STEM students in non STEM classes be like...

[@zachstar]

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[@masternobody1896]

This is so easy be they will be like

[@masternobody1896]

Btw I fail physics rip

[@harsh9558]

Happy new year!

[@dimitrivavoulis2184]

Jajajaja, They are actually pretty interesting when they stick to the classics, I remember for a test we had to read 2 five-page long stories and make 2 essays about them, I just read them by checking every couple of lines and getting back 2-3 times to the main bits for evidence, I got an A.

[@LLlAMnYP]

@@dimitrivavoulis2184 Like that ever works. Many years ago at school a piece of homework on a short story by Chekhov contained a question "what did so-and-so want?". I scanned through the text, found a sentence saying "so-and-so wanted to build a bridge across the creek near his residence" and wrote just that in the answer. Got an F, lol.

[@elliectroncake]

Philosophy: If you clone a person, are they still the same person? STEM students: Depends if you clone by reference or by value.

[@Morphoidism]

This question reminds me of Roko's Basilisk. Since this AI will make a clone of your conscience and torture you, then who's to say that's your original conscience. Why should I care about me being potentially tortured if it's just a copy of me and not the original. It reminds me of an episode of black mirror where a prisoner sells his mind and his mind is made into copies to be forever tormented. Are these copies him, or are they just a different version of him.. really makes you think.

[@stm7810]

@@Morphoidism the point is an entity is suffering, who they are is irrelevant. the Basalisc is stupid because it was a thought experiment by some idiot with no knowledge of computers or brains, let alone AI.

[@sparkynicole3941]

Bruh that’s philosophy not psychology

[@elliectroncake]

​@@sparkynicole3941 oops, typo - edited!

[@billyweed835]

“No. The guy who came first is the person.”

[@bobriss1579]

Felt that English class. My prof literally read out the title and the author's name of a poem and asked the meaning behind the AUTHOR'S name. That was when I knew I was fucked

[@chris-dd6uq]

I had a professor ask us to write what we thought one author would think of another authors work. Fuck those classes.

[@duckymomo7935]

@@chris-dd6uq that’s insane analysis It’s like I barely know the authors how am I gonna put them each other

[@chris-dd6uq]

@@duckymomo7935 Exactly.

[@adamtheginger5882]

That's easy. The meaning behind the author's name is whoever wrote the poem. SMH.

[@xdeathcon]

I wish I could just say that I think there's no hidden meaning the author is hiding from you and the words mean exactly what they say.

[@TimTYT]

I'm in CS and the biggest shock for me, when I joined the Zoom meeting for a class on politics, was that everyone just had their webcams on. In my CS classes the prof begs people to turn on their cams and still no one does.

[@josedeleon9273]

I've only had stem courses and that is true. Some professors don't allow us to turn on webcams. Some do, but by the middle of the quarter almost everyone has it off.

[@ongaldiladevvy]

We do share screens for elaborating difficulties during an exercise not faces

[@takerukari]

Screen Share if we need help. Majority of the time, only the professor will have it on. Too distracting having everyone and their face on zoom.

[@KeisariEurobeat]

Weird. Teachers asked to turn off webcams and mics in CS to save internet connection, and no one kept them on anyways.

[@creampielover69]

Wait, so people in other courses turn their cams on? What are they, psychos?!

[@thesysop4998]

It's always really hard to tell the difference between a philosophy major and the local weed dealer

[@idiomi8556]

Exurb1a

[@astraios69420]

@@idiomi8556 lmfao true that guy sounds like a weed dealer

[@skykrasher4475]

Can I please put this on my “shit I’ve heard college students say” list?

[@karthiktirumala1773]

@@idiomi8556 just searched him up, wtf is his channel even about?

[@idiomi8556]

@@karthiktirumala1773 everything and nothing

[@TealPersonal]

"This essay requires you to have a minimum of 500 words to pass. " "So you mean exactly 500 words?" "Well we encourage you to write mo-" "500 words exactly. Got it."

[@ninepuchar1]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@artsbybware4790]

me

[@Skaelya]

but like is it true that you get grades based on the noumber of words ? or pages !?

[@courier6960]

@@Skaelya You get a zero if you don’t match the required word count (ex. You have to write the paper to be at least 1,500 words). But other then that, no.

[@sshernandez810]

My IB end of year essay be like, except I'm not a stem student, I just hated writing essays.

[@thegingerxd1938]

"Is the hole in the donut a part of the donut?" - My philosophy teacher, 2019 or 2020. I still can't fall asleep thinking about it.

[@nuklearboysymbiote]

Especially hard to answer when selling ”donut holes” is also a thing

[@reeti5958]

Well now I am not able to sleep too.😬

[@samuellanghus1455]

It is, at the very least, part of the donut, as symbolism. A donut is widely recognized to be in a certain shape, right? And that shape predominantly features a hole in the center. So, even as there is only air, can one have a donut hole without a donut or vice versa? The absence of something puts the presence of its antithesis in high relief, so I would argue that yes in a symbolic sense, no in the material sense. Remember the painting “This is not a pipe?” It’s like that, I think.

[@reeti5958]

@@samuellanghus1455 I will just pretend that I understood what you said.

[@thegingerxd1938]

@@samuellanghus1455 If this was Reddit, you'd get an award, but the best I can do here is a like. During the lesson I was absolutely focused on the fact that a hole means a lack of something and I forgot about the symbolical meaning. I feel a bit silly now. Thanks for sharing your answer, I get it now. You're a genius!

[@DrDoomie]

"If you think that one sentence is enough, then you think its enough." The Mathematician in me: "Are you confirming that there exists a single sentence for this assignment that will award me an A?"

[@ludwigvanbeathoven-beatsmo8228]

*Suffering from success*

[@katragaddaalekhya4811]

This is one of the best thing I've read all day😂

[@discretelycontinuous2059]

The mathematician in you should spot the Tautology :)

[@baerververgaert1308]

Also the mathematician in me: Finding that sentence would probably be too hard, but if I can describe an algorithm which is guaranteed to find it then I'm done. Algorithm: -initialize dictionary -n=1 -while not done --for sentence in dictionary**n ---hand in sentence for grading ---if grade==A then done --n++ To the teacher: give me an A or I'll run the algorithm. Q. E. D.

[@xXJ4FARGAMERXx]

Yeah but he said if _You_ think, so what he's actually doing is confirming that there exists a single-sentence essay which will make you think that it is enough to pass, but it doesn't have to make the teacher think that that essay is enough to pass the assignment.

[@spiderdude2099]

Non stem class: “ok, argue your point and you’ll get a good score” Stem majors: excuse me….WHAT?! Stem class: “there is only one correct answer, you cannot argue to increase your score” Non-stem majors: excuse me…..WHAT?!

[@vapx0075]

This is why I did so poorly in Art class in High School all those years ago?!

[@SomethingCool51]

I don't know, I saw a lot of people argue for curves in Engineering school

[@abz4852]

@@SomethingCool51 you could argue a 49 to a 50 but its not happening with an 89 to a 90

[@SomethingCool51]

@@abz4852 who gets an 89 in engineering lol

[@zimzimal8547]

@@SomethingCool51 a lot of people who aren’t stupid asf and actually study

[@txicityy822]

"if a 9.0 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter of my ass happened right now it would literally add value to my life" I don't know why but this shit had me wheezing

[@ThisIsNotMyUsername]

I inhaled my water so hard I almost died. Worth it

[@ballistischerfalke4061]

I died lmao, very creative lol

[@demarkustimeo2989]

Same!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@ermiker7336]

I haven't laughed as much as when he says that in years

[@cerulean22b69]

I gotta use this someday, just going to wait for the perfect opportunity :D

[@jordanpeper839]

The literature class was so incredibly accurate. I was always so confused how people came up with their answers.

[@ThisIsNotAhnJieRen]

I thrived in Philosophy, Literature, Art and History Classes. I literally got As. I'm only good at Earth Sciences and Biology and Basic Chemistry. I suck at Physics and Math. All kinds of math. I kid you not, i still haven't memorized the multiplication table. So you could only imagine what happened to me in Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus classes. I literally stabbed a classmate with a pencil.

[@TT-jg6tp]

You just write what the teacher wants to hear. First you come up with a meaning, just something that sounds good maybe with some fellings. Then you look for random examles in the the book. First write what you think the autr thougt then read the book. Maybe a forest stands for how our soul was always lost even in the stone age or sth. Then you get good grades on such things even if you think like me the writer was just tring to sell the book

[@lightningbolt4419]

@@ThisIsNotAhnJieRen I had no problem with math and I still stabbed a classmate

[@returnoftheromans6726]

@@TT-jg6tp Exactly. Especially when you put some ✨passion✨ into it! Lol.

[@WhatDuhDogDoin]

@@TT-jg6tp I thought like this before I grew up and realized there was a lot more to the world than just my own closed-minded perspective. Not trying to be too harsh, but you should try to put some effort into understanding things you don't find interesting rather than writing them off as meaningless.

[@blackout995]

80% of my experience in college was taking electives in arts and realizing why all my friends have so much free time

[@cathyhart3946]

Oh my word, I relate!! I always wondered why the university was going to give them a degree.

[@lineupopozao1586]

@@cathyhart3946 what classes are you guys doing?? teachers (at least in poliscience/ir) often ask us to write 20 page essays giving solutions to shit like the turkish-kurdish conflict every week, not to mention the infinite list of mandatory readings per class but still easier than basic trigonometry at least

[@jenniferpearce1052]

Exactly! I did more work in my high school honors classes than university liberal arts classes.

