Saw this in the archive, thought it was interesting, and since anything 4chan can do, /sp/ can do better, why not give it a shot.>What is your major? >Teach us something interesting from your studies that is not common knowledge.
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ha ha time for engineering, $350K starting salary
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>What is your major? Chemistry>Teach us something interesting from your studies that is not common knowledge. This is where you find god tier Iranian women if you study in Sweden
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>What is your major? marketing>Teach us something stereotypes are 100% accurate.
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Minority Women's Studies Argentina is white
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Accounting I now know more than I want about taxes Also, used to be military...not studies but.... There is no high powered computer database. We use google. Make sure your Facebook is private if you look at kiddie porn.
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>What is your major? I wish I knew, OP, I wish I knew. I dragged my way through the first year of CC with a gpa slightly above 2. And I got a 31 on the ACT.
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>>20265449 do your taxes yourself
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profit
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>Major Getting my M.S. in Biology now. B.S. is in Natural Resource Management>Teach you something Well I know about fish. Specifically cutthroat trout, so if you want to know about them, I can tell you.
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>tfw nobody on spee is in college
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>Major English>Something Interesting I don't have anything. I've only had one English class so far :( But in my African American class I've learned a lot about black people.
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>>20265605 are they alpha as fuck?
Soshisp !0fLZk/RIMs
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>Materials Engineering Despite being the most studied alloy, some steel transformations are still not fully understood.
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I work at a truck stop. Truckers love to not flush.
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double major psych neuroscience I can tell you how the human eye works down to the molecular level. I can also say that based on a study my university conducted people who played football in high school are 83 percent more likely to have serious neurodegenerative diseases later in life.
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I work at a restaurant >One Mexican in the kitchen works & accomplishes more than 3 white guys. No exaggeration.
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I learned that the spanish word for pancakes is panqueques. Isn't that just fun to say? Panqueques...
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>>20266476 Latin americans are better workers. Just behind asians in efficiency.
They don't waste shit, including time.
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gen psych major here sumthing I learned form my learning and memory class last year: best place to study 4 a test for optimal memory recollection is the classroom where you taking da test.
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I have a Doctorate in Thuganomics. If you act like wigger trash from Massachusetts, you're gonna get your fucking head kicked in by a man from Miami.
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athletic training ice heals everything
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>BA History/Single Subject Teaching Credential >One of the reasons the Roman catholic church and the Greek orthodox church split is because they argued about whether the Eucharist should be leavened or unleavened.
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ITT: lies lies and more lies
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Major>Microbiology Something I learned>Every vaccination you get has extra carcinogenic compounds in order to keep the population from rising too quickly
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Finance the average historic return of the s&p 500 is around 6.8%....invest in an index fund
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>History >Ben Franklin and others wanted the Continental Army to use bows and arrows to fight the British during the revolution. Rather than importing rifles, both bows and arrows could be made in the colonies. They were also much easier to conceal and hypothetically would be easier for the ragtag minutemen to master.
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Marketing/Management Marketing is pretty much a psychology major in the field of business
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>>20266720 Freshman fag here, thinking about going into marketing.
Would you recommend it? What can I do after I graduate?
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>film major inception is a shit movie
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>>20266705 That would have been the most GOAT war in history had they won that way.
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I'm a boat captain. Right of way is not necessarily dictated by maneuverability. I've had to fall off in a 300 foot vessel for a 30 foot sailboat.
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civil engineering the environmentalist movement has been lying to you
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Video/Audio production All advertisements are written at an 8th grade level
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>major comp science>teach us something at one point a network protcol system called ATM could have killed TCP, it had various services, some with guaranteed bandwidth and reliability that didnt have to be built in to the application layer, and it would inject information about traffic into packets to optimize overall speed....but no one really cared to buy its components since it was expensive and it never caught on, so now we're stuck with TCP/IP
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>>20265708 >calling it "spee" >thinking /sp/ isnt at least half college students. PS: You are in the half that is underaged.
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>>20266705 Ben Franklin also wanted our national bird to be the turkey since he thought it was more noble than the bald eagle.
Ben Franklin had a lot of shitty fucking ideas.
BaseballTTUfag !f86q2AC75U
>>20266756 it's the least paying major in the field of business
you'll be classes with a bunch of women
i'm not looking for marketing job after college, tbh
There will be plenty of opportunities for you to go into a marketing job though. If your school has a Marketing Association club, I HIGHLY recommend joining that. As a business major, you're going to learn that networking is VERY important. A lot of the time, it's more about who you know rather than what you know.
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>wanna go into history but there isn't a whole lot to do >gonna try biology and work in a zoo or some shit >fuck my life
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>>20266837 wait so it's not like mad men?
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>>20266838 >tfw you have relatively high aspirations but suck at certain fields why wont my brain accept relatively advanced maths?
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>Tell us your major Nursing - Critical Care>Tell us something from your field that isn't common knowledge If you're on a hard narcotic, we will withhold it from you and assume you're addicted to it constantly. Also if you're fat, we blame you for everything you have wrong with you.
Brad Radke !HIJIYEhf.A
History/Poli Sci: The Monroe Doctrine was enforced by the British until Teddy Roosevelt.
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>>20266876 never seen mad men
Double in Chemistry and Economics. For chemistry: running a methamphetamine lab is neither dangerous nor complicated (which explains why technically retarded people from Futtbuck, Wyoming can do it). What's dangerous is storing your ether next to an open flame. For econ: When you hear some pundit saying that investment bankers (or the financial system in general) fails to create social utility, you know that that person doesn't have a fucking clue what she's talking about. It's fine to think that investment bankers are overpaid and greedy, it's another thing to say that the enabling a financial market is not worth anything to the public.
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>>20266837 networking is the most important hing as a business major
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>>20266835 Nah, that was just him being snarky in a letter because it took them years to decide on the Bald Eagle. Franklin was a pretty cool guy.
He advocated taking older women as lovers because they're more experienced, appreciate it more, and there's less chance of conception.
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>Communications Movie theaters were using subliminal messages until the 70s. Ask your dad sometime what he thinks of movie theater popcorn and he'll probably say it just tastes better/he craves it/he fucking loves it, etc. Just another victim.
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militarybro we have like 6 times the nukes we say we do, and majority of them are in North and South Dakota. and according to a base commander i've only seen once, aliens are real
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>>20266838 thats why I minored in history. I love it, but not enough to do it for shitty pay.
finance major/history minor, solid combo
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>>20266878 history is easy as fuck for me. but there isn't really any job market besides like teaching?
and biology would be cool if i could work in a big zoo or some shit. that'd be cool. but i looked at the classes for biology majors and holy shit.
my brain can't handle the maths it will take in some of those
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Biology I may be interesting to note that there are a suprising number of hot chicks in bio, but something more specific to the degree would be that a single strand of DNA is about 2m long, it's just wound so tightly that it can fit into your cells.
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>>20266980 >he craves it craves is one of my most hated words
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>>20266982 inb4 silently murdered
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>>20266980 >communications dont make me say it
>>20266982 do they really give out that info as soon as you join? not like it matters, russia probably has 10 times more as well
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>>20267002 >I may be interesting to note that there are a suprising number of hot chicks in bio you forgot to add "that will never notice your presence"
David Cameron !!Pe8/IxcXVF4
>>20266907 Really?
Tell me more
lol I thought every1 on /sp/ was a engineering major looks like most u bruhs have been lying.
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radio/television production the "9th caller" is just whoever the host feels like picking
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>>20267038 well you don't have to be rude about it...
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>>20266788 I want to know a few things to toss at them for fun. Elaborate please?
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>>20266992 >history/bioguy Why major in finance and minor in history?
