>>266664 compsci. I like it alot, I just wish moids were less insufferable, you can make the slightest correction to what they say and you can feel their blood boiling. don't blame any women for staying out of it I wouldn't have done it if computers weren't my obsession since childhood.
I kinda want to do computational linguistics as a second major cause my current field is somewhat related but doesn't fully delve into it(it's more related to speech than language).
honestly for a lot of STEM the issue is dealing with men than the major itself imo.
>>266664 premed bio major here. didn't get accepted into medical school because most schools in my country only let women in who are married to current students/graduated alumni. i would not do it again, but if i had to do it over at 18 i would probably pick a bullshit major, look pretty and networkmaxx.
>>266664 Does veterinary counts as stem? I am satisfied with my uni, pretty interesting stuff. I tried working as vet technician in clinic, got disappointed because it is working with dumb ass owners, not animals. I will work at big industrial farm this summer. I have big hopes for it, my friend already worked there and said it was interesting. Also, surprisingly farm vets aren't as low paid as I thought.
Agricultural Science. I worked in a soils lab for 2 years before I realised that, unless I went to work for an agricorp that's dooming the entire planet, I'd end up living in an arid country town for the rest of my career, achieving basically nothing, then go back home to teach at a shitty university or, God forbid, a high school, until I retired poor and alone. Thankfully, I accidentally befriended a guy in uni who inherited a fairly large timber and forest product agribusiness around that time and was just given a job through sheer nepotism because he needed someone trustworthy and he knew I always handed in lost items and money we found. That's literally it. I suddenly had a senior position that paid 80% higher than industry standard and let me live in a cottage with satellite internet, at the edge of a rainforest with a worksite I could walk to each morning. That only lasted 3 years, sadly, as I made the classic blunder of falling for my new boss and wound up pregnant in an industry where it's illegal to work while pregnant. I had to give up my cottage and my job in favour of consultancy for local government and corporate construction. Honestly, I don't think I would have done anything differently. I'm not a genius and I was never going to revolutionise any field I studied, but this one let me live like a queen for a few years and I ended up with a family because of it.
>>266728 hit the gym, do makeup, participate in all extracurriculars, suck up to professors so they will write letters of recommendation and befriend students who have wealthy connections. universities offer more opportunity for networking so go with that instead.
>>266665 Compsci here as well, I suppose I relate to you in that aspect but I kinda isolate myself from people in general.
>>266738 You are going to have to deal with moids in most STEM fields. The degree to which compsci is maths heavy really depends on which uni you go to (mine has been overwhelmingly just mathematics and theory, which I personally don't mind too much).
>>266729 This feels sleezy and dishonest, does the high school popularity contest ever end, why can't I just study and research something and people automatically realize the value of my work and give me credit like honest human beings.
>>266665 They are extremely insufferable. I felt and endured their superioty complex towards women. A lot of talented and smart girls get pushed out of interesting fields because some scrotes feel extremely entitled to said positions and will give you a hard time on purpose just because you are a woman. Men say women are snakes but I say men way worse because they will do anything to get their way in life. Plus are mentally unstable asf.
>>266664 Did 2 years of engineering and then dropped out. I had no one to talk to. Group assignments were an absolute torture, everyone had (male) friends but me so I was doing all stuff on my own Now I’m shutin neet who will off herself one of these days
I went through it, was rough. The professors have too much power and everyone was cheating. But at least i can sort of get a better job with slightly higher pay.
I was going to go into robotics engineering but my dad talked me out of it. But then he tried to kill me three months later so I don't think his intentions were good.
I did EE. My gender balance wasn't too bad, I did the electronic/electrical specialisation so there was only 11 people in the class and I was one of three girls. And it was kind of too small a group for there to be cliques so it was actually a nice dynamic, I never had moid problems, they were just kind of normal nice fellas, standoffish and shy but harmless. I only had problems with this one guy but they weren't moid problems, he had problems with everyone. I was horribly depressed for my last couple of years which effected my study habits so I graduated with a shit degree and did nothing with it for the last couple of years, and now my confidence is shot so I don't know if I can do anything with it any more.
I am in EE but am probably going to drop out despite having a good GPA because 1. my schools program is god awful barely maintaining it’s not for profit status and 2. the program is so small that my grad date is delayed 1.5 years because I transferred in at the wrong time, transferring again would also extend my graduation date by a similar amount of time. I swear to god nothing has ever worked out for me in my life.
does Nursing count as STEM? because usually when i hear talks about STEM majors it’s usually women in mostly male-dominated professions like compsci or engineering. i feel like nursing gets overlooked (for a lack of a better term) due to it mostly being women. i get irritated when people say nurses are just women who failed med school and aren’t as ‘smart’ as doctors.
