Why do you study what you study?

Mechanic Electric Engineering.

Med student, chose it only to mayor in neurology and psychiatry or pnemonology. Although lately I've been thinking I should jut have gone with civic engineering since it has less social social subjects and is more math based

Why not just call it mechatronics like a normal human being

Electrical Engineering
To make money

I study math because my math IQ was 164 but every other IQ was 100
I literally can't do anything else

I don't study what I study. I just spend money and pretend to.

Mathematician here, BA in math, also in grad school for math. Working part time in the electrical engineering department at my uni as a researcher. Pays well but it isn't as clear or interesting as my coursework. Wish i could just chad it up in an armchair all day.

>math IQ was 164
so you're like 1 in 60,000?

I'm in CS because I like building stuff and solving problems, but I'm too clumsy/autistic to do something involving physical tools.

Math (1st year grad) because i love math and always wanted to study it
CS (2nd year undergrad) because i really doubt my knowledge of algebraic geometry and differential topology will get me employed and i can put some of my math knowledge to use here, also formal verification is kind of cool area for me to explore

It can't be that common

Criminology Ph.D to help cartels out.

Software/Electrical Engineering Specialized in Automotives, because its our biggest industry and i am good at it

Well, I'm studying Physics, but I'll do a Post-Grad in Engineering. I'm also trying to educate myself on programming/computer science and finance at home. Why? I wanna become like Iron Man, really. It's a silly, childish dream, but I've had since I was a wee lad and got into comic books (IM especially), and I'll try to make it a reality. Shaping the future and having lots of cash doesn't sound too bad, right?

chemistry, because i wanna know how shit works and colours and explosions are cool

I study finance. My math teacher in high school tried to push me towards engineering, but honestly, while I really do like physics, I didn't really see myself working with circuits or similar (electrical was my best shot). Also my family was quite poor (there were times when we didn't know how we could last the month) and no one really knew anything about how the economy works, so I decided to study finance.

Do I regret it? Like some other economists on Veeky Forums, yeah, a part of me wishes I studied math as an undergrad. Learning the Black-Scholes-Merton Model made me realize that all the mathematical demonstration were almost jargon for me and, even I improved, I'll never have the analytical skills of a math major. The only consolation is the fact that I won some prizes with my studies in finance.
Sorry for the blog.

Physics

Because idk what else and I like to make myself suffer for no gain.

Actually my family is pretty wealthy so i won't have to work

Just checked and it's 1 in 100,000.

I honestly don't know what else to do, so I might as well do a tiny part for the advancement of human knowledge.

crop science Major

was only interested on the plant side of biology and the undergrad had some interesting economic and pedology courses that where interesting to me at that time.
Now I work on my master thesis in a phytopathology lab, which is quite interesting.

I did four years of art school. Did nothing with my degree. Tried doing botany for a year at Berkley, then switched to psychology, now I'm in grad school for the incrementally more respectable psychopharmacology.
I fucking love phytopathology! My mom was an ethnobotany professor at Berkley, what was your thesis on though?

generation and phenotyping of mutants that play a role in the iron aquisition of a maize pathogen, which could lead to a new pesticide.

Ethnobotany is certainly a nice field. I wrote my Bachelor thesis about a pesticide free farming technique (push-and-pull) which is usedmostly in Kenia to eliminate the two major pests there, simply by putting specific regional plants around the field to lure the pests on these plants to die.

I too enjoy making stuff up on a Vietnamese basket weaving forum. My dad is the CEO of pornhub.

Chemical/Process Engineering

Taking processes (or creating new ones) and trying to improve upon them or change them to desired specs while making them as profitable as possible is fun to me.

I'm kind of similar to you OP.

I did a vanilla compsci degree for my undergrad. Got hooked up in some cool research and now I'm technically employed by a CS dept but doing work that is more like public administration I guess: evidence- and science- based policy, aggregating research output with the goals of (semi)automating policy decisions. And publishing in mostly CS and Digital Library venues, some kind of weird hybrid of CS, Public Admin, and Library Science.

I did my master in political sciences, branching into statistics and opnion/market analysis, because I always thought it was fun to objectify and reduce people's believes and lives on a 0 to 1 odd scale.

What research do you do in EE? I'm assuming something more theoretical like controls or dsp?