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The Skool thread (how smart is TA?) (pg. 16)
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| Zild |
| You guys know Bill is a pog, and doesn't deserve the honor of being called a grunt right? |
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| colonelcrisp |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
Yeah? Then explain building 7, shill! |
easy it was special forces aliens with thermate laced semen.... they huddled in the corners of the building and executed a controlled circle jerk.......... |
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| nefardec |
| graduated cornell university with a 5 year professional bachelor of architecture degree |
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| Domesticated |
| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
people who think science and math are not creative subjects, need to think twice before replying over the internet, sitting at your home, hooked to a modem, communicating with TA server, over fiber optic cables, laid undersea, crisscrossing the globe...staring at an LCD screen, attached to your computer, with a microprocessor, made of semiconductor technology, in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, created from breakthroughs in science and maths, by brilliant scientists, who were creative enough to harness nature's laws, to develop innovative technology...it all began, when an apple fell on newton's head, and he thought about gravity, which lead to development of astronomy and calculus and optics, which lead to speculations about the nature of light and then of propagating electromagnetic waves, and then came Faraday with his electricity and then came Edison with his bulb...same time, people were understanding fluid mechanics and radiation and absolute frames of reference and the ether which led to the study of special relativity, then general relativity and also quantum mechanics and then came the wars and creativity was harnessed in making guns and planes and radars and sonars and mortars and nuclear weapons and everything exploded with the information age and here we are today debating merits of science and maths over the internets...
cue people who think social sciences are dumb... |
No, Lebez and I argued that mathematics and science classes are uncreative, not the fields themselves. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
No, Lebez and I argued that mathematics and science classes are uncreative, not the fields themselves. |
Pffffft, don't backpedal now! We all saw you! We saw what you did!! |
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| squirrelly |
1 Bachelor's in Photography - 3.8 GPA
Have one year left to get my 2nd in Elementary Education - currently holding a 4.0 GPA :) |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
You guys know Bill is a pog, and doesn't deserve the honor of being called a grunt right? |
i'm not sure what your definition is of "pog" ; but i'm most certainly not a grunt...nor do i want to be associated w/ that term either
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| quote: | Originally posted by Omega_M
:haha: @tbill's expense.
sorry mate. :stongue: |
lol, no worries. i like my job :) |
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| ziptnf |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
No, Lebez and I argued that mathematics and science classes are uncreative, not the fields themselves. |
What does one DO with a math degree? Teach? |
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| Silky Johnson |
| They do math, stupid. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
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| ziptnf |
| What kind of math? Hard math? Number crunching? Does anyone with a math degree do something besides teaching like being an actuary or some other semi-worthless profession? |
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| tachobg |
| quote: | Originally posted by ziptnf
What kind of math? Hard math? Number crunching? Does anyone with a math degree do something besides teaching like being an actuary or some other semi-worthless profession? |
A lot of practical work in engineering/technology relies fundamentally on mathematical theory. Pure mathematicians in academia are mostly just concerned with understanding things about abstract mathematical structures, and probably don't care much about application. Applied mathematicians in industry usually have the double role of developing abstract math and applying it to a given problem. For example, research teams at Google/Yahoo/etc are full of PhDs doing theoretical work on e.g. mathematical data analysis in order to make search better. Here's a list of some mathematicians in industry and what they do
http://www.ams.org/careers/archived.html
Granted, there's a whole range of jobs as far as how much math is involved, but a lot of these people are PhDs in math.
And of course, some jobs are more or less exciting than others. For example, I wouldn't want to bang my head against a whiteboard for a few years just so I could be an actuary and work to maximize someone's profit. I'd much rather work on interesting research stuff -- unfortunately a lot of the interesting stuff either goes on in academia, or research teams in industry, both of which are very competitive and require PhDs... |
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| d-miurge |
| I'm graduating in 2010 from the Master in Management of ESCP Europe, the oldest business school in the world, the 2nd best in Europe according to the FT. |
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