[@asdfghjkl-oo7lv]

@@jenniferpearce1052 this is so true. Dual credit and AP classes were rough.

[@noon_chai]

@Abitamim Bharmal after doubling neuroscience and philosophy in university, I can definitely say you need to put in the work for both of them if you want the grades (assuming you have a competent prof). STEM in school is mainly learning established ways to solve problems and knowing when/where to apply them, but liberal arts is about identifying problems, then creating and defending solutions. Each field requires a different way of thinking.

[@TheJocey714]

My sister thought college would be a living hell after listening to my STEM major shenanigan for 2 years, but after a single week of college life she just said ‘it was your major choice that was wrong’ coming back drunk from a business major party. It was 2am and I was still doing my Week 1 homework from Inorganic Chemistry.

[@arf6899]

I love chemistry but damn is it tedious

[@rainyday9002]

Hey, don't worry, do what you love. There's no such thing as a wrong major. It may be a lot of work right now but it will be worth it in the end.

[@TheJocey714]

@@rainyday9002 that story happened about 3 years ago. Now I am in a grad program for chemistry to get a phd. Wrong major for a party person, but it def it the best major for a science nerd.

[@rainyday9002]

@@TheJocey714 awesome!! go you!! and I totally agree with that last sentence

[@eskimoof4804]

It’s always them business majors that say college is easier than they expected 💀

[@akhileshwargurram8363]

"Okay, I found the weed dealer" lmao

[@oximas]

that's me alright and Aristotle

[@hanrecoetzer8556]

I lost it when he said that 😂😂😂😂

[@justinw8370]

I didn’t know Aristotle smoked weed

[@waterfallsdontsaymeow2917]

@@hanrecoetzer8556 q

[@kellyeaton7252]

@@justinw8370 dude bruh, weed smoked Aristotle and that's how we got dabs.

[@AndrewDotsonvideos]

I hate how good you are at these

[@m9mykolkaaa]

I LOVE HOW GOOD HE IS

[@mastershooter64]

yea because you were the originator of these, now you and jens are just messing around in a basement full of kidnapped physicists

[@isaacmckague8930]

I am in stem and this is not accurate.

[@studentperson4552]

@@isaacmckague8930 then you’re not in stem 🤯

[@PapaFlammy69]

@@mastershooter64 :'D

[@jamesstevens5468]

Question: How do u know it is a STEM student in your class? Answer: they will tell you.

[@MrSdsok]

under rated comment

[@thatsepicification]

I'm not here to get called out like this.

[@natedole8276]

I am not busting my ass and ruining my life just to keep that shit a secret

[@joasmares5836]

I have never seen the amount of likes on anwers increase the further i scroll down I know i broke the pattern

[@niklasholgerson3779]

Although the video is funny, I don't really get it. Why the hell would a STEM student be in a human science class!? Is this a thing in the US?

[@leonardodavinci3589]

I'm an author and creative writing major, and seeing it from the other point of view is hilarious. I've never been able to track math, but I was always the annoying one catching weird stuff in the poems they made us read. I love how human brains vary so much

[@carolinediaz4834]

SAMEEEEEE

[@fananox2057]

But have you found the thread? The plot to all stories? Mr. Leonardo of venice

[@raymond4218]

Same!

[@Zaptosis]

When the teacher asks: "what do you think the author was trying to do here" The correct answer: "Make money"

[@meapyboy12345]

Oh my god its leonardo da vinci

[@tamzidrahman2673]

I wanna see a liberal arts major taking a computer science class. “Hello World”

[@realdragon]

Would conservative arts major be any different?

[@Adomas_B]

Yeah uh one question, can I hack my friend's Facebook account with this?

[@kidzvidz3262]

@@Adomas_B Possibly.

[@Simas1234]

Philosophy majors go: "Why world?"

[@whoisheiforgothisname2103]

*Literature Major:* Well you see the phrase "Hello World" has a lot of deep symbolism and meaning, it could symbolise the feelings we as a whole as one individual walking through life dissatisfied with no purpose because of society and you can really feel the emotion behind the sentence "Hello World."

[@Mr-xf9me]

“What is the significance of ‘the’”? Me: yes

[@xavierburval4128]

English teachers in a nutshell

[@ArcticZombie]

@@xavierburval4128 Smoking lots of weed.

[@TheFootballPlaya]

It is a good question.

[@SeismicHammer]

3?

[@TheFootballPlaya]

@@SeismicHammer It's 321 as it maps to ascii decimal values.

[@chaosunleashed274]

I'm actually a STEM student with an exceptional passion for languages, and I can tell you that most of my STEM colleagues and teachers can't write for s**t. I'm talking about a "your a compatible blood doner" level of mistakes in actual written reports.

[@HilbertXVI]

Tbf that's not their job

[@asitas]

@@HilbertXVI you can't communicate ideas without langauge. Language is important, especially for academics. I say that as a STEM student myself.

[@PrometheusXV]

​@@asitas But there's also a distinction between written and verbal communication, and more nuance to even those categories. Many professionals in STEM tend to be very capable technical writers and verbal communicators, but often struggle with non-technical writing. Obviously this isn't ideal, but for the vast majority of people this is satisfactory as it allows them to communicate technical ideas in written reports, even if their communication with management struggles. You don't need to spend any significant portion of time studying language, as the amount of help the information provides is rather logarithmic: particularly if you predominately work with individuals in a single language and culture.

[@MarceloArzubialdeRodriguez]

Mmm well yes language skills add a plus on you and will open so many Doors to you. But, still, if you see those people as workers, they dont need it to comply what they are suposed to do. So depends on what's the person looking for, and if he mind being succesfull.

[@FlowerTower]

Same here. It’s literally ridiculous - like I don’t expect anyone to be writing novels but they literally can’t relay a simple idea.

[@abigaylarnold8505]

“Who is your weed dealer?!” Caught me completely off guard!

[@AniketKumar-lw6su]

"Ok i found the weed dealer"

[@shine-uy5fq]

HAHAHAHAHA

[@Ash_W04]

1:57 The author purposely chose the definite article “the” as opposed to the indefinite article “a” which clearly shows a determined and concrete thought or desire (I do stem and non-stem lmao)

[@grankoczsk]

The fuck

[@summerbrotman4925]

I like that a lot :)

[@Charlie-yq8hu]

Youd be a great English teacher

[@denominagainatedableus13ye5]

Whose your weed dealer?

[@AustinJASMR]

How long did it take you to actually think of that?

[@WailFin]

1:30 would have been killer if the professor responded, "No, m = 0 because what you wrote *_has no substance."_*

[@creativeastronauts6894]

missed opportunity 😂

[@shepbirddog]

I laughed way too hard at this comment 🤣

[@odysseus231]

I thought rather that he should have answered "1 what? Apples? Trees? Bananas? Ha, caught you at your own game"

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

And as usual, a law of nature is defeated by a figure of speech.

[@meapyboy12345]

👌👌👌👌👌nice

[@eminemlandsteiner168]

"I am more of a python fan" I felt that

[@harleyspeedthrust4013]

I disagree bro I don't like pythons type system

[@citroenboter]

@@harleyspeedthrust4013 me neither I'm a JavaScript React kinda person

[@harleyspeedthrust4013]

@@citroenboter aw darn javascript has an even worse type system, but react is pretty cool with typescript

[@sinom]

@@citroenboter really? Using react with JavaScript instead of TypeScript? Do you want to torture yourself? (Until you run across a library with shitty TS support and wish you were just using JS instead)

[@somenamelastnaammee52]

@@citroenboter this

[@LibertarianPatriot]

Its not about getting the best grades, its about the best grade to effort ratio

[@teamcynda6202]

This is so freaking true

[@sambo669]

This is where I’m at as a med student lol

[@manfromwuhan714]

true for everything in life

[@totallynotaminecraftchanne1923]

YES

[@sorcdk2880]

I have found that the best grade to effort ratio would be what internationally would equate to B. Even if you know the stuff in and out, getting As require a lot of work, but if you know things well, you can do reasonably low effort to keep your advantage and the effort needed for the actual grading part will be low. If you go to more average or below average, you will struggle to just keep up with the level, and you will strugle for the graded parts to keep it up to snuff, so it is actually much more work to be at that level. This means that the optimal strategy for best grade to effort over longer term, is to quickly push your main focuses to solid B level, and then scale back the effort there to just stay at the level, which then frees up space in you effort budget to raise up the next and likely slightly harder for you subject. Once you have done most of this, you can either relax, or when needed push yourself into those As, as the distance from solid Bs to As generally has more to do with how much effort you put into the graded part rather than the foundation. Just make sure to keep the fundation solid, because solid foundations are what makes all the future things easy, and because learning is usually set for the speed of the average or slower ones, with solid foundation you can both much more easily understand the next part, and build a solid foundation on that, without needing to stress over it.

[@snowcake2846]

Next vid: non-stem students in stem classes.

