same category, not impressive. Doing a single major and using the extra time to participate in research or work in solo projects will give you a professional title and some real work to show employers.

>> No.7746499

>>7746493
That must be one shitty university.

>> No.7746504

i'd say physics because there isn't anything left to discover about maths but i guess it depends what you like best

>> No.7746509

>>7746499
>there isn't anything left to discover about maths

B-but muh infinity of mersenne primes.

>> No.7746511

>>7746499
UNAM, best university in Mexico and one of the best in the world

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7746515

>>7746504
>i

opinion discarded

>> No.7746523

>>7746511
>best in Mexico
sure
>best in the world
kek

>> No.7746525

>>7746475
As a great physicist once said
>Math is to physics what masturbation is to sex

>> No.7746529

>>7746515
This.

What is it with people not capitalizing "I" recently? It's gotten much more common than ever before, and very quickly.

Looks completely stupid and makes your reader take ever so slightly longer to parse what you've written. It makes you look lazy, and although it isn't necessarily true, I tend to think the writer is less intelligent and not really worth a legitimate response. Bad habit of my own, but I doubt it's just me.

I mean seriously, what the fuck? Capitalize that shit.

>> No.7746530

>>7746499
You can't double major in Princeton.

>> No.7746542

>>7746511
>It is the largest university in Latin America and was ranked the best in Latin America, Spain and Portugal
>and 95 in the world according to a study conducted by The Times and released in 2005.
muh sides

>> No.7746545

>>7746530

A math major at Princeton is like a masters in other schools.

>> No.7746548

>>7746530
Ivy leagues do all sort of weird shit b/c their academics are amazing.

>> No.7746549

>>7746545
Kek. Just Kek

>> No.7746570

>>7746511

honestly unam is shit tier in the undergraduate level, all the good stuff is from the research divisions. with a few exceptions, all the faculties are shit, one of the exceptions being Ciencias.

in my opinion is best to go with math (provided you are planning on enrolling in Ciencias) because of all the electives you can cram into your bachelor; in your last few semesters you could be studying anything from advanced physics to grad courses in pure or applied math.

but trust me, for undergrad at least, unam is far from being the best university in mexico, let alone the rest of the world.

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>>7746475

Goatology is the only non-meme major

>> No.7746583

>>7746570
I know the UNAM is not precisely the best university in the world but I think it's the best option in Mexico, the UAM invest lots of money on UAM-I specifically in Physics but even that way is far from having the UNAM quality. The IPN in my opinion has the best option for math and physics but I don't like that they don't let you choose what you want until the 4th semester

>> No.7746619

>>7746580

you are the only thing worse than a trip nigger

drink acid

>> No.7746629

>>7746489
amen

>> No.7746645

>>7746475
Mathematics is just applied philosophy anyway

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7746673

>>7746475
>What major you think I should choose, Math or Physics? Why?

-maths is nothing but conventions
-physics is having faith in those conventions in order to reach knowledge, truth, objectivity, reality.

>> No.7746702

>>7746645

Philosophy is just applied "shootin' the shit"

Ancient greek dudes in an ancient greek bar:

"What if reality is like, not really reality, know what I mean?"

"Woah, you should write this shit down man."

>> No.7746707

>>7746497
>People who do double majors are autist. Seriously OP, do not fucking double major.

That is what retards who can't handle it say.

>> No.7746712

>>7746707
>retards who can't handle it

You are close to being right, however you have your fist too far up your ass to take the extra step necessary for you to be right.

Do you really want to have to do near to double of the homeworks, study near to double the topics and then not have that actually help you in your professional career.

If you do a double major in math and physics and you get a job in math, like statistician or actuary, studying physics will have done fuck all for you. If you end up getting a job in physics, maybe something like a research assistant in a physics laboratory, studying mathematics will have done fuck all for you.

You want to do a double major, not have time to manage a healthy social life so that you don't go crazy and then not have that actually improve your professional skills then go right ahead.

Meanwhile, smart people who actually want to get the most refined skills in their area of specialization will do as I said and use the extra time and effort needed to do a double major to join the research projects of their professors or to work on solo projects that will allow you to impress the best employers to make you a better candidate.

But all of those are rational and well argumented reasons, a dimwits like you don't like that.

So my secondary criticism of double majors is that people who do them are retarded autists who literally cannot live without school. They don't have friends or fuckbuddies so all they have is their professors and their homework. Just like in high school. even though you are an adult now, your ego and self-esteem depends on how high your GPA is.

Absolutely depressing. I would have killed myself by now.

>> No.7746725

Math is probably safer if you have a chance of switching majors. Lots of math courses end up being requirements for physics but not so much vice versa

>> No.7746730

>>7746673
>conventions
lol, you can safely ignore this retard.

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7746733

>>7746475
I like how philosophy is conveniently absent from that image.

