What are the pros and cons of your field of study????????
>pros
academic environment
>cons
academia
>pros
paleontology is fucking cool as shit
heavy drinking is socially accepted among geoscientists
>cons
no jobs outside academia
>pros
it's about stupid fucking rocks. That's not a pro by the way, but some mentally ill people are into it.
>cons
I live in a third world country were nepotism and political connections is all that matters, so I've given up pursuing high grades long ago.
Also the job is about rocks as well.
>>7950031
>proofs chicken explains his proof
>>7950058
>nepotism and political connections is all that matters
For everything fucking every in the history of human society.
>>7950289
please no
>MUH ENGINEERING
or
>MUH MEDICINE
here, okay?
codensed matter physics
pros:understand and contribute to the most significant advancements in modern society
cons: can't make six figures as an engineer who just sits at a CAD drawing of a screw.
>>7950289
what's private sector R&D like?
>>7950099
You must live in a first world country
Maths
>cons
no idea what I'm gonna do with a maths degree
>pros
my husband makes 300k a year so it doesn't fucking matter what I do
>>7950336
>can't even name an example
the only truth is the anal gape you experience in your faculty parties.
>>7950289
no thanks, I'll enjoy getting paid to study the earthly remains of creatures no human being has ever laid eyes on in life, drawing them out of the rock in which they were entombed and letting a whole vanished world dance before my very eyes
u jelly?
>>7950348
>fag
you mean engineer
Polymer Chemistry
Pros: It's a nice balance between doing real world things that you can actually see and play with, but also has some strong theoretical components to it.
Cons: No one gives a shit. Industry will never adopt better and greener methodologies. There are so many cool materials that have been made but will never escape the lab once a grad leaves.
>>7950422
About 50% of math majors are chicks, possibly a little more. I think it is more likely they are a chick who browses /sci/ than a faggot.
Pros: money
Cons: engineering students
Pros:
Linguistics and computer science can both help humanity.
Cons:
College in the USA is unaffordable, thus I'm currently a NEET and will likely never ever have a degree in my life.
>>7950336
you know that jobs in medicine also depend on the taxpayers in actual first world countries, right?
>>7950813
this so much, engineering building is always full of fucking weirdos
i'm probably one of them
>>7950336
I have a truth for the little engineering undergrad too:
You're all a bunch of homosexuals.
>>7951956
Sucked any cocks yet?
Biology
Pros:
>Give you a better appreciation for life and things in general
>you get to understand how shit works from the inside out
>very diverse field with a million branching careers
Cons:
>saturated as fuck with people
>pay is mediocre (at least for what I'm going into)
>>7950823
My gf is CS and does a lot of linguistics stuff, it's surprising how many people are into the combination
Aerospace
>pros
Everyone thinks you're the shit because they still believe that flight is magic, best degree for astronaut corps, employers want you to be a pilot which is a good excuse to spend lots of money on something you don't need, spaceships are cool, some jobs are good
>cons
Industry is stagnating, employers are cut-throat, many jobs are mindless building of tiny parts, theory is almost never applied in real life, constantly cucked by ITAR and FAA, salary is mediocre, work ethic is bad, work environment is bad, research is usually boring, you will almost never feel like you had a meaningful impact on anything
~IT~network engineering
>pros
uhm...I guess I don't really have to become proficient in 5 programming languages ? I'm struggling finding objective pro's besides the fact that I like it
>cons
see pro's
also no women anywhere in sight; software dev has way more womyn
god knows what's gonna happen in the future
shit changes allday errday and you have to become more and more of a software dev to stay ahead
depending on your specialization, pay is somewhat lower than software dev
...I need to do some thinking now
>>7951942
>actual first world countries
Nice try, Denmark. Back to your socialist swamp.
>>7950031
>Psychological Sciences (Neuro)
>pros
easy, intuitive, get to disect brains
>cons
everyone thinks it's psychology when I tell them
>>7953897
>one of the most advanced societies on earth
>swamp
how does it feel to be a morbese hillbilly
>>7953902
Just say Neuroscience instead of psychological sciences then. The reaction you'll get is completely different.
> Digital arts & media
Very fun and entertaining, smoked weed with lecturers. Earning good right now and its really easy to advance in my career. Also bitchez here are hot and nobody is a tightass
>>7953910
I am 6'2" and weigh 160 pounds so at best I'm a snake, but definitely not morbese.
Idaho master race reporting in. We're antihillbilly
>>7953927
youre 6'1 don't lie
>>7953927
you're 6 minutes and 2 seconds?
