STEM Majors Thread Anonymous 266664[Reply]
How many users here went into STEM? Doesn't matter if you actually ended up making a career out of it.
Especially interested in seeing how many engineering majors there are because, for whatever reason, just about every engineering class seemed completely devoid of women at my school. It seems like the majority end up going into life sciences or pre med, personally wasted years poking around with bacteria in microbiology just to end up 'producing' (AI does most of the work) low effort mass produced content for some tiktok dude who pays me way more than this junk is worth. Feels like I sold my soul.
What's your major? Did you end up where you thought you would, or did you basically just end up spending a ton of time and money for a wall decoration? Would/will you do things over again and study a different field?
77 posts and 6 image replies omitted. Click reply to view.Anonymous 308441
>>266664I do phd in quantum physics, so did my moid
Anonymous 309477
CS major here, graduated with a bachelor's recently. I wish that there were as many women in the industry as there are in school, even just 20% women would be nice. I work at some startup now where they're basically all moids. They really think that they're so much smarter and funnier than they are, especially the young engineers. They give me good projects and great learning opportunities and consider me smart and capable, but it's clear that I'm an outsider, and they've still made women bad jokes with me in the room. I hate a lot of the internet and what it's become. I hate AI so much, and how I'm watching my coworkers lose their ability to read and hold a cohesive thought in real time because they use their shitty chatbots for everything. I hate how much conceit there is, and how everything must move as fast as possible with only respect for the holy dollar, and no respect for the basic software development maintainability (AI generated code slop and not a single test case). Though in this economy, it's hard to be picky. As soon as I get enough experience I'm going to an established company or government, and will try to pick up expertise in slower-moving concentrations (maybe embedded software?). I'd go completely out of the industry and into something more business-adjacent even, if it meant that there were more women with an actual HR department and the company actually cared about work-life balance and the longevity of the programs you write. I do find the work itself really exciting. I get to write an entire application, and even some embedded work on the side. Though a lot of the fun of it gets sucked out when higher-ups want you to move at a pace you can only move at if you have AI solve half of the problems for you.
Anonymous 309480
>>308711I got a 100 and A+ in the class.
I am never working with moids again. I am back to normal health too.
>>309477Grim…I kind of want to start my own business but I need to brainstorm some more and maybe wage for a few years.
Anonymous 309485
My class had like 5 girls out of 25 people maybe. Electronic engineering.
Granted, I am in Russia, so maybe that changes things.