>i want to change the world...
>i'm majoring in physics/math because i want to understand, like, the universe...
>Yes, learning about astrophysics, quarks, algebraic geometry etc will help me all of the time throughout my career/life
>yes, i know only ~3,000 mathematicians and ~15,000 physicists exist in the USA but I will be one of them and will gladly spend my youth pursuing that highly unlikely outcome
>engineering? economics? software development? medicine? Get the fuck out of here with that shit! I'm way too smart to choose something useful and lucrative/valuable to myself and everyone else.
>No, i can't just learn about mathematics/physics etc in my free time. I need to earn a useless bachelors degree in it! God forbid I am a life-long learner with well-read opinions and make my own choices with what to learn in my free time.
>when i earn my math/physics degree, i'll just, like, see things differently and think out of the box to solve problems like good will hunting or von neumann or feynman.... Did you know that physics majors have the highest SAT scores? Yeah. i'm really smart. I'm, like, God...
Why does all of /sci/ do this?
>i'm majoring in physics/math because i want to understand, like, the universe...
>Yes, learning about astrophysics, quarks, algebraic geometry etc will help me all of the time throughout my career/life
>yes, i know only ~3,000 mathematicians and ~15,000 physicists exist in the USA but I will be one of them and will gladly spend my youth pursuing that highly unlikely outcome
>engineering? economics? software development? medicine? Get the fuck out of here with that shit! I'm way too smart to choose something useful and lucrative/valuable to myself and everyone else.
>No, i can't just learn about mathematics/physics etc in my free time. I need to earn a useless bachelors degree in it! God forbid I am a life-long learner with well-read opinions and make my own choices with what to learn in my free time.
>when i earn my math/physics degree, i'll just, like, see things differently and think out of the box to solve problems like good will hunting or von neumann or feynman.... Did you know that physics majors have the highest SAT scores? Yeah. i'm really smart. I'm, like, God...
Why does all of /sci/ do this?
