omg im at TU too! I'm a freshman in the new major "reintroduction and definition of "
RADOP for lifeeee
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I really dislike the idea of spreading out a cost over months in order to make it seem like a down payment is not a big deal, because $3k will always be a big deal to me.
If you spread out any cost over a long enough period of time, then it's easy to make it seem like it's not so bad. When the first generation of smart phones were released, your phone plan would always cover the entire cost of the phone and also give you a 3 year warranty plan.
Now that the value of smart phones has increased to the point where everyone has a phone, phone plans no longer cover the total cost and bury the remainder cost in monthly installments over 3, 6, 12, or 24 month plans so it seems like it's not a big addition to a typical phone bill.
I walked in with a friend into a pawn shop and they were offering monthly installments for their items... including guns. I may be cynical, but incentivizing someone to buy a gun for under $30 down payment who doesn't have the credit to buy it at full price for $150+ makes me think that a lot of the weapons bought at minimum asking price aren't going to be used explicitly for self-defense.
I dislike the fact that everyone is in debt, is using credit cards to pay for credit cards, and that there is this whole notion that federal funding is taking the brunt of it to fund education. Student debt is the one of the few types of debt that is non-dischargable which means that you are fully liable to pay back every cent. Meanwhile there are lots of companies that fail and can declare Chapter 11 and receive some form of a bail out.
I think students are almost synonymous with being investments in and of themselves. They have to make the right choices to support themselves, otherwise they will get buried in loans & obligations. I feel like it's way too easy to make the wrong decisions and way too hard to find the right ones.
I agree, that's how I learn as well, sometimes relying on supplemental material. My post was a joke, but this one isn't. It's really lousy that schools charge so much for classes/books when we have a wealth of cheaper and still professional resources that, when used correctly, can be extremely beneficial. I already had my Spanish teacher tell our class, "Listen, you paid $3k for this Spanish class, and it's 15 weeks. The book isn't expensive if you think about it as an extra $7 a week. That gets you 3 Dunkin' coffees". I was just sitting there like "Uh... Okay... Lovely..." I know all of this is going to sound wrong/stupid (I'm wrong/stupid a lot of the time), but I'd been using other language resources for years with varying successes. If I could keep motivated, I think I could surpass where I will be at course end. I already started at a slight advantage (and disadvantage because French makes Spanish hard for me). The hands-on aspect and the stamp that says "you learnt the thing, congrats" is what you're paying for, that's how I see it anyway. You can teach yourself, but I assume some employers won't let you get by on self-taught. They want that college education. I can see that for some things, like medical, but others? Kinda stupid.
Sorry if this makes no sense. I'm kinda... Bad at expressing myself and my ideas.
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@ItsALie I don't think that students need colleges as much as colleges need students. I think that the growth of campuses into small Disney land attraction sets is unnecessary when a lot of students learn best from online/supplemental media.
A report from STAT came out that in most medical schools, students skip out on lectures in favor of watching the material online during the first two years of didactic education at 2x speed. Even the concept of secondary education is to teach yourself and not to expect to be spoon fed based on the prestige of your school/institution.
There is very much an interesting intersection between college and students with respect to needing one another, I have always felt that schools were for the most part scams that we agreed was something that we would have to accept in order to go cut people up and inject them with morphine. I would like to hope that there is a solution to promoting education & growth without the profiteering present in many schools. Who knows.
I don't NEED college, for I watch copious amounts of Richard and Mortimer. My IQ is EASILY above that of Einstein's, and I know because I took 10 online IQ tests and averaged them, then estimated how off they were using the outlying scores. But if you must know, I study at RMU, a proud university that you've probably NEVER heard of. I have no major, as I consider myself to be majoring in everything at once. You intellectual CHILDREN know nothing compared to my colleagues. I assume you cannot even read what I've written, puny brained mortals!
And that's everything I've learnt from r/iamverysmart.
Another chemistry major wanting to sue for damages after being abused by physical chemistry.
Send foreign aid.
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If someone is still on the fence on whether they want to go into research science and they are interested in protein sequences, Western blots, etc. then I would suggest that they consider fields like biotechnology/bioinformatics because there is major private & federal funding for gene sequencing related to cancer research.
This is contentious, however a lot fields in science that are automated, utilize big data, and show a growing trend of being integrated into new innovations like CRISPR are more likely to be at the forefront of attention. This is not to say that Chemistry is obsolete, it just doesn't have a lot of "dumb money" e.g. venture capital flowing into it that are given to other research specialties.
Finally, for people who have no interest in research science and are planning to use the Chemistry degree as a pre-med, pre-law, pre-long term loan degree I would especially dissuade.
It is much easier to gun for a 4.0 GPA by taking underwater basket weaving with Bob Ross than multivariable Calculus & thermodynamic principles in p. chem as your add-on courses along with g. bio/g. chem/o. chem/b. chem/physics etc. There are some people who find the sciences easier than liberal arts courses, hence why I caveat that if you are a superstar/natural then by all means go for it. But if you are just scraping by, then reevaluate and reconsider whatever floats your boat.
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@Thundurus It has less to do with course rigor and more to do with compensation. Big Pharma was one of the biggest private sector financiers in the 90s when new drugs were popping up left and right. However, the first thing that gets slashed now is R&D when pharmaceutical companies have a bad quarter. It's not advertisement & marketing, it's R&D.
Pharma companies like Valeant were so cynical that instead of putting any budget into creating new drugs, they used M&A to acquire companies that had patents on existing drugs because they didn't want to "waste" a budget on drug development.
Another issue is that a lot of the entry level life science market (biology/chemistry) has been bought out by contracting companies e.g. Joule or "insert anything"-Scientific that basically set up booths on campuses and act as a middle men making it harder for entry into a lab and also set low entry level prices for Chemists who face it, will have to go back for a master/PhD to not qualify for what I would consider to be borderline welfare wages.
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I took Chemistry 125 which introduces Basic QM's and Molecular Orbital Theory and it was hard as hell
Unlike you low IQ dullards, I am willing to answer the question at hand.
I go to the most illustrious college known to man. I go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This college is for students of high caliber, or for you who cannot understand my composite language, smart people.
Anyways, I am off to watch a show for more intelligent people, Rick and Morty. If you wish to engage with me about it, send me a message. I recommend it for you who wish to gain insight into what it is like daily for us with exceptionally high IQs.
