What is your Veeky Forums major and what are your professional ambitions?
I'm just about to start my Masters. It's only two years. I'm kind of freaking out about my future cause I basically have no real goal after I finish.
I love Veeky Forumsence in general but have no particular interests. I like all kinds of problems.
I also don't like the path that one needs to take in academia. I don't want to spend my 30s as an assistant professor in tenure track. It doesn't sound appealing.
I don't even know if I want to be ambitious or have a more of a laid back job.
I'm majoring in mathematics and my aspiration is to go big in the field of computational mathematics.
Either get a six figure job at a big company or make some simulation software and get rich from it. Gonna learn game theory in the summer to see if that allows me to do something meaningful. I'm just a freshman tho so there is no rush.
After the dust is settled and I am living a comfy life I will then follow the steps of Wildberger. Maybe make my own youtube channel with my own axiomatic foundation for computational mathematics or if in the time I was busy his axioms made it big then I would do research in the field of 'Wild Math' and get my PhD in that.
Hudson Carter
I am majoring in engineering and I want to suck rich dick.
Liam Gutierrez
wow, ambitious.
Jacob Gonzalez
Majoring in Electrical Engineering. Master level.
Ambition is either is do a useful job for society and read/write on the side, or to try and to a PhD and then doing math research.
Nathaniel Hughes
i currently getting my associates in engineering sciences with plans to double major in mechanical and electrical engineering, any reason you only did electrical? also, how easy was calc for you, just finished calc 1 today, should have done homework but got an easy B
Dominic Myers
you are fucking adorable.
Chase Morris
Hey ambition is great and all but be realisitic. Granted it's better to aim higher and decrease than to be at a midpoint, but you're not going to do that.
Lincoln Cruz
been an underachiever my entire life, looking for advice
Juan Sanders
one of my engineering professors told me mech and ele have almost the same required classes, and I could get both degrees with about an extra year and half of school. Seems worth it to me?
Adam Lopez
Does math research have good money in it or is it something you just want to do?
Colton Howard
It doesn't. At "worst" it got me a 18h/week teaching job paid 4000€/month, like my father and my mother did, and her father before her.
At best it's still not much. Definitively not a 5 figure salary, but I don't want that, I want to feel useful.
>any reason you only did electrical? Uni didn't offer courses the American way. I did 2 years (undergraduate level) of general math/physics/chemistry and then 1 year of specialisation. I choose EE, but in my Uni we have a lot of CS associated with it. No mechanics with it.
>how easy was calc for you I "validated" it rather poorly with C in calc 1 and D in calc 2. I remember having notes around 10 or 12/20.
In retrospect it was piss easy, I ended up teaching it to friends who failed it and had to retake it. Just wasn't too serious when I first took it.
Lucas Reyes
then take it from someone whos been there.
do one degree. nobody gives a shit about double majors. if you really want to stand out, just go to grad school. doing a double major is going to crush your GPA and make a good grad school or potential scholarships a pipe dream.
you obviously don't have the discipline or academic stamina if you are copping B's in calc 1 by not doing homework. don't do more than 12 credits or you are going to get burnt the fuck out and be one of those niggers that drop out in senior year to "reevaluate things".
you are about to enter a really competitive field (or not, most shitter engineers become cost analyst excel monkeys.) having anything less than an absolutely flawless GPA means you need a fuckton of other stuff just to stand out from everyone else.
get your shit together or you are going to underachieve your way into a soul crushing drone-tier position that caps out at 65k$ a year. or don't. less competition is good i guess.
Andrew Edwards
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David Scott
I needed to hear this, thank you.
Is there anything else you wish you did differently / knew when you were where I am?
I major in Accounting. Hopefully I can afford my gaming hobby and be financially independent.
Jacob Collins
be autistic about your GPA. almost nothing is more important. even if it means dropping/retaking a class. take such a light course load that you have to do an extra year if it really comes down to it. one year of career progress isn't worth starting off on the wrong foot in some shit position.
Grayson Perry
>no Veeky Forums major atm I enlisted in the Army. Going Special Forces and after my contract I'll probably reenlist for that cool bonus.
Down the road I want to complete a math degree and then go to law school. Seems like it'd be fun.
Aaron King
EE major at the moment, hoping to keep high GPA and get into a nice company that will pay for me to get a masters or phd later. Want to live the comfy life where money is not a huge issue
