What is /sci/ majoring in and why?

>>8878255
Math. It was fun. Have my last final in 2 hours. After that, I'll collect my 300K starting.

>>8878255
Physics
For the bitches

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>>8878255
Electrical Engineering, because muh electricity. I don't enjoy anything anymore I just do what's expected of me.

>>8878255
Physics
Because I hate myself

I tried out for the music school at my university and they offered me a full ride to study music. There are only two career paths in music though: education or performance. I was good in high school. I made All-State 2 times.

But my aspirations were to be a successful perfomer, and to do that you need to be a PRODIGY. I trashed that idea.

I had an affinity for math and sciences. Having taken all AP in high school. So I took an easier, more secure route and studied Chem Eng.

Here I am now. Getting a BS in chee. I completed all the coursework for a minor in chemistry and in mathematics. I'm finishing up my junior year rn. I plan to get an MBA after acquiring adequate work experience

If I could do it all over again, I would do study math all the way to a PhD level. And try to get into neural networks and deep learning.

>>8878255
Law. Because it's interesting, so why not.

>>8878255
Electrical Engineering. In all honesty, it's just for the money.

Econ and cs
because I'm a brainlet

ChemE
Want to do something science and math oriented, good career prospects and good money.

Linguistic
because it's one of the few areas in the humanities which has potential

math obviously
wow only one other >>8878260 wtf

>>8878468
I admire your honesty senpai***

pure math

no clue

>>8878486
dont worry anon im another random internet person doing math

>>8878255
Math. Mainly because as the end of high school was nearing I knew for a fact that I was good at math but I didn't know what I wanted to do with that talent. The obvious options like CS and engineering did not really catch my attention, nor did the sciences like physics or chemistry. In the end I enrolled for pure mathematics and the only thing in my mind was: After I finish this, I can easily go get a masters in economics or engineering and be rich.

But that was actually a fucking trap. Turns out that my talent in mathematics is much deeper than I thought so now I am 100% convinced that if I went on to actually specialize in some engineering or economics then I would be wasting my time because either I was born like this or for the past two years my professors have been subliminally brainwashing me so that I perceive being an accomplished mathematician as much more fulfilling than being rich or famous.

I honestly don't know which of the two is true. I hope in my heart of hearts that I personally consider being a mathematician to be an achievement but given that I did not think this before I enrolled, it is much more likely that I was brainwashed.

The ride never ends.

>>8878255
Biology
cuz nothing matters

Did Meteorology. Going to school now for Mechatronics and Robotics/Computer Engineering.

>>8878255
CS because it's the future

Electrical engineering. Math and physics have always been the only things I'm interested in. And electricity is cool. The money is also a plus.

Pure Math only got one life and is like to understand at a deep level. That's enough for me.

Math, because it's the only subject that I have a little bit of intuition, anything else for me is autistically hard.

My grades are terrible, but I really enjoy the learning process.

>>8878679
Explain further please, for real. I'm biology too.

Math because I thought liking space meant I liked physics. It didn't.

>>8878255
WE WUZ GRADUITES N SHIIIIIET

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>>8878885
KYS

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moleclar bio

>>8878255
Computer science

Honestly idk. I like 3d modelling and designing things more but its not a viable field here so I'm gonna work at some evil company or government agency probably.

>>8878895
t. itoddler nigger

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Engineering management

I have lots of different interests ( psychology, math, economics), my moral views are also very flexible and I like the green
so this is perfect for me

Elder God Tier EE major reporting in. Wanted to do physics desu but didn't want to be locked into a PhD track just to get a related job, so just going for EE with physics minor. Would like to eventually get PhD in EE or physics though.

EE because I wanted to do either materials science or optical physics so working in fabrication on nano-LED/laser materials is a good middle ground

Plus, unlike physics, if I fail at any step of the way I'm still set for life
(BS, MS, PhD non-professor)

Plus the research is less dependant on gruesome physics-breaking machines so I get to do independant research without being part of some huge CERN-esque team

Plus I can still apply directly to mat sci or optics since they're interdisciplinary

Why pick science or engineering when you can do the latter in undergrad and the former in grad. Scientist that's a certified engineer gets paid even more than either independently

ALFA

CS because I'm a brainlet who wants to actually make money

>>8878255
Biochemistry

I'm questing for immortality

Failing that, necromancy

statistics because I'm going to make more money than all of you

Math because I hate learning, but problem solving is cool in my book.
Also some programming and shit so I can write my own programs should I not have enough money to hire pajeeds and help in creating our AI overlords.

>>8878255
Some trade since I'm dumb

>>8878255
Finance because shekels. There were some professors who asked me why I didn't study engineering, but honestly I only like the aspect of problem solving of physics and not the subject itself.
However sometimes I regret a bit the fact that I didn't study math or statistics.

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>>8878967
>flexible moral views
>mfw this is a positive quality when considering future success

>>8878255
Industrial Engineering because I don't like Physics but want to make as much as engineers make.

>>8879087
Brainlets can't into cs tho

>>8878255
Chemistry, wanna work for NASA I guess

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>math
>for fun and out of interest

Nuclear engineering and EE. Because im a dirty wetback who gets free money from the gobermints to go to a top college so ill just ride this out

Math because I have no idea what I want to do with my life and feel this keeps the most options open

Philosophy, because I like it

>>8879448
top kek

Physics because I want to make myself suffer for no gain to really push myself to suicide.