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>>20267055 nah bruh everyone on /sp/ is an engineering, computer science or finance major
note that most engineers and CSers are aspies, yet somehow everyone on /sp/ is alpha
SouthDakotan !!o1lpCoutiyZ
History, with an emphasis on classical history.>Ostracism The Ancient Athenians were so concerned with egalitarianism and afraid of another tyrrant that they instituted a system by which they would "ostracize" a single citizen. The word "Ostracism" comes from "Ostracon" or "Ostraka" in Greek, which means "pot sherd", or a broken piece of a pot. A vote could be held by the Athenian people (it was not mandatory to have this vote, they voted on whether or not it occurred) and they would taken broken pieces of pots and write people's names on them. Whoever got the most votes was "ostracized", which is to say they were commanded to leave Athens for 10 years and not return. This wasn't judicial, this wasn't a punishment, this was a means of removing people who could cause trouble to the state and potentially rise to be a tyrant. In some cases, they ostracized extremely popular and powerful men simply because they were TOO popular and powerful, and people who liked them would vote them out. CONT'D BELOW
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>>20267076 I want to pursue a career in finance and find history to be really interesting
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>>20267028 no. i went into the nuclear systems program that the Air Force offers to enlisted, thinking i was going to get to go to Vegas and blow up the desert. i ended up going to Buttfuck, North Dakota. i read online that the base i was at had 14 nuclear weapons, but i knew of at least 60. i'm sure other bases are the same
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>immunology >a bacteria's cell wall is made up of interlinking sugars composed of N-acetylmuramic acid, and N-acetylglucosamine.
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>>20267106 and the alien bit?
>inb4 extradimensional yeep !HCCDB7tu.A
civil engineer concrete infinitely grows in strength as long as its hydrated (though the gains become rather small). Romans used blood in their concrete. Steel and concrete have roughly the same coefficients of thermal expansion which is why they work so perfectly together. I could keep going but no one cares about civil engineering.
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Got another. The major limiting factor in processing speed is that electrons move too slow.
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>>20267104 ah, so the history is just because?
I was thinking of majoring in Bio or Hist. and then minoring in teaching
SouthDakotan !!o1lpCoutiyZ
>>20267089 CONT'D
To the left are what you can tell are really well made little pieces of pottery with Themistocles' name on them. As you can see, these aren't broken, and were likely all made by people who were campaigning to get Themistocles ostracized. You can imagine someone having these all made and then going to the Agora and handing them out to people to get them to vote Themistocles out.
What is so shocking is that Themistocles was the mastermind behind the Battle of Thermopylae (he devised the strategy and convinced the Spartans to participate with their allies) and also the Battle of Salamis and was instrumental in the defeat of the Persians. If not for Themistocles, Athens (and all of Greece) would most likely have fallen. Furthermore, he was the admiral personally in charge of the Navy at Thermopylae and he held the Persian ships at bay as Leonidas and the 3,000 Greeks held the land army at bay. He was also personally in charge at the Battle of Salamis which (along with Plataea) was one of the two major battles that wiped the Persians out entirely.
It is no exaggeration to say that Themistocles is single-handedly responsible for Western Civilization still existing past 479 BCE.
However, because of these successes, he became too popular and in 471 BCE he was ostracized by the Athenians.
In exile, the Spartans destroyed Themistocles' character with false charges and he was never able to return to Athens, and ironically ended up a governor for the Persians.
This for the man who single-handedly saved the Western world.
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>>20266837 Awesome. Is it a worth while major? and is now a good time to jump in you think?
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>>20267028 >dont make me say it Hey, communications works out OK for me. I work at the school TV station right now making 12/hr doing basically nothing. A lot of standing around and "arranging shots" and "post-production". After college I'll be able to get a job with TV or film doing the same thing for decent money. I'll never be rich but I won't be poor either. It's one of the easiest ways to make a living as long as you're good at it.
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>Computer Science Never spend more than like $25 on an HDMI cable (depending on the length). It's all the same shit. Some can go for over $1000 for a 6 footer. It's a bigger scam than printer ink. Not really anything I learned from class, but it's almost related to it.
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>>20267126 >Steel and concrete have roughly the same coefficients of thermal expansion which is why they work so perfectly together. wow thats actually really neat
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>>20267129 Out of curiosity, how fast do electrons move?
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>>20267126 thats pretty cool tbh, please continue.
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>geography >micro-lending is not actually effective at reducing poverty. >water-privatization is bad.
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>>20267151 Nah. It's all about science and business inter-relations now. A science-business degree would be best.
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>>20267156 how do you feel about 802.11ac about to become standardized?
>5GHz >increased throughput >dat lack of range and penetration Anonymous
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>>20267089 >>20267147 Now this is why I wanna major in history, I actually find it very interesting. Too bad you can do bugger all with it.
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>>20267143 yeah it was entirely a "just because"
I figured I'd suggest it to you since its a good way to take a bunch of history classes but pursue a career in another field
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>mechanical engineering >the points of max stress on a rectangular beam under torsion is at the centers of the longer edges of the cross sectional area
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Theatre Phantom of the Opera productions require so many set pieces and so much scenery that it actually is more weight than normal performing stages can handle. Therefore, PotO shows usually have to extensively upgrade stages months in advance before they even start rehearsals. These "Phantomized" stages cost thousands of dollars to produce and last for years.
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Major: Accounting and Finance Teach you something Finance: Covered Calls are the easiest way to make money in the market, go wikipedia that shit Accounting: Companies are a lot more trustworthy since the passing of SOX in 2002, also, you could probably be paying a lot less in taxes if you wanted to
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>>20267067 not that guy, but really very simple.
>reducing paper usage doesn't save trees since they're grown for that purpose >a Prius has a larger carbon footprint than a Hummer >much of modern environmentalism is politics-based and relies on less science than creationfags >polar bears: endangered in alaska, but not in Canada. politics much? Anonymous
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Management with a Sociology Minor (moms a SOC prof) -People who live together before marriage get divorced at nearly the same rate as people who don't -Men take divorces much, much harder emotionally than women -Before "dating" was created, young people would do what is referred to as "calling." Basically a guy would call a girl and ask if she wanted to hang out. He would then go over to her house and she would do various things to entertain him, like play the piano and sing. The two love birds would do everything under the supervision of the woman's parents.
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>Supply Chain Management In ten years the only multinationals that will survive will have done so through superior sourcing and supplier relationships.
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>>20267106 Where were you actually at in ND? I'm from ND and am curious.
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>>20267124 we used to go through drills, just in case shit went down. we did everything by the book, except fire the weapon. every time we did it, shit would fly over the base, and hover around and shit like that. i was standing outside, just staring into the sky in the middle of the drill. a lieutenant colonel come over to me, looked up in the sky and said "those fuckers always do this. don't worry bout em, they'll leave eventually. they don't do no harm". he then told me to get back to the drill, and that was that. i never saw that guy again. i'm pretty sure he retired
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>>20267181 no, if you want to do get a good entry level business job (ibanking, consulting, F500 Rotation program, Big 4 accounting) you should just go to the best school possible. alumni network is everything in business
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the reason why penicillin and other antibiotics works so well is because the cell walls of bacteria contain peptidoglycan, which are interlinking amino sugars, and eukaryotic cells don't have cell walls, so thts why antibiotics dont hurt human cells
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>>20267126 sup CEbro, where do you go to school?
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>>20267221 bro have you ever seen SOX tests? they are a joke. initial here, sign there. that shit can still be gamed hard
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>>20267232 Oh, so it was just some prototype aircraft fucking with you
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>>20267156 Oh yeah, and when you hear a provider talking about internet speeds (ex. 16 megabits per second!) They're usually talking in terms of bits, not bytes, so it's a little misleading. Divide that by 8. 16 megabits/s ==2 megabytes/s. (1 byte= 8 bits)
>dat feel when ur da only psych major on here here's another little tidbit if any of you bruhs are ever homeless and begging 4 change instead of jus asking 4 change add on at the end you can give or not it's up to you, studies have shown you get 200% more change that way.