[@pugboi8017]

Lol... i took a philosophy in physics class. It was open to all students. It was weighted 60% philosophy and 40% physics, basic math no calculus although the formulas look a tad nasty. This was also the rough ratio of physics to non-stem students(philosophy,journalism etc). By the end of the semester, of all the non-stem students, only 1 remained and he barely passed. The philosophy tutor sounded like he really knew his stuff but because he didn’t teach the first principles - although alot of the stem kids walked away with a good grade as it was considered a bludge subject for physics majors, they didn’t really know what philosophy was about

[@SmokeySpace]

@@pugboi8017 how do those relate to each other? Lol

[@RebekahParkhurst]

YAS PLEASE

[@pugboi8017]

SmokeySpace i’m not sure lol, i looked through the slides many times, it was pretty much fluff lol. Cop out course though

[@MaraudingManiac]

@@alexanderdvanbalderen9803 Honestly though, you can flip that back around on them. You could easily say "Well, what use does anyone have for poem analysis in their day to day life?" The truth is, the ability to digest and understand problems in a concrete way, and the methodologies that are used by various fields are themselves useful. Maybe I won't personally ever to figure out the trajectory of a ball when tossed in a rotating cylinder on a space station, but differential equations themselves are a very powerful methodology. Maybe a bit of pure mathematics will never be "relevant" outside of pure math, but it's not like the practice of it and understanding can't apply to your problem solving skills.

[@Oceananswer]

One thing I like about STEM was that there's an objective right and wrong answer. I always hated non-stem classes where the answers could be so open ended and getting a shit grade because you didn't basically regurgitate the professor's opinion or interpretation on something.

[@fakedungeonmaster5740]

true like more then once a teacher sent back my work for being too short but when i asked them what was the minimum they said there was no minimum length

[@zea_64]

"Why did the author say this character started walking" "So that the reader knows that the character is walking" "0/20 pts. It's actually a metaphor for the character finally escaping their troubled past..."

[@limsiryuean5040]

I feel you so bad lmao

[@blastbomb2798]

This is why I love being a half STEM

[@fakedungeonmaster5740]

@@blastbomb2798 wdym half stem?

[@Nathan55411]

As a CS major, the one on philosophy I'm not actually sure is accurate. One of the philosophy classes I took, "critical reasoning," talked all about how we make arguments, how we reason and how we come to logical conclusions. This was all actually very useful information in computer science, especially when it comes to proving things.

[@Dougy359]

Yeah science is a branch of philosophy. We just restrict ourselves to observation. People who don’t understand this will have a hard time explaining why their data is actually important. A scientist who can’t write is useless. People need to be able to communicate their ideas and if they’re the only ones who know but can’t share because they want to write the absolute minimum then that’s no good.

[@CiXCometOp]

You can differentiate each STEM student focus through philosophy. Lol. Most math and CS majors will find philosophy easy and essential. The same can't be said for engineers. Haha. Slight /s

[@AbandonedVoid]

Theory of computation and computational logic are also philosophy courses that, unsurprisingly, help a lot in computer science

[@misterchubbikins]

I had a class like that. It was also my ethics class. The prof was deaf but could read lips. After I realized she'd respond to shit I silently muttered to myself i began having full class discussions with her without vibrating my vocal chords. In short, the rest of the class only got one half of the conversation and had no idea what I was saying. . . Good times.

[@JV3Player]

It's definitely interesting, however, abstract thinking doesn't help, CS needs some concrete thinking to solve problems. I don't think you're going to philosophize with Python about what should be correct outcome values.

[@OhNoNotAgain42]

I was a Mechanical Engineering major. As a junior, I realized that “Physics for Poets” (physics without any math, just philosophical discussion of principles) actually met a general education requirement. It was a 4 credit course while “Advanced Thermodynamics” was only 3 credits the same semester. I literally got 100% on every exam. I couldn’t believe people got C’s in that class.

[@rogergeyer9851]

Lack of interest makes a HUGE difference in ability to pick up material. At least it did for me. I remember when taking the SAT, one verbal section "read a passage and answer comprehension questions on it" was about how astronomers could infer how far away some stars were by relative brightness, pulsations, math, etc (I don't remember the details - that was 50 years ago). I was fascinated and easily answered all the questions without needing to check on anything. Then another such question was on the life and work of some idiot 19th century writer, and I COULDN'T POSSIBLY HAVE CARED LESS. I almost just skipped the whole section, but I wanted decent SAT scores. I picked up almost nothing from the material and had to scan and reread for every single question. There's a LOT more going on re learning than just "pure intelligence".

[@rogergeyer9851]

Same thing for me in the intro to compsci class. I was lucky enough to have the equivalent material in high school (early 4-H Fortran 77 course), plus the geeks went on to work on PL/I, Basic, etc. ourselves, as I found programming fascinating. So in that class, I literally read the textbook for a couple hours (first half for that course), went to class, did the super simple programs, and never had to study at all. The tests were all so simple I got done in 15 minutes vs. the 50 minute hour, and having triple checked everything, would just turn in my paper and leave. And quite a few people struggled like crazy in that class. It was nice having a total breeze for one class my first semester, making it easier to get used to college (which was much more intense than high school overall, re the academics).

[@minisarge2619]

100% the trick was to find something tangentially interesting or useful. Took a "writing and Digital media" class bc and english credit didn't go through. Hit an english credit and learned some useful skills. Win win. The teacher was a ------ though.

[@phrophetsamgames]

As a Polsci Major I once sat in a STEM class and realized I couldn't just participate in an debate with the professor and other students about wars or public policies but actually had to have the same answer as everyone else in the room.

[@SRosenberg203]

That sounds so boring lol. Where's the fun in everyone just having the same answer?

[@batukhan1]

Science has to conform to nature. The debate in science is basically who's model of explanation is closest to natural occurance.

[@Subt0nix]

@@SRosenberg203 the fun is finding different ways to get to that solution.

[@cptn_chromo3189]

@@SRosenberg203 Because once you learn how to have the right answer every time, you go on to make a lot of money after graduation for having that skill. Then with that money you can do anything you please in your free time. It's called delayed gratification.

[@danielkim3525]

It's a large misconception that STEM problems are as straightforward as you assume. There are plenty of instances where you have to find an answer based on your own judgement for what's best as a solution to a given problem based on your own interpretation. Typically, you have to make a compromise and find a solution at the cost of one or more tradeoffs, which highly depends on the situation. In STEM, there are plenty of debates for a massive variety of topics, because not everyone comes to the same conclusion or follows the same process to get an answer.

[@poorlittlesheep4098]

As an engineer, I actually found history and philosophy quite fascinating. It's too hard to predict the future with science, but looking back gives you a pretty good idea about what's gonna happen. Humanity has never changed.

[@tafazzi-on-discord]

false, humanity has changed since hunter gatherers, but every significant idea was though in ancient greece. Thete's a small number of worthwile ideas by human tastes and we're 1900 years past the threshold of "basically all"

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@tafazzi-on-discord So I guess everywhere else inventing things just didn’t matter according to yiu

[@tafazzi-on-discord]

@@DeathnoteBB phylosophy is not technology, he was talking about technology. Secondly, sure, the aztecs and the chinese did independently come to some of the conclusions of ancient greece, but again, it's the same thing. The fact that ideas can be rediscovered or discovered in parallel doesn't go against the fact that in ancient greece the overwheling majority of interesting ideas was written and talked about.

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@tafazzi-on-discord You know Greece didn’t invent philosophers right?

[@tafazzi-on-discord]

@@DeathnoteBB so what? What does that have to do with my points?

[@agathajohannbuenorosa175]

As a guy who likes non STEM classes, as much as the STEM classes themselves, I found this to be funny as hell, the part with the art history class was the one I most identified with

[@alexzanderroberts995]

Soooooo, how many sig figs did you use?

[@ausernameiguess7058]

The literature one spoke to my soul

[@divyanshu3149]

I loved my philosophy class, and the last "Ohkay, I found the weed dealer" had me rolling on the floor.

[@dereck-2205]

Same here

[@jacksonletts3724]

I got to take a non-STEM class for the first time (I’m a sophomore in CompEng) just recently and I literally cried tears of joy when I got to write an essay again. I missed them so much from highschool.

[@darthchait]

To be fair, math just turns into philosophy the higher up you go lol

[@alfredomulleretxeberria4239]

Not really. Math has more in common with programming than it does with philosophy.

[@RajatKumar-jc5nj]

"lets assume..."

[@56independent]

​@@alfredomulleretxeberria4239you haven't been high enough yet, i guess

[@bogusmcbogus2637]

@@56independent I have and it definitely doesn't morph into philosophy.

[@pedrosso0]

@@RajatKumar-jc5nj It's just a confusion of what the word "assume" means in mathetmatics. It's really an if statement. if X then Y if (all the axioms) then (all of mathematics)

[@omlett6482]

"How do we know we exist?" "Easy, we just accept the axiom that we exist"

[@oximas]

no that's called cheating

[@inotmark]

I don't care if I exist, just feed me when I am hungry and the rest takes care of itself.

[@64standardtrickyness]

Define exist

[@inotmark]

@@64standardtrickyness after dinner....

[@aceo_o2295]

@@inotmark 😂😂

[@pashpashe]

Since "the " is a definite article used to refer to a specific object, the choice of the word "the" also indicates that the forthcoming object is something specific and important to the story. If used in relation to the protagonist, it is something they consider to be unique enough to be separated from the rest of the objects in their life. It could also be a signal to the reader that the forthcoming word is something that would to be universally understood as a unique object or concept. On the other hand, if the word after 'the' is neither specific to the character nor reader, it could be a means for the author to engineer confusion and thus interest in the reader. Regardless of the intention of the author, beginning a story with "the" signals to the reader that the words coming after are worthy of interest and curiosity. In this way, an author can more quickly immerse a reader into their story.