It's working quite well, thank you for asking.

>>8879452
whatever, man.

>>8879437
same and math is pretty comfy

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>>8879448
Good luck starving af uni

Chemical and Pharmaceuticals , kinda wish i went into math but working in the labs is cool

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we have a liberal arts "Physics and Astronomy" major so I do that and i'm also a mechanical engineering major. series and sequences in calculus 2 and suck my small dick

>>8878418
>It's hard to make all state
I hope you're a wind player

Material Science Engineering

>>8879517
that's not gonna happen but I appreciate your concern

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Electrical Engineering because i wanted to specialize in embedded systems and make cool shit with dev boards and FPGAs. Also the job market seemed huge.
Graduated but still feel like i know nothing about the field and i'm just writing shitty code like a pajeet.

>>8878255
Mathematics because it's the only marketable skill I have

>>8879448
damn dude did you fall for the meme?

Biology because I'm very excited for the biotech/molecular biology revolution that our society is on the cusp of reaping

I completed an undergrad degree in pure math, now studying CS. I'm glad I did pure math because it taught me how to be rigorous. I feel familiar to the way Leslie Lamport speaks up mathematics and down on code monkeys.

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Wow, there's a lot of EEs. I thought I was cool

>>8879604
Na get FUCKT M8

>>8878255
i'm graduating in a week with a BS in mathematics and a BS in physics.
math is my passion, physics is my money

>>8879858
>physics is my money

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
AHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHA
AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>BS

ayy lmao

>>8879858
You are the elite

>>8879604
According to strawpolls its the most numerous type of engineering done on here

>>8878255
Math. I pretty much chose arbitrarily, I was good at every subject in high school and interested in a lot of things, but when I got to uni I just thought "Why not math?" Of course when all you've had is high school math you don't know what real math is even like. But sure enough, by studying math I became a "math guy" who loves math more than anything and you wouldn't know that I wasn't destined for it from birth. I also meme constantly about how math majors are the most patrician. It just goes to show how we're the product of our own choices. I don't think you need to feel called to some profession, you just have to pick something and see if it works out.

Economics

Purely unironically answer - to help the poor and other people in need

You may laugh now

Majoring in psych, minoring in soc because I want to help people overcome their perverted love of shota hentai.

>>8880245
/ourguy/

>>8878260
>300k
doing what?

>>8879587
You still here? i'm really interested in embedded systems too, I have one more year left in undergrad doing computer science then I want to go to grad school for computer engineering or even some programs I have been looking at have degrees in embedded systems. Would you recommend it? whats the job market like? will it be as cool as i think it will be? my all time dream is to work at spacex or something like that as an embedded engineer.

>>8880260

I'm a barely highschool graduate working in embedded systems right now as a freelancer. Shit's tight.

Don't wait to figure out how cool it is, just fucking do it, you can get pretty much fully set up to do embedded with a couple hundred bucks.

microbiology

>why

I love it as a subject and I want to get a CLS license because CLS is a high tier job in california

>>8878255
Sociology, because I can get an easy 4.0 to go into med school, because the GPA's all they care about. :^)

>>8880294
good luck with that tard

>>8880250
Math, obviously.

But seriously, PhD program and being poor for the next few years.

CS purely for job stability

>>8880302
>tard
>not taking advantage of other beta-cuckboys and women to advance myself
300k starting here I come.

>>8880081
/laughs/

Cyber security 'cause comp sci is a joke and you can actually get a job in this field with just a B.S. and some certs because organizations truly think they need you to keep boogeymen away when in reality I'll just keep my networks up to date, run a few audits, and make the littlest security concern sound super serious

>>8880260
Personally i would definitely recommand it, both for fun and because there's a lot of jobs available (at least in my non-US country) especially in IoT stuff and telecoms, where everybody wants to run different flavors of embedded linux on ARM-based boards. Lots of RT stuff going on in energy and defense fields too.
As for the syllabus, i had courses and labs on RTOS, system programming, embedded linux, driver development and embedded java. Also had a few courses in security & networking, and a module in FPGA (lab on softcore processors, modelisation and optimisation of digital circuits in VHDL and systemC).
So if you come from CS, the specialization shouldn't be that hard, it's mostly programming with an emphasis on the material.

Biochemistry

I'm interested in the processes that make life possible.

EE. I would have majored in math but I'm too greedy

>>8878255
Was in physics, now in maths. Haven't been in sci in a while.

>>8879550
MY MAN WHOOP WHOOP REPRESENT

>>8879448
>implying you can be employed as anything other than a philosophy professor with a degree in philosophy

>>8879448
What year are you in atm? How are you liking philosophy? Also not trying to meme you but do any of the classes at feel like bullshit? What are the best classes you've had?
Just curious.

>>8880671
This is what I plan but if not I'll just go to law school, it's the family business.
>>8880678
I'm a Junior and I like philosophy a lot. I was a math major but I switched to philosophy because there were fewer requirements to graduate but I continue to take upper division math every semester. To be honest most of the classes do feel like bullshit so usually I take matters into my own hands and do a deeper self-study concomitant with whatever the theme of the course is. My favorite classes are any that have to do with mind, language, or logic.

>>8878255
Mathematics and physics
Currently procrastinating on a thesis in MCMC simulation.

