/r9k/ - ROBOT9999

Why the fuck would you even go to college in america if youre not in stem? You get a life of debt for knowledge that can be easily accessed through books and online content. I'd suggest you drop out anyway and try to find an alternative way to make money because you sure as hell are not gonna be making much money after graduating in a humanities subject or working as an engineer while being hundreds of thousands in debt.

>>85780 (OP)
become a lawyer maybe idk

>>85795
tsmt

You don't need to know that much maths, just differential equations and probabilities

Electrical engineering is cool, just lock in or something

>>85795
it sounded cool on paper but its so fucking boring, i literally just chatgpt all of my work due to how fucking boring it is and i am just whizzing past all my work. i genuinely have no idea why i chose STEM in the first place when i never cared about it or found it engaging
>>85796
maybe, arguing cases n shit sounds interesting but i wouldn't want to be stuck in an office analysing hundreds of random clauses and documents about laws and be stuck as a barrister or smt
>>85797>>85798
its just not that interesting to me, some love it like my inkwell classmates, but i do not fit in at all

Either quit college completely, or finish your engineering degree. Its a waste of 1 year's worth of money and time but its better to quit with that then to finish a humanities degree and work at starbucks paying it off for like 30 years.
Have you looked into swapping to another engineering/stem course? Look through the options, the transition will be easier and they still have more job prospects.
I like STEM, but I prefer history/geography. I'm still doing an engineering degree because I hated how history was taught at school and it has 0 job prospects. Doebeit you seem to not like STEM at all, if you can't get past doing physics/maths it doesn't sound like its the right thing for you

>>85823
i’ll be honest my degree is making me miserable since i do not care about the modules in it. i don't have the technical ability or motivation to continue in engineering compared to something like human geography/geopolitics.
shit like demographics and urban development is a lot more interesting than random formulas, i don’t want to quit uni since i still would like to apply myself and its a very good way for getting connections + experience
but yeah i just cant be bothered doing any more maths when i can just move onto something more enjoyable and interesting

>>85836
if you like urban development aren't there jobs working for the city for that
Idk which degree exactly that links to but its probably something to do with geography. You won't be avoiding maths, but doing a lot more statistics instead of regular equations

>>85851
You mean civil engineering?

>>85852
Im not sure if it would fall under civil engineering, but it might. It might be them who decide things like zoning laws or where to build a new school. If your uni allows it, check out a lecture or two from the civil engineering course, and if you like it, see if you can swap

>>85851
most if not all of them require a bachelors in environmental management or urban planning, and i have no idea where else to get experience apart from volunteering in homeless programmes or smt, and honestly stat work is a lot more relatable to what i'd like to work with
>>85854
like other engineering fields it involves a lot of technical and maths work, i checked the modules and it nearly looks identical to first year ee work in terms of maths and abstract maths.
generally not what im interested in, i appreciate the efforts tho but i think my heart is screaming at me to do geography since its so versatile and urban planning seems natural

algo noticed that apparently theres a demand for skills in GIS and geo-spatial data, i can work with risk consulting for banks and insurance etc. so geography might not be a bad choice afterall
i just needed somewhere to say ts outloud and wondered if anyone else was in a similar position

>>85862
Definitely look into the urban planning / environmental management courses or whatever it is you need for the geo-spatial data stuff. If you can find and change courses by the next uni year, you will have only lost one year, which isn't that bad. Look into this in depth and make sure you know what you need to do to swap courses. Don't waste any more time/money with engineering if its clearly not what you want. If you're interested in the job positions available from them thats good, you have a post-grad plan, so you won't end up like an art graduate thats working at starbucks.

>>85801
>i literally just chatgpt all of my work due to how fucking boring it is and i am just whizzing past all my work.
drop out.
Even if you start taking it seriously now you'll be too late and have to do months of playing catchup
>>85836
>shit like demographics and urban development is a lot more interesting than random formulas,
I've seen those departments cuz they're nearby and you'll have to put up with fat dykes, environmentalism and be incredibly progressive
we call it "special ed" because they're doing paper-mache elementary school arts and crafts lmao
>geography/geopolitics.
have fun getting lied to about all of human history by your (((professors)))
>i don’t want to quit uni since i still would like to apply myself and its a very good way for getting connections + experience
please DONT EVER do urban planning
statistics is way worse than regular equations and the most snca skill you can have
nobody will care you know how to use a chi-square test
doing civil engineering is dependent on corruption and nepotism, yes even in first world nations, a degree wont matter

Human geography? Politics? Are you TRYING to never find a job and NEVER pay off your debts?