>mfw
>>7953927
>weigh 160 pounds
so about 226 us dollars?
>>7950031
Math:
Pros: It's incredible and beautiful. It is the physics of logic.
Cons: Dominated by geniuses. How does one even compete?
>pros
getting to learn how living organisms work and what they're made of, very applicable to both basic research and industry
>cons
Almost exclusively normies.
Inb4
>autist
I ám autistic, come at me faggits.
>>7954051
>Almost exclusively normies
I know your pain
Biochemistry and Molecular Bio
>pros
Covers a wide range of science skills and knowledge, which is nice -- never feel like I get rusty (probably rusty in single variable calculus though).
-My area of focus, biophysics, is interesting and upcoming.
>cons
-Everyone outside of STEM assumes you're a biologist.
-Most senior scientist positions (non-academic) require either a PhD or 5+ years of in-lab experience, of which I currently have neither.
>>7954058
>Everyone outside of STEM assumes you're a biologist
>molecular bio
Gee, I wonder why.
hep-th
pros:
-you never have to be self conscious about whether what you just said or did was autistic - the others are even more awkward.
-you get to do a lot of cool math
-you can always one-up people when it comes to whose field is harder
cons:
-there is hardly any funding and you are competing with literal superhumans
-few women
Can I even live decently if I go for a physics degree unless I get a job in an institute of CERN's magnitude?
>>7950775
>it is more likely they are a chick who browses /sci/ than a faggot.
How deluded are you mate
>pros
learn programming and shiet
job guaranteed
>cons
could have did a better degree like maths.
>>7954076
You brilliantly listed why I opted out of hep-th and went into atmospheric physics / earth science instead. QFT and Feynman graphs are fun and all, but at the end of day, I can enjoy another science just as much, and my current career gives me loads of options in almost every country there is.
Hope you make it, though. I was always a bit sad that I turned down a PhD offer at CERN, and being part of the largest experiment humanity's ever conducted..
Maths:
Pros: girls act impressed when I tell them what I study and I get to seem really modest and laid back when I tell people that I wish I has the creative mind for whatever bullshit they study lol
Cons:
All the girls are Asian, ugly, career oriented (lmoa) or autistic
All the guys are like this class clown:
>>7954050
>muh beauty
>muh physics of logic
Seriously dude get a grip
>>7950031
>pros
will be able to make a living
curly arrows and zig-zags
>cons
I can die from fumes and carcinogens whenever
>>7950031
Pros: it's very interesting to me and it impresses anyone who hears about it
cons: I'm too fucking stupid to succeed in this field
>>7954165
>All the girls are Asian, ugly, career oriented (lmoa) or autistic
You have non ugly career oriented women in your department? That's pretty good man.
>>7954193
fellow chembro, I feel like if we get jobs in our field we should be licking the boots of our bosses, whether he's been trudging around in carcinogens or not.
>>7950031
Does anyone here study Electromagnetism?
>>7950031
Computer Science
>pros
Decent pay, job out of college, coursework was pretty simple. Comfy.
>cons
Engineers yell at me for some reason.
>Pros
Study of applied mathematics in computers is fascinating. Computers run almost every important aspect of our lives.
>Cons
Literally anyone can learn to code effectively. Also there really is no benchmark for computer scientists unlike any other engineering field, which requires you to know all of your shit or people could die unless your programming sensitive machinery like airplanes.
Mech Eng here
What am I in for besides dicksucking and related activities
>>7950031
Math
>pros
not very hard at the undergrad level. Doesn't consume very much of your time to get good grades.
Some parts of it are absolutely fascinating.
Solving problems is really fun.
Jobs are fairly accessible.
>cons
Some parts of it are pedantic wastes of time, some are autofellating abstraction for the sake of abstraction
You can partition your classmates into three groups: smug pretentious fuckers, autistic people and Chinese.
Jobs in the pure subfields (the more interesting ones, in my opinion) are basically only in academia.
>>7950031
>pros
Radical life extension, hyperbrain comprehension, and multi-desire manifestation.
>cons
Radical life expulsion, hyperscale perpetual wars, and multi-painful stimuli.
>>7950031
Pros: Understanding a lot of my surroundings, being able to come up with solutions to problems
Cons: Cancer.
(Chemistry)
>pros
Actually useful in any scenario unlike engineers.
High job security.
People always want you around.
>cons
You are the first one targeted because of how useful you are to the team.
Boring.
>>7952103
My god THIS for Aero.