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>>20267106 in a way i do hope they have more missiles than they lead on its always good to have extras.
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>>20267294 dont worry bruh im a psychology minor
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>tfw starting college in fall >abso fucking lutely no idea what i want to major in Sigh.
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>>20267051 It's been awhile since I had the class, but the gist of it is that the US didn't have the navy to protect the continent, so the Brits took care of it in order to fuck over the rest of Europe so they couldn't get anything out of it either. They knew the US had a bomb as shit land army (it was the best in the world at full mobilization during the Civil War), and they didn't really want to bother with us anymore after 1815. They figured that it was better to fuck over everyone else, since they already had India, Canada and a bunch of other possessions, and the only other European land powers in America were the Portuguese and Spanish, both of whom were losing their grip. They figured it was best to let us be, and fuck over the rest of Europe. Then Roosevelt came along, built a respectable Navy, sent it around the world (the Great White Fleet) and said, "this shit is ours, everyone else can stay the fuck out." Might be a few holes there, especially on the European end, but that's the gist of it.
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>>20267289 All of my rage
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>>20267316 how about you major in "being underage banned from 4chan"
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>>20267316 you have till like ur sophomore year to decide bruh you jus go ges frist year anyways.
>>20267312 wut you majoring in?
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>>20267165 I found 10^6 m/s in an argon plasma, but through a material I can't remember. Not fast enough though. When you read a chip is 45nm that's the distance between the source and drain of a microprocessor. So while you can switch those on pretty fast, you still have to transfer data from the processor to the rest of the motherboard, which is a lot slower. Intel is working on using light to transfer data.
Another tidbit. When making processors ~157 nm is the smallest wavelength usable and therefore you have to rely on diffraction and phase shifting to get down to smaller sizes.
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>>20267303 A nuclear arms race is like 2 men standing knee deep in gasoline, one with two matches and the other with 5 -carl sizzle
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>>20267320 More or less.
That's what makes the war of 1812 so weird in retrospect. We fucked up their ground forces permanently, they burned our capital down, and in about 3-4 years after that we were close allies protecting each others interests.
19th century geopolitics are so bizarre as to seem random nowadays.
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>>20267228 Minot Air Force Base. no i wasn't there when they fucked up and loaded those nukes on the plane.
>>20267275 i've never seen any aircraft turn at 90 degree angles. plus, they looked like little discs(as cliche as that sounds), and we don't have anything like that. but to be fair, i didn't know about the stealth helicopter either.
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>>20267335 Just some shitty local state university. Meh grades in high school.
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Grown Simba, The Light Skinned Jesus !COLExG.Yv. Thu 12 Apr 2012 09:59:00 No. 20267398 Report >What is your major? Got 2, journalism/advertising and communications. Going to law school.>Teach us something Mickey Mouse is about to enter public domain soon.
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I saw that threat too, OP, and I thought it would be cool to have a rehash.>Classics "Classics" basically refers to the study of the classical world, i.e. Ancient Greece and Rome, their history and languages. Ancient people did a lot of cool shit. I'm trying to think what /sp/ would find interesting. Here's a passage from the original Greek poem, The Iliad, that I translated for class last year: "But again the son of Peleus with harsh words addressed the son of Atreus, and did not hold back his anger: "You drunkard, with the face of a dog and the heart of a fawn, never, either to arm with the people for battle or go into ambush with the best of the Achaeans have you had the courage, for it seems like certain death to you. It's far better across the wide ranks of the Achaeans to steal prizes from any man who speaks against you- -you scourge of the people! because the men you rule are spineless. For if not, son of Atreus, this would have been your last insult. Now I will tell you this, and moreover swear a great oath- I swear by this scepter, which will never again put forth leaves and shoots, after it left its stump in the mountains, nor bloom again, since the bronze blade stripped off its leaves and bark, and now the sons of the Achaeans who are judges hold it in their hands when they defend the laws of Zeus, this will be my great oath to you: Soon a longing for Achilles will strike the sons of the Achaeans, every last one of them. Then, for all your grief, you will be powerless to help them, when at the murderous hands of Hector they fall dying in droves. And you will claw your heart out, raging because you dishonored the best of the Achaeans."
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>>20267378 bro, we developed the stealth bomber decades ago. in an era where it would have made everyone shit themselves, what makes you think we dont have some serious shit right now?
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>>20267398 >tfw advertising major i'm just starting but kind of nervous.
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>linguistics most "grammar" rules they teach you in high school are bullshit. linguists define grammar as the rules that make speech intelligible. so for example "There were some cats in the garden" vs "There were they in the garden"
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>>20267398 >"black" >journalism/advertising (lol advertising isnt even a real major) and communications lel
>law school LEL
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>>20266608 I wanna get into sports someday. Specifically soccer.
What do I need to know? How should I start? I need some raw as fuck answers before I fuck up my life and its too late.
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>>20267378 Why not Minot? Freezin's the reason.
>ba dum pish Anonymous
>>20267273 >>20267273 You are essentially fucked though as a CFO CEO who signs off on anything wrong though, many people dont even want to be CFO's now without a CPA because the liability it creates
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>>20267381 Best bet would probably be something like Business/Engineering. You'll be guaranteed a job and can make a good living if you learn your shit.
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>>20267405 classics are awesome. i was gonna be a classics major till i realized i don't care about culture and just care about the language. i can still read latin and (mostly homeric) greek though.
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Grown Simba, The Light Skinned Jesus !COLExG.Yv. Thu 12 Apr 2012 10:03:00 No. 20267493 Report Quoted By:
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I have literally never once heard of a college offering "advertising" as a major. What the fuck kind of schools offer this shit? Also to that guy above>advertising major >law school Holy shit my sides
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>>20267324 If you ever get a 11/100 on a CS test, tell the teacher you should have gotten a C. They might consider changing the grade... Just a stupid, nerdy joke.
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>>20267432 >>20267432 That's why Latin is so interesting, because word order doesn't mean shit, it's all about suffixes.
So imagine if the letter -X denotes the subject of a sentence and -U denotes the direct object.
then
The Dog-X bit the Man-U
would be the same sentence as
The Man-U bit the Dog-X
In both cases the Man is the direct object even though "the man bit the dog" in English has a completely different meaning than "the dog bit the man".
In Latin, it would mean the same thing either way.
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>>20267294 i'm a psych major bruh
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Grown Simba, The Light Skinned Jesus !COLExG.Yv. Thu 12 Apr 2012 10:06:00 No. 20267538 Report Anonymous
>>20267460 yeah your fucked, but its super easy to game the system. In my experience SOX doesn't do much more than create excessive compliance costs that hurt small businesses
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>>20267538 Oh okay so it's only joke schools that offer it
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>>20267432 Language makes no sense at all. The more you learn the more asinine it becomes.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
That sentence is grammatically correct. Fuck that.
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>>20267515 i C wut u did there
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>>20267172 >>20267162 Concrete and steel are seriously where everyone's going to be with big buildings. They just compliment each other so well.
Concrete is weak in tension (meaning being pulled apart) because its essentially sand, gravel, and some type of binder. It's only as strong as the binder basically.
Steel on the other hand is the exact opposite. It performs great in tension, but isn't as good in compression because it's prone to buckling.
You guys got me wanting to get out some text books haha.
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>>20267539 Small biz need not adhere to SOX, its for public companies
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Grown Simba, The Light Skinned Jesus !COLExG.Yv. Thu 12 Apr 2012 10:08:00 No. 20267580 Report >>20267556 Where do you go?
inb4 MIT
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>>20267512 Penn State offers advertising/PR as a major.
