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<p>True, I’ve always wondered about that. I sucked at math in high school but now I’m minoring in math and pretty damn good at it, so it’s not like getting a B or a C is going to doom someone forever.</p>
<p>Ah, physics majors.</p>
<p>-Physics is not ‘all word problems’. What the hell does that even mean?</p>
<p>-I don’t care if you read a ‘String Theory for Dummies’ book, you are not an expert in the subject OR knowledgeable to have a conversation about it with a physicist. The same goes for people who think they’re awesome because they ‘love physics, omg’ and read popular science books but don’t like or understand the math behind it. That’s like saying you like books but not reading. </p>
<p>-People shudder when they hear my major, apologize for failing physics in high school, or little old ladies say “Oh good for you!” like I’m a feminist science crusader. I just like physics, but people give you a lot of **** if you’re a female scientist who isn’t preoccupied with the ‘need for more girls in math/science’ hoo-ha.</p>
<p>-It is a VERY hard major. Not the hardest and not in a ‘my major beats up your major’ way but there isn’t a single person in my department who is in it for kicks and giggles because they don’t know what to do with themselves.</p>
<p>-A B.S. in physics is almost worthless. 80% of undergrads go to grad school and the other 10% are pre-med and the other poor fools double major.</p>
<p>My favorite:</p>
<p>-If you tell people on the street you’re majoring in physics, most of them will immediately drop what they’re doing and ask you questions about black holes/string theory/the LHC/time travel/stars. It’s kind of amusing.</p>
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<p>There are a decent amount of girls in math and science. It’s engineering and computer science that are almost all guys.</p>
<p>Also lots of physics grads do finance or economics.</p>
<p>There’s a decent amount of girls in math, biology, and chemistry (because bio and chem are ‘life sciences’ and also have large premed populations). Physics has 5 girls out of 300 students at my university and from what I’ve seen, it’s very similar at other universities, so physics as a field is pretty desperate to encourage girls to join in. Surprisingly, engineering here has 30%+ girls in most disciplines which I found odd.</p>
<p>Bleh, I-banking has fallen out of favor with the masses. I can think of 2 or 3 kids who want to do the whole ‘quant’ route, but it’s hardly popular. You are correct, however, it is a possibility.</p>
<p>Chem isn’t a life science. But of the physical sciences, it’s the closest to biology.</p>
<p>^Sorry, you’re correct, that’s sort of what I meant.</p>
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you think that’s bad? one time I told someone my major, and they asked if I was going to Med school, so I responded it was a possibility but not likely, and this woman literally proceeds to lift her arm, show me a large mole on her underarm and ask if it looked like melanoma. I s hit you not, she showed me her damn pit and asked me if she had cancer!!! ughhhh</p>
<p>and you’re right, they’re are plenty of women in the sciences from our generation, just not Physics/Comp Sci/Engineering, but I don’t see the big deal…only 1/4 physicians is a woman but with our generation it’s 50/50. There are barely any men in Nursing/Education/Interior design, no one’s making a hoo ha about that :]</p>
<p>btw, if the mole is an unusual color/shape or you notice a change or growth in an old mole, get it checked out.</p>
<p>dill_scout, I meant there are science people like that, and Leah seemed to fit the description. I wasn’t saying all science people are like that. In fact, I feel like Physics majors are all pretty good at pure math, I sit by tons of them during my major classes.</p>
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<p>Was it ever IN favor with the masses? Why do state school kids delude themselves with this possibility? Not saying that you go to a state school, but just wondering what this dumb obsession is all about.</p>
<p>Condiments are supposed to make a hot dog taste good, not put you off them.</p>
<p>Aerospace Engineering</p>
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<li>We can’t make a space shuttle from scratch. In fact, no one can. It takes hundreds of scientists and engineers of all backgrounds to make any one of those flying aircrafts.</li>
<li>Physics and math is our language and our foundation for everything.</li>
<li>There’s a whole world or opportunities beyond NASA space shuttles including, but not limited to, commercial planes, jets, missiles, helicopters, and even cars and trucks.</li>
<li>We’re not all nerds and even we enjoy parties and social events, I promise :-D</li>
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<p>1000 internet dollars for whoever gets the reference to my SN.</p>
<p>Art:
-Yes, we actually DO know what we want to do with our lives.
-Professors can smell BS from a mile away; also, they KNOW when you haven’t put in effort. Always.
-Cubism actually has a purpose; It’s to show things from multiple angles.
-Classes are always 3 hours. We only break for models. Most drawing/figure drawing/painting classes are standing-only.
-You have no interest in art or design but you want to do graphics? Hahaha. Ha ha ha.
-Art Profs love hazing.</p>
<p>Psychology:</p>
<p>Most of what HisGraceFillsMe says plus:</p>
<p>-No, I am not “psychoanalyzing” you right now. The vast majority of practicing clinical psychologists do not even use psychoanalysis anymore, and even if they did, I wouldn’t know how to do it, because I’m not a clinician.</p>
<p>-The vast majority of psychological subfields are about research, not practice. I know f-all about therapy.</p>
<p>-I am not a clinician.</p>
<p>-We read scientific journal articles just like the natural science majors, and we do experiments much akin to the natural science majors’. Many of us work with the natural science majors. Some of us practically are natural science majors.</p>
<p>-Yes, I can get a job without a graduate degree with a BA in psychology. Yes, a graduate degree makes it more likely that I will get a job IN FIELD.</p>
<p>-I actually don’t know anything about the brain. I study behavior.</p>
<p>-Freud is valued more as a theorist than a psychologist. Most psychologists don’t take Freud seriously, and no, we don’t believe all of your adult conflicts stem from Oedipus complex/***** envy.</p>
<p>-Did I mention that I’m not a clinician?</p>
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<p>I-banking? I think it’s equally stupid whether you’re a state school kid or Ivy kid. It’s a crapshoot and people think they have some magical ‘game plan’. That’s like having a game plan for flipping coins. What a waste.</p>
<p>i really like this thread!</p>
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<p>Totally agree with you there. It’s funny how a lot of people think they’re somehow more unique and special than those who were there before them. “Okay so I didn’t get into Harvard for undergrad, and now I’m stuck at Dartmouth. But I’ll show them…I’ll get into Harvard Law School, hahaha!” It has to be maddening, carrying around such huge insecurities. Perhaps these are the roots of all unhappiness.</p>
<p>“dill_scout, I meant there are science people like that, and Leah seemed to fit the description. I wasn’t saying all science people are like that. In fact, I feel like Physics majors are all pretty good at pure math, I sit by tons of them during my major classes.”</p>
<p>Sorry, I didn’t to lash out at you or anything, but it gets frustrating when people ask you why you’re taking a discrete math course 20 times and then they stare at you flabbergasted when you tell them you’re taking it for fun and they then ask “why?” Yeah, I did know that I had the potential to tank my GPA by taking such a course (lower div discrete math is noted to be a difficult course at my school…actually, any class in the math department carries this reputation typically) and since I’m toying with the idea of going to med school this is bad for me, but I love math.</p>
<p>Finally got one for my prospective major, econ</p>
<p>We do not all take jobs for the UN.</p>
<p>It’s not enough to just BE a econ/bio/pre-med/classics/physics/basket weaving major. I don’t respect anyone based on their major but I do respect if they are GOOD at that major, a distinction many people seem to be offended by. Sorry, but merely going to class and having a high GPA doesn’t make you a world-class economist/doctor/scholar/scientist/loony.</p>