[@nebby947]

damn you're high

[@pashpashe]

@@youtubeviewer2381 Well thanks

[@pashpashe]

@@nebby947 high on natural serotonin 😁

[@canilogin1730]

I FOUND THE WEED DEALER

[@fairycat23]

I hate how well this holds given our limited context. Like we literally don't even get a title from which to predict stuff and you're just killin' it.

[@nathangehman7018]

"OK. I found the weed dealer." That's quality writing right there.

[@housellama]

As someone who majored in experimental psychology and minored in philosophy, his writing is spot on.

[@finngeometry7570]

As a molecular biology and biochemistry major, I’m really glad the biotechnology course I took had us do a test and two essays about science in society. That stuff was more “artsy” than I was used to, but the perspective I gained from doing those assignments was honestly really valuable. My brain doesn’t really compute social sciences/art subjects too well, but I understand that they are important.

[@kevinzhang6623]

If you end up being a researcher, you're gonna end up dealing with a lot of political stuff and communicate/persuade people outside your community, that's inevitable and a big part of it.

[@finngeometry7570]

@@kevinzhang6623 yeah with some of the stuff we talked about that became pretty apparent.

[@minisarge2619]

That is literally the key to picking the best classes. Ask yourselves which ones will be relevant. Works wonders.

[@AfroMedic]

Lol my professor sent a 32 pages PDF file to read just to answer 10 questions. I converted it to a word file and serched words and saved my life.

[@jonathangrey6354]

That’s how you get through the humanities

[@AfroMedic]

@@jonahmann no time for that

[@jorgegomez3224]

just open the pdf on the browser and use ctrl F, no need to wast space creating a word document ;)

[@AmandaFreitas1998]

@@AfroMedic that's sad

[@AfroMedic]

@@AmandaFreitas1998 lol why, the American education system is not standardized. Why waste your life while others are doing less work for the same class .

[@heroicexecutive2025]

As a STEM student, I LOVED non-stem classes. So easy, so many gray areas to expand with BS I loved it. The only things padding my GPA to graduate above a 3.0. Got a BS degree for a reason :)

[@ryanward5770]

They actually added to your GPA? Must be nice. Forced classes in uninteresting and useless classes dragged my GPA down.

[@Andrew-mg3ib]

@@ryanward5770 Those classes are usually easy A's, much easier than having to memorize several pages of math proofs just so you can understand how an AI works.

[@ryanward5770]

@@Andrew-mg3ib I would probably say the opposite. Most option classes would require memorization while math classes are more about using basic tools you learned.

[@Andrew-mg3ib]

@@ryanward5770 Memorization and problem solving skills at the same time!

[@EngagingOverImmersive]

@@Andrew-mg3ib not even close

[@GymCritical]

“WHO is your weed dealer?” 😂😂😂 (Edit: why is my first comment with over 1K likes about drug distribution)

[@Vex-sn7ne]

“I found the weed dealer”

[@GymCritical]

@@Vex-sn7ne I was making tea pot noises at this point 🤣🤣🤣

[@whoisheiforgothisname2103]

Can I see this chair? Does this chair exist?

[@rujotheone]

🤣

[@hesterclapp9717]

The Philosopher

[@margaretbaldwin4416]

i went to a super liberal, laid back, artsy high school and growing up i was always conditioned to think i liked humanities and arts classes better because my high school invested more in those types of classes and the teachers were always the cool teachers. then i went to college and couldn’t figure out why i hated every humanities class i took, and switched from major to major, not passionate about anything. finally i decided i had to switch it up or risk getting stuck in a low-paying job i wasn’t passionate about. i decided to try nursing (even though science had always been my least favorite subject growing up) and absolutely fell in love with stem. always having a right and wrong answer, figuring out how things work, working methodically through problems, getting to feel super smart when a concept finally clicks. i think my experience is the reverse of a lot of people’s - most people’s schools heavily invest in STEM and really cut corners when it comes to the humanities classes. maybe that’s why so many people go into college and get super excited about humanities, because they’re finally taking classes from passionate teachers who love their jobs and are great educators. for me it was the opposite, and i got super excited about STEM as soon as i was exposed to well funded classes and teachers in that field. i think it does send a message about the importance of well funded education, and well-rounded allocation of those funds.

[@funtinomccoy9989]

“How many sig figs” triggered my fight or flight

[@weareallbornmad410]

What on earth is a sig fig?? Please enlighten the poor non-STEM student... :D

[@emperorpalpatine8943]

@@weareallbornmad410 something to do with numbers in chemistry. I’m not to sure

[@th3oryO]

Significant figures, or how many numbers after the decimal point

[@SomeGuyandHisHerps]

How many numbers to round to so you can be precise

[@renagonpoi5747]

@@th3oryO no, it's the number of digits before trailing zeroes.

[@MexicanSpinach]

A couple of years ago I had to take Econ 101 alongside my engineering classes, and the first day we were taught "what is a graph and how are they used". I've never rolled my eyes harder than that day.

[@Atlas92936]

So what's a graph? Jk😂

[@ladasodaexplains3355]

And then you get to Econ 301… “Class our first lesson today is going to be about how to use the Lagrangian method to maximize utility…” *WHEN DID I SIGN UP FOR A MATH CLASS*

[@JV3Player]

I actually have a lot of respect for economics majors, understanding the society which revolves around an economy.

[@JosephDT]

I am an engineering major myself. But, fun fact economics has wayyyy more pure maths than engineering. Engineering is just real world approximation of trivial physics models - that are 40 years old

[@athleticnerd8333]

I’m a senior in high school and I took AP macroeconomics and AP microeconomics but I’m also in the highest math class at my school, multivariable calculus and matrix algebra… yeah when we did the graphs lesson us four multivar kids were like “you can’t actually be serious”

[@matthewsj]

In Philosophy: OK, found the weed dealer. Best Line Ever!!

[@acca1461]

Bro😂😂😂😂😂

[@larswillems9886]

@@acca1461 I get the joke so no r/woooosh but isn't what the weed dealer said actually a scientific toughtprocess.

[@justinw8370]

My philosophy prof. made sure to frequently mention that coming to lecture high does not automatically make you better at philosophy so I don’t think all professors are incapable of understanding what students think of given subjects. Idk sometimes I assume that they aren’t really people but are actually robots and some of the times I am wrong.

[@maxybaer123]

@@larswillems9886 yes I assume they are about to launch into a lesson on one of the basic arguments of philosophy which is basicaly how we prove things are real. its not I think therefore I am. the most common answer to the problem afaik(not a philosophy major) is simply things are reall because they behave the way we expect them too and thus beleving they are real is the most useful framwork.

[@magorovthegreat6801]

Im a IT student who just recently took a course called "animal motifs in Czech literature" for one semester to get some free credits and i gotta say this is EXACTLY how it felt. And i mean exactly. One of the most fun courses ever

[@50Hz]

“What was wrong with my work?” “You didn’t interpret the question correctly” “I answered the question because that’s how it was asked”

[@toothfairy10133]

or the questions that can be answered with three sentences but are worth 12 marks. god im glad im not doing english any more.

[@someoldytaccount]

Literally me in terms of every assessment for Health. I almost failed my last assessment I did because I couldn't understand what the teacher wanted, as the marking key didn't even say what you had to include to get full marks. I had to use the description to work it out, and that's how I did so bad. Honestly, it's supposed to be a "relaxing, easy class to take my mind off of the work load".

[@kaankanca4634]

Dude this is NOT only for non-STEM classes. I’ve seen some uni level math questions that were asked so horribly that I thought I had to do an hour of calculations rather than just rewrite a simple definition. I wasn’t the only one who thought that either.

[@Bladerunner5146]

Me with theme or main idea questions like multiple lessons can be taken from things how is it my fault I find a different one than what you want

[@prapanthebachelorette6803]

@@kaankanca4634 relatable

[@HollywoodF1]

As an engineer- let me encourage you younger people to focus on being well rounded. You’ll find that when you’re the engineering expert member of your team, the rest of your team is more interested in your ability to communicate on their level. They hire you more often. You make more money. You have better job security.

[@woozihae]

Ohh now I have a reason to be interested in every subject, lol. Thank you!

[@zuludude2]

There's a difference in being able to communicate and being able to extrapolate the inner thoughts of a 13th century author who wrote the curtains were blue when in reality no one gives a fuck. I've taken some arts classes where you actually learn something like mixing paints, color theory, photoshop/other digital editing. I've taken some history classes where you learn something, like how X idea literally never works, how current events today parallel historical ones and the likely outcomes in the near future if X happens or doesn't happen. The occasional useful class doesn't change the fact that nearly all of the rest are subjective circlejerks where you learn nothing and waste your time and money listening to a stoned asshole who doesn't particularly want to be there.

[@little_pretty_little_dead]

@@zuludude2 couldn't have said it better.

[@blue123456ization]

How are non-STEM classes effective in STEM communication ? Learning History or any humanities subject seems like a gigantic waste of time. In my undergrad i hated all these classes. They made zero sense to me apart from getting the necessary credits

[@lordanonimmo7699]

@@blue123456ization I ask you how the fuck learning history is a waste of time???

[@jenniferpearce1052]

At my school, the STEM kids taking their one French class to collect their AP credits outperformed the French majors in the same class.