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>>20267416 because at the rate this thing was going, and the rate it changed direction, there's no way a human would have survived the Gs it experienced. i'm not doubting most UFO sightings are us, but i know these weren't.
i also know there were no aircraft, military or commercial, in the air in their area
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>>20267254 FSU
It's not a great school, but I'm happy here. Graduating in 2 weeks.
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>>20267575 small public companies exist...
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>>20267588 inertia machine it is then, or maybe remote control it is then
im just sayian
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>>20267580 Wow bruh what are the odds, I went to MIT for undergrad, currently CalTech for grad school, Rhodes Scholarship interviews next week as well
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>What is your major? Mechanical Engineering>Teach us something interesting from your studies that is not common knowledge No one knows what gravity is. We only know the ACCELERATION due to gravity (9.81 m/s^2...), and we know this ACCELERATION multiplied by a mass can cause a force, but we do not know what gravity actually is. I believe the misuse of the word gravity causes for the misconception that we know what gravity is.
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>Management information systems >Communications Arts and Sciences When companies layoff employees during rough times, they usually just ignore the MIS department because the executives don't know anything about what we do, how we do it, and we generally get payed slightly less than marketing people, so they'd rather cut them. And if you're an MIS major you're assumed to be nerdy and pathetic at speaking, so doubling with communications makes me the best at career fairs and it's a joke how many internships I got offered compared to other people in my major who didn't get any.>implying I have anything novel to share >implying MIS has anything about it you all don't already know >implying I get paid for understanding the internet
BaseballTTUfag !f86q2AC75U
>>20267444 are you in college?
volunteer with your athletic department
protip: you will most likely have to start out volunteering before paid position happens
Anonymous
>>20267518 I had to translate parts of the Aeneid in high school. Shit was so rough even with footnotes. The author would leave out verbs or cut off half the ending so a verb would look 1 person singular but in reality be 3 person plural.
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>>20267617 Let me guess: You are a math major and already have over 10 offers from major companies with an expected starting salary of 300k?
Grown Simba, The Light Skinned Jesus !COLExG.Yv.
Grown Simba, The Light Skinned Jesus !COLExG.Yv. Thu 12 Apr 2012 10:10:00 No. 20267647 Report Quoted By:
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>>20267558 haha yeah thats a classic sentence. there's another sentence that Noam Chomsky used to prove that the brain can create sentences that it's never heard before:
"Colorless green ideas sleep furiously."
it has no actual meaning, but it's grammatically correct.
>>20267636 yeah, latin poetry sucks sometimes. vergil isn't that bad though. trying to read juvenal or martial is like gouging your eyes out
Tony Reali !ESPNc/gG9g
>>20267634 >volunteer with your athletic department >tfw my college has an athletic training internship but a shitload of people apply for it and it is quite prestigious and you work 15 hours a week plus any games you are assigned to on weekends so you can be working 20-25 hours A WEEK too much work for me to handle bruhs :(
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>>20267617 sure thing faggot. I knew a kid that went to MIT, he's smoking crack under a bridge somewhere right now after getting shitcanned
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>>20267573 They're also cheap and steel has an endurance limit.
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Accounting Debits should always credits. You are now ready to be an accountant.
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>>20267694 A = L + SE !!!!!
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>>20267670 then stop posting on /sp/ and accept that the sports industry isn't for you. there's people willing to do it that want it more than you.
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>>20267613 i could probably go to jail for telling you this but i don't give a fuck. after i had the little chat with the colonel, my next station was to report the main gate closed to the control tower. i glanced at the radar, and it was clear. i then ran back outside, to my next station and looked up and the objects were still there. i'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens
Anonymous
>>20267711 Wrong.
SE = A - L
Tony Reali !ESPNc/gG9g
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>>20267716 i dont know what you mean bruh but most people in that internship dont care about sports, they just want the internship for medical school
Kevin Love's Nutsack !p/9fQnNnMM
>What is your major? fMolecular Biology. Also involved in a pre-medicine program at my University.>Teach us something interesting from your studies that is not common knowledge. Delayed puberty in girls and boys results from a lack of leptin activation. Leptin is activated to help breakdown fats. If there is a lack of fat in the child, they will not go into puberty until said fat is acquired.
Anonymous
>>20267398 How's disney going to cope?
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>Political Science The average American voter is stupid as fuck and shouldn't be allowed to vote. The current Republican Party is well on its way to falling apart and may cease to exist in my lifetime. Israel will attack Iran within the next few years and the US will get involved.
Oddsguy !Wt3naUjIE6
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>>20267405 That is Achilles speaking to Argamemnon after he demands that chick because he had to give up his own for his sacriledge against apollo?
man I'm so rusty on this even though we read it in high school
SouthDakotan !!o1lpCoutiyZ
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>>20267636 >>20267636 That sounds pretty stressful
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>>20267711 >>20267694 >>20267730 If you want to do real work in accounting, you need to go to a good university and start off at Big 4
Put in your time there and you can get many different well paying jobs
Book keeping and Accounting are two very different things
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ha ha time for engineering, $350K starting salary
Anonymous
>>20267724 ....you're trying to fuck with me arent you faget? top this shit right fucking now
convo derailed
BaseballTTUfag !f86q2AC75U
>>20267716 i'm doing 18 hours and still have plenty of time for my job/future internship with athletics here
>oh boo hoo 20-25 a week of work is too much for me :( Anonymous
>>20267773 doing 18 hours what
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>>20267743 >>20267743 I guess that explains why i am 23 and just started to get chest hairs
I have to lift weights like crazy in order to avoid looking like skeletor
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>>20267743 So you need to fatten your kid up some before puberty but not too much that he starts producing estrogen like a bitch right?
Grown Simba, The Light Skinned Jesus !COLExG.Yv.
Grown Simba, The Light Skinned Jesus !COLExG.Yv. Thu 12 Apr 2012 10:19:00 No. 20267802 Report Quoted By:
>>20267745 They already got an extension on their rights when it expired last time, so I guess they could hope to get another extension which is doubtful. They could try to throw money at the situation. But Mickey is so ingrained as a Disney icon, they might not have to really worry about it.
BaseballTTUfag !f86q2AC75U
>>20267783 18 hours of school
6 classes a semester
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>>20267758 what stunning insight.
I've totally never heard any of that before.
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>>20267743 >If there is a lack of fat in the child, they will not go into puberty until said fat is acquired. >tfw 20 years old >tfw i grew up short and extremely skinny, as small as the girls in class >tfw i didnt go through "puberty" until between junior and senior year of HS >tfw zero muscle mass >tfw barely any facial hair and body hair Anonymous
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I'm a mathematician I proved Fermat's Last Theorem. I'm kind of a big deal.
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History I have nothing to teach you. Sometimes I regret my major. I feel like my only option is to become a history teacher. I have no idea how I'd like that or how I'd do doing that.
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>>20267769 if i were going to troll anyone with UFOs, it would be /x/.
Anonymous
>>20267803 oh yeah? so you do 18 hours of class, 10 hours of work AND internship as well?
BaseballTTUfag !f86q2AC75U
>>20267829 18 hours of class each semester until May 2013 (15 is average)
whenever baseball games are, i work all of those
I'll be interning next semester with football and baseball
It's not that much work. It's very do-able. ESPECIALLY if that's the field you want to go in to
Anonymous
>>20267825 >he majored in history what the fuck were you thinking?
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>>20267813 >be skinny as fuck at 12-13 >2 years later, still skinny >voice of barry white, facial hair, chest hair, etc. i call bs on this guy
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>major Chemical engineering (graduate actually)>teaching time Mass balance! [in] - [out] + [generation] - [consumption] = [accumulation] There's a bunch of shit, but that equation accounts for about 80% of it.
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>>20267875 I wanted to be a teacher when I started out
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>>20267872 >It's not that much work. how much work is it? and just cause its the field you want to go into doesnt mean it isnt a lot of work. what do you do with them
yeep !HCCDB7tu.A
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>>20267881 I thought about doing chemical. In that case, I'm glad I didnt.
