Post your degree/field of study/specialization and other people critique it's usefulness

Post your degree/field of study/specialization and other people critique it's usefulness.
I'll start,
>Forestry, Wildland Fire Management

Don't adaptive renewal cycles take care of themselves?
Forestry isn't forestey enough for me :^)
ecology and evolution

>Don't adaptive renewal cycles take care of themselves?
yes but it generally interferes with folk who prefer to not be toasty

>>Forestry isn't forestey enough for me :^)
>not using an industrial drone equipped with a gopro to do all the field work for you
lamo i bet you use a calculator too

Also It's a good major. Very useful with the rapid increase of arid lands and exterme weather and the especially unfortunate loss of forests.
Also a genuinely cool thing to study

yeah its great and the market is only expanding because so many people are retiring. similar to people working in nuke plants, had a ton of them come around undergrad courses trying to get people to study nuke chem since they were gonna be collecting a pension in 2 years and they had literally zero applicants for most of the year

>r u a park ranger
no a park ranger is part of the police department whose jurisdiction is that of federal/state lands, they do not have any formal training or are required to have a degree of any kind. it's mostly just a cushy job for somebody who has been on the force for over a decade or is the son of a police chief, etc.
>oh cool i always wanted to be a park ranger haha

Aeronautical Science (major) and Applied Meteorology (minor).

Basically feeds into an airline pilot job. Through the school I obtain a commercial multi engine certificate w/instrument rating at a minimum.

I'm taking biochemistry, mostly trying to get into some form of cancer research but I'm not totally sold on that idea yet.

How is job availability with airline pilots?
Sounds interesting really.

Artificial intelligence.

how do planes fly
people tell me the wings generate lift because the air travels faster over the top or some shit, yet planes can fly upside down which completely obliterates that theory

They say there is a shortage of airline pilots due to a large portion of the workforce hitting retirement limits, but I'll believe that when I'm in the right seat of a CRJ or whatever.

As far as the degree program goes it's great. I get a bit of everything; math, physics, humanities and business, and lots of aviation-specific classes (systems, aerodynamics and performance, turbine engines, FAA ground schools, etc).

Wings generate lift due to a couple properties, mainly conservation of momentum and aerodynamic circulation. Basically speaking, the air is accelerated over the top of the wing (the side with more curve) and remains a relatively lower speed on the bottom, and this creates a pressure disparity, imparting a force upon the wing roughly perpendicular to the relative wind. Aerodynamic circulation causes air to rotate about the aerodynamic center of the wing, and explains in part the flow about the airfoil. In reality it's a combination of these two properties, but in the end it is still the 'theory' of lift. Airfoils only see two things: dynamic pressure (airspeed) and angle of attack, so it doesn't matter if you're facing up, down, or sideways.