>>8878967
Hi fellow Miner

>>8879437
kek same here

>>8878255

Computational mechanics

Physics, pure mathematics and astrophysics.

I regret the pure math.

>>8879394
Hello fellow wetback

Mathematics with a concentration in computer science

Physics and Philosophy

Why? I want to be a understand the world as much as possible.

b.a. in chemistry and b.s. in applied math from ivy league ~3.8 gpa

i want to be shkreli but better

Aerospace engineering
Maybe I hate myself or something. I really like space exploration

cs because i was told that there are a lot of job opportunities for cs grads out there

>>8878255
Biology
idk

>>8878255
"Mathematical structures and Topology"

>>8881082
Doing that too next year. The future looks grim, though.

political science because i really am dumb and lazy. my life is truly a waste. i hurt

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>>8880272
IT is a degree? I thought that was online/vocational stuff

>>8879548
Orchestral bass, in Texas.

15th place my first year. 9th place my second year. I would imagine it being harder in Texas compared to other states.

what's with the meme about cs being for brainlets? if that were true every joe shmoe would be going into it for the money

>>8878255
Gender Studies, because I want to break the glass ceiling.

>>8879448
Not even joking, I know a dude who got his masters in Philosophy that works at fucking Walmart.

Math and physics for the lels
It's also my hobby

>>8878260
well memed, my friend

Software Engineering. I enjoy programming and find computer science / computers to be interesting in general. I'm too much of a brainlet to handle EE or CE however. Is very flexible - I could hone my low level skills and be a systems or embedded engineer. I could be a web developer. Or if I hated life I could do enterprise level development in a high level language.

Also pay is nice and there are shit-tons of developer jobs out there.

>>8881651
I'm at a crossroads between software engineering and mechanical engineering. Every single jobs report out there is screaming at me to go for the former, but I can't help but feel like it's a bubble to some extent. Plus CS enrollment is fucking skyrocketing.

>>8881658
I have the same fears. but I've been hearing that for many years now. Still ass-loads of developer jobs out there.
maybe do mechanical engineering and learn programming on the side. you could pivot later if you need to. one you get in, it won't matter any more that your degree is in mechanical engineering, as experience takes over at that point.

>>8878255
Chemical Engineering, because the company I work for is both paying my tuition and paying me for the time I'm in class.

>implying pure math is a more employable degree than philosophy

top kek. they're equally useless

EECS cuz Berkeley n shiet

Evolutionary biology and mathematics. Because there is a lot to be done with the combination.

>>8878388
Same here brother. Pass me the oats

>>8880880
Astrophysics? What field?

>>8880081
Don't let people discourage you anon, I believe!

Aerospace
[spoiler]unironically because of this cesspool[/spoiler]

>>8880629
THIS

>>8881212
I'm /bio/ as well. What are your plans post-grad?

who /graduating/ here?

>>8880574
You're the reason why systems get compromised.

Actuarial science
Built up a lot of business credits for something else then realized math is cool

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Computer network engineering, Cisco.
Get my CCNA in 2 or 3 weeks.
>I am so fucked lol

>>8878474
>good career prospects

I thought this wasn't true for chem E grads at the moment. Probably not too difficult to get a job if you've been a good student, though.

>>8880574
>cyber security because cs is a joke
good bait

>>8878474
>good career prospects
sorry, buddy

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/chemical-engineers.htm

>>8881292
Exactly that is happening

>>8878255
Just changed to premed. I was aiming at a linguistics degree but as it turns out, your third and fourth languages are not any easier than your second and i'm pretty goddamn sick of unfalsifiability.

>>8883122
I'm pre-med too. When do you plan on applying?

Electrical Engineering because I'm a masochist.

Psychology.
And before you bitch about it (yes, you; you know who you are), Eastern European schools are untainted by political and academic bullshit.

We learn shit that students in the west have to search for without prior knowledge.

They don't just teaching us the pansy shit. The first thing our professors told us was that once we finish learning here we'll be capable of driving people to suicide with a couple of conversations, should we only wish it, and that it'll be up to us to sort out our morality.

I laughed at him that day.
Now i'm finishing my first year and I'm not laughing anymore.

>>8883381
>psychology
>science

hearty chuckle

>I CAN MAKE YOU KILL YOURSELF BY TALKING
>I'm also a freshman :))

top pasta, saved

>>8883381
What do you mean? How are Eastern schools different than Western schools? Are you saying they don't teach scientific ethics?

>>8878255

BS in Horse Porn

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>>8883381
yes comrade, glorious eastern science is far superior.

>>8883381
Sorry, psychology is pseudoscience and your methods won't actually work on anyone.

>>8883402
I've been a guest at western schools.

They hide facts and methods that could harm others as much as help them. They don't offer examples that show how you can use what you learn to take advantage people's behavior and inconsistencies to get whatever the fuck you want.

Meanwhile, I could already start a cult in the US, that can quickly get big enough to reach the top 5 religions and make more money than the church of scientology.

We're badass like that.

>>8883437
Funny, I just finished curing a friend of his smoking habits.

>>8883122
>>8883358
I'm taking sociology, see: >>8880294
Planning to apply to Weill Cornell and Johns Hopkins as reach, Washington state and Virginia as safe choices. Johns Hopkins is a crapshoot though, not gonna spam apps for crapshoots, there's a reason I didn't apply to Harvard Medical School and shit alike like Duke for all my apps like some people.