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>>20266942 >>20266942 Holy shit this is me right now,
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>>20266942 >Economics oh god why. The worst serious major by far.
Anonymous
Lit/writing major The "average man's" reading level has dropped dramatically over the past 25 years. Like I'm sure everyone knows that Twilight is written at what we used to call a 5th grade reading level but that's a young adult book. Books intended for adults have to be dumbed down now. For example when Stephen King started his novel writing career he was complete pulp. His style has evolved a bit and he's obviously better at what he does now than when he was coked out of his mind in the 70s/80s but for the most part people are just dumber. A lot of the advice he gives in his non-fiction tutorial books is actually outdated. Adding adverbs makes it easier for the common man to understand what you're saying. The reason for this? Black and hispanic people. The more cultural impact they have, the weaker reading skills get. It's "racist" to say "black people can't read" but the data supports it. We know they DON'T read at an adult level and for the most part it's because they simply can't. This caused a huge uproar when it was discussed in class. Women/minorities walked out of lecture. When confronted with actual data they just said "the data is racist". I shit you not.
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GEOLOGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Umm.... Coefficient of sliding friction in rock is equal to the critical sheer stress divided by the normal stress. (SIGMAcrit/SIGMAnormal). It's usually ~0.85 For instance, if your dam is build on previously fractured rock, and overlying pressure accumulates, and your rock is fractured at a degree that's between ~15 and 40 degress then you'll have slip on your unit and a dam failure.
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>>20267405 AND HOW ARE YOU PLANNING ON GETTING A JOB WITH YOUR AMAZING TRANSLATION SKILLS
Ice !!t9uevLo7NU5
>>20265335 >FUCK YES COLLEGE THREAD >about to start discussing everything I've studied: economics, engineering, finance etc. >realize none of you go to a comparable university and it would be like comparing apples to oranges. >mf Tony Reali !ESPNc/gG9g
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>>20267970 haha time for comedy gold
BaseballTTUfag !f86q2AC75U
>>20267897 run the video board at baseball games
intern is with media relations
I'll be assisting the SID/head media guy with baseball and doing random things at football games whether it be going to figure out what an injury is, calling networks and alerting them of scores and shit
I've been doing the video board thing for over a year now, so it doesn't seem like a lot of work to me. It's all coordination and execution
Anonymous
>>20267956 >black and hispanic people didn't exist 25 years ago Anonymous
Anonymous
>>20267996 >telling them what an injury is so you will be dealing with injuries as an athletic trainer? or you will simply be ASKING a trainer what an injury is and posting that to some twitter feed
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>>20267956 Maybe it's because kids would rather watch tv or play video games than read a book.
I Confucius please explain- AmeriEmperor, Aztec Life Shield Holder, and Island King of /sp/ !!XRQrjXljSRo
I Confucius please explain- AmeriEmperor, Aztec Life Shield Holder, and Island King of /sp/ !!XRQrjXljSRo Thu 12 Apr 2012 10:34:00 No. 20268023 Report >>20267970 lol
Bro I go to Yale
And I got Rhodes Scholarship
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>>20267970 >comparing apples to oranges both are fruits with a number of cultivars
oh wow, that was so hard
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>Dad majored in history >Became a CEO of a Red Cross chapter Doesn't fucking matter what you major in, if you rule, you can make it work.
Tapered !!F5sJPqdhNtY
>What is your major? Film/Television production>Teach us something interesting from your studies that is not common knowledge. Nothing that interesting from the production side but (In the US) annual movie ticket sales still haven't been able to match those of 1946 and foreign countries must put restrictions on American film imports because they would dominate the market too much.
Anonymous
>>20267872 How do you see on-field work in soccer, particularly the MLS, in the next years?
Might sound cheesy but I want to contribute to growth of American soccer someday. Dont know how im gonna do it but thats an enormous personal goal of mines.
Tony Reali !ESPNc/gG9g
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>>20267872 Ah I see bruh.
I'm actually on the quarter system, taking 17-18 units right now (4 classes). I have an internship 4 hours a week and also work 8 hours a week. I would like to get the athletic training internship but it might just be too much for me to handle 16 hours of class per week and 20+ hours of internships a week as well
I guess you're just a better man than me
Anonymous
>>20268007 He's not trolling, this is what happens when mediocre minds think they are intelligent (because they are at university studying some pathetic major).
They often get strange ideas stuck in their heads and their lack of critical thinking means that they can formulate new opinions, so it sets like stone. I see it happen quite a bit, it's why most liberals are found in the Arts department.
BaseballTTUfag !f86q2AC75U
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>>20268018 asking trainers and telling the media directors people
we'll just be pawns
all the media relations interns work football. Everyone other sport has their own media director/intern. I got the baseball one:)
Anonymous
>>20268049 >CEO of a charity He sounds like a faggot if you ask me. Was probably ripping off poor folk on the reg.
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>>20268007 Caucasian reading levels have stayed somewhat consistent. Downward trend but somewhat consistent.
East Asian reading levels have stayed flat.
Hispanic reading levels went off a cliff in about 1995. I don't know what happened there.
Black reading levels have never been lower in the graphed period.
The obvious solution is that there is a cultural correlation to reading levels. Not socioeconomic, but cultural. Literature aimed at different communities follows a cultural line not a socioeconomic line. This isn't even up for debate it's just a fact.
People don't want to accept it because "it's racist" but that's just what the data says.
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If the advertising guy is still here, just curious.. Why are you going to law school? What's in it for you? Not trolling, just geniunely curious.
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>>20268080 If only you knew... He died when I was 12 and I have still yet to meet a greater, kinder man.
Tony Reali !ESPNc/gG9g
>>20268057 Bruh I don't know why you're asking a guy who works as a color commentator for a college baseball team about soccer and sports. He won't know
I referee youth soccer and I'll just tell you that at least in my area youth soccer is extremely popular. I have no idea what you're really asking about here or what the MLS will turn into but I don't know if soccer will ever grow much more than it already has. I'm pretty sure youth soccer is the largest youth sport in America but no one takes it seriously after teens it seems like
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>>20268064 >things suck man! >i know! i'll just blame the: >>liberals >>women >>"minorities" grats bro, you hit the trifecta. i'm bored already
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We have run out of IP addresses so they are starting to use IPv6 IP addresses >example of a valid IPv4 address 192.168.1.1>example of a valid IPv6 address 2001:cdba:0000:0000:0000:0000:3257:9652
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>Majored in Psychology, focused on cognitive and abnormal psychology >Babies do actually speak a language on their own >Addiction changes your entire biochemistry, and your addictive behavior determines one's strength of addiction. Like if you live and breathe sports, you have a higher chance of a pretty bad addiction to recreational drugs. Genes play an influential part too. >also, as much /new/ on /sp/ want to believe, but the Bell Curve is mostly bunk evo psychology and full of empirical research no-nos and not considered valid cognitive psychology research.
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>>20268053 Youth soccer was the #1 participation sport in the US in the 70s also. Back then they couldn't figure out how to make adults enjoy soccer and how to turn youths who understand the game turn into adults who understand the game.
Nobody knows if they can do it now. Smart money is probably on no because of historical precedent but we shall see.
Ice !!t9uevLo7NU5
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>>20268023 Nice bro!
I turned down Yale for Stanford considering I'm more of a technology/numbers guy. Yale was one of my favorites though.
What are you studying?
The campus there is so awesome.
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>>20267956 I think people in general are dumb.
I don't give a fuck that more latinos are on average dumber than a white guy. I'm still smarter than most white people too.
Eventually we'll all mix it out anyway and these things can be raked out of our genetics.
Till then, I don't give a fuck because most of the people from my country are direct german, idahoan descendants. If anything, that data shows that its the native american genetics that are "inferior" as well as african.