[@hoangnguyenvuhuy5535]

@ཀཱ or they just know French in advance, there used to be a Japanese in my JPN 101 class

[@MCSROkickz]

STEM majors outperform arts kids in every class.Elite shit.

[@percyweasley9301]

So their syllabus and difficulty level were same with French majors?

[@jenniferpearce1052]

@@percyweasley9301 Exact same classroom at the same time. Same exams, same readings, same assignments, same quizzes.

[@percyweasley9301]

@@jenniferpearce1052 Wow, that's not right. French major's syllabus and exam should be tougher than AP credits syllabus.

[@avisnubia]

I'm a dance professor at a small university in the south. My classes terrify the STEM students because dancers only count to 8 and we start counting at 5. Y'all are very funny!

[@musaratjahan7954]

Wtf kinda counting is that??

[@SomeOne-gm5md]

I've always wondered why they go 5, 6, 7, 8. If dancers wanted to count four numbers, why do they start at 5 instead of 1?

[@gracechen624]

@@SomeOne-gm5mdthey want to count 8 numbers, but they want a short leadin so everyone can land on the subsequent 1 at the correct time. Hence 5,6,7,8 and then 1, which marks the start

[@hasch5756]

@@SomeOne-gm5md Vulgar! Everyone knows counting starts at 0

[@SomeOne-gm5md]

@@hasch5756 I think that's when your first instinct is computer science instead of math. After all, 1, 2, 3, ect. are called the "counting numbers"

[@amazingturtle5075]

I never understood why people actually enjoyed college until I took non stem classes. They're so enjoyable and easy, you don't have to do homework for like half of them.

[@bbybanshee539]

😂😂😂❤️

[@soccerboss7924]

Facts. I kinda regret picking engineering because when I’m leaving the building at 8 pm everyday after studying for 4 hours I see everyone else on campus having fun and feel like I’m missing out but I’ll just have fun when I’m rich

[@peterlewis2178]

Depends on the kind of class. My classes had a lot of reading and essay writing.

[@CURTAINS_]

Yeah dude as an English major I felt the same way about intro to bio. If you took one of the upper level humanities classes I’m sure you’d have a different opinion.

[@spectreone]

@@soccerboss7924 facts

[@themangastand8475]

As a stem student I actually really cared about these classes. These are the things that can make you more well rounded. Understanding history is extremely vital

[@coals6262]

History yes, couple different math and science courses sure. But why the hell do I need a music or art class for a major unrelated on it and spend a thousand plus dollars on the class tuition and books / online books for homework access etc ? At that point it’s extortion.

[@themangastand8475]

@@coals6262 oh I didnt need that for my degree. I just needed my majour and minor. At least take a couple intro sciences that are outside my field of study, and math. I had to take two english courses. Then the rest was optional. Which I decided to mainly focus on classics, and philosophy

[@alilalani9531]

Yes knowing about the cold war will help you make an AI fucking dumbass 😂😂

[@cptn_chromo3189]

That's what high school is for.

[@notlogical4016]

@@coals6262 same with english, its the exact same class i took in high school...... which were also repeats of eachother

[@RC32Smiths01]

I am a STEM student in World Literature and Federal Government, and I can say this hurts because it's true.

[@vincentdavis8960]

#metoo

[@HISEROD]

An enemy of literature class is a friend of mine.

[@marvinasas2060]

I have a question. So I am not from the USA and to me this whole system is super weird. Can you explain me why you guys take this weird useless classes? Like why would you do that if you want to become an engineer or something like that? It's just a huge waste of time and money isn't it?

[@HISEROD]

@@marvinasas2060 Yes, it's a big, fat waste; but in short, we take them because they're required for virtually any degree program. My understanding is that these classes exist mainly as a result of the indoctrination of many people. They are told that "well-roundedness" is why these classes are important, and while that may have been partially true a few decades ago, it is becoming less and less applicable to modern life since we have the *massive* internet at our fingertips. The classes are now cemented into degree programs by government requirements for accreditors. If an accreditor isn't approved by the department of education, colleges won't bother contacting that institution for accreditation. Why? Because if the dep. of ed. doesn't approve the accreditor of a college, the students won't be able to receive federal aid. So the reason that the classes stay, based on my limited research, is that the (often) lax government employees in the dep. of ed. are convinced that these silly classes should still be required for an accreditor to be officially recognized or they're just too lazy to make any meaningful changes. If anyone who knows a great deal about this topic would like to correct me, please do. I don't want to mislead anyone if I've made any errors.

[@asadruddin6587]

@@HISEROD Well college is a place of learning isn't it? Aside from colleges making more money if you stay in there longer, you really do come out well rounded. I major in economics and a minor in math yet the chemistry and biology class I took were some of my favorites in school.

[@pappanalab]

I hit the amazing sweet spot of being a STEM major who was also great at humanities. I’m an artist, musician, and writer, all of my talents were hobbies I just got really, really good at. My specific interests in STEM is focused on biology, especially evolutionary biology/paleontology. That eventually lead me to learn about anthropology which got me interested in ancient history. Ironically I got into philosophy through my love of science. Don’t worry. To balance it out i was also severely depressed throughout my who time in academia. I had terrible grades in most of those classes even though I understood and was good at everything.

[@deeniceeni]

i mean i dont want to burst your bubble but if you got bad grades u probably didn't understand or were good at everything then eh?

[@Pandara-up5lw]

Yea tone down the ego bud you wernt that great at jack if you don’t have anything to show for it

[@frankchen4229]

​@@deeniceenigrades don't mean much.

[@brickbybrickproductions8614]

Perhaps your depression and terrible grades stemmed from your ego...I don't mean this in a sarcastic way but when people are arrogant they think they know the information and so they don't actually learn. They also convince themselves that they don't have to study/seek help/learn because they think they know everything.

[@dragon-kun199]

i dont know why the replies are so mean when you're just sharing your experience. i think your expansive interests is one to be admired. i wish i have a wide array of interests like that but it is pretty narrow scoped so far. striving to expand on it. hope you're In a better Emotional state right now. Even when we believe we understand everything bout a topic there is always room to improve. confidence is good but make sure you know where things went wrong to prevent it for next time. Hope you're having a great day

[@ollicron7397]

I remember it being exactly like this, I was in a japanese literature class, and I remember every time a character did something stupid and the professor asked why the character did that stupid thing, my answer in my head was because they are stupid, but other students seemed to come up with a more reasonable answer that makes sense.

[@aliciacaruso6153]

But yours is the most logical answer 🤠

[@AT-ws9lx]

@@aliciacaruso6153 is "more reasonable" & "makes sense" not logical?

[@CrownePri]

trust me, it's coz they are stupid (the characters)

[@josiahgibbs5697]

I like yours better.

[@ferociousmaliciousghost]

​@@aliciacaruso6153 It could be some sort of conflict with goals or something, but just saying they're stupid is also completely valid.

[@hunterkiller1440]

Liberal arts teacher: So studying my subject is a science. I don't think you know what that word means.

[@howardbaxter2514]

Me: Oh, it’s a science alright. It’s a science on how many fucks I give about this class. The answer is none.

[@howardbaxter2514]

In all seriousness though, Intro English classes aren’t too bad, and I actually enjoy learning about history.

[@dragonvarine7553]

@Luís Andrade Liberal arts suggests its generalised, so its not exactly specifying social science. 99% of liberal art subjects arent a science

[@dragonvarine7553]

@Luís Andrade "The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.". You dont experiment nor create hypothesis/theories (no not that type of theory) in History. Nor do you study structure or behaviour of the physical world/universe itself. If history is a science then the specific act of me remembering what I ate every day is a science too.

[@hurdan3907]

@Luís Andrade fucking goddem hahaha

[@dynamicdingus]

I'm an artist at heart but went into CS cus i didn't want to be homeless, and also want a job that requires me to use my brain. Even if art paid well, I don't like the idea of making art with limitations for someone's specific requests. It's more of a passionate personal thing that brings peace and sense of accomplishment to my life. It allows me to exercise creativity and satisfy my curiosity by exploring with different mediums and even with other art form that I enjoy, such as music and film. I like to think that the logical thinking from cs helps me with my art process and gives me a new perspective to work with, in the same way that art gives me the ability to be more creative with my code. I wonder how my thinking will continue to change as I add more unrelated subjects to the brain portfolio.

[@livc.6761]

“Brain portfolio” I love that phrase and me too!!

[@fatixa6792]

Right? Same here. Real passion is art and literature and yet here i am, in med school

[@HotelSoapBand]

Me too, I went into Chem Engineering but hope to be a poet anyway

[@bubblegumbp9050]

@@livc.6761 same liked the phrase, nice thought

[@kovici7226]

TOTALLY. that’s my view exactly

[@Freight_Train]

My dad was a doctor. He said the easy class in premed was art appreciation. I went to an art school for graphic design. The easy class was physics and the one everyone feared was drawing class.

[@chancerc7523]

Haha yes! In the mathematics department, and the toughest classes are major classes for every department.

[@atomicgiraffe250]

i was a STEM student and I dunno... going to a non STEM class was actually a refreshing change

[@milhollandandrew]

Same. I’m an engineering major but when presented with the question “what are your favorite classes?”, I always answer history. Not all STEM majors have a hard on for physics and mathematics. In fact most of my classmates are half retarded.