>>8881292
This is exactly whats happening. CS only isn't meme tier at ivy leagues and MIT.

>>8883475
>ivy leagues
you don't know what you're talking about. many ivy leagues are shit at engineering, math and cs
top schools in cs include carnegie melon, uiuc, gatech, etc

>>8883480
>you don't know what you're talking about
Yes I do actually. A CS degree from Harvard would get you farther than a CS degree in the schools you mentioned simply from the prestige alone.

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>>8883480
I go to an Ivy league so I can hang out with other rich kids and get a rich gf which can I can exploit her sugar daddy to give me free money to start a business. Not even joking. Best thing is, these rich kids are idiots, the worst thing that can happen is wealth rests in the hands of idiots, that's when shit can turn problematic.

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Physics

I like two things: feeling superior and understanding fundamental principles of our universe

I got what I wanted and more. Seriously though, there's a serious lack of physicists in here. I guess it's because everybody is a fucking burger. In Europe, it's literally better to study physics, because you can do any engineer's on top of your own shit.

I majored in computer science at an Ivy, and I later continued on to earn a MS in computer science from that same Ivy. I chose the major because computer science is a field that I genuinely enjoy.

>>8883600
Where are you anon? I'm already getting on a plane to your country

>>8881106
>>8881937
Is aerospace a meme or can you actualy make a good living from it? Also, I've heard people say it's better to just get a degree in MechEng.

>>8883600
>understanding of fundamental principles
>math knowledge capped at differential equations and multi variable

>>8883600
>In Europe, it's literally better to study physics, because you can do any engineer's on top of your own shit.

Sounds like a shit-tier european country then. Sorry romanian boy, but if you can do both physics and engineering, it means both curriculum sucks massive ass.

>>8883670
t. 3rd world shithole
Romania is probably one of the most powerful countries right now. Seriously, think about it. Give it a few years and Westerners will be jealous of the Romanian success

>>8883676
>Romania is probably one of the most powerful countries right now. Seriously, think about it. Give it a few years and Westerners will be jealous of the Romanian success

Yeah, we'll see about that. You've already had almost 30 years to rise after the whole communism & Ceaușescu disaster, might be
time to wake up.
As for now, i don't get how you can say you're one of the most powerful countries. There's literally 0 reasons to say that.

>>8883665
Aldo interested

Engineering Physics.

Because I'm the real meme master here.

>>8880270
>>8880605

thats cool guys thanks, are there any books you would recommend? For the guy who said hes in high school still how did you learn and what materials would I need? I just got an education stipend that I applied for that my school gives out so I have 2500$ to spend on "educational related resources" and I was planning on using it all to learn embedded on my own because my school doesn't offer any courses on it. So far I was looking at a few into to embedded books online that I wanted to get, a few different micro controllers and maybe a logic analyzer or something like that would you recommend anything else?

Right now I know application programming pretty well and I've had an internship doing it that paid me pretty well but I honestly just don't think its that interesting. I don't want to be making shitty business applications for the rest of my life so some company's customers can log on and view a profile. It just doesn't interest me that much, embedded seems so cool with so many different applications to everything.

>>8883381
Saved

>>8883692
>There's literally 0 reasons to say that.
camgirls

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>>8878255
Physics. For Rose.

Physics.
I chose it because it's interesting and I thought English would be too easy. Also I thought that physics would be more rewarding, being more "fundamental", but I've realised that no metaphysical questions are entertained in undergrad. To be honest, I could have enjoyed pretty much any degree. Physics has taken a while to become interesting but it was definitely the right choice - though maybe I would have chosen physics and philosophy given other circumstances.

Psychology and Statistics. Riding Kahneman's dick.

>>8883439
Fuck off you delusional little shit. You've learned nothing other than how to bend ambiguous and interchangeable terminology around philosophical pretense to captivate the gullible.

BS in Chemical Engineering, Minor in Physics
PhD in Chemical Engineering

Working in computational catalysis.

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>>8883381
Unless you have empirical evidence of a psychologist using the same methods taught to you to convince someone to commit suicide "with a couple of conversations," then you're definitely just politically indoctrinated by your institution. Untainted by political and academic bullshit my ass.

>>8883117
funny, because half of them still don't make it past CS1 and a further 50% of what is left doesn't make it to senior year. I hear reports all over at different schools of about this same pattern. I'll give you a personal example -
I went to a shitty state school for CS. There were like 50 kids in my CS1 class. 22? in my CS2 class. and by the time we were taking Compilers there were like 12 kids left. Remember what I told you - shitty state school. Our curriculum was easy as fuck and used Java and people still couldn't handle it.
Conclusion - either people are by and large stupid as fuck, or CS isn't as trivial as /sci/ says it is.

>>8878255
AeroE because it's cool and I can get a job in it

>>8883941
I'm not just talking people going to college for computer science, although there are still a huge number going for CS (and failing out likely because they aren't very intuitive or hard working); computer science is getting to be a hugely oversaturated field, especially considering some companies may hire someone without a degree and will simply send them to Udacity for certification (meaning people will go into computer science since it is decent pay without a degree). For what "computer science" grants as classes is relatively easy when compared to the more difficult sciences and engineering available, though I do believe and agree with you in that /sci/ underestimates the rigor of actual computer science classes like machine learning and such.