>>85897
will do, i'm just looking for anything outside of EEE more connected to environments and human systems
the things related to engineering all sound quite nice, but a bit too technical for my taste.

>>86005
>drop out.
>Even if you start taking it seriously now you'll be too late and have to do months of playing catchup
will try to finish the year, then transfer after exams
>I've seen those departments cuz they're nearby and you'll have to put up with fat dykes, environmentalism and be incredibly progressive
>we call it "special ed" because they're doing paper-mache elementary school arts and crafts lmao
really? is that that bad? i mean i know i'm already in uni and the people here are generally a lot more progressive, however im a bit of a centrist at heart so i can tolerate it if they're not obnoxious
my a-level syllabus went into the content abt the 2014 syrian refugee crisis and how greece responded to it, talking about the background of it, and long and short term effects. the content wasn't really siding with anything or talking about "negative" aspects, just stating what happened. i really enjoyed that topic (not just cause im chuddy) since there was a lot of discussion abt it and probably was more engaging than ANY of my stem topics modules combined
>have fun getting lied to about all of human history by your (((professors)))
most the time i'm going to research modules on my own, i know that professors are going to have an angle no matter WHAT. even my own physics teacher talks about fucking drumpf and is a dyke herself, which i have no idea why she has to. i swear, these people are all a plant to subvert the youth and its frustrating to hear about
>please DONT EVER do urban planning
it was a bit interesting to do, especially case studies. doing spearmans rank was a bit cancerous icl tho

>>86007
soicacas can't comprehend doing anything outside of STEM, medicine or law
im not fond of these areas so im doing what i naturally am good at and enjoy

>>86027
>really? is that that bad? i mean i know i'm already in uni and the people here are generally a lot more progressive, however im a bit of a centrist at heart so i can tolerate it if they're not obnoxious
my a-level syllabus went into the content abt the 2014 syrian refugee crisis and how greece responded to it, talking about the background of it, and long and short term effects. the content wasn't really siding with anything or talking about "negative" aspects, just stating what happened. i really enjoyed that topic (not just cause im chuddy) since there was a lot of discussion abt it and probably was more engaging than ANY of my stem topics modules combined
I was mostly talking about urban development, which is that bad
If I had to guess demographics is probably worse, though I am biased because my electrical engineering dept is quite comfy (everyone has lead poisoning and is unhinged in one way or another)
>professors are going to have an angle no matter WHAT. even my own physics teacher talks about fucking drumpf and is a dyke herself
brutal. Of course its a woman.
If it gets especially bad consider filing a formal complaint about her wasting time during lectures, if she's young and not doing any research she's very disposable to the uni and they're more likely to do something
I dont know exactly how it works but you can sometimes file them anonymously or through a student rep
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You can also transfer to a community college, they tend to be cheaper and of about equal quality. More likely than not you'll be able to keep your credits.
I'd strongly advice against anything humanities related though

<statistics tangent
I made the mistake of doing a statistics elective, and I will now explain why it is the worst subject ever.
Note that I forgot most of ts because it has 0 usecase
there are 6 gorillion different statistical tests for different datasets, all of them are extremely different.
You'll also have to learn python, which sucks because you will never know whether or not inputs for the oh-so conveniant functions which do these tests are mutible or not
Some will change your dataset if you give it as an input, which means you'll find out way to late, and then have to make dozens of backups of gigabytes of data just to filter your dataset with this function. I have crashed a computer doing ts, because all of it got stored in RAM.
At my uni all of our exams were done on paper though, which also meant I had to cram lines of python with very arbitrary syntax just to write it down on paper.
This meant that on some test I had to make large programs entirely on paper with no way to test it. Of course my scores were dogshit because of syntax errors.
The same with the formulas, but the worst part was having to remember when to use which.
The most you get get out of statistics is that it becomes easy for you to spot manipulated data.
Still thats pretty useless and if you tell ppeople they wont ever believe you.

