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>>8804140
>PRIVATE universities
Yup, just go to the best public university near you and git gud.

Many great mathematicians went to the best public unis as well, so nothing wrong with doing your undergrad in a public one.

Now on PhDs are a different story though.

>>8804140
God why the fuck are liberal universities so retarded?

>>8804147
>>8804149
isn't Stanford considered a top-5 uni? don't you guys have a merit-based admission system?

>>8803976
The situation will be worse if you go into environmental labs, etc. They'll pay you hourly (you'll probably be punching a time clock. Humiliating after spending 4-5 years seeking professional respect) @ at rate of about $12/hr. or so....Pathetic. You'll be running tests on contaminated soil and water samples: PCB's, oils, heavy metals, chlorinated pesticides, coliform, etc...the established EPA methods. Pretty much cookbook after you learn how to push the buttons on the AA or GC/MS. Borrrrrring as can be. Again, you'll rot unless you get into management; you'll get better pay and no time clock, but your brain will most likely still atrophy. Take my advice: AVOID ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING LABS AT ALL COSTS!!! They Suck big time. I know this from experience, and I've had this opinion corroborated by the expressed opinions of many others.

And don't even be thinkin' about graduate school in Chemistry. If you go for an MS, you'll be lumped together with the BS chemists by the PhD's and hiring people-there is little distinction between the degrees in their minds. Oh sure, your starting salary will be a little higher, but you'll still hit the same vocational glass ceiling, especially in big pharma. The MS Chem is widely considered to be a 'consolation prize' for someone who couldn't hack grad school. Of course, this is not necessarily the case, but that's the prejudice out there. Anyway, just look at the (few) job listings: most companies are looking for BS/MS 'Technicians' and 'Associate Scientists'. When was the last time you heard an Engineer (BS or higher) referred to as a technician or 'Associate Engineer'? There is little respect for chemists out there, and unless you're a brain dead idiot that likes the predictability of being a glorified peon, avoid this pitfall.

>>8803980
If you go for a PhD., the road is fraught with land mines that no one will tell you about. Don't expect objective advice from ANY academic, as in many cases there is a serious conflict of interest between what is best for them vs. what is best for you. The undergraduate professors will love to see you go on to grad school, because then they can brag about all the 'successful' undergrads they've sent to grad school. Their big Ego's, as well as their promotions and dept. funding depend largely on their student head count. If they can boast about placing their graduates in jobs (any jobs) or grad schools, it makes them look good to the administratium, as well as prospective suckers...err.. I mean new students.

>>8803985
As for the graduate schools, they'll beg anyone with a 3.0 or better G.P.A to come (of course, some are more selective, but this is about the GPA where they start). You see, they have a dirty little secret that they don't like to share with naïve prospective grad students: They DESPERATELY need English-speaking TA's and RA's (teaching and research assistants). For safety's sake and other reasons, teaching Chemistry is very labor intensive. For one, most of the cattle-herding big schools have really big undergraduate classes: 300-600 students is commonplace in freshman and sophomore courses. Moreover, almost all technical disciplines require their students to take at least a year's worth of chemistry-it really is the 'central' science. Consequently, there are a lot of big classes, and those students need individual attention that most professors cannot give. Therefore, they have TA's to hold smaller discussion sections, office hours, and proctored exam sessions. In the labs, unlike many other fields, safety is a primary concern (mostly due to fear of being sued by the starving armies of amoral, low-life lawyers out there.. oops, I digress.). Anyway, they need warm-bodied Anglophones to be TA's for the undergrads in the laboratory classes. These babysitters don't necessarily have to be brilliant or anything, just knowledgeable and attentive enough to keep the little meal tickets from blowing themselves up, etc. Just rubber stamp their plagiarized lab reports and send 'em on their way. Keep their tuition paying Rah!-Rah! parents happy by boosting the perceived value of the school with a kick-ass football team (with a coach that makes 2-3X what the highest paid faculty member makes). Etc. etc.

>>8803873
The only good students in Oxbridge are the non-anglos. Fight me

>>8803913
Newton /thread

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>>8803921
wrong bitch.

>>8803761

Just drink kombucha. On an empty stomach, just like you are suppose to with yogurt.

>>8803761
You'll probably be fine but might have wicked gas or a stomach ache for a day or so.

See a doctor.

>>8803608
We can prove that pi is irrational.
I don't think there's a proof that the ratio of circumference to diameter HAS to be irrational, if that makes sense. It just turns out that is is.

Here's a list of proofs that pi is irrational:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_that_%CF%80_is_irrational

>>8803658
That's interesting, thank you. Sadly, I am no mathematician.

My idea was that Pi has to be infinite, because you can only calculate something that has corners. So if you want to calculate the area of a circle, you think of the circle as a shape with infinitely small corners. And to do that, you need an infinite number, that happens to be Pi. Would that be somewhat correct?

>>8803671
Many cornered shapes need infinite numbers.
Like a right triangle with legs length 1.

>>8803342
>make parallel universe teleporters size of black hole or bigger
>mfw when time travel

What the fuck are you talking about?

>Why haven't we yet tried to rotate micro black holes in particle accelerators ?