>>8884869
yes, but those people who they take without any degree will most likely be code monkeys and nothing else, if you want to go higher you need a degree even if it's math or other stem course.

>>8883713
My head of dept professor, who teaches embedded linux and RTOS, reviews books from time to time, so i'll put a link to a few of the most recent ones he approved :
https://www.amazon.com/Real-Time-Embedded-Components-Systems-Engineering/dp/1942270046
http://www.esys.ir/Files/Ref_Books/Linux/esys.ir_Building.Embedded.Linux.Systems.2nd.Edition.pdf (this one is less recent)
https://www.amazon.com/Building-Embedded-Systems-Programmable-Hardware/dp/148421918X
https://www.crcpress.com/Embedded-Systems-Handbook-Second-Edition-Networked-Embedded-Systems/Zurawski/p/book/9781439807613 (First edition is from 2005 and current edition is from 2009 but apparently it's a reference handbook)
https://www.amazon.com/uC-OS-III-Real-Time-Freescale-Cortex-M4/dp/0982337523 (For RTOS)
https://www.amazon.fr/Embedded-Linux-System-Design-Development/dp/0849340586 (Again, pretty old, but apparently very good)
https://www.amazon.fr/Yocto-Raspberry-Pi-Pierre-Jean-Texier/dp/178528195X (More practical, to learn how to build a custom linux distribution for a raspberry pi, might be useful if you want to directly test stuff)

As for the driver development side, i was recommanded those two (first one is a slideshow) :
http://free-electrons.com/doc/training/linux-kernel/linux-kernel-slides.pdf
https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/

Throw in a few books for VHDL and digital logic and it'll be a great start, i guess.

For the material, an oscilloscope is essential, you can add a logic analyzer indeed, and a signal generator might also be very useful. You'll find lots of microcontrollers available and affordable (around or below 100$), like TI launchpads, beaglebone, Atmel AT91s raspberry pi....I recommand the raspberry pi for starters, lots of docs, pretty powerful, and easy to generate linux images for the board.

>>8883941
>people are by and large stupid as fuck

you have to realize that the average undergraduate student is essentially retarded and cannot think for their own

>>8880292
>CLS
>high tier

As a person who works as a microbiology tech, MLS(ASCP), this is not a high tier job. I'm looking for a way out.

Neurology.

>>8883665
You risk pigeonholing yourself early which shouldn't be a large concern if the industry is healthy and you want to do it.

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Mechanical Engineering BS
Gonna try and get an Aerospace MS if I can't get a job at one of the big aerospace companies in the area by graduation.
Half because I love rockets and jets and half because I want to have rocket scientist on my tinder profile.

>>8881078
Same here brotha. Shit's cash.

Philosophy Major

>inb4 unemployment

I fucking know. I'm retarded at math, but I decided to get a Minor in Business and Economics. I wanted to be an economics major for a bit, I love capitalism and economic theory of incentives etc. But I'm retarded at math and don't know how to do calculus and barely know advanced algebra. I honestly am jealous of all the math fags, I wish I was just keen on it and could do it well. But it was so long ago when I did real math and I was at a lower level in high school because of poor performance in middle school (lots of problems distracted me from academics at this time).

I've thought about joining the military as an officer after college, and basically my only hope of getting a really good job is Law school. Don't know what I'm doing.

>>8885007
Hey, I'm the other philosophy major in the thread. Sometimes we just can't help what we're interested in. One day I just decided fuck it, this is what I'm good at and it's the only thing that I can see myself getting a degree in without jumping off a bridge (maybe /lit/ too, I'm really a useless person). I promise you though that if you can get a philosophy degree you can pass a calc class, it's really not that hard.

>>8885041
I was in the same situation, I switched my major multiple times but I tried out philosophy courses for general education and ended up loving them and being really good at it. I didn't really want to go to college, my parents kinda just sent me here because it's an expectation. The one redeeming quality of philosophy majors is that we do really well on the LSAT and often do well in Law School. I'm retarded at anything math related, trust me, i'm terrible. So something like Law which requires virtually no math is something attractive and actually maybe even attainable.

>>8885048
me too, I've even left college for a brief period, but now I'm back. School is kind of getting in the way of my education, but I guess I gotta get it done. Law school is my last resort, I've worked at a law firm for several summers in a row and I don't really want that kind of life. If you're the military kind of guy you'd probably find it fine, maybe even appealing, but I'm lazy and dislike structure. Being a judge would be pretty cool though

>>8883381
>we'll be capable of driving people to suicide with a couple of conversations
>eastern europe

Ya man it can't be that fucking hard to do.

I chose geophysics for university of houston in Texas because it's surrounded by oil companies and supposedly they have one of the best geophysics program, also it's close to home. Not only am i limited to working in oil because i have other fields i can work in. I wanted to do geology but then i realized my job prospects would be lower as compared to a geophysicist.

I hate the idea of only taking up to calculus 3 for geology, i hate the thought of knowing my engineering friends will learn more math than me, and so i chose geophysics because i will take more math courses than them all the way up to complex analysis and know more math in total and at the same time learn about the earth.

I never thought i would have ended up doing geophysics because i was always pushed into majoring for ME, the thought of staring at a screen and being a cad monkey terrifies me, even though i know not all MEs end up doing that.

Physics and Mathematics, I am doing a joint honours for my bachelors. Worried that it will spread me too thin though if I want to go into a MSc in Physics or Mathematics.