[@atomicgiraffe250]

@@milhollandandrew I was a computing major and I knew students who did not know who Joe Biden or Mike Pence were. Some of these kids were scary ignorant

[@frankchen4229]

@@atomicgiraffe250 i mean if they're just fresh out of high school and the only small amount of free time is devoted to their obsessions with computing can you really blame them for not caring?

[@cara9567]

Yeah I love science and technology but hate maths 🤣

[@TimTYT]

I'm in CS, but I currently have a class about politics and economics and it's actually a lot of fun.

[@reijiriho]

4:20 "seriously, if a 9.0 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter of my ass happened right now it would literally add value to my life. The fact that I haven't jumped out the window should alone win me the Nobel peace prize..." That's it, I'm a new fan ❤️

[@obinnanwakwue5735]

Read this as it came up, lovely

[@Arvl.]

That one caught me off guard

[@highqualityorangejuice420]

Can relate so much

[@MeJustMe101]

2:26 Imagine hearing one of your classmates spout that out, lamo

[@aweirdguyforever]

I remember my Japanese history class I took as a STEM student. The TA essentially told us she'd grade our (me and my friends) papers easier because she knew we weren't history majors or something. A little condescending but an A is an A.

[@randomnotimportant9607]

I mean, that's usually how it is at least where I live. If you take an elective Russian class or sth it's a complete and utter joke compared to what the actual Russian majors were doing.

[@kikithepupper6774]

Oh no.. i'd have LOVED that

[@ryanalving3785]

"You got an F." "But what is F, if not MA?" And you're the one asking someone else "who's your weed dealer"?

[@coals6262]

Can Force really be force without Mass & Acceleration? Philosophy majors debate or to this day as it’s their 5th time having to take intro to physics.

[@RakkiOfficial]

non-STEM students hearing this be like "ok you and your weird jumble of letters, if it makes sense for you, I guess?? xD"

[@TransparentlyDuplicitous]

Art history was my reprieve from my major STEM courses. My professor's specialization was in Rennaisance art, so we got lessons on the materials used, the geometry of perspective and ratios, and techniques involved in the creation of art. Our exams also consisted solely of looking at art pieces and identifying as many elements about them as possible. That helped me appreciate the art pieces when we were forced to go to an art museum that semester. Honestly, a good professor can make even something that sounds mundane far more interesting.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Yeah I think the biggest divide is bad teachers

[@anacreon212]

its a good teacher who is super passionate about the subject. I mean i hated history but i had one history teacher on college who was amazing. That was probably the first time I enjoyed a history class.

[@prapanthebachelorette6803]

@@DeathnoteBB you said it best

[@martyruth77]

the literature discussion is so real- i'm a computer science major now, and back in the 12th grade i took AP literature. i was really sitting there at my desk, doing actual math with the ages and timespans listed in Wuthering Heights to disprove the theory that Cathy's ghost could have been at the window

[@minisarge2619]

Hey if it works it works The trick is to make it work for you. Analysis complete!

[@yourmathtutorvids]

I’d rather do any problem set than answer “what does the author mean by this” in a lit class 😐

[@vincentdavis8960]

My answer is always the same "The author means exactly what they wrote." F

[@xavierburval4128]

Same mate

[@shaquilleoatmeal2685]

But usually its really easy and you can kind of just make up whatever. I actually dislike actually having to pay attention to grasp the topic and instead just give a bs generic answer that is a mold for basically every poetic topic.

[@vincentdavis8960]

@@shaquilleoatmeal2685You're right; I got over it by considering it practice for getting my ideas across to other people who aren't in STEM fields (or the same STEM field), but my brain still screams my previous comment the entire time.

[@SoloRenegade]

@@shaquilleoatmeal2685 Exactly, non STEM classes are so easy because they are so subjective and open to interpretation, so just make something up and make it sound reasonable.

[@yajjatsekhsaria806]

Philosopher: So how do we know the chair is real? Bell's Theorum: "No, No, He's got a point"

[@bofa-zi4fj]

2:12 “da fu*k” 💀💀💀

[@denzelgalamgam]

"HuHhh?"

[@brightappiah6327]

Huh?

[@heatherthedutch-american1481]

Who is your weed dealer?

[@jonathanharoun5247]

Educational channel. Says fuck.

[@thomaskhlebovitch6198]

I have rewatched this part three times and it gets better every single time xD

[@redsoxu571]

As a STEM major who loved his non-STEM subjects too, I had a great time in my freshman seminar. There were a number of them, and they all focused on writing (they were basically about priming students to understand what would be expected of them going forward in terms of writing workload), but they placed all the STEM students in the same one that had the same sort of writing assignments but with a STEM-subject bent. We'd get all sort of casual "write a page's worth" single-night assignments that I would tear through, but before long I realized how much of a slog the whole thing was for a number of classmates. Fair enough, to each one's own, right? By the time I graduated, I had concluded that if my goal had been to get maximum enjoyment out of college classes I would have been a history major. Don't get me wrong, that "if" was not actually true and thus even retroactively I'd stand by my major, but that alternative track would have been like a vacation!

[@sovietunion7643]

considering how bad my highschool years were, the only way i was going to actually stick with another round in school systems and not actively hate my life and drop out was if i actually enjoyed what i was doing, so im 100% glad i picked history. you can keep your fancy jobs i just want to actively try to not be a idiot at my parents home being a bum

[@jakec.1136]

I think it’s usually less about finding the classes boring and more about being frustrated the inconsistency of the class structure. I hated how subjective English classes were, even though I like English

[@m.c.martin]

Depends on your professor. Some will literally not tell you what the author thought or was thinking until after you turn in an assignment. Others won’t let you have fun with assignments and you have to be completely in line with what the author was talking about, even if you have no clue what it can mean. Those professors usually aren’t fun

[@marielaberge8236]

​@@m.c.martin Yeah, those are two different approaches to critically analyzing a text valuing either the reader's experience or the author's intention (since those are two different things that influence meaning). Good professors will introduce you to a broad range of critical approaches found in literary theory, not try to dictate what the One Truth of a text is (hence how subjective and inconsistent the field appears to be)

[@jordanlazaro1676]

As a Biochemistry undergrad, my favorite courses are in Philosophy. I love Philosophy so much that I am minoring in it and at times I wish it was my major. Philosophy has made me change my viewpoint of the world and science and has helped me see the errors made in scientific thinking. The upper-division Philosophy courses are indeed difficult but my mind gets sharper every class meeting.

[@noon_chai]

Neuroscience and philosophy here, totally agree. 19th and 20th century continental philosophy was one of the hardest classes I ever took in college, and studying Hegel was the closest I’d ever been to a mental breakdown, lol. But damn did I love it

[@jordanlazaro1676]

@@noon_chai That's cool! Not the mental breakdown part lol. Honestly, I think philosophers become better scientists when they study science because they are so good at understanding concepts and the limitations of them and are humble enough to understand that there is more that they don't know than they even beleive is possible to know.

[@thomaswest4033]

@@jordanlazaro1676 Definitely! There is SO much work that goes into Philosophy of science, you have to know both the philosophy and understand higher level (usually physics but really any science they're researching.) But even non science-philosophy is very fascinating!

[@therighteousmind6708]

Philosophy, Psychology, Anthropology and History are my favourite subjects

[@yashaswikulshreshtha1588]

Yes philosophy is the realm of thinking where you're challenged to think different. If you can't think different you can't think beyond. The more you think the deeper you do, more you realize your thoughts are not entirely yours. We all think that we think but deep enough you will realize, each thought is a consequence caused by a cause. Once you can influence causes you can influence consequences

[@claymusic2205]

Stem: is my answer correct? Let's calculate and see. Literature: is my answer correct? Mmm yea I like you.. and yea.. I'm feeling it.

[@baerververgaert1308]

Teacher: it's not good enough. Meaning: your rhetorical skills require more work. Perhaps you could improve your phrasing and creative language use.

[@SwordWieldingDuck]

@@baerververgaert1308 or may be teacher just an idiot, which you must be to be a teacher in literature, and can't understand your logical conclusions.

[@HotCrossJuns]

​@@SwordWieldingDuck Calling English teachers idiots while horribly butchering the English language. There's irony in there somewhere

[@abnerdupuis7110]

God help you if you need to justify and articulate why what you found was right. If only there was a way to make evidence based arguments and put them into a thought out, readable presentation. Good thing people in STEM never to write anything. Good thing the subjects in STEM are so simplistic that they can always be successfully navigated without language or argumentation.

[@noahbirthisel3285]

@@abnerdupuis7110 Teachers overwhelmingly come out of the bottom third of their class. Also most upper level math is no longer so simple as to not require some amount of work.

[@zerocooljpn]

that "the fuck" got to me man. I relate so much. They spend hours talking about nothing. I read the super boring books and everything. But the difference of opinion with the teacher/professor usually got me a C tops. C doesn't betray you. It justs compiles and runs beautifully.

[@stevegamer68]

The only problem with C is that it runs beautifully until it doesn't and then you spend the next hours trying to find out what happened only to trace it back to some irrelevant piece of code that triggers undefined behaviour

[@musaratjahan7954]

"C just complies and runs beautifully" what planet are you living on?

[@stevejones69420]

​@@musaratjahan7954the one where segfaults are nonexistent

[@smikkelbeer7890]

Error: segmentation fault.