I fucked off Aero because 99.999999% of jobs I had and read about were fucking mindless repeated testing of tiny as fuck parts.
>>7950775
>>7953921
So you're in marketing?
Maths
>cons
Dehumanize yourself and face to bloodshed
>>7950031
>pros
Apparently you can get a job with a bio degree doing fucking anything you want
>cons
I fucking hate every job I have ever worked
>>7950352
KEK
Pros:
Most of my work is with farmers and they're usually really nice people
They always have hot daughters and invite me for dinner
Cons:
There's pretty much nothing left that's groundbreaking about soil.
>>7950031
>pros
Chemistry is interesting
>cons
Dying of cancer
>>7954349
[math]\mathcal{ASCENDED}[/math]
>>7955925
Oh thats nice
>crop science
>pro
Working with farmers with hot daughters.
Learn everything about mol. biology regarding plants, especially diseases.
There aren't many with that degree so easy jobs with nice money and also outside activities.
>con
EVERYONE THINKS I'M A FARMER AND THINKING THAT ITS THE ONLY THING YOU CAN DO.
>>7956041
>floor tiles
Can't stop laughing.
>>7954228
All the career oriented women are pretty and know how to leverage it.
chemical engineering
>pro
muh employment opportunities
muh $70k starting salary
learn how everything works in undergrad
makes a 3.7 look impressive
can do pretty much any advanced degree program with a BSe
never feel ugly in comparison to anyone
tons of dudes
>con
pipes and chemical plants boring as fuck
classes gloss over theory then straight on to "applications and problem solving"
a 3.7 is actually impressive
abandon souls all ye who enter chemE industry
dudes are gross stereotypical engineers [spoiler] or homo [/spoiler]
>>7956085
Wait until you see what it's referencing.
>>7956424
implying there are jobs
Pros:
Philosophical knowledge and being able to 'out-deep' everyone
Cons:
Nobody fucking cares and I won't get a job
>>7954193
One of my chem professors once commented on the fact that chemists deal with a lot of dangerous chemicals by saying there are actually a lot of really old (read: ancient) successful chemists. Maybe the successful ones are the only ones who could survive to that age.
>Computational Physics
>Pros
Gets paid as well as a software engineer
Physics degree
Wide application of jobs available
Third pillar of Physics
>Cons
Basically a software engineer
Biology major (focused on biotech)
>Pros
Interesting subject with lots of potential for the future
Lots of QTs
Solid job growth
>Cons
Pre-med students
95% of the student body is afraid to do math beyond a t-test
Fucking pre-med students
Have to deal with exercise science chads and stacies during lower level classes
>>7956041
>no ohio
Why isn't anyone listing what their field actually is? It'd be nice to know what I'm reading about.
>Microbiology
>Pros
Cutting edge research in some areas that can totally transform humanity
very little high level/complex math
knowledge is useful in everyday life
A great variety of very different employment opportunities
>Cons
so many sub-fields to specialize in
competition from lots of premed dropouts
Risk of infection I guess if you suck
pay is not as great as other sciences
>>7957533
Fuck pre-meds
>>7957550
I tutor freshman biology and my least favorite students are always the pre-med ones
>Do I really have to learn all of this?
Yes you fucking do
>Tell me what the important points on the study guide are
All of it
>Can you write my lab report for me
Hell fucking no
>mfw these are the people I'm supposed to go to if I get sick/injured
>>7950031
>company vehical
>ignore speed limits
>make people feel better
>good pay
>stories
>not a desk job
>seeing fucked up shit
CONS
>PTSD
>bad hours
>seeing fucked up shit
>>7950031
mechanical engineer in oil and gas
>pros
Great pay
Get to do alot of fieldwork
>cons
Mostly do plug-and-chug equations. The science behind piping and pressure vessels is as far as it's going to go
Have to babysit tradesmen a lot. Sometimes I feel like an over educated construction foreman.
Have to live in barren wasteland (North Dakota)
Destroying the environment
I worry that in 30 years niche specialty will be obsolete
>>7958792
get your masters and do work in compression trains and power generation. far more interesting stuff than being a pipe lord.
>>7950348
at least you can probably afford to try academia
>>7958792
>Sometimes I feel like an over educated construction foreman.
field engineer for a turbine company reporting in. iktf bro, iktf.
