Mormagil
bring back the corvee
i don't know why a professor would say that, because most physics undergraduates end up going into industry instead of grad school. they aren't doing cutting-edge advanced physics research is what he probably meant.
The Post-Secondary Education Thread
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Caelum Adustum
Call me Ishmael
hibernal_dream
A Mind Forever Voyaging
No you're not. Teaching is a rewarding, highly regarded and noble profession. There are plenty of career opportunities. You'll probably start out teaching but may later on move into management, social work, counselling, politics, private consultancy or tutoring.
It doesn't matter which degree you take, unless it's one you're not interested in. Getting an education for the job and its rewards and not for the education itself is a mistake - you really need to enjoy what you're doing otherwise I think it's a waste of time. You're also not going to learn much as you'll do what you can to pass but forget most of it afterwards, and that's not going to benefit you when you graduate.
addae
Member
...doing now my PHD in biology (invasion zoology and botany)...i dunno how the job market in the states is looking like but here in germany yo´re sth. like fu**** up if you´re a nature scientist...at the moment it look like I´ll will do totally different afterwards...but decide after your skills...you wont have fun and you wont finish sth. what you hate or what you´re not able to manage...my advice...try to combine physics and computer engeneering...that´s the future...and don´t come to europe :O)
EVERYONE always says it doesn't matter what degree you do, and this is what I always got told, so I chose to do my degree in psychology as it sounded interesting. However, in my (limited) experience of job hunting during the 18 months since I graduated it does seem to matter what degree you do, at least some of the time. I think I'd quite like to work with computers, but with the wealth of computer science graduates to choose from, I'm thinking it's going to be difficult getting into that field without doing some sort of conversion course.
swizzlenuts
i'm sciencing as fast as i can
I'm studying Chemical Engineering, the main reason for this is that I love Chemistry, it's fucking easy and interesting. I thought about going into Chemistry then into Graduate School for that, but I was thinking, what if I fuck up in college and can't make it into Graduate School? So I chose Chemical Engineering because you get paid fucking awesome even with an undergraduate degree, unlike Chemistry.
I ultimately want to do research on something with the Thermodynamics of molecules or something along these lines.
Since I want to do research, the best thing to do is undergraduate research. If you find something you like or want to do, most colleges have opportunities like this to help you, and go for it.
I ultimately want to do research on something with the Thermodynamics of molecules or something along these lines.
Since I want to do research, the best thing to do is undergraduate research. If you find something you like or want to do, most colleges have opportunities like this to help you, and go for it.
hibernal_dream
A Mind Forever Voyaging
There's going to be an enormous computer science graduate shortage in the next couple of years, in England at least. I think you'd have a good chance of getting into that field.
I did a undergraduate chemistry major. I thought about chemical engineering but i'm terrible at math and not really interested in the practical side of things. I also don't want to work in a lab or the bench.
MadeInNewJersey
nursing my wounds
way back in the Dark Ages (before teh intarweb), I studied Journalism & Politics.
not surprisingly the only thing I'm qualified to do is write and argue. shockingly.
not surprisingly the only thing I'm qualified to do is write and argue. shockingly.
Hell Mike
fuck melodic black metal
MadeInNewJersey
nursing my wounds
clearly I suck at tackling, though I have managed to get almost the full range of motion back in my shoulder today
God damn that is shitty. I know many more people of good character outside of college then within the hollowed halls of fantasy land. Visiting my friends at big colleges makes me want to puke, seeing the idiots that roam free. Alas, these are the men that will be paid most and become most 'successful' by societies standard.
I'm not saying college is bad, I am saying that to say people with a degree somehow automaticly have better character then workers is fucking disgusting.
Demilich
Remember
The whole institution of academia pisses me off. I think on some show once I heard it described as "one massive circle-jerk" and it totally seems to be in some ways...
fuck, I can't wait to get out into the real world and hopefully do something that has nothing to do with Sociology!
fuck, I can't wait to get out into the real world and hopefully do something that has nothing to do with Sociology!