[@allison4882]

"let's begin." "the- let's stop there. what do you think the author means by this?" 😂

[@tacohouse01]

This was like my favorite thing

[@imaginenation5158]

I think the author here is attempting to preface a certain part of speech, namely a noun either proper or non-proper, by utilizing a disparate part of speech known as an article, which in our case seems to be the word "the".

[@e443productions9]

It’s also hilarious at the same time because whenever I’m writing creatively I just write and then refine sentence level stuff and most of the time the specific words are just words and not some hidden Rorschach test

[@HenryZhoupokemon]

I took 2 humanities courses the semester and the amount I had to read and the amount of essays I had write was just insane. Idk how these liberal arts kids do it

[@reet7060]

And it’s always about nothing substantial.

[@rujotheone]

@@reet7060 bro they keep analysing and analysing

[@kattenelvis1778]

@@reet7060 It is certiantly substaintial. You don't have to be a stembro to realize that liberal arts is extremely valuable and contain lots of things of substance. That includes history, what has happened and how out world came to be, or philosophy which is about thinking deeply about existance, conscioussness, ethics, politics and so on. I can keep going, but there's something very valuable in studying liberal arts that you cannot gain any other way, that being argument skills, communication skills and ability to write read and critically analyse texts.

[@HenryZhoupokemon]

@@reet7060 some of what I had to read/write was actually quite substantial. My final paper for philosophy was about the Holocaust and apartheid

[@Bruhaustindavis]

I know, all of my math and science homework makes up a fraction of my homework compared to just ONE of these classes. The worst part is that it feels like I wasted SO MUCH time, while with for example a problem set, I feel like I've enhanced my abilities and productively spent my time.

[@benjaminshields9421]

Philosophy is lit. Philosophy as an engineer is one of my most fun GEs. It's a time to really think of and analyze a subject other than my own in a way I am familiar is. Theres a reason so many greats in the STEM field have philosophy tied to them

[@personontheinternet2164]

Alan Turing was literally a philosopher lmao

[@JV3Player]

Philosophy 101 helped me realize how much more fun I will have in practical engineering classes.

[@longbeing]

Philosophy is slept on

[@Nathanatos22]

It’s interesting… I was a math major and took a philosophy class my last semester, and I’ve been obsessed ever since. Seems to be a fairly common trend for some reason.

[@PomegranateAmazing79]

Yes couldn't agree more. A lot of great scientists before the modern world were great philosophers as well. Descartes, lebinitz etc

[@myagrimm4719]

I'm getting a STEM degree and wish there was more of a focus on writing. So many scientific papers I read are horrible - they either over explain things in the most convoluted way or barely provide relevant details. Finding a well-written scientific paper is soooo satisfying 😌

[@candyman4769]

People don’t have time to focus on writing well, it’s publish or perish out there

[@myagrimm4719]

@@candyman4769 True. I hope those standards change. Research should be encouraged of course but there are a lot of issues with expecting research to always be something new and "exciting." Especially in regards to people not doing follow up studies to confirm results and not releasing negative results, and sometimes people just straight up fake their data to conform with "publish or perish"

[@chancerc7523]

Maybe it will! With concern over low-quality or reproduced“data” from technology percolate into certain research circles in later or upcoming years?

[@plasmakitten4261]

Should have tried math, where good writing is essential to being understood at all

[@tc6818]

Glad to see university classes haven't changed in forty years. In my Philosophy 101 class, it was the blue table. On the exams, you got +4 points for a correct answer and -2 points for a wrong answer. Questions left blank received 0 points. Did I mention these were multiple choice? On the first exam he graded on a curve, and a bottom D turned out to be a -12. The final exam was a variation of all the previous exams through the semester with questions tweaked and the answers resequenced. I ended up getting an A on the final by only answering the questions I was 100% positive on. Left all the other questions blank.

[@limsiryuean5040]

One of the reasons why i hate my current social science degree in IR, getting another one in comp sci

[@ofekiii9894]

2:10 that "the fuck" killed me bro i can't stop laughing

[@colevano]

But what is F? Another programming language.

[@deprivedoftrance]

Glad I'm not the only one who caught that;

[@ammarmorad2901]

@@deprivedoftrance +1

[@Smonserratm]

Helmholtz free energy.

[@colevano]

@@weakspirit_ probably

[@JBass33]

Great video. I took a real estate finance class when I was in law school. Plug your figures into a formula and get the right answer. When the class ran across a real estate law question the professor would say, “Let’s ask the law students in the class.” He learned very quickly that our answers always began with, “Well, it depends.” Because it does depend on the facts, statutes, case law, etc. He stopped asking us questions. He was basically a STEM professor asking non-STEM students for answers that could not be reduced to numbers.

[@ayasguitar8718]

EnglishTeacher: write a paragraph about music Me:mechanical waves that propagate at nearly 320m/s. That varie due to different fequencies

[@imcoolchristian]

There are open-open systems, open-close, and close closed systems that contribute to that frequency variation

[@David-nm8pz]

OMG I'm learning about this right now! and it makes my brain hurt!

[@HISEROD]

Pleasant to the ear esp. with waves of high amplitude between 10 and 50 Hz.

[@Valchrist1313]

Frequencies from acoustic, X-ray, infrared and radiowaves can be used for imaging. Being another form of EMF, the wifi signals bathing your household are actually lamps. You live in glass houses illuminated by lights you cannot see. Not only does the 5G millimeter band carry massive amounts of data, but it's even broad enough to apply spectroscopy to determine material composition, just as military satellites and surveillance planes do via "Hyperspectral imaging" which analyzes each discrete frequency to create composite images. The 'Internet of Things' infrastructure this vast quantity of data and arranging it in to 3-D 'data-cubes', or 3-dimensional maps. Since they're tracked over over time, to create predictive models, I suppose it'd be more accurate to call them 4-D maps. Especially since this is used to create predictive models. A similar outcome can be seen with the military leaks due to Fit-Bits revealing troop movements. This hyperspectral mapping is already done by not just the military by by mining and oil prospectors. But the increase in emitters and the quality of their signals is a game-changer in 'hyperspectral imaging', in addition to the creation of portable hyperspectral cameras. For more info on next-gen surveillance look up some videos on MIT's wireless cameras that can read your heartbeat through walls, never mind see you. And for more to think about, "visual microphones" that can replicate audio through invisible vibrations caught on camera.. If you can't already 'hear' speech through sub-millimetre wifi signals, it's only a matter of time.

[@ChaoticLifemaker]

@@imcoolchristian Oh oh oh oh tell them about overtones and resonances!!

[@Lambda_Ovine]

I mean, to be honest, I took sociology and artistic drawing because I was told they were super easy classes to fill my social electives, and they were, like the professors knew that nobody was there because they actually cared, and really only focused on the very few that did... and I enjoyed them a lot. Sociology changed the way I see the world for the better and drawing turned out to be one of the most therapeutic ways to deal with stress.

[@aaronlandry3934]

I remember finding many mistakes in my Sociology textbook and sending emails to the publishers through the textbook for corrections. I’m such a try hard

[@Garfooled]

Damn I miss Sociology, my professor was chill as hell too

[@m1ken_01]

Last time I was this early there was still a ladder there.

[@zachstar]

Found a true fan

[@kishorekumarsathishkumar1562]

lmao I remember that

[@japstinejeet1659]

Bruh😂😂

[@ykm_mirror_ghost5154]

As a STEM major who wants to be a teacher, writing a paper about the value of art and STEAM felt like this video at first. But now I’m realizing that art, scientific illustration, and creativity actually do play a role in creating a more accessible educational experience. Who knew?

[@lurategh]

Of course!! There's indescribable value to a liberal arts education. People should be well-rounded, and oftentimes the skills learned from the two disciplines can bleed into the other anyway. Just because something doesn't produce a tangible product or doesn't produce profit doesn't mean it's any less worth our time. Pretty much everything that makes us human is found in the humanities (the fact it's called humanities should be a dead giveaway)--art, writing, philosophy, music, all the things that have made up human culture since quite literally the beginning of humankind. And at the same time, STEM is incredibly important too for obvious reasons. There's no stressing the importance of valuing BOTH kinds of educations because they're both extremely vital to civilization. That should go without saying.

[@sovietunion7643]

well of course. humans are flexible and don't work as machines. we don't have certain backrounds or inputs that make an exact output every time. different people have different tendencies, skill floors/ceilings, stress/work tolerence, and so forth. economics for me has worked best in finding the balance of this, mixing brutal darwinistic mathematics and structures with genuine debate on how society should run.

[@karlcossaboon7072]

2:27 I can not relate more with the guy asking WHO IS YOUR WEED DEALER LMAOOO

[@Yuuki3uwu]

Yea exactly

[@lollol-en9xx]

It was the Philosophy teacher 5:03

[@JV3Player]

@@lollol-en9xx it always has been. The philosophy teachers have the highest dominatrix count.

[@whatspoppin11326]

I really felt The minimum “word count” thing lmao usually I love humanities classes but with common app essays I was literally just bullshitting till I hit the word limit and submitting whatever I had

[@waleedkhalid7486]

I used to identify with this, but then I learned to appreciate the humanities. Now I teach my biology students using a more academically holistic approach, which many end up appreciating!

[@rainyday9002]

Go you!! I appreciate teachers like you 😃

[@avengemybreath3084]

CRT?

[@Alex-ff1mk]

@@avengemybreath3084lmaooo

[@crimson_auror]

As a biology major and current med student I was so triggered by the “sig figs” it brings back horrible memories from chemistry lol.

