Is it good policy to give financial aid to liberal arts majors?

[Kuciwalker]

I got to play with a 2.1 MeV ion beam

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by GePap
Man, physics is that unpopular difficult?

Fixed.

[Imran Siddiqui]

That is a sight more interesting than paperwork about how a corrupt cop in New York made a racial slur to a Mexican immigrant.

What are you nuts? That sort of **** is what movies are made of (it's basically part of the plot of "Crash"... somewhat ).

[Asher]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Fixed.

The reason GePap instantly thought popularity rather than difficulty is, in his field, any monkey could do it...

He doesn't seem to understand why lots of the science and engineering fields get paid a lot more is because there's less of them, and there's less of them because it's harder...

[Asher]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
What are you nuts? That sort of **** is what movies are made of (it's basically part of the plot of "Crash"... somewhat ).

Seen the movie "Wargames"?

The only good movie from the 1980s.

[Ramo]

I have a BA, so you can't expect me to understand things like this...

If he did get his Ph.D., the Wiki article is worded poorly. He "studied" physics and then got a Masters in Math...

[KrazyHorse]

Would you like to play a game?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Wargames sucked.

Hell, any movie with Matthew Broderick NOT named "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (or "Election", come to think of it) sucked.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Ramo


If he did get his Ph.D., the Wiki article is worded poorly. He "studied" physics and then got a Masters in Math...

I'd call anyone who got their undergrad degree in physics at least a "former physicist".

[Drake Tungsten]

I don't really care. Some graduate-level physics study is close enough to being a physicist for my purposes.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Asher

Well, it depends what you're talking about. The work I've been doing (and you can read the exciting draft of my paper here ) is researching an area that will directly aid research labs around the world in doing research with NMR, which is very important to all kinds of biochem research around the world that has very real impacts in fields such as medicine...

And I am sure that an egghead like yourself finds it very interesting.

That is a sight more interesting than paperwork about how a corrupt cop in New York made a racial slur to a Mexican immigrant. Particularly because it's treading new ground, and doing something on the grand scale of things -- not the minute paperwork details.

Yeah, go to a social setting and see how many people will be wowed by your brilliant stories about the time you found this algorith.... Wait. I mean, how they will fall asleep, or move on. You have a strange idea of what is interesting.

My previous job involved playing on the fastest computer in the world optimizing software to predict hurricanes and how to dispose of nuclear stockpiles safely. That's much more interesting to me than mindless paperwork about police misconduct.

Re-above. I am sure you find it fascinating. I doubt anyone else outside your field would stand listening to you teel stories about youer work for more than a few minutes. So again, you have a weird notion of what is interesting.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Asher

Seen the movie "Wargames"?

The only good movie from the 1980s.

TESB

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
TESB

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[Asher]

Originally posted by GePap
Yeah, go to a social setting and see how many people will be wowed by your brilliant stories about the time you found this algorith.... Wait. I mean, how they will fall asleep, or move on. You have a strange idea of what is interesting.

So now we judge how interesting our jobs are depending if the construction worker down the street finds it interesting?

You need some perspective, GePap.

Re-above. I am sure you find it fascinating. I doubt anyone else outside your field would stand listening to you teel stories about youer work for more than a few minutes. So again, you have a weird notion of what is interesting.

This means nothing. Some of the most interesting research being done today is at such a high level that most simpletons such as yourself wouldn't understand.

That doesn't mean it's not interesting. It just means you know sh*t.

[Dinner]

I come from a family which has a decent amount of money. I'm old enough to have learned that money is nice, it is vitally important if you don't have it, but it isn't a good way to measure life. I'm not rich but I am comfortable (I make $57,000 a year at my job and another $15,600 per year renting out my two spare rooms for a total of $72,600; I only know that because I completed my taxes yesterday) or at least comfortable enough for a single guy without a family to support. It isn't that important for me to make another $15,000-$25,000 a year but I think I will go get my Master's degree simply because I want to say I've completed graduate school.

You see money isn't that important; at least not once you have enough to buy a house and a few toys for yourself. I could easily make another $10k-$15k if I just switched from the environmental business and became a Petroleum Geologist but I don't want to be a Petroleum Geologist. I don't want to live in the places I'd have to live in order to get ahead as a Petroleum Geologist. I love living in the town I grew up in, I love having my family just a short drive away, and I really like how I can set my own hours and just up and walk out after my 8 hours are up.

Some people want to chase the last dollar so that they "win" and if that makes them happy then I'm all for it but that's not me. I work in a field (improving the environment and figuring out how to solve environmental problems) which I really feel does some good in the world and that's worth more to me then the extra money. I don't think I'm the only one who is sacrificing a little extra money in order to live how they want and to do a job they can go to sleep feeling good about.