>>8884880
thanks man I appreciate it

Electrical Engineering!
Mainly because I know EEs tend to be in high demand, and the intersection of math, physics, and actually building stuff is something I enjoy doing. Worst comes to worst, I'll do something CS related

>>8884905
are you in California? It's a lot better in Cali than other states

also microbiology lab scientist pays less than CLS here on top of that

>>8878829
This

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Best Science in 2017

>>8878255
Theoretical Physics and Pure Mathematics.
>because (((autism))).

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>>8885370
>EEs tend to be in high demand
That was what I was told and believed until I graduated with an EE degree and looked for work myself,
believe me when I say they are not.
Don't believe me? just look at the U.S. department of labor job outlook for EE jobs, you best go for a CE or CS degree.

>>8878260
i make more as a chef at Wendy's.

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>>8883486
>wealth rests in the hands of idiots, that's when shit can turn problematic

bachelor mechanical engineer

>>8878255
Computer Systems Web programming option.

>>8878255
Forensic Science.

>>8885454
The meme lives in you

Astrophysics because hell why not

>>8884934
I'm looking at the cute 3.14 at the back.

chemistry might do a master in something more biochem/food chemistry related try make some money that way

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>>8878255
Medicine, 300k starting here I come

>>8878255
CS because Queer Gender Theory was full.

>>8885536
"science" yeah sure buddy.
Forensic psuedoscience

>>8883381
how do i make someone an hero?

>>8878255
Maths and Physics, because they're the only things I'm good at and I'm a pretentious asshole.

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starting next year geophysics and planetary sciences

Chemistry because my marks were not high enough to study biochemistry (requires at least 9/10 to get in). Not too disappointed.

Physics. I found my physics classes so much more enjoyable than my engineering classes.
Also I want to get a nuclear engineering master.

>>8882124
>Chemical engineers should have favorable job prospects as many workers in the occupation reach retirement age from 2014 to 2024.

I know you see the 2% growth and think it's bad but you really need to consider how many people are looking to become chemical engineers and actually graduate with a degree

>>8879604
EE is where the hardcore autists end up, they tell themselves they're better than CS majors but in reality they'll end up doing the exact same.

>>8885900
you american?

can't you do a bsc in chemistry and do a masters in biochem?

in my country there are basically no biochem bsc, so the route is chem -> biochem

>>8879448
same here. i mostly focus on the history of philosophy, particularly pre-modern. i also used to be a math major. its a damn shame that philosophers aren't required to be proficient in the mathematical sciences anymore like before.

in ancient athens, plato's academy barred anyone who did not know geometry from entering. also, one of his students, theaetetus, is attributed with the findings of books X and XIII of the euclid's elements. of course, aristotle needs no introduction.

in medieval christian universities, students were required to go through the trivium and the quadrivium, always beginning their studies with a rigorous mastery of logic and geometry. eventually, modern algebra was pioneered there too.

in the modern times, we all know of leibniz. immanuel kant also jerked off to newton. he tried to deduce all of the newtonian laws of motion and some other propositions through reason alone.

it didn't always used to be like this and im puzzled as to why. philosophy used to be called the "queen of the sciences" and always had historical validity for its continued existence but now fails to capture people as it used to. its kinda tragic.

>>8885007
> I wanted to be an economics major, but I'm retarded at math
I'm >>8879146 and I'm sorry to tell you that you could have gone to economics without problems. A lot of the exercises that you do are solved with simple algebra and a bit of memorization (example: accounting) and the concepts that have a strong mathematical backing are usually explained only on a superficial level (The effect of taxes on the benefit of society was explained better on the book “A manga guide to calculus” than my course about taxation).
Mind you, if you go down the rabbit hole economics and finance can be quite challenging, but you don't really need that level of skill to find a good job.

>>8878474
Don't worry about these other replies anon, I graduted with a Chem E degree last year and I'm doin great.

Astronomy, literally the only field I'd not die of boredom in
Got a silver medal at IOAA once, so I suppose being one of the best in my country I actually stand a chance at getting a job

>>8878255
Electrical engineering. I plan on going into radio engineering

Biochemical Engineering

I feel like I made a big mistake.

>>8886392
how come

>>8878255
Neuroinformatics (combined computer science and neuroscience)
last exam in 11 days

>>8886457
It seems being a Biochemical Engineer is the lowest form of engineering. Or maybe the area I live in just sucks for my field.

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physics and math because i want to be a physicist.

also im literally to smart to study anything else.

>>8886471
i was interested in the same thing

then i realised it felt a bit gimmicky, just a bit of everything, slap an "engineering" on top of it and call it a day, nah

>>8879085
>>8879070
>>8878390
Hey brahs, fellow EE major here.

Does it matter what school I go to as long as it's ABET accredited?

I go to some shitty CSU, how fucked am I? Always feeling sad I didnt get into a good UC

>>8885466
Dunno if youre memeing but EE can crossover to either CS or CE pretty easily.

>What is picking up a few languages

BS Mechanical Engineering.

Graduate next week actually. I really like the materials portion of this field and mechanics of materials was my jam. Thinking about trying to pursue a career in composite materials as that was my favorite subject from my curriculum.

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Computer Science cuz I got confused with all the memes.

>>8886487
How the fuck did Religion end up above Health and Medical Sciences?

If what this chart is implying is true, then I see why the education system is so fucked up because the educators are generally dumb.

