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People tell me that it makes more practical sense to focus on maths first, as that seems to get harder for people to progress with as they get older. Having said that, I've seen a lot of harm being done by people who are good at maths but have clearly not spent enough time on moral philosophy.

I think that I would prioritise philosophy.

>>8711987
This is dumb. The branches aren't that distinct and they frequently intersect.

>>8699480
>About to graduate and have gotten job offers ranging from as little as $300k a year to over one million.

I am sure that someone who feels the need to brag to a bunch of anonymous people over the internet isn't a succesful person.

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>>8699480

>>8699480
Oh yeah OP?
Check this shit

>5.2 GPA
>MECHOELECTRICLEAR ENGINEERING MASTER
>Millenium College
>septuple major

I am a job of 9 million plus, vrainlest like you cannot comprehend how important I am

My advice is to join a lab ASAP. Internships and REUs are great to apply to, but you should also start emailing PIs at your undergrad institution (or any universities or medical schools nearby) for your senior year. This would be the best way to start. I'd be glad to offer more advice if you're interested...

I didn't start undergrad research until my senior year. (And, I didn't even apply to REUs or internships. In fact, I don't even think I had ever heard of an REU at the time.) That's not too much time, but I was able to convince my then-PI that I needed to do a senior thesis and two semesters would work.

Wrote the thesis. Graduated, Took off a few years after undergrad, had some short-term jobs in industry my first year out. Then switched to academia, worked as a lab tech for two years. Went back to grad school for biophysics. Passed qualifying exams last year. Research interests in structural and biophysical projects.

>>8698366
This is all very well and nice, but I have already undertaken a research opportunity under a professor, and they are very understanding of my situation, thankfully. I keep feeling horrible at how I wasted so much time immersing myself in other literature than working on the actual project assigned to me. I don't know. I finally feel like I have some sort of direction in my life now that I'm starting to abandon ship - this is bad. I'm slowly starting to recuperate from that fall, so we'll see.

I have discussed an opportunity to create an experiment with a respected professor at my university, but they said I would have to wait until graduate school, and this irks me. I would honestly rather do an internship without pay if it gets me to do what I want.

So you see how stubborn I am.

>>8698234
Bump.

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>>8712565
You mean
More time spent studying + IQ <130 = better grades

Studying is futile for me; I make high scores no matter what

>>8712588
See you in Ph. D. Maths

>>8712565
Grades don't necessarily correlate to abstraction ability, especially if we are talking about undergrad maths and science.

I'm a brainlet (109 iq) who is able to maintain a high GPA in electrical engineering by brute force. I crank out tons and tons of problems until I've covered any possible scenario that might appear on the test and get As. Often whilst I'm doing the problems I initially won't understand it until I've seen a solution that I can then recreate later on. I'd say I have a pretty good memory, so this might not work for all brainlets, but it does for me, proving grades =/= high iq, and vice versa.

>>8710718
its gon b gud

>>8710718
>Hey guys, I have a big announcement to make! And yes, I am announcing a future announcement on twitter for you so that you know that you should care!

...

>THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. IN 2018... I WILL BE MAKING MORE MONEY. Yes, technically it is a space mission but it will not yield any research, nor new technology, nor will it even be public because actually I have used all these government subsidies for space exploration so that now I can launch billionaires into orbital tourism on your dime and not mine and yes, I will be getting very fucking rich from it. Thank you for all that government money I used for research. It would have been so hard to invest my own money and be an actual fucking company. I am so glad space is still a meme so that I could use it to steal money to use to kickstart my own private company. Heck, I don't even care particularly about space. If the meme had been "ice-cream" then I would have gotten government subsidies to research ice cream and then kickstart my private ice-cream business. Who the fuck cares. Free money is free money. I am so sorry that you are poor and are suffering. Fuck you. I am a billionaire.

Okay, now. Now that /sci/ has seen first hand how shit capitalism is can we now become /communism/ and campaign to genocide all the 1 percenters?

Zuckerberg is perhaps the only man who'd be able to pay for that without being considered too old/physically inapt.

>>8710469
Really depends on the method they used

I'm pretty sure it's not accurate either way to measure ingredient ratios by DNA found

Is eating DNA bad for health of something? I thought it gets destroyed during cooking.

>>8710469
Post the research paper if it's out there. A website isn't informative.

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>>8707877

>>8707877
he would be an old man

0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + ... = 1

>>8713179
Conscious dreamers can be treasurer to their own currency,. I am a conscious dreamer, therefore, I can be treasurer to my own currency

>>8713179
Lol, brainlet, 189 IQ reporting, ask ME anything

>>8713197
what's my favourite colour?

>>8713171
no it isn't, you're a disgusting piece of shit. kill yourself, do it.

That's entirely wrong and promoted by patriarchal societies as a way to control women from early age.

>>8713171
If you don't consider women to have any value as a person, sure.

7 is the solution. Top number is always the largest number that is (strictly?) smaller than the bottom left one and divides the bottom right one.

>>8713108
Or, you could argue it's 8 and the bottom left and right numbers are irrelevant. All that matters is that the top numbers increase by increments of 2.

>>8713116
I'm pretty sure the triangles are meant to be independent.

>>8712908

Because if it wasn't that value or close to it our universe wouldn't exist and we wouldn't be here to think about how spooky it was.

Thinking that this is anything special is the same reasoning that goes into a lottery winner's idea that they were given a miracle from god, when in reality it was inevitable that there had to be a winner.

Our case is slightly different because we don't know if the multiverse is a thing, but it's a moot point because if it isn't and the cosmological constant wasn't close to what it is then again, we wouldn't be here. We have a strong selection bias.

>>8712913
The anthropic principle isn't an explanation, it just says that the universe must function in a way that allows life, obviously, since we're here. It's more like winning the lottery twice in a row then saying "Well it's obvious it had to happen because in any reality where I have more than 100 million dollars I won the lottery twice". In hindsight, yes, it doesn't address the absurd improbability of it actually happening though. It's just a tautology to make us feel slightly better about the spookiness.

>>8712908
It's trivial

>>8712860
This is mine

Here's mine
5-am wakeup, cold shower and yoga. breakfast
6-am maths
12-am Lunch
1-pm Gym
2-pm Music/Painting
3-pm Programming
4-pm Maths
7-pm W/E time
9-pm Read until sleep

>>8712864
NEET or post/grad student?

>>8712860
>4:95

>>8712788
High Income.
You can improve your intelligence using money.
But you can't defeat the bad luck of living in a shithole.

>>8712788
If on the "Average IQ + High Income Family" will let me go to an Ivy, then this is definitely the correct answer since I could make lots of contacts and networks while having a high salary and succesful life with an average IQ anyway.

If not, then the former option is better since I'm not getting into a nice school in neither of them, can excell better on the high IQ part and get my scholarships more easily.

But IMO I would pick the latter.

Fuck IQ and fuck high income. You gotta know people who know people. Society is just an incestuous brew of people looking out for themselves and their own.

>>8712731
yes

>>8712731
Yes.

>>8712731
yes

>>8712647
Those who have the answer to this question are not on this board anymore

So you'll never actually get an answer here

Prescriptions, mostly.

>>8712647
stop using 4chan, get a job, eat healthier, exercise, have a proper sleep schedule, actively pursue a hobby outside of work/academics.