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>>20267929 From that guy again.
If I could go back in time, I wouldn't double major in anything even somewhat unusual (like an Econ and Chem combo). I used to think that my Chemistry degree showed potential employers that I'm at least somewhat capable of complex problem solving and rational thought, but my interviewer for Deloitte just thought I was indecisive (I was and still am, but fuck him for thinking that). I hope it's not the same deal with my Econ degree if and when I interview for medical school.
BaseballTTUfag !f86q2AC75U
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>>20268105 I have no idea about soccer
Tony Reali !ESPNc/gG9g
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>>20268153 Well bruh I can just tell you now that I deal with parents with those competitive league kids who have been watching the "highest level" of youth soccer (e.g. the best youth soccer players in their town/areas) and they still don't know jack shit about the rules of soccer or how the game is supposed to be played. Adults will never learn
Anonymous
>>20268186 >chemistry and economics >medical school what the fuck are you doing you retard. to go to medical school you're supposed to major in kinesiology or something like that.
did you even take classes on human anatomy, all the body systems and stuff like that?
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Going through this thread shit started out so interesting and now its just people shitting on other people's majors Fuck you /sp/
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>>20267398 Mickey wont be public domain till 2024 thats not that soon.
>>20268291 I'm surprised the thread lasted as long as it did without ppl shitin on each other.
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>>20268223 No, to go medical school you technically don't need to major in anything. The bare minimum for med school admissions (and thus what makes up the core of pre-medicine tracks) is two semesters of general chemistry, two semesters of organic chemistry, advanced calculus, mechanics, electromagnetism, two semesters of biology, and a smattering of English and literature courses. The classes such as Biochemistry/Genetics/Molecular Biology/Anatomy/etc. are actually not required by even the best medical schools. Students only take them because they show demonstrate initiative/prepare you for some coursework further on down the line.
And I'm only considering medical school because I got burned out in finance.
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>>20268325 and it's already archived
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Poli Sci The Supreme Court is the only well-functioning branch of the federal government. The president only matters for policy agendas but institutional inertia keeps him from making any real difference. The Citizens United decision was unequivocally correct, but the BCRA handcuffed political parties' fundraising abilities and that's what's really shitting everything up.
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>>20268323 From wikipedia:
It is sometimes erroneously stated that the Mickey Mouse character is only copyrighted. In fact, the character, like all major Disney characters, is also trademarked, which lasts in perpetuity as long as it continues to be used commercially by its owner.
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>>20268339 >And I'm only considering medical school because I got burned out in finance. >finance burned you out >so you'll go to the most intensive graduate schools there are and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars doing so, and you haven't even taken college level anatomy or body systems classes Anonymous
>>20268339 >only considering medical school because I got burned out in finance Hate to break it to you but you're going to burn out here also. You should just major in political science and apply at Starbucks.
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>>20268323 >implying that Disney find some loophole and push the copyright even further Copyright were a great idea until big companies start to lobby for laws that went overboard.
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>Tourism Development and Management/Nonprofit Studies -Nonprofit is something of a misnomer because at the head of each of them there's one or two people making a shitton of money. -The NCAA is corrupt as fuck and players fail drug tests all the time, and get away with it depending on how good they are. -it's virtually impossible for the US to keep consuming at the rate we are going at for much longer. If we are to survive the next couple of decades we will have to make some major lifestyle changes. Unfortunately the negative stigma around sustainability makes this very difficult.
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>>20268475 Geology will tell you that global consumption patterns MUST change soon. The only debate is on how soon soon actually is.
Peak oil is just scientific fact. The only problem is when peak will actually be. Will it be in 2025? Will it be in 2015? Did it happen in 2008? Nobody fucking knows because the Saudis and OPEC don't have their math audited by anyone credible so we'll only find out when one day we wake up and say "oh hey the economy is fucked".
Anonymous
>>20268439 Anatomy isn't fucking hard. And I've taken Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry. Also, the reason I got burned out in finance (at least from what I can tell) was not the workload. It was typically only ~45-55 hours per week, which isn't astronomically high for entry-level finance positions. What got me was the day-to-day drudgery (oh look, some random multinational wants to underwrite an IPO, let's see if they're lying on their equity demand schedule).
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>>20268475 People have been saying we're going to run out of resources for the last 60 years. I don't buy it anymore.
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Finance/Accounting double major>efficient market hypothesis >hurf durf i am so fucking retared
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>>20268514 >Anatomy isn't fucking hard. >i havent taken a college level anatomy course or anatomy lab but i know how easy it is
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>>20268450 I'm not an undergraduate anymore, cunt. Enjoy being a GP.
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Essays can suck my cock, goddamn procrastinating to the last day and not sleeping till it is done. I have to review a book and judge the author if he supported all his arguments with sufficent sources and the like. Fuck History goddamn.
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>>20268524 Pretty much everything in finance that anyone has ever gotten famous for is complete bs. Black-Scholes, EMH, technical analysis, all complete shit.
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>>20268505 We have enough oil and natural gas in North America to last for a couple centuries...
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>>20268544 No matter how much I work, book reviews have been a guaranteed B for me.
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>>20268530 >Implying anatomy isn't as qualitative as they come >Implying rote memorization isn't the entirety of intro bio courses >Thinking anatomy is any different lel
There's a reason all you shitkicking bio majors flock to anatomy, dude.
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Economics/History major Running a trade deficit is not especially bad, and China will have to do something about it long before we do
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>>20268544 oh yeah we even had to do that shit in the 2 entry level european history classes i took. in both classes we had to write 2 6-8 page essays comparing and contrasting multiple books and primary source documents to overarching themes of the period of history we were studying
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>>20268550 Nope. "All the oil in Alaska" is about 180 days global demand. Maybe less. Oil figures are inflated/deflated depending on if people count oil shale as actual oil (it only becomes oil if you completely ruin the environment, see also Alberta, CA).
Our natural gas reserves are based on outdated consumption numbers. As oil becomes more costly we expand demand on natural gas which is unable to keep up just given how natural gas is used as a commodity.
If you ever want to scare the shit out of yourself when thinking about the world your kids will have just learn a little about geology. That's not even talking about disasters like supervolcanoes and stuff, just about the actual inevitabilities in resource management.
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>>20268571 You really need to help me then anon like. My professor just said this "What kind of evidencr does the author use to make his case" Does this mean I just look at all the shit the author has cited and the amount of quotes he peppered the book with and I deem it "Good enough?"
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>tfw some people are actually discussing geologic issues I'm not alone in here after all.
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>>20268576 >i have never taken a college level anatomy course so i will compare introductory biology classes to learning extensively about all the body's systems >i will also ignore the fact that i know nothing about the intricacies of the body's endocrine, digestive, nervous, reproductive, renal, cardiovascular, not respiratory systems Anonymous
>>20268619 >implying you need anything other than rote memorization and retard level critical thinking skills to ace college anatomy Anonymous
>>20268600 What about shale and oil sands? That's mostly what I was referencing. I'm just curious.
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>>20268636 >he has never taken an anatomy or specific body systems class so he will call people who have taken them retards because he is quite assdevestated he won't even get sniffed by medical schools AMeX - by Based Booth and Higgins, feat !keSloRd1/o
AMeX - by Based Booth and Higgins, feat !keSloRd1/o Thu 12 Apr 2012 11:19:00 No. 20268662 Report >what is your major math>teach us something interesting from your studies that is not common knowledge lads, there's no standalone knowledge that's useful here so it's not really interesting sorry
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>>20268600 >>20268613 Yeah geology is fun. Like the other anon was saying, we are guaranteed to have a world changing/altering/destroying event eventually.
Yellowstone is a fucking gigantic volcano. If it blows the entire world is fucked. Half the US is blown off the map instantly, world hunger is a guarantee, over half the humans in the world will die in 5 years after the fact. And that's the best case scenario. Survivors are far more likely to turn on each other than band together.
