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Post by B. on Jul 24, 2015 14:47:19 GMT -5
good luck trying to talk to your girlfriend in another country without electronic and mechanical engineering good luck trying to get health care without medical and biological sciences good luck trying to see without glasses using laws of optics etc.
(oh wait this is at misterm obvs anka posted before me)
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Post by B. on Jul 24, 2015 14:50:21 GMT -5
Science is and always will be my passion, but everyone expects me to ultimately do a phd/go into academic research, when in reality I just wanna be rich and do a competitive job that I can kick ass in #sadbuttrue Similar thing here. I think people at university won't really be happy too if I tell them that I'm not going to go do more than a bachelor's degree, because up to now I have the best marks in my year. But unlike you I just want a boring normal person job There's nothing wrong with a 'boring normal person job', its about finding what makes you happy. I also think I'd have major commitment issues with regards to doing a phd.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Jul 24, 2015 15:58:07 GMT -5
good luck trying to talk to your girlfriend in another country without electronic and mechanical engineering good luck trying to get health care without medical and biological sciences good luck trying to see without glasses using laws of optics etc. (oh wait this is at misterm obvs anka posted before me) You do know that you and me have the same conversation literally every three months. But seriously i don't understand how anybody could find science even remotely interesting.
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Post by B. on Jul 24, 2015 16:10:49 GMT -5
good luck trying to talk to your girlfriend in another country without electronic and mechanical engineering good luck trying to get health care without medical and biological sciences good luck trying to see without glasses using laws of optics etc. (oh wait this is at misterm obvs anka posted before me) You do know that you and me have the same conversation literally every three months. But seriously i don't understand how anybody could find science even remotely interesting. Nah, I'm pretty sure we only have this around...maybe 3 times a year? vandanasingh.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/on-why-people-don%E2%80%99t-like-science-especially-physics/
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Jul 24, 2015 16:45:44 GMT -5
the link thing - I don't really think that its completely correct, but I guess its kind of true. the main reason i dont like science is becuase i dont understand 25% of it, i dont believe 25% of it, i dont care about 25% of it, and the other 25% i only know half of before the first three things come into effect.
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Post by penne on Jul 24, 2015 16:56:40 GMT -5
But seriously i don't understand how anybody could find science even remotely interesting. because not everyone is like you? :^) tho for real, science is pretty kickass. i don't know if i'm alone in this, i feel like i can see the appeal in pretty much every school subject, even if i don't like it all that much. bee you could be like an engineering mogul
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Jul 24, 2015 16:59:09 GMT -5
bee lets leave science and go back to pens awesome dream thread
My dreams? I want to be an published writer please. also anka.
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Post by Invisible on Jul 24, 2015 19:18:46 GMT -5
My dream? To be a mother. *wanders off aimlessly with an air of sadness, pained at the thought of never having my baby Arthur Douglas*
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Post by soufflé on Jul 24, 2015 21:15:12 GMT -5
Same to fredy and being interested in most academic subjects
For a while I was thinking I wanted to go to med school or do a phd and research but I def feel you bee on the commitment issues thing
See the thing is I know I want to major in neuroscience but my career interest just doesn't match up with it
I really want to write for rolling stone or a music magazine but every journalist I've ever met told me not to major in journalism
So I figure I can keep up my writing skills and try and do that and if not have a cool brain job or go to grad school or something
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Post by penne on Jul 24, 2015 23:24:39 GMT -5
I really want to write for rolling stone or a music magazine but every journalist I've ever met told me not to major in journalism did they happen to say why? to be honest, i only plan on studying journalism because it's the only thing that matches my interests moderately well and i can see myself making any money out of. but i hear from a lot of people after they graduate that what you end up doing is not set in stone, and like people who study international relations can end up working in banks and that's how just how it goes. i sort of hope to use that in my favor... like i'm interested in social sciences [edit: to clarify, here i'm referring to a course we have in brazil that focuses on anthropology, sociology and political science] as well, but if the "doing whatever i'm happy with once i graduate" plan doesn't work, i feel like journalism would be the more reliable degree haha. i'm not even sure if i want to be a ~journalist~ in the conventional sense of writing up news stories, but i want to do something i feel matters. and i don't know what it is yet, but i hope to help people in some way and manage to make a living in the process?? haha. that's part of my fascination with documentaries. if i could make a living documenting important things in original ways in the future that would be best thing for me i have managed to come up with so far. yet it's so oddly specific and i feel like really hard to be successful oh well /rant in other news, how ickleed up is it that we're made to choose what we want to do with the rest of our lives at 17/18 yo??
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Post by soufflé on Jul 25, 2015 0:26:28 GMT -5
mostly because a) you can have some kind of fallback career and b) most places dont require a specific degree, just a decent portfolio and skills
but i do think in terms of video journalism and documenting it might be more important to have that specific academic training than in just writing stuff (where they straight up just look at stuff youve done and written) idk man
and yes omg it is quite potato ed up! however im not inclined to see it as that big of a decision because i feel like, despite how it seems, there's some wiggle room for changing courses later along the way
life is not a straight line!!
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Post by Charles Vane on Jul 25, 2015 0:36:11 GMT -5
life is not a straight line. many people change career paths even when they have degrees and grown up lives and stuff. also, many people don't have a singular dream or passion, its okay to just follow through with an interest and change what you're doing if your interest changes.
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Post by Charles Vane on Jul 25, 2015 0:41:08 GMT -5
id have to say that my dream rn is to write creatively, travel, and be sane all at the same time.
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Post by penne on Jul 25, 2015 1:21:03 GMT -5
mostly because a) you can have some kind of fallback career and b) most places dont require a specific degree, just a decent portfolio and skills ohh salsa i have totally heard that before but haven't given it enough importance i probably will still study journalism bc ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. totally counting on the wiggle room tho we should totally check up on each others' lives in like 5 to 10 years and see whether they're anything like we expected they would be. hope we're all happy regardless
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Post by Charles Vane on Jul 25, 2015 13:17:13 GMT -5
if you and i arent friends in five to ten years then im traveling to brazil just to punch you in the face.
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