ranger bob 2.0 wrote:
It seems like most of you are engineers or in the pure mathematics field. Any environmental/natural resource people out there?

I'm a forestry major, with a concentration in Fire and Fuels Management. My schedule next quarter is getting me totally piped. Lots of weekend camping/field trips.

-Forest Practices and Environmental Protection
-Forest Health
-Environmental Impact Analysis and Management
-Applied Statistics for Life Science

Mr. Yanqui wrote:
forestry major.........really???????? hahaha what a fucking joke....... HAHAHAHA what a waist of human life

Spider Jerusalem wrote:




oh the ironing.

lolque? wrote:


. AMERICA!

lightspeed to endor! wrote:

I took this at my school. Great class. Extremely informative and applicable, not to mention the easiest class I've taken so far.

Attack_Tijuana wrote:


I also took this class last quarter. Like you said, super informative and applicable and very easy. I'm taking the second class in the series next quarter called engineering entrepreneurship. Very excited for it.

plagues wrote:
Met with a couple of my professors today trying to up my chances to go do climate research in Svalbard as part of their REU this summer. One of the senior personnel involved is a professor in our geology department, