I've wasted much of my life, how do I get into STEM before my neuroplasticity declines too much:

What does an education path for that look like? Curious as a loser who can math.

I know, I was just answering 's question.

Fuck OP i'm you without the kid.

Don't do medicine unless you couldn't picture yourself doing anything else. you don't seem to even want to do it so you're answering your own question. Go into physics and computer science or engineering. Engineering/CS would be the easiest since you have a kid and fiancee and need to make some decent bucks ASAP.

Go into engineering(and CS would be a good combo)

graduate in four years

make 50K-60K starting, be making 90K-100K in a decade.

no problems with that if it's what interests you. you'll be able to support a family no problem even on that starting salary.

It certainly seems like engineering and computer science are my best bets.

>Don't do that, extremely competitive for the privilege to write papers all day without any obvious applications.

You're thinking of pure Math. I guess applied Math is the same except you can actually convince people to give you money in that.

>Theoretical? Experimental? Applications? In any case, I wouldn't know.

I would imagine Physics is on the same plane as Math. When you're doing Theoretical Physics, you're a few steps away from being an applied Mathematician.

Either way, I wouldn't recommend Math in OP's case. Only do that if you have to and if OP had to, he wouldn't be here, he'd already know that he had to do it. If you decide to pursue Math, couple it with finance or computer science or do statistics. Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, and Actuarial Science sound like the ways for you to go.

Thanks, user. This is actually all very enlightening.

I heared you can get computer science jobs with a mathematics major + the programming courses from the CS department. So you go for that.

for anyone that has any interest in science/mathematics/engineering, it's their best bet.

I guess I'll focus all of my attention into the higher maths then and keep biology and chemistry on the back-burner.

statistics is math you moron
you will need proofs analysis algebra to do probability and mathematical statistics