[@DanteKG.]

I love how art professors are the same everywhere, they're so into their subject and they're all like "LOOK AT THAT!! LOOK AT HIS BRILLIANT USE OF CONTRAST..."

[@aseth9541]

Always cool when your professors love their subject

[@roo1392]

@@aseth9541 Exactly. If anything its great. I feel privileged to have a professor so passionate about what they're teaching.

[@SwordWieldingDuck]

@@roo1392 seem more like overcompensation for realisation that they spent whole of their lives doing stupid shit like anylising literature, inventing meanings where there was none.

[@Lacesonashes]

@@SwordWieldingDuck as a person who likes to draw- I'd rather draw and analyse drawing than //waste my time// learning the derivative of the dx something or other Also having a useless degree doesn't mean that anyone is gonna an existential crisis- especially if they found something with their lives A lot of jobs suck anyway Stem is important and so is lit Have you never watched a movie that resonated with you? A lit person was probably involved

[@gigishroom]

@@SwordWieldingDuck damn this dude is freaking salty just cause we art students get to have fun with our subjects lol

[@zachary4670]

3:10 this gave me anxiety. The weirdest part of going from a STEM degree to doing my social science degree was “where are the freaking equations? How do I study without using equations?” The second weirdest part was when they DIDNT give me a cheat sheet of all the pertinent equations!

[@Capitan_Chaos]

They give you cheat sheets? 😱not in my classes

[@Slayer-fv5pw]

More like short note full of formulas

[@anerrorhasoccurred8727]

Social science seems to follow the formula of “just make random shit up about ‘human nature’ and then say that everyone else is wrong.”

[@v0id_d3m0n]

@@anerrorhasoccurred8727 I wonder why it's called a "science" then.

[@RG-vb7ly]

Humanities majors can confirm. At the same time, we were tired of hearing non-humanities majors complain about having to read only 20 pages for a class during the entire semester like it was a form of cruel and unusual punishment.

[@e443productions9]

Lol then your non-humanities peeps must be living in heaven because every science class I have makes us read a gazillion scientific articles every week and write a commentary on it for discussion while we are also learning something completely unrelated in the actual class that itself requires further research (and I wish we had assigned readings to understand the clusterfuck that biochem is sometimes)

[@alexanderunguez9633]

@@e443productions9 Can confirm! Additionally, a structures report can take up 20 pages by itself depending on how much direct solving you do yourself.

[@e443productions9]

@@alexanderunguez9633 And writing research proposals is MUCH harder than writing essays imo

[@p4ru935]

Having to make a report in science feels like eternity.

[@theonebman7581]

"20 pages" STEM seems so simple sometimes- I'm pretty much used to having to read entire 200-page-long books on the essence of culture and modern philosophy sjsjsksjj

[@lurategh]

As someone with a degree in the humanities, I probably would've been just as much a fish out of water in STEM classes. I took a computer science class for one semester and didn't know what the f I was doing, and I only took the lowest-level math class required for me to graduate bc me + complex math = nope. Good thing we as humans vary widely in our strengths and interests, huh? Where would we be as a society without the humanities and where would we be without STEM?

[@musaratjahan7954]

Same here but my majors were reversed. I'm majoring in STEM and, as an elective, we had to take some humanities classes. I decided to take English (I think it was literature?) and immediately on the first day, it was obvious to me, I had no idea what was going on. I had an episode of impostor syndrome just sitting in that class while everyone seemed to come up with answers out of no where. I'm a bit egotistical and used to figuring out answers in mathematics easily and before anyone else, so I was not used to being speechless in a class

[@JayTemple]

Math major, French minor. (I suppose languages count as humanities. Not STEM, in any event, although a Ph.D. in any field, including STEM, requires them.) In high school we had a writing assignment one day where I said that science classes, construed to include math, were important because science makes or preserves life. The teacher replied that the humanities make it enjoyable. Now I like to say that we're both right. Science saves and improves lives at the fundamental level, but humanities make life worthwhile.

[@lurategh]

@@JayTemple Yes, I like to think STEM is a manifestation of ourselves on an external level (the curiosity and intelligence to create a better, more advanced outer world) while humanities are a manifestation of our internal, innate selves as humans (just think of art, music, writing, language, philosophy, everything that makes up human culture and has been with us since we've existed). It's obviously more nuanced than that but that's just if I had to word it in a nutshell. Both extremely vital to the perpetuation and advancement of civilization.

[@g4uzy]

@@lurateghbeautifully said

[@chancerc7523]

@@JayTemple​​⁠​​⁠@merryway3 I love these answers.

[@epicestpoopmunchergangepm7962]

the "why is there a ; after every line" "because you told me to write in C" killed me

[@NHenry-dy2fo]

"No - I see what you're doing and it's honestly just annoying." Thank you for the whole literature class portion. I feel so validated.

[@DeathnoteBB]

What were they doing?

[@NHenry-dy2fo]

When a professor says something like, "you can do that," but what they're actually saying is something more like, "you CAN do that, but if it's not immediately groundbreaking, I'll fail you," or, "you can do that if you're really that naïve - bet." @DeathnoteBB @Albino Cake

[@NHenry-dy2fo]

Overall, just not choosing to answer a question in a way that will build up the boundaries/limitations on an assignment.

[@Aw3som3-117]

ikr? That whole section was soooo me XD Just tell me what I gotta do to get outta there with a B or higher. Even the movie instead of the book thing was spot on. I had one class where you were supposed to read like 5 books cover to cover in the semester, but fortunately the first one I'd already read before, so I decided to go based on memory and use it as a bit of a test run to see if it seemed like I'd need to read the next books. Sure enough, the analysis was all super surface level. And so, the next one I took it a step further and just watched the movie: still super easy. Finally, on books 3-5 all I did was make sure my presentation was on the second week instead of the first and used the first week's presentations to write my own. I got full marks in that class. Not just an A: Full marks. Like, over 100% because there was extra credit... aaaaand it was supposedly a 300-level class (kind of the capstone for the gen-eds). Why do we pay money for school again?

[@kevinrasmusson4005]

2:27 hahahahaha ”WHO IS YOUR WEED-DEALER????”

[@acca1461]

"Okay found the weed dealer" 😂😂😂

[@AidanS99]

When I was in College for MechE I always remembered the non-stem classes as a great time to goof off. During Covid I have fond memories of playing Battlefield with my camera off while my Poly Sci professor spoke about the current political climate. Easiest A of my life.

[@PapaFlammy69]

Duck me 6star

[@jayantipaul5325]

Duck me Faddy

[@akselai]

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[@harleyspeedthrust4013]

Flammable maths gey confirmed???

[@kakalimukherjee3297]

Need more Chad videos, Sir

[@obinnanwakwue5735]

ayo

[@massojupiter3436]

"the- ok let's stop there, what do you think that means?" That's a summary of every English class I have ever taken. And the students that come up with answers is spot on.

[@longbeing]

Engineering major here, I took Intro to Latino Studies for my ethnic studies requirement. It was simultaneously the easiest class of my college career and contained some of the most esoteric, academic reading that I’ve ever had. Real interesting subject, but the very definition of the field itself is complex enough to build an academic career on.

[@JayTemple]

Does the definition include the difference between Latino and Hispanic? (not being sarcastic, genuinely curious)

[@longbeing]

@@JayTemple sort of. Some of the earliest info was on the definition of Hispanic, Latino, Chicano, Latinx, etc. and the various pros and cons of each term. One of the major differences is that Hispanic includes Spanish people, and their experiences are so different that it doesn’t make sense to study them alongside Latino experiences.

[@JayTemple]

@@longbeing Thank you. That makes perfect sense: SPANish people are HiSPANic, but only people from Latin America are Latino.

[@tyrannosaurusimperator]

Any sort of "____ studies" is an academic jerk off session designed at best to waste tuition money and at worst, a communist training camp.

[@pinkcloud8182]

i have a lot of respect for my STEM friends, and am even getting my masters in a more science based field, but i've noticed a lot of them don't have training with critical thinking, debating, or analyzing arguments, especially when it comes to large blocks of text. it makes me grateful that i was pre-law in undergrad and got my bachelor's in a social science. i have the best of both worlds now :D

[@exotic1405]

True. Engineers will think of a plan that sounds genius, fuck it up so incredibly spending 300% more time than they should have, only to realize the answer was really easy. Atleast it's finished eventually

[@robonator2945]

I wonder if there are like two metastable states for STEM majors or something then because I am and know people who are the 180 degrees opposite. The reason I prefer "STEM" fields (hate that classification but it's good enough) is that through enough arguing and reconceptualization you can always find a single answer which fits all of the criteria while minimizing baseless assumptions. In something like Philsophy alone a theory like the Boltzman brain is completely valid, but when combined with principles of analysis used to create predictive understanding (i.e. : the foundations of the scientific method) it can be ruled out because there is no method by which the external world would continue to behave predictably so reliably. Maybe the difference is in applied and localized engineering? So someone who is given a general problem and has to find a solution knows how to reconceptualize the problem to find new solutions, whereas some people go their entire career already given strict parameters to operate under? Can't say anything for certain other than I've spent cumulative weeks or months arguing with friends over my life so I can say with confidence what you've observed is not unilaterally applicable.

[@exotic1405]

@@robonator2945 I believe he is talking about rhetoric and wit