>>8884875
Still doesn't mean the field isn't oversaturated as fuck

>>8886642
The more women are in a field, the more it tends to go down in the scale, I bet there's some correlation at least. Religion is full of men.

>>8886035
No, I'm from Spain. You can do a Masters in biochemistry if you do either biology or chemistry. This is one of my current options.

>>8886552
that's like getting a physics phd and then getting a coding job and then saying DUDE PHYSICS PHDS ARE IN HIGH DEMAND

>>8885678
Ahahahah.

>>8886804
You can in Burgerland too, which is what I'm planning on taking.

>>8878255
Genetics.
It's fun and gives me a leg up on other biologists.
Minoring in chem for the biochem classes at my Uni.

>>8886547
I went to a state university for an EE degree, I clean crap off plastic parts at a warehouse for a living.

>>8886806
wtf are u smoking breh

I'm a CS freshman. I'm like really hyped for what I may achieve with CS, I mostly wanna work my ass off and end up doing something to do with crypto or information security.
On the other hand, I may simultaneously try to pursue a pure math degree, so I won't be a living meme for /sci/ lol.
What kind of cool shit can you do if/when you graduate from CS? (pls don't say KYS)

>>8886487


>Industrial Engineering being so low

>below business


Yeah i'm calling bullshit

Currently architecture research. Planning to do computer graphics and geometry next.

>>8886891
I don't believe you.

Computer science.

Developed an interest for writing software like this:
>built first pc
>get into wow
>get into customizing ui with add-ons
>get into writing add-ons

Naturally my curiosity took over and I decided to expand. Also pay looks pretty good and the prestige of programming is pretty cool.

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>>8887324
>the prestige of programming

>>8887342
There is prestige to it. Of course not on here because 4chan is always rooting and hating for what the opposite of what normies root and hate.

Nothing, I dropped university and now am an autodidact

>>8887324
LOL
>CS
>good and useful major
pick one dude. Have fun with your 40k a year job

>>8887362
Fucking savage

>>8887346


I'm a CS major, where is the fucking prestige? Normies see us as freaks, idk wtf you are talking about

>>8887375
well its true. CS is a step above the shit tier majors like music and liberal arts

>>8879587
>Graduated but still feel like i know nothing about the field
It feels like the EE seniors who graduated I know are like that too. What's up with that? I'm wondering if I'll end up like that

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>>8886891
the important thing is though..... DOES IT PAY GOOD?

>>8886592
u got any jobs lined up for after u graduate?

Mechanical engineering because it was general as fuck and I couldn't really nail down what I wanted to do from our qualifying first year. Took the aerospace stream for MecEs at my school found out I really love CFD and numerical methods in general.

I went into it because I know im not smart enough to be top of my field and actually get anywhere in math or physics and I felt that i could have the most worldly impact and live the most comfortable life if I became an engineer. Im not in it for the money, I wouldve gone into med/dentistry/pharmacy if I wanted money. I just want to work on cool shit.

Anybody that mentions money in this thread is automatically not going to amount to fucking shit in their field. No question end of story.

>>8878255
financial mathematics and statistics.

i'm not even going into quant shit because the pay is so shit but I couldn't stand being how boring being an econ major was.

Mathematics, my university is cheap and has a decent maths program but doesn't offer much else in the way of STEM.

>>8883381
10/10 this is the best bait I've ever read

>>8883381
is it possible to learn this power?

>>8878255
Taking a bunch of STAT, ECON, MATH and CS. My view on the 3 that aren't math is that they've been ruined at an undergraduate level to cater to the brainlets who want a degree. STAT and ECON without Analysis is bunk kush. CS without an upper division course in Abstract Algebra and Graph Theory is also a joke.

>>8887598
Are you retarded?
People get into field's sometimes for monetary reasons.
Money can be a very great motivator.

>>8887598
This unless they're into business or business/STEM like >>8887801

>>8887801
You might have lots of opportunities if you're that interested in that though, IMO I think your major has way more opportunity to be in Wall St than a econ major desu.
>>8887883
My answer is a bit late but read what I told him.

>>8886811
Don't laugh

>>8887545
its alright I guess, I'm able to pay my bills and student loans but its boring monotonous unfulfilling work.

Electrical Engineering

I love working with hardware and building an idea into an actual working device. It's like being God almost.

>>8878255
Majored in medicine
I fucking hate it
Should have gone for Math, Comp Sci, with or without econ

Geology with a G.I.S Certificate

It's what I enjoy doing. Practically, I should have been a Computer Science major, but whatever

Can I do a masters degree in Engineering (EE if possible) if I have an applied maths degree?

>>8879456
Me 2

Just started reading Peskin & Schröder this semester and it is killing me inside

>Killing of divergencies with i x epsilon
Why

>Using functionals to derive fenyman rules
>Never had a lecture on functionals
I'm going to kill myself soon

>>8887598


Yeah no. All of the top 10 richest people all did it for the money. Look how far it took them

English and Classics

Because I can. College isn't just a job factory. Too many high schoolers here

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Psychology
It's an array of reasons that don't really amount to a good reason for spending 3 years on something
>Read Jung's "Man and his symbols" and thought it was cool
>I had a weird combo of A-levels that I didn't try very hard at (A* in philosophy, B in history, C in chemistry)
>My favourite Batman villain was Scarecrow
>As a young racist I was aware of stuff like evopsych and woke IQ studies

Women studies

Money and prominent work marked

>>8878255
Women and gender studies because I can literally fuck the people I dislike in and outside of the classroom.