They evaporate away in a very short space of time.

>>8803351
use black holes to distort space-time and then travel in it with a spaceship and see where it goes.
Perhaps travel into parallel universe where it could be for example today in earths orbit therefore time travel.

>>8803367
>use black holes to distort space-time and then travel in it with a spaceship and see where it goes.

Tidal forces would rip you apart.

Might be a bit late but time crystals could help creating stable quantum computers. More computing power could be useful for more complex neural network.

>>8802934
Science isn't dead, just mislead so don't dread its alive and well I'm doing alchemy under my bed. I'm not Ahmed, no clocks or smoks in my shed, I no work for FED cause my science makes em want me dead. 1 field 1 theory 1 mind 1 query. Does the ride ever end? No oh no... It doesn't my deary.

>>8802934
How could science be "dead"?

>>8802796
Stochastically speaking the OP is correct within the domain [1998, 2017).

Ok.

>>8802796
Am I the only one who wishes AGW were real because it would kill off lots of scientists?

>>8802807
You can find people like that on /pol/

You can even go there and talk to them about it!

A shotgun is cheap and so is birdshot. But you can't use projectiles, too bad.

>>object: a material thing that can be seen and touched.

I was going to suggest a net or poisoning their food, but this is material I guess. What you can do then is dismantle several microwave ovens, place the magnetrons next to where they eat, and hope it does some damage.

Can you not just make sure nobody happens to be standing behind the birds at the time? That seems like a pretty straightforward solution.

>>8803036
>>8803046
I should have mentioned this is at my work, and basically we are going down the list of shit upper (as in not at the store) management has told us no for.

Basically the problem is they fly around our lumber yard and shit on all the wood staining it, then fly into the warehouse area where we sit and shit all over our space.
They just cover everything in shit and ruin product and our days, but despite the ruining product upper management doesn't like the idea of employees walking around with weapons.


Only one of the managers has permission to use a BB gun to kill them from corporate, but hes always really busy.

BB gun is what we used to use, that was no no first time they saw that.
Then a bow
Then a slingshot
Then a old sling and rock
Then they just said outright nothing that shoots projectiles.

As to the magnetrons, I thought about that honestly, taking a bunch and trying to waveguide them into a beam to at least fry the little shits from like 5 yards maybe, but I would have to do a lot of reading up to find myself competent enough to pull that off.

At this point the only thing I can come up with is a potato gun like vortex gun to hit the little shits with a wall of highspeed air to hopefully break their wings so I can go smash them.
The reason I need some reach is because they usually sit up in the rafters which is a good 25-30 feet up.
I figured /sci/ would enjoy these retarded constrains as a stupidly impractical solution is the only allowable solution sadly.

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>>8802383
BUT NOW WITEN HAS AWAKEN

>>8802383
>tfw no Nobel Prize.

Converting units.

Dimensional Analysis

Remembering that Tungsten is W

>>8801879
Is a cow a cow?

>>8801898
This would be more like asking "are cows a cow?"

Cows definitely aren't a cow. But might memes be a meme?

>cartoon thread
>>>/mlp/

>>8801685
a significant proportion of great mathematicians share personality traits with Rick.

I am no great scientist, but when I teach I like to imagine that I am Rick and my students are my Morty's

>>8801699
hey reddit

>>8801500
>OP is a fag
>he literally cannot stop sucking dicks

>>8801500
I learned that in South Korea, construction costs for nuclear power plants has been decreasing over time, which provides excellent evidence that nuclear is not inherently costly, and it's the ridiculous regulations that are killing it.

>>8802279
>ridiculous regulations
>literally the entire Pacific Ocean is becoming irradiated due to one of the walls at one nuclear power plant not being high enough

>ridiculous regulations

It's not like a coal plant where when the power company does the minimum legally required to maintain safety the river it's on gets filled with toxic sludge, any sort of nuclear incident represents a major catastrophe for humanity

>>8800693
Loosing weight and fasting can cause production of ghrelin to increase. This will make you ravenous, usually irritable, but also more focused on tasks and better able to learn and use what you've learned. It also aids in building muscle. This should not be confused with hypoglycemia/hyperglycemia which will fuck up what you are wanting to do. If you need to take a test or go to a job interview, try to get that ghrelin flowing.

It also helps your body balance multiple sources of energy. Thus, your brain will become more energy resilient.

>>8800765
While I like what you wrote can you back it up and did you recommend it as a daily thing? I've heard people saying intermittent fasting deprives the brain from is glycogen and thus bad for us.

>>8800693
University of Southern California did a bunch of research on this you can find if interested.

The fasting needed to be a period of 5 days though, done every month (or every X months if already thin) in order to gain the benefits of cell regeneration. They also discovered you can simulate a fast, by eating under X calories per day. The people involved made a company out of it called prolon https://prolonfmd.com/science-research/ but if you check the papers you'll find exactly what calories/what to eat instead of spending money on their 'mimicking fasting kit'.

The whole daily fasting thing by skipping breakfast/lunch is a meme spread by that lean gains guy, Joe Rogan podcast pseudoscience and plebbit. Meme as in no studies done worth review