I guess Randall just assumed 'philosophy' to most people means 'pseudo-intellectuals talking about the Matrix'.

>> No.7746737

>>7746529
Why does it matter so much?

I don't complain about your misspelling of 'capitalising'.

>Being American makes me special!

>> No.7746738

>>7746702
Nope.

Philosophy precedes everything, in this case symbolic logic precedes math.

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7746745

>>7746475
if you have faith in physics, you believe that there is a the renormalization group floating around, also known as GOD, always renormalizing bare masses and other abstract parameters of elementary particles.


>science is truth, r-r-right guize ?

>> No.7746789

>>7746525
/thread

>> No.7746834

>>7746484
Absolute madman

>> No.7746840

>>7746475
[math]\mathfrak{NEITHER}[/math]

>> No.7746843

>>7746733
Most people in this board are Americlaps high schoolers. That should tell their level of intelligence.

>> No.7746844

>>7746525

You have that backwards

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>>7746843
Eventually there is an uneasy peace you come to with being an American. It's more of an apathy born of wider perspective.

I imagine other people do the same, no matter where they came from or how nationalistic it is.

>> No.7746875

>>7746846
Most Americlaps hate intellectualism. They rather beat their head together and fuck their sisters. Also most people in the developing world are trying to survive. So America is a special place of stupidity.

>> No.7746877

>psychology is just applied biology

funny how issues like cognition, consciousness, self awareness and subjectivity are much more complex issues than any field of biology can comprehend.

i agree about sociology and chemists.

>> No.7746883

>>7746875
Most Americans are stupid and or wilfully unaware. That summarizes it most accurately.

You don't need to go into anti-intellectualism etc. It's superfluous to adequately describe the whole.

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7746900

>>7746645
>Epistemology is cucked by Mathematical Logic
>Ethics and Metaphysics are cucked by Theology
>Natural Philosophy is cucked by Mathematics and its corollary science

Philosophy is dead.

>> No.7746903

>>7746475
There is no such thing as a physicist, who is not also a mathematician.

>> No.7746904

>>7746475
Are you Angel Penaflor?

>> No.7746906

>>7746903
>There is no such thing as a physicist, who is not also a mathematician.

Sure there is, a bad physicist. See black science man.

>> No.7746907

>>7746877
Please post yfw you realized those are all the results of biological process

>> No.7746908

>>7746900
Spoiler. The cat never existed, and as you search, you realize you don't even know what a cat is.

>> No.7746913

>>7746883
They're stupid and unaware buy anti-intellectualism plays a factor. But stupid and unaware is enough. I feel bad for the 10% who isn't stupid or unaware.

>> No.7746921

>>7746913
>I feel bad for the 10% who isn't stupid or unaware.
Don't bother. I used to feel like I needed to fix the world, though part of me was fully aware I couldn't meaningfully change or even affect much of anything, no matter how grandiose my ideas.

Nah, it isn't worth it. People can cripple themselves in whatever way they wish. The only that thing that bothers me on some deep primal level is the prevalence of infant genital cutting. It's near impossible to stop by legal means at this point. "Rights" are an illusion. They only exist so far as a superior force is able to enforce them, and by a matter of sheer luck. Amputating parts off, or modifying someone's body unnecessarily and without their consent violates the most base concept of human rights I could think someone could try to make.

I'll get rid of it from my head eventually. The awareness is useless.

>> No.7746933

>>7746921
I don't care either but still feel for them. Surrounded by idiots can be infuriating. I don't about the world or SJW topics. Honestly I don't care if I hear about mass rape in other countries. Abduction, murders, and trafficking doesn't bother me. I just don't care. Its not going to stop because of poverty and that issue won't be solved for another millennia or so. You're technically right, awareness is pointless. Just learn what you want, make money, and fuck whores.

>> No.7746938

>>7746933
What I feel has changed over time. Most "problems" people have and face have very obvious solutions, they just want an easy way that involves no change in lifestyle, diet, behaviors, or themselves. Facing your problems with honesty is difficult, as is deviating away from the path of least resistance, and that's why people are very clingy, resistant, and self deluding. It's not that they don't udnerstand, it's that they don't truly care. They might bitch and complain, but the fact is, they're too comfortable to bother changing or understanding how things really work. That's also why you get bandwagon bullshit.

I don't feel much of anything. I see them like machines, and their environment as one grand machine of which they are only a part. Myself included. I try figure how any given thing I'm seeing actually works. If I'm forced to interact with someone personally, then empathy and some degree of care becomes involved. But at my core, I don't really care and don't feel like anything I do actually matters. If my actions have any weight, I'm pretty well unaware of it. Maybe that's my own wilful delusion, I'm not perfect either.

I just stay out of it all. Hopefully it stays away from me for quite a while longer.