>>85780 (OP)
I am in humanities. It is pretty good. History major specifically…

>>86030
>If I had to guess demographics is probably worse, though I am biased because my electrical engineering dept is quite comfy (everyone has lead poisoning and is unhinged in one way or another)
how do you handle doing EE? assuming that you study it since you mentioned it
i'll be honest im only doing a foundational year (equivalent to a level maths, physics and comp sci) and tbh i don't like it, far too abstract and its probably a further sign that i am not cut out for STEM
>If it gets especially bad consider filing a formal complaint about her wasting time during lectures
its just subtle comments, max like 10s, but sprinkled throughout lectures for absolutely no reason i swear it is a real technique of brainwashing
shes like in her 50s tho and is quite well travelled and a lot of experience in her field
>You can also transfer to a community college, they tend to be cheaper and of about equal quality. More likely than not you'll be able to keep your credits.
I'd strongly advice against anything humanities related though
i have a home option in the uk, part of the russell group and half as expensive, (though i wish my family lived in scotland, uni there is fucking free the lucky bastards)
and like i said, its just what i naturally gravitate to and love, why should i put myself through a subject that i dont find relevant and just not naturally good at?

and lol, stats sounds like absolute hell, the people who did it for economics at my school hated it as well. so fucking boring and i'd prob not enjoy it considering i lit struggle remembering fucking SUVAT equations

>>86032
i envy you, wish i started immediately in it instead of wasting my time atm
though, what are you planning to do with history? though it shares the same flak as geography as teaching being the only career, id like to hear

>>85780 (OP)
NGL STEM is kinda a shitshow rn, job market isnt dead but its not great either, and uni/college STEM courses are fucking full of troons and degenerates which makes you want to kill yourself.

>>86030
He said he did A-levels, he is in the UK. We live in a kiked country with no community colleges, all unis cost the same ~£9.5k a year. Its shit, I'm entering that system next year and already know its going to be terrible.

I despise stats in A-level maths, regular maths is fine, mechanics is the easiest shit ever but stats is just so shit. Theres a thousand different useless equations to prepare you for your job counting shekels in a tower block for the rest of your life.
If you hate engineering, there is no point continuing. Its not worth the money. If you want to still do uni, go ahead and start the course you want next year, even if you don't get a job out of it at least your money was spent on something you were interested in and enjoyed instead of spending 3 years doing an engineering bachelors, going into finance like everyone who did engineering because they were told to, and not liking either of them.
>>86042
STEM is such a terrible field. In the UK a majority of your class will be jeets and chinks, most of them will act like 14 year olds, and your already weak chance of getting a girlfriend are shot because theres like 2 girls in your class, and they're probably jeets. Half your class got forced by their parents into >You vill be enjinehr saaar, good career and money beta (yes jeets actually call their children beta)
so nobody is interested and apes around instead. Its a mess.
I can only imagine uni will be filled with more retards who think that they're some hot shit since they got into STEM, who will act superior to anybody around them who doesn't do stem, and who is still mentally a child that has no idea how to behave in public.

>>86033
>how do you handle doing EE? assuming that you study it since you mentioned it
fine ig.
The math is pretty easy once you cram the laplace transform
>i'll be honest im only doing a foundational year (equivalent to a level maths, physics and comp sci) and tbh i don't like it, far too abstract and its probably a further sign that i am not cut out for STEM
the problem is that you're explained this shit in a classroom, our community college has a relatively hands on "here's a lab and a bunch of components good luck" approach which helps a lot in internalizing how this abstract shit works
For example, in EMC class we were explained what "ripple" was with like the standard "Ripple is the pulsed current consumption of non-linear devices"
there's no way to remember that or what it actually means. What I cant forget is how it blew up a electrolitic capacitor in a lab
just messing around with stuff helps a lot
>>86044
I'm so glad I'm european. We only have 1 nigerian, I cant imagine having to deal with jeets.
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we had at one point a "international culture" course (mandatory) in which our lecturer explained to us we have to "treat indians like indians"
apparently you show your status or izzat by having the jeet wait for an hour before seeing him, even if you have literally nothing to do
when you do see him you have to talk to him about your family, this is a show of trust, if the jeet doesnt return this favor, the deal has fallen through
once you've exchanged your family's history and made friends with the indian, your izzat is now connected
any hit your izzat takes will reflect poorly onto the indian and vice versa, so he will be more inclined to sign whatever deal
this was, according to him, the only way to deal with indians, but I havent yet been able to try it on one

>>86071
GEEG thats so good, that professor sounds great. I unfortunately live in London so its practically india here, doebeit I'm a native frog and can speak the language fluently so I can move there or to another country in europe pretty easily. I'm hoping to get a job in a large engineering company and see if I can move to a division in europe, and if that doesn't work I'll just have to take the risk, this country is too much of a shithole to continue living in, even the sun doesn't shine here

>>86086
the french are way less cucked, unless you go to paris ofc, and I've heard the rural parts are dirt cheap