The good news: As near as we can tell this thing only blows every 650,000 years or so.
The bad news: When was the last time it exploded? 650,000 years ago, give or take.
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>>20268619 >I sincerely believe that the memorizing of tissue system interactions is more difficult than proving Maxwell's relations or solving computational differential equations. Okay bro.
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>>20268645 Also,
>>20268636 wasn't me.
Keep clinging to the joke of the natural sciences.
Anonymila !/93KWSNhpg
Since you guys are talking about Geology I'm thinking about getting into it but I'm not sure what I'm going to be getting into. I've taken my basics and going to transfer this fall but still don't know what's ahead. Any advice? I wanted to get a job doing oil related stuff also since I'm in Texas.
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>>20268641 Shale and sands can be converted to oil. We have the technology to do it, they're doing it in Canada right now. Like literally RIGHT now. The problem is that in order to convert it to usable oil you cause a large scale ecological disaster. It's not a question of "well fuck the spotted owls, we need that oil!" It's that in order to make up for any kind of peak oil dropoff it's simply not feasible to do it economically or ecologically.
People always believe that someone will just invent something that'll make it all work out but they thought this 50 years ago when the oil companies first did their diligence on sands. It's probably not going to happen.
Anonymous
>>20268698 Don't shy away from Engineering/Mathematics courses. There's a lot of money to be made in Geology, but it's more in Petroleum Engineering, not looking at gneiss under a microscope.
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>>20268663 I feel like I'm the only geo major that posts in these threads.
But, yeah, and many think that here in CA we're due for a big earthquake in the next 10 years. The GTA San Andreas hasn't had a decent sized quake. On my Google homepage I have a USGS So-Cal earthquake tracker....
>tfw I live in the vicinity of 100+ minor quakes a week. Anonymila !/93KWSNhpg
>>20268720 Math has always been my weakness which is what I'm afraid of.
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>>20268698 It's the best thing I've taken throughout my college career. Glad I chose it as my major. But what are you planning on focusing in? I'm entering my masters now with a focus in petroleum (my region is the #1 producing area in the west coast).
Get good grades in calculus!!!
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Question to anyone who knows shit about writing essays. I am writing a book review and must judge the author. When a professor ask "What kind of evidence does the author use to make his/her case" Is my professor just trying to say. Does the author cite all the shit he says and back it up with quotes and sources?
Anonymila !/93KWSNhpg
>>20268746 To be honest I don't know yet. I just know I want to get into Geology. I wanted to get into it early in high school but I slacked up and took the easy route and went for an AAS degree in college, then I figured I wanted to go back to school and study what I really wanted. I just fear there are not a lot of jobs in this kind of field. I live in Texas and have heard people mention that geologists are needed around the oil industry.
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>>20268777 Yeah dude, the field of Geology is desperate to fill positions as most people in the field are older and now retiring. There are a lot of cool things you can do that aren't just out in the field. I just finished a project using ArcGIS to map faults and rivers in an area, and another one with glacial recession. Many dudes base their careers off of stuff like that. Other guys like to be out in the field, but regardless, there are tons of openings for skilled people with geologic knowledge.
Start by taking the intro geo classes and keep at it from there. The stuff you'll learn about the based Earth will blow your mind.
Anonymous
>>20268737 Sorry man, but I can't think of a way to get over such a stumbling block and still make the 70k/yr starting (no exaggeration) that a Pet. Eng. major makes. It's like graduating with a degree in general Biology, rather than Microbiology or Biochemistry or Molecular Biology or what have you. You could probably try to work for the government in some capacity (USGS, maybe?) with less of a mathematical breakdown, but I'm not too familiar that plan of action.
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>>20268662 Teach us about singularities or give us your analogy on infinity
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>>20268812 Avg starting geo salaries are rising pretty steadily. Last I checked the 2011 data said avg salaries were around $80k starting. Pretty good for just getting out of school. That's not even petroleum engineering. Of course with a masters, a majority of the people I know start with at least $100k
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>>20268777 Also, this dude
>>20268802 is right. Geology is certainly not a shrinking field, and is a pretty practical choice for a major these days. The job offers will come.
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>>20268802 Thanks, bro this is the stuff I wanted to know. I'll take both really. I love working outdoors and with my hands so I'd probably want something like that. I'll start with Intro stuff and take it from there.
>>20268812 Money is not an issue for me. As long as I'm making a decent living off of this than I'm cool with it. I'll brush up on my Math skills, since it is something I really want to improve in. How high in Math courses are you talking here though?
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>>20268835 http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Degree=Bachelor_of_Science_%28BS_%2f_BSc%29%2c_Geology/Salary 80k seems pretty fucking high for starting. It's certainly achievable a few years down the line, but I think there's got to be a lot of 50k geologists bringing down that average.
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>>20268854 No problem! Just start at it, you'll love it. Being out in the field was what sold me on Geology 3 years ago.
As far as my university, I have to take up to Calculus 2.
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>>20268339 med student here
fuck off mature aged cunt; you will burn out in med if you burnt out in FINANCE
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Professional Writing Gandhi was a fucking boss, took batons to the face until he was unconscious and didn't fight back. It actually made the guy beating him feel really bad about it. Also, I'm two years into a university degree based solely on writing and /tg/ still has better storytellers than me.
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>>20268854 Certainly do well in calculus if you haven't taken it already. Differential equations and linear algebra are also good. I'd probably stop there. You don't need analysis.
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>>20268866 I guess it just depends on regional location. Here in So-Cal you can mudlog for local or major oil companies and make $75k+, that's pretty common.
>>20268872 Ok bro.
Also, I'm 25. Fuck off.
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>>20268876 College classes won't teach you how to tell a story, they'll just teach you how to be more proficient at working through the stories you already have and refining them with symbolism and meaning.
It took me almost 2 years and about 40 writing specific credits before I realized this and changed my direction in life.
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>>20268896 >I'm 25 You will be 38 by the time you've specialised... Just curious - how did you manage to burn out in finance? How much thought have you given this? Have you been accepted yet?
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>>20268869 Once again thanks for the info. Being out in the field and doing this kind of work sounds really great to me, I can't see myself being in an office everyday for work.
>>20268883 I took one but I dropped it. I'm definitely going to take one again though as I've always wanted to improve just that at the time I thought I would never need to take it and my AAS didn't require such a high math class.
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>Major Physics/Mechanical Engineering. >Learn ya something We all know monthly high and low tides are caused by the moon. However, this effect is not simply caused by the moon's gravitational pull on the WATER on earth. Rather, this effect occurs because of the moon's gravitational effect on earth itself.
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>>20267106 >2W2 >nuke puke >WNF Anonymous
Math major reporting in. -in a group of 23 people, there's a 50% chance two of them share the same birthday. -zero is an even number -the largest known prime number has 12,978,189 digits. -a number is divisible by 3 if the sum of its digits is divisible by 3 -there are exactly as many integers as there are rational numbers (numbers that can be expressed as fractions of integers)
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>>20268921 I was pre-med as an undergrad, I've given med school a significant amount of thought. The average age for a first-year med student is 24. If you think being 38 is old, then 37 can't be much more enticing.
I posted my experience in banking further up in the thread, I can't be fucked to control-f for that post. I've taken my MCAT, done my two research papers, and am doing community service. I'm applying this year.
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>>20268983 >Math major >post wiki trivia and grade-school level info Brad Radke !HIJIYEhf.A
>>20268983 Can you explain that last one? My roommate is a math major and he's told me that before, and I can't wrap my head around it.
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Media major here There is one trick to make you full-on cry during a scene. It's called a menthol tear-stick.
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>>20268983 geo guy here
I used to work at Wells Fargo as a teller, and at the end of the day, if you were over or under on your amount of cash, and it is divisible by 9, then that means you keyed in an item incorrectly.