>>270573 huh.. how is nursing part of stem… even 16 yr olds can become nurses with little qualification. >just women who failed med school and aren’t as ‘smart’ as woman doctors what certificates do you need to become a nurse compared to a doctor? i think if you follow this it will lead to your answer.
>>270596 The choice isn't just about intelligence. I'd rather do 2 years of RN school and make good money right out of college than spend 4 years racking up debt and busting my ass trying to get enough research + volunteer + work experience to compete with silver spoon kids. Just that is unrealistic enough for most people. Then add on an additional 6 figures of debt from med school, 4-6 years of opportunity cost, and then work myself to death in residency for a career that might not even pay 200k if it's a low-paying specialty. All while the nurses are working 3 days a week and making 80k just to take care of the same assholes. Becoming a doctor in the United States is so fucked up
>>270596 where do you live where even 16 year olds can become nurses? are you getting nurses and CNAs confused? Even then most CNAs need to be 18 and earn a certification to work in any state in the US.
>>270596 im from a 2nd world country and my mom is a nurse, when she gratuated the country needed nurses really badly so there were specialised boarding schools where high school kids only learned nursing, even then she became a nurse at the age of 18, noone can become a nurse at 16
>>270691 Well you see, the work they have cut out for them is MEDICAL work. I know, it's crazy that people who provide medical care are included in "Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine" It's gotta be a conspiracy.
>>270565 What is the life of a chem e. like? Was thinking between chem e or CS but I'm not sure I'm smart enought for CS plus I'm scared of the kind of nerds that make up CS classes
>>266664 Just graduated with a bachelor's in electrical engineering! At my school the gender divide is like 97% to 3% in EE so I was often the only woman in all my classes. It sucked but I have a lot of friends from clubs and in my major too. The misogyny is fucking awful. So many people just don't take women seriously by default. I specialized in applied electromagnetics and was the president of the amateur radio club for a long time.
i've got a degree in biomedical engineering (so i guess i don't really count as a regular engineer per se), always wanted to go into neural engineering or something related, but ended up in software instead. gender balance was good in bme/neuroscience/other life science courses (sometimes even mostly women), math/cs/etc. courses were … definitely male dominated, but i found people quite polite for the most part. isolating, but i prefer to study alone anyways. even though i didn't end up where i would've imagined starting out, i don't feel like i wasted my time just getting a wall decoration. i took a lot of classes in cs/ml that are pertinent to my career now. i do wish i maybe spent more time socializing, even if we didn't stay friends. it really hurt to spend years studying all day all alone. then again, i also wish i studied harder, worked harder, even though i pushed myself to the point of studying while sobbing because i just didn't have the time to eat or have hobbies really. i don't think i would've done things differently honestly, but that might be because i still hold out hope of one day doing something related to neuroscience, even if it's just in my free time. (thinking of saving up for an eeg headset just to maybe run cursor related tasks or record some p300/n400/etc. data even if its just for educational purposes). maybe if i had gotten my undergrad/grad in the hard sciences like physics or maybe gone into a different type of engineering/some type of cs degree i would've gotten a better paying job and would've ironically have had a better chance to work in neuroscience, but … i maybe never would have realized how passionate i am about neuroscience and would've ended up working in a different field all the same :v
i went into STEM but i took 8 years for a associates degree and noone will hire me because i didnt get any experience in anything either in those 8 years lol
>>266664 Biotechnologist here for 3 years now. Working as a microbiologist/molecular biologist. Pay is above average. This field is dominated by women so you actually feel safer. You have no patient interaction and you mostly work alone. It's stable and I can do everything else I like in my free time. Unless you're a supervisor, you won't get any calls nor emails. When you're on vacation, you're on vacation. I never check my emails unless I'm at work.
I'm interested in mechanical engineering. I'm decent at pure math but I'm not very good at "shape rotation" type visualization problems. Does this mean I won't be able to hack it?
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: not done yet but i feel like i very much screwed up. it's way too vague of a degree. i wish i ended up just studying psychology. i'm just glad i don't have debt.
Would/will you do things over again and study a different field: no idea yet. i hope everything works out