Degrees that sound cool as fuck to normies but are actually lame.

[Anonymous No.8427718]

I'll start :

Nuclear Engineering

[Anonymous No.8427721]

>>8427718
Psychology

[Anonymous No.8427724]

>>8427718
Computer Science
Software Engineering
(*) Technology

[Anonymous No.8427727]

>sociology

[Anonymous No.8427731]

>>8427718
Mathematics

[Anonymous No.8427733]

engineering

[Anonymous No.8427751]

Bioengineering
>"Oh cool so like genetic engineering?!"
No it's more like design of prostheses.
>"Oh cool so I get to design a bionic eye?!"
More likely than not you will be designing a heart valve that is marginally safer than the current model, or a knee replacement, or something equally mundane.

[Anonymous No.8427752]

>>8427731
I don't think this sounds that cool

My choice would be physics probably, doubt most people understand how it is

[Anonymous No.8427756]

>>8427718
Aeronautical Engineering.

[Anonymous No.8427775]

>>8427718
All engineering except environmental engineering
Chemistry
Economics
Finance
Actuarial Science
Applied or Pure Math (Only sounds cool when you say the "Applied" or the "Pure")

[Anonymous No.8427783]

Criminology and/or Philosophy

[Anonymous No.8427788]

>>8427718
Neuroscience

[Anonymous No.8427790]

>>8427718
Mechatronics

[Anonymous No.8427800]

>>8427718
As a nuclear physicist who ended up in nuclear engineering, I couldn't agree more, OP. It is very boring.

[Anonymous No.8427812]

>>8427790
>>8427718
There, and aerospace engineering. They just end up being mediocre mechanical engineers.

[Anonymous No.8427817]

>>8427775
yeah enviro is as sleep inducing as it sounds.

[Anonymous No.8427821]

>>8427718
Architecture

[Anonymous No.8427854]

Aerospace engineering

Chemical engineering

Nuclear engineering

Forensic Sciences

[Anonymous No.8427866]

>>8427854
Chemical engineering is cool though.

[Anonymous No.8427873]

>>8427718
>>8427721
>>8427724
>>8427727
>>8427731
>>8427733
>>8427751
>>8427752
>>8427756
>>8427775
>>8427783
>>8427788
>>8427790
>>8427800
>>8427812
>>8427817
>>8427821
>>8427854
>>8427866
So basically all of science? I guess we should stop getting degrees.

[Anonymous No.8427881]

>>8427873
Oh no, the degree was interesting and the pay is good, but sitting around all day staring at a monitor is the boring part.

[Anonymous No.8427891]

Mathematics

[Anonymous No.8427892]

>>8427800
fuck I literally changed my major to Nuclear Engineering today. Is it really that boring? What do you personally do?

[Anonymous No.8427894]

>>8427718
Astrophysics

[Anonymous No.8427901]

>>8427892
It depends where you live.

[Anonymous No.8427920]

>>8427901
Not the same anon but don't a lot of nuclear engineers just monitor nuclear power plants?

[Anonymous No.8427930]

>>8427920
Yes indeed. Of you live in a country with a strong nuclear industry it can be more interesting though.

[Anonymous No.8427933]

>>8427756
>WOAH DUDE FLYING BOATS?

[Anonymous No.8428316]

>>8427933
>YUP

[Anonymous No.8428324]

What are engineering degrees that aren't lame?

[Anonymous No.8428326]

>>8427892
Did you really switch your major blindly?

[Anonymous No.8428337]

chemistry

[Anonymous No.8428834]

>>8427756
>>8427933
I'm an aeronautical engineering student. Someone actually asked me this question once unironically.

[Anonymous No.8428921]

>>8428324
>>8428324

The only real engineering degree: Engineering Science and Mechanics

[Anonymous No.8429256]

>>8427790
mechatronics should be called apprentice of many master of none

[Anonymous No.8429362]

Computational statistics

[Anonymous No.8429393]

>>8428324
I really enjoy electronics and computer engineering but I have genuine interest in the field.