>>8888803
why would you wanna fuck them if you dislike them?

>>8878255
Premed
It's a solid foundation from which to approach the hard problem of consciousness. Probably going to proceed to biochem and then into neuroscience or neurology. Or I could always stop at the bachelor's level and become a high school science teacher and that would pay the bills too.

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I still dont get the cs meme.
Im 100% not baiting now: I really looked at all the STEM fields and their hottest research topics and what I found is that CS pretty much has the most interesting future.
Tell me what you can resarch in with your degree?

Blease respond honesdly;) I'm sick of the 3D-chess baiting.

Im about to start electro mechanical + computer engineering. Ive never coded before.

>>8889013
The actual undergrad CS programs are awful and useless.

>>8888525
>yeah no

Don't say gay shit like that anymore, unless you suck dicks of course.

>>8889080
What is electro mechanical?

Computer engineering

>>8883480
Cornell, Columbia, UPenn, and Princeton are all towards top for engineering, Brown and Harvard are good, Yale and Dartmouth are pretty ass at it.
idk about CS
they are all great at math except Dartmouth. That's a pretty basic thing to be good at.

>>8878255
Somethting that has turned out to be a complete waste of my time, money, and life.

I didn't think I could become more bitter after undergrad. Boy, was I wrong.

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Because it's what I am passionate about

>>8888331
Why do you hate it?

Have any Stories?

>>8889091
Idek desu. Its the first half of the computer engineering degree tho. It seems really like similar stuff to EE tho.

Im taking classes about designing hardware, programming and circuits in the fall.

I just switched from a fine arts degree so Wish me luck.

>>8889097
Wat

>>8887598
What about just wanting to be great? Thats all i want

someone give me a rundown on what type of person prefers EE over CS and vise versa, pls. I'm trying to decide between these two

CS but I'm more interested in finance... I might swap major after getting my bachelors.

(I live in Finland and getting masters is the norm, almost nobody stops studying after bachelors)

>>8889175
>what type of person
Don't associate yourself with a type of person, each is unique on their own.

A better question would be : what do cs people do and what do ee people do?

Then decide what you like most

>>8878255
CS major, math minor. As soon as I land a job I plan to go back to school for a masters/phd so I can do AGI research.

>>8878255
EE so I can find my biomed wAifu and usher in a new age of cybernetic enlightenment

Engineering physics

yes, I know, I'm a fucking meme

Philosophy, and I already have a job even though I haven't graduated. Suck it, stemcucks

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>>8889481
LMBAO!!!

>>8878255
Physics, my tinder dates love it. Might do a CS minor

>>8889480
Over qualified tradesman.

>>8889481
That's really nice but
>he is browsing a board he doesn't even belong to just lurking for threads that he can use as bragging stages to support his decreasing self-esteem

So I would say you are missing something more important to happiness than a job.

>>8889480
I honestly think it's a big shame that it is a meme. The degree has worthwhile content you should at least get a decent job from it.

>>8889651
>browsing a board he doesn't even belong to
I'm into math

>>8889664
>into math
>studying philosophy
>he wasn't born with the knowledge that the nature of the universe is intrinsically intertwined with the nature of mathematics and therefore the only subject worth pursuing academically is pure mathematics and in consecuence of that, the only philosophy worth studying ls the philosophy of mathematics

Well, not everyone can be born right. I am so sorry.

forensic science, going to med school for my MD then going to a pathology residency program to become a forensic pathologist.

Political Science heading towards Law school

>2017
>Still having a major
>Not having already acquired a PHD 10 years ago

Underaged users detected.

>>8885858
remind them they're living in eastern europe

>>8878255

Applied Physics. I started out with regular physics because I wanted to know how the world works, theoretical physics became too abstract and bullshitty for me, so I switched. It was a good decision, I enjoy very much what I do.

>>8878255
Business Administration because I came from a very messy social background where nobody knew what university really was about

>ayyy lmao

I'm doing multivariate calculus and some basic algebra now, idk what I'll do in the future

do you guys know any GOOD computer science course or track? I like MIT classes so something like that or with interactive assignments

Graphic design

because it's fun

>>8887598
Thas just about the stupidest thing I've ever heard

Theoretical physics because I wanted to understand the universe. Four years later, all I understand is how to express things as Taylor series.

>>8887362
I have an internship this summer that pays me significantly more than that already per hour, I'm only a sophomore, kys.

>>8891231
xd

>>8878679
>>8878857
don't forget that the bio market is saturated and whatever you want to do in bio can be done with a chem degree except you'll also get a research stipend doing chem, granting you more experience.
you're gonna hate losing your potential bio jobs to chem majors

Psychology
because fuck it and its interesting

>>8878418
>be me
>child prodigy pianist
>excel in jazz ensemble, marching band, all-state, etc.
>studying cheme
just end it all

Computer Science but i like astrophysics and Oneirology. What do?

>>8892847
Im really in it for Cybersecurity and Networking but like i said i like those 2 the same

>>8890478
>I came from a very messy social background where nobody knew what university really was about
goddamn i know this feel, ive had to change majors 3 times my parents are retarded. I think im going to go into supply chain management just to get a goddamn job