What kind of books do scientists read?

I'm not saying STEM is shit*

thanks that's reassuring, i guess i'm still aggravated that i allowed Veeky Forums to influence my self-esteem so much. Maybe i could write about it
i realize that now

This. I study mathematics and genuinely love many parts of the subject, though as with anything it has its tedious parts.

pynchon

Psychology is tier one and mathematics is tier shit.

That's basically just what normal people read.

And, well, that's what STEMfags read. Some of them are into literature, most of them aren't because most people aren't.
Yeah that's pretty stupid senpai

Like you don't even make any money from biology, and you don't make much from any other STEM degree (never anything more than a middling middle-class income).

And studying something you hate is just retarded. You see a lot of CSkiddies talking about how they're burnt out from their jobs which they hate and they just wish they'd done something better.

In any case if you're a senior (I assume this means last year of 6th form) then you literally have nothing to worry about.

Tom Clancy spends 5 pages describing the weight and feel of a handgun. /k/ loves him.

>Philosophy
>shit-tier

Philosophy students are probably the only people I've met with whom I can actually have a productive conversation with about important topics. One of the few majors which actually teaches you how to fucking think, not what to think.

>teaches you how to think
>doesn't teach you how to do anything out of your newfound ability

is that why most philosophy majors end up on McD's?

>make life choices based on a meme he saw on an edgy internet forum

no, there is no hope for you, sorry.

>lel university is meant to be a ticket for employment amirite?

Anyone who went into a philosophy major and ended up working at a fast-food restaurant was probably destined to do so regardless.

>Astronomy
HMM

The whole STEM schtick is that STEM degrees can get you a specific job straight out of uni AS WELL as any job needing a generic degree.

But that still leaves plenty of jobs which need generic degrees.

I probably read the same things lit reads.

Veeky Forumsentist here. I read Veeky Forums recommended stuff, because this is one of the boards that I frequent. I am what you would call "patrician".

this

I have a STEM Ph.D. roommate who drowns himself in bud light and cries to sleep every night. Dunno what to say 2bh

>Mathmetics and Philosophy that far
>Astronomy top tier

thats what you get for coming here as an underageb&

Nah he's just a faggot

The worst that happened to me was I started getting really intense about HEMA and Stirner

mathsfag here
you know people can like STEM and lit right? of course, in my own experience it's somewhat rare, but it still happens. a lot of it is just this sort of STEMfag superiority complex, but not everyone has it

Most science people I know don't read literature. They'd rather read science books, textbooks, and trivia. Heck, they'd rather play vidya than read some literary works. The only people I've seen read literature with a science background are some girls, who'd tend to read genre fiction more.

well, I'm an actual researcher, and the last couple of books I read were

The Unconsoled (Ishiguro)
The Iron Dragon's Daughter (Swanwick)
Stations of the Tide (Swanwick)

next up on my list will probably be that book by Laxness (name eludes me at the moment)

Well, med school student and researcher here, i used to love reading books and from time to time i still do, i have more than 60 books, mostly they are fantasy, sci fi, or thrillers, jim butcher, john katzenbach etc, now what i read are medical textbooks well thats for the university, or published medical articles, i think that i prefer to disconect my brain from time to time, so i play videogames or watch a serie/movie or just make some music but thats only to unwind

None. They're not intellectuals. They're too dumb for literature.

Which country do you study medicine in?

I'm a physicist but English in high school was always the most gratifying to me so I try to continue studying literature in my own way. I decided to start off with classics like Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Persuasion. I loved them. Aside from my interest in understanding classic english literature, I've got a few books on greek mythology, a few history books on Africa, India and China, Lovecraft's works, Arthur Conan Doyle's works, the Iliad (it's proven to be a tough read), and recently getting into philosophy so got some Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.

Funly enough I don't care much for sci-fi. I find it lacking in sustenance I guess. It's cool and flashy with epic narratives but that's it.

Mexico

How the fuck is this so accurate? Didn't
realize all those spergy fucks were exactly like my roommate lmao.

You don't need an English degree to study literature. The idea that you need training to do something as basic as read is absurd. Be a biologist, but don't forget your passions.