I've had two Majors since i changed after my Bachelor
First:
Social Science
Pros
Lots of women
Read intellectual shit
learn about culture and society
learn to write, argue - social skills in general
Cons
nobody in academia takes you seriously
shitty job prospects
all the people who just want to get an easy degree go there
Then
Physics
Pros
everybody thinks you are smart
understand how everything works
Lots of math
i enjoy it
cons
have to deal with autists
close to no women
>>7951956
The engineering building on my campus just has this distinct smell to it. It smells like B.O. and Indians, which is funny since we have a huge number of Indian students in the engineering department.
>>7957650
Cop?
>>7954361
Job?
>>7958817
because without some sort of standardized credentialing system, people were getting killed by shit tier engineering.
college is a filter/hazing period before you are allowed into the guild.
>pros
People directly assume I'm not dumb
>cons
"So you wanna be a math teacher right?"
>>7958834
Ah, yea, that makes more sense.
>>7950775
Try 20%
>>7950775
Implying attractive women can do higher level maths. Top kek.
>>7958824
Medic.
>>7952013
/thread
>>7953910
Believing everything you see on BBC about Americans. Autistic much? Muh socialism
>>7954037
Brit fag identified
>>7954316
Top kek
>>7955925
Is farmersonly.com legit or nah?
>>7956041
>the pope
Oh I'm laffin
>>7956424
>pro
>tons of dudes
Classic engineer
>>7957550
Amen
>>7950031
Computer Science
>Pros:
Big Money
>Cons:
No Pussy
>>7958901
My sister is on it, she didn't have much luck. Most of the people on farmersonly are 50 year old widows or divorcees
>pros
300k starting
>implying there are cons
>>7958932
Damn anon, their commercials are so good tho. Those bastards!
>>7958917
You could eat healthy and work out with the help of big money though. Money + being fit = easy pussy
Pros:
You get to make green cats
Cons:
Hard to get a job if you have not so much experience working
>pros
Telecom is the easiest of all EE programs.
>cons
Hard to find a job that's not shit.
>>7950031
>pros
...
>cons
you might have the displeasure of working with me
Biotech
Pros: I get to tamper with the very building blocks of life
Cons: Degree in animal torture
>pros
you don't stand out as an autist since everyone else is one too. porbably a good nick to be made as well desu.
>cons
having to work your balls off
>>7950031
>>pros
I'm doing cutting edge research
>>cons
It's so cutting edge that there aren't any jobs for it.
>>7959782
What field anon?
Forensic Chemistry
>Pros
Wide range of subjects covered
I'm starting to view the world in a completely different way
Satisfies my curiosity on many levels
>Cons
Most of my friends take illicit drugs constantly
I would like to take illicit drugs constantly
My country hates STEM
I will have to work for the government
>I heard a friend of a friend mutter 'I fucking hate cops" after I told him what I study. He is in real estate, I was not surprised by his ignorance
Machine Learning
> Pros:
Warm and cozy place to work always
> Cons:
Parameters tuning the damned neural networks killing me everyday.
>>7950665
examples?
>>7959804
I'm looking at starting a masters in forensic chemistry.
I didn't do much forensics in undergrad (a few classes but didn't major or minor in it).
Would you recommend it
>>7959813
I'm a freshman compsci major, but I really want to end up working in machine learning, any advice anon?
>>7957550
Every single time they bitch an complain about the workload and they bitch every time about their low grades. Wish pre-med had their own classes so the cancer can keep to itself
>>7950031
Pros:
$300k starting pay
Mad bitches
Pop bottles every weekend
Cons:
Reading autistic posts on /sci
>>7956424
The chemical engineer I who comes to my work is hot, he loves to explain chemical processes.
Shame I'm such a sperg.
>>7950031
>pros
humongous thick dick
bang another chick at least each weekend
be president of illuminati
fuck OP's mom whenever
make 500k starting after undergrad
>cons
have to fuck OP's mom at least once a week
all other posters in this thread become my personal sissy boy slaves
>>7950348
>subtle b8
Good one. Really.
What major do i choose for big money and lots of girls
Seems like it's either one
>>7960410
pre-med or law.
>>7953913
I think the difference is that "Psychological Sciences (Neuro)" is a major for babies who can't actually cut it in neurology.
>>7960104
What field?
>>7958880
kek
Petroleum geologist
Pros:
Make a lot of money
Fun
Cons:
Volatile job market
On call all the time
>theoretical physics
Pros:
>physics degree
>large computing aspect
>maths for non-autists
cons:
>autists who talk about the "beauty" of "elegant" theories all of the time
>autists who talk about work 24/7
>no girls
>professors expect you to be a genius