For example.
Say someone makes a withdrawl for $458.
You accidentally key it in as $584.
That's a difference of $126 that the computer would say that you "made"
That number is divisible by 9, thus telling you that you keyed something in wrong.
Pretty neat I thought.
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Almost done PhD In Neuroscience Cool fact: You know how when you expect something to be great, and you are disappointed and it's not perfect? Or, if you aren't expecting a good outcome, you're pleasantly surprised by an okay outcome? There are physiological reasons for this. When you 'load' expected outcomes into your mind, your dopaminergic responses scale accordingly.
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>>20268987 I just read why you got burnt out in finance and I'm sorry to say that this will also happen in medicine. Your free time will evaporate and its an awkward time to start such a degree.
Good luck, have fun...
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>>20269089 >graphic design Anonymous
>>20269089 I just found that out the other day while trying to recreate the Top Gun logo in Photoshop, lul.
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>>20268983 whats the theory behind the birthday one? I remember hearing it but am re-baffled now
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>>20269111 >this picture MY SIDES
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>>20269119 many people don't notice it, but it's essential. Then you have vertical tracking, which is the spacing between lines of text.
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>>20269015 sorry man, most of the shit isn't really accessible or interesting
>>20269019 the proof lies in creating a "one-to-one" correspondence between the rationals and the naturals such that every natural has a corresponding rational number that it is mapped to. there's a simple but unrigorous proof i just found on youtube (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfw96n0m1js ) and you can look up cantor's diagonalization method for a bit more on how sets of numbers are "counted" and how their size is measured.
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>>20269130 it's just probability. google 'birthday problem' and read the wikipedia link
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>>20269152 >science babby >Implying I'm not unemployed and living with my parents while not going to school Joke's on you, tripfag.
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>>20269198 Masturbate and play video games. And then lie to my parents about looking for a job.
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>>20265335 uncommon knowledge: it's spelled, "Solder", not "Sauder/Sawder/Sodder"
Electronics was the program i took in college.
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double majoring in anatomy and human biology and physiology. I have no idea what to do with my life
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>Music theory/composition Talent borrows, genius steals. Four part chords going through the circle of fourths is generally pretty pleasing to our ears, dem sevens. Simplicity is key.
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>>20269261 instead of videogames, jelq in hourly sessions (google if not sure)
in 2 years you'll be big enough to get into the industry i guarantee you
i can design your personal porn branding
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>>20268983 >-in a group of 23 people, there's a 50% chance two of them share the same birthday. explain this one
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>>20269334 not much to explain.. it's pretty straight forward probability; it's just not immediately intuitive. look up "birthday paradox."
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>>20269334 put simply: among 23 people there are 253 distinct pairs of people. the probability a pair DOESN'T share a bday is 364/365. each one needs to pass, so the probability none of the pairs match is (364/365)^253. Thus the probability any one does match is..
= 1 - ((364 / 365)^253)
= 0.500477154
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>wat is major? Accounting>teech me sumtin!!!1 The job of a professional auditor is not to make sure every transaction or account is 100% mistake/fraud/error free, it is only to determine whether or not the financial statements of the company being audited are not materially misstated to the point that any semi-knowledgeable Joe Schmo would change their opinion on the financial state of said company.
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>major military>something interesting it may not be very uncommon knowledge, but shit is about to get a whole lot more interesting in mexico/central america
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electrical engineering technologies thomas edison electrocuted an elephant, cattle and other small animals including dogs and cats with AC current in an effort to sell the idea that AC was dangerous and his patented DC current would remain the standard for electric companies
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>>20269103 Thanks for the vote of confidence, dude.
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>What is your major? History BA, English BA, International Policy MA>Teach us something interesting from your studies that is not common knowledge. History: There was an expedition to explore Florida in the 1540s or so, and it was hit by a hurricane. About 150 people survived, built rafts, and sailed around the gulf to the mouth of the Mississippi where they promptly capsized in a storm leaving 4 alive, one being Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. Alvar spent the next ten years traveling with a Moroccan slave and two other Spaniards around the gulf, at time up through what is now northern Mexico, the whole time pretending to have magic healing powers by making the sign of the cross. Eventually, after ten years the four came marching into Mexico City with thousands of Indians at their backs who thought they were gods. Alvar wrote an amazing account of this, and it's considered revolutionary in the field of ethnography and anthropology. Would make a fantastic movie. English: It's very easy to comprehend and appreciate modern art if you understand the difference between a symbol and an image. A symbol has a predetermined meaning attached (ie the Confederate flag, liberty bell, etc.) and an image is just there, allowing the audience to make of it what they wish. Modern art is about the individual experience of art. It's not about meaning, but about presenting an image, whether it be in language through poetry or prose, music, video, etc., and presenting a piece that's not supposed to be easy to interpret. It's also about form over content.
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Mathematics A decimal number is not one that isn't an integer. A decimal number is any integer found in the base 10 number system.
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continued: International policy: I studied terrorism and drug policy. 1) Demand-side intervention (correctional facilities, halfway homes, prevention, etc.) is over 20 times more cost effective in reducing drug use than supply-side intervention (spraying crops, policing Colombia) and 7 times more cost-effective than interdiction. That's not to say we shouldn't have all three practices in place. 2) Arabic is far more difficult than Chinese. The available materials are ridiculously stupid and Arabic education in the US is severely wanting for good teachers and a good text book. Also, the Arabic taught in schools is called Modern Standard Arabic and sounds like Chaucer to Arabs. So you need to learn a dialect. Most learn Egyptian, but if you go to Morocco, they may be able to understand you but their dialect is unintelligible. Same with the Gulf and the Levant. 3) The Israelis sold (through Russia) aluminum tubes to Iran that were bent ever so slightly. When they put them in the centrifuges and spun them very fast, they flew through the whole complex destroying shit and delaying progress by at least a year.
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>>20268600 >people hating on Alberta oil Yeah, but your oil from a bunch of sand niggers and not fucking canadians because our oil is "dirty". We have very strict environmental regulations. Anything that is strip mined is recovered after the mine is done. That means that major companies like Syncrude and Suncor work with environmentalists and ecologists to renew the land and rebuild natural habitats when the land is done being mined. Couple this with SAGD extraction. Inject the ground with super hot steam, the bitumen liquifies and pump it out. No drilling, just a pipe down and a pipe up.
Source: Growing up in Fort McMurray. Father has 15 years of SAGD experience, he now plans new plants for Conoco Phillips.
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Nueroscience Major, minor in History. Considering switching to a major in History because I hate neuroscience and love HIstory, but would also consider switching to petroleum engineering if I wouldn't lose a year by having to retake all the engineering first year courses N. Science: -It's really easy to predict behavior. And all your emotions and feelings are just a chemical reaction waiting to be studied. History: -The Civil War was about slavery, but the North was actually fucking over blacks too. They could pay them less and dump the old ones whose work was declining. -The woman's suffrage movement's logic was built around fucking over every other minority group (take away immigrants votes and give it to us, instead of giving it to blacks give it to us). This is a theme with pretty much every minority group movement in the US. -Italy pretty much stumbled into unification, Cavour didn't really care about it and Garibaldi was an idiot. He also took Sicily with 1000 men (not to his credit). Many italians had no fucking clue what a unified Italy was or why they would want that. -The Space Program was expensive propaganda. If the Soviets hadn't launched Sputnik, a moon landing would have occurred a lot later. Eisenhower was a great president and Kennedy didn't really care about internal affairs. -If you want to cause a massive argument, ask a class if Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of terrorism. (My Opinion: They weren't required to win the war, but their net impact was better than the alternative. The vast majority of the deaths were instant, it showed the Soviets what was up and it killed less people than fire bombing Tokyo and didn't require an invasion of Japan.)