[Anonymous No.8429548]

Statistics. Quite a few uni normies had to do one introductory stats course in their first year that they found it to be among the more difficult subjects they've completed so they think you're some kind of genius if you're doing a degree in it.

[Anonymous No.8429552]

>>8429393

this. the cool thing about EE and CompE is that you can make basically anything you want (once you have the knowledge). civils or chemicals, etc, can't actually make anything on their own as home projects. even mechanicals can't, because of the need for precise machining of parts etc. you can buy a breadboard and components for really cheap.

[Anonymous No.8429554]

>>8429548
>Degrees that sound cool as fuck
>Statistics

Don't fool yourself anon, no one on this planet find statistics "cool as fuck".

[Anonymous No.8429558]

>>8429552
>civils ... can't actually make anything on their own as home projects

I hope your breadboard is water resistant

[Anonymous No.8429561]

>>8429558

you dont need a civil degree to do that

[Anonymous No.8429564]

>>8429561
I don't need an EE degree to solder pieces onto a breadboard

[Anonymous No.8429568]

>>8429564

you don't solder onto a breadboard

[Anonymous No.8429569]

>>8429568
I never knew that before, thanks senpai.
You guys need to try stuff out before you can commit to making the real deal.

I guess EE's really are fuck-ups

[Anonymous No.8429573]

>>8429569

whatever dude.

[Anonymous No.8429596]

>>8427790
Mechatronics is actually cool

[Anonymous No.8429602]

Biochemistry

[Anonymous No.8429752]

epidemiology

[Anonymous No.8429754]

>>8429752
Most people don't know what an epidemiologist is. Often they think you're a skin doctor.

Also, it's not boring, it's pretty daft.

t. epidemiologist

[Anonymous No.8429755]

>>8427775
Nobody is impressed when I tell them I'm studying Chemistry.

[Anonymous No.8429759]

>>8429754
while you're at it, what did you study to become one? personally, I find it quite interesting

[Anonymous No.8429779]

>>8429759
They are MDs.

t. med student

[Anonymous No.8429790]

>>8427718
i study aerospace engineering. shit is lame, just mechanical with some gay cfd and aerodynamics thrown in willy nilly. still people think im way smarter than i really am

[Anonymous No.8429795]

>>8429755
I study chemistry cause I want to make pharmaceuticals :DDDD

[Anonymous No.8429864]

>>8429779
any way for a molecular biologist to end up as an epidemiologist?

[Anonymous No.8430385]

>>8429864
Yeah. Genetic epidemiology is growing rapidly. Get gud at genomics, cell bio, and statistics hombre.

[Anonymous No.8430391]

Matematikai modellező informatikus
in english thats something like mathematician programmer i guess

[Anonymous No.8430394]

>>8427866
nothing interesting about tubes and fluid dynamics my man

[Anonymous No.8430399]

>>8430394
> nothing interesting about fluid dynamics
you drunk?

[Anonymous No.8430404]

>mfw I'm going into Chem. Eng.
>mfw specializing into nano-materials
no fuck you, don't tell me I'm just going to be looking at tubes all day

[Anonymous No.8430419]

>>8430391
that's cool though

[Anonymous No.8430431]

>>8430419
>>8430419
well its not really cool to do though
and i work in the video game industry wich is supposed to be cool. I work with particle effects and some shaders. Its just really complex mathematics..

[Anonymous No.8430854]

>>8429554
I still regret I didn't go for statistics. And yes I do know what it actually is.

[Anonymous No.8430873]

I have a minor in Applied Ethics. Sounds pretty badass but it's serious work.

[Anonymous No.8430884]

What the fuck guys. So what's even cool. You've shot down everything.
Next you'll say robotics is boring.

[Anonymous No.8430885]

>>8430873
>Sounds pretty badass
Sure, buddy.

[Anonymous No.8430888]

>>8429602
How is biochemistry lame phagget?

[Anonymous No.8430889]

>>8429552
>civils... ...can't actually make anything

Civils designed and oversaw the construction of everything you think of as modern civilization.