I'm a maths major, aside from mathematics textbooks, I'm currently reading GEB, Superintelligence, Blood meridian.
I enjoy classic literature and philosophy too.

I enjoy obscure XX century latin american literature.

t. STEMlord with two degrees

When will this meme die? Philosophy is probably the best humanities major you can get job-wise and statistically, is even a better bet than some STEM majors

payscale.com/college-salary-report/majors-that-pay-you-back/bachelors

Not great but by no means bad. It won't make you big money but chances are if you're a philosophy major in the first place then you probably don't care about that. The Mcdonalds majors were probably pseuds who forgot they still had to network and do stuff to improve their resume

Can you recomend some, i have only read marquez

UKfags, which source are you using for ebooks now that libgen has been served an order again?

I've been working with microbiology for three years now and I read Italo Calvino exclusively

>now that libgen has been served an order again?

When did this happen?... I've been using it all week

I first noticed it last night. It's still blocked today.

>math
>physic
>astronomy
Why are these God tier? Their job prospects are just like History/Philosophy/PoliSci.

It's still working for me

What if your degree is 50% Philosophy and 50% Classics?

Do those advantages still apply? Because that way the degree title is not going to be called "philosophy", something generic like "Humanities" instead.

I'm an undergrad who hasn't committed to either, but I'll probably still do both since I'd be more motivated that way, even if 100% Philosophy would have more employment prestige.

url?

I'm a little jealous honestly. Getting into medical school in Canada even when you have good grades is bullshit. Thousands of people compete for such a small amount of spots. Often it's who you know or how well you can bullshit that gets you in. Half of them or more do it for the money

It the same here, i and other 4000 went to take the entrance exam, only 150 were accepted, but my gen is 200, those 50 were recomended and didnt take the exam

>I read Veeky Forums recommended stuff
>I am what you would call "patrician".
lel'd out loud

First you should start with the big names so you can get a broad conception of the scene.
Almost every latin writer was part of a literary group, so you should check them. Latin american literature is inherently political, so the themes between each member of a literary group are similar.
All those groups overlap and conflict in one way or another, but it's way easier to picture them as the Florida (artistic awareness)/Boedo (social awareness) argentinian dychotomy.

For example, if you like Borges then you should check Marechal, Bioy Casares and everyone related to the Florida group and Sur magazine.
On the other hand, if you like Arlt then you should check Sabato, Piglia, Barletta and everyone related to the Boedo group and Editorial Claridad.

Sorry for the wall of text, but explaining how to search is easier than just giving you a list of writers.

Easy mode: Read Bolaño. His style is the logical conclusion to spic lit and he namedrops writers a lot. In fact, one chapter of Los Detectives Salvajes is a list of every writer who influenced him, including a lot of esoteric novelists and poets.

Law school is kicking my ass

Thanks man

"Introductory Circuit Analysis" (1986)
"Modern Digital Design with EDA, VHDL, and FPGA"
"Genetic Algorithms for VLSI Design"
"Compilers" (the purple dragon book)
"Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos"
"Physical Hydrodynamics"
"Digital Signal Processing"
"Oceanography"
SICP
"Haskell" from O'Reilly

r8 me

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Dont blame some meme image

I studied mathematics because i was a good at it and i had no clue what to do with my life

I was good at basically every subject though, english i might have actually had a better aptitude for it if the way it was taught hadnt put me off it, although honestly at the point where i left school i wasnt mature enough to make any kind of decision about my life

After i left uni i came to realise something, it's basically a waste unless you study something you enjoy, that is literally the point of university. I think the yank way of declaring your major after a certain point might be advantageous (not really clear how that works though) or simply further education should be a decision made a bit later than it usually is

Sure my degree helped me get a job, but in those three years where i basically slacked off i could have easily got to the exact same position.

what's your job?

>law school
As an undergrad phil major I feel like this is the logical next step towards any semblance of an actual "career"

i'm not looking forward to it.

What is this putting into tiers? Looks like employability in relation to listed degrees, could be wrong... I was confused due to History and Law being so distant when they're academically similar in value for a lawyer's goals.

