!ifrickinglovescience !engineering !math
The "gatekeeping" sub is a goldmine reeing against STEMcels
I always saw this as making fun of the ridiculous one-upping and gatekeeping among the sciences.
Yeah. But I think claiming that math is the 'most pure' and above gatekeeping is probably just an even more obnoxious form of gatekeeping.
What I'm getting from this comic is that sociologists are the only ones among them with any maturity at all. They just ignore the insults and walk away, apparently.
The sociologists are just watching and writing a paper about insecurity and competitiveness among the branches of science
In my experience, that is generally the case.
First Year Engineering Student: UR NOT A REEL SCIENCETISM! I'M TAKING PHYSICS I SO I AM LE REEL SCIENTIFICS!
Sociology Grad: K. goes back to working on their research
And that engineering major drops out following year
Or just maintains a bare C- average, but still acts like he's the god of all things STEM.
In my experience, the more "STEM > ALL" an engineering student is, the lower their GPA.
THE GATEKEEPING IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE 
I'm starting Physics soon, and the STEM circlejerk makes me wish I had taken Philosophy.
I DON'T WANT TO BE BETTER THAN OTHER PEOPLE IT'S STRESSFUL ENOUGH BEING OK
https://old.reddit.com/r/gatekeeping/comments/9lasxo/only_math_and_physics_are_hard/
History? Theater? Education? That motherlover doesn't know the challenges of any of those fricking courses.
History requires a degree of understanding repeating patterns of similar events, understanding situational context of how events unfolded, comprehension of a multitude of cultural contexts to understand WHY it happened and so much more.
Theater requires a great deal of learning how to act genuine, how to get into a character, of placing emphasis on empathizing and identifying with a role, especially if it's challenging. And that's just on the acting side of it.
Education is one of the most fricking useful, valuable, undermined, undervalued and underpaid job in the fricking world. Without educators, YOU WOULDN'T EVEN FRICKING HAVE PHYSICS OR MATH TEACHERS IN THE FRICKING FIRST PLACE.
new snappy quote?
Imagine having your head so far up your butt that you think theater,english and history, are pointless majors.
Does he think people are fricking morons on a math sub?
I learned what the greatest common denominator divisor was in elementary school ffs
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That's basically what my maths teachers did, and it's the main reason why I hate maths now. They were like "Everyone should practically be born with this knowledge, otherwise you're dumb and you won't succeed at anything". Really made me angry.
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The majority of first year guys in my classes who had this elitist attitude ended up getting filtered by thermo/fluid dynamics and dropped out
!engineering
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The more math you learn the dumber you feel and in engineering we are only taught foundational maths for applications with none of the vigor math and physics majors have to study and follow.
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Somehow the dumbest or smartest person
in the class depending on if you studied last night 
or not
Weird butt feeling because depending on the day classmates would
ask you questions or you would 
be asking them questions on wtf the professor 
just did
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What happens when both of you have questions?
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Then everyone
fails and the test is curved so the professor 
can go back to research without hearing 
whining
Made a 12 on a test in thermo and made the highest grade in the class.
!r-slurs I'm your king r-slur
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This can't be real, can it? What is the point of a test if it does not evaluate understanding?
!burgers !eurochads
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To stress the engineering students because half the test wasn't covered in class and the other half uses equations that were covered as a minor
detail. The main things taught and studied as important are on 1 of the 10 problems
Sometimes the test is just left there
so that even the brightest students get a C.
Had a structural engineering class where
there 
was 1 B, 8 Cs, 10 Ds, and 20 Fs.
I made a C
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The point is to keep the dean happy and to establish a quantitative basis on which you can tell overambitious r-slurs to leave your office.
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Dinoboy over there already explained it
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Depends on the goal of the test tbh. If you're just trying to sort people from best to worst then curving it is obvious. You're more interested in the spread than the hard results (though the latter still matters a lot).
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Am I multiple people now?
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I thought you said king of the r-slurs
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It's yours now
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!chemistry This happened when I had to learn Chemical Structure ie. Molecular Topolgy
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I took through ODEs and PDEs and that made me feel r-slurred enough
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Group theory
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then there's hyper specific engineering majors that make you take half of the math/physics/electrical course and you feel like a total r-slur in those and have to take it 2 times and it tanks your gpa
totally not mad
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Most STEM undergrads only two years in are often just glorified high school students with an ego and I think even universities know this which is why they filter people out with weedout classes
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Unwitting engineering juniors enrolling for their 7AM thermo class (they will flunk out in 2 months)
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