[Anonymous No.8430894]

>>8430404
You will be looking at tubes filled with quadrillions of tubes every day.

[Anonymous No.8430918]

Physics - Computational Physics

[Anonymous No.8430941]

>>8427731
Actually, I'd argue that pure math sounds boring but in reality is extremely fascinating. (The converse)

[Anonymous No.8430944]

physics
>no prof wants to let me help with research because i'm not a programmer

[Anonymous No.8431029]

>>8427718

aerospace engineering aka professional CADniggering

[Anonymous No.8431035]

Check'emology

[Anonymous No.8431048]

>>8430889

I hear civil engineers actually get to do things that normies understand

Instead of

> I made a 6ghz RF whateverthefuck
> I helped create software that runs on [obscure shit]

or even worse

> i made the thing that tests the thing

you get

> I built a bridge

[Anonymous No.8431056]

>>8429362
Really?

[Anonymous No.8431064]

>>8431029
I didn't start helping with research until 4th year(a little late). Everybody who started earlier basically does menial labor. Focus on getting A+'s. Then professor, or more realistically their grad students or postdocs working under them, will have things that you can handle. I actually work in a group that takes a long time to do anything so it's hard for them to give me anything worthwhile to do when projects last for years. But I do it anyway (at my own pace) because I want the experience on my resume and applications. That being said, ask if you can work for free or just shadow to learn more about what they do. Look for an experimentalist group as that's easier to to have a pleb like you contribute. Also, ask about books you can study so that you can sound more intelligable and interested than "hey, study physics that was developed 200 years ago, can you give me a free ride?" Instead, say "Hey! I get good grades because I love this shit! I also think (subject from chapter 7 of book about the general field of their research) is super interesting! I'd love to learn more, can you recommend any resources? Also, I saw you published about (last chapter of different book you read). That was neat-o! Is there any way I can shadow you or a post-doc of yours to learn about what sick shit you guys are doing next???"


Also learn how to program. Every Physicist (and probably scientist) should know how to program at an acceptable level.

[Anonymous No.8431088]

>>8429362
You can major in machine learning?

[Anonymous No.8431199]

>>8431064

WOW, YOU SUCC THE PROFESSOR

[Anonymous No.8431432]

Major, mechanical engineering, minor, material science.

Fuck me, i make the same as any engineer, i just went bald from stress during uni. Im basically a solids chemist. FUCK

[Anonymous No.8431442]

>>8427821
>Architecture

It's cool for the 10% of the time that you actually get to design things. The rest of it is project management.

[Anonymous No.8431486]

>>8427790

Anyone have the modified version of this with the actual ratios and love of black cock thrown in?

[Anonymous No.8431510]

>>8429561
you do need to put some thought into what type of soil you put into that wall and in what layers. you think that's just a pile of mud?

[Anonymous No.8431532]

>>8427718
>>8427783
>>8427873
>>8428921
>>8429393
>>8429552
>>8429561
>>8429564
>>8429569
>>8429864
>>8430404
As a typical normie here, you all sound like a raging spergerfags I'd love to bully the fuck out of.

None of the degrees you studied sound "cool" to me you virgin nerds

[Anonymous No.8431535]

>>8431532

Fine Artz detected.

[Anonymous No.8431537]

>>8431535
Did I hurt your nonexistent ego?

[Anonymous No.8431541]

>>8429561
Do you have any idea what a civil engineer does?

[Anonymous No.8431553]

>>8431537
I find it intrinsically impossible to hurt something that is nonexistant.
And no, my nonexistant ego is just fine...

[Anonymous No.8431591]

>>8431532
>as a typical brainlet ...
lol

[Anonymous No.8431935]

>>8427718
>I'm not smart/competent enough to do interesting stuff in my field
THE THREAD

[Anonymous No.8431944]

>>8430404
>nano-materials
>tubes
nanotubes is the thing

[Anonymous No.8431961]

>>8431944
SPACE LIFT LMAO

[Anonymous No.8431998]

that degree you like but I dont like

[Anonymous No.8431999]

>>8427892

lmao you literally fell for a meme.