Im a software ''''''''engineer''''''''

R&d scientist here
Last four books I read were
The guermantes way
Turing's Cathedral
Freedom
The Gene

>meme post
>pigeonholing an entire group of people
good job on being the prototypical internet fucktard.

>biology
You fucked up

You were supposed to pick Engineering, you idiot.

Delusional.

I'm a "stemfag" working in an engineering proffession but in my spare time read mostly works that are part of "the canon" as well as the best of contemporary authors.
Also spending some off-time familiarizing myself with western philosophy and writing recreationally.
Just because you slept your way through your English degree and can't get a job doesn't mean stem professionals can't have a successful career and be well-read in literature. Gtfo you hack.

>tfw reading statistical mechanics of phase transitions and knowing that the brainlets on here could never even begin to comprehend it after years of study

Why Stemfags are you so insist at proving themselves to us on this board? No one is interested or jealous of your degree, you guys are just making fools of yourselves.

I come here because I genuinely enjoy talking about books but I stay to assblast the salty literature majors with an inferiority complex

I don't understand it neither. Majority of stem fields are piss easy compared to serious humanities such as law.

t.math major

I read classic literaure, philosophy, work with business mixed with IT, study math and computer science on my own, read politics and economics and play/record music.
where do I fit?

On your blog that you clearly confused with Veeky Forums.

In the whitepacked bank, my special lil snowflake.

You can't possibly think you're anything other than an outlier.

What mathfags even do?

>falling for the old stem meme
Medicine is the only good stem field. Engineering is a meme except main engineering branches and major science fields worth nothing unless you stay in the academics.

>Chemistry and engineering
>not shit tier

>information tech
>not elder god tier

k e k ' d

I read Nabokov right now.

guy's i'm a stem major who also reads books

Judging from my adviser who spends crazy hours at research: Probably nothing except papers.

You can't be real

Can I nigga hook me up with a good beginner physics book?

I study Comp Sci and read 18th century English Literature and History mostly.

>Looks like employability in relation to listed degrees
>chemistry
>physics
>astronomy
>all god-tier

doubtful

t. someone who fell for the stem meme pyramid scheme

>"the canon"
what's that?

Chemistry and physics have excellent job perspective, but you need a grad degree.

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Ultra-God Tier: Not Going to College

Mostly textbooks for me over the last few years, I'm afraid (math grad). I'm trying to start reading again and the last books I bought for myself are Rousseau's "Essai sur l'origine des langues" and the Arabian Nights.
That being said, one of my classmates is a very avid reader, well-versed in greek and latin, learning sanskrit and has read most classics of French literature from the 16th to 19th century. It's a wonder he gets any work done at all (yet he's one of the best in the department)..

Only if you live in China.

>i have no idea what i'm talking about so let me post something retarded to get some (You)'s
Here you go. No go sort your life out.

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>combination of employability, respectability, difficulty, and starting salary/future salary potential

I don't know, I could say the same for you desu

What field are you in?

If you know were I can find a job in organic chem tell me where to find it because I'd happily take work after being 4 months unemployed.

So far all I've been able to score from my degree are a couple of hours a fortnight doing lab dems at uni and my supervisor throwing me a bone and letting me do some unpaid research in his lab so that I can get a publication out of my thesis. Hardly what I'd call a career.

And I'm one of the luckier ones for having specialised in an analytical field. All my classmates who studied synthesis are seriously fucked.

Academia is a meme. Only 10% of chem PhD's end out in a tenured position. I love my field but I can't justify spending the next four years of my life with my dick inside a test tube to graduate with only marginally better job prospects than what I have now.

But dude, If you've had luck pursuing what you were passionate about good for you.

Post-ironically this

Here in Germany over 90% of chemistry students pursue PhD, because it's simply a must. Employment is virtually not a problem even for average graduates and most wind up doing research in industry or consulting. Physicists tend to have a slightly harder time outside academia/hard research due to their more generalist education, but are overall well liked in finance and tech. I was a math major myself, but shared a campus and still have plenty of friends from these circles. AFAIK the absolute majority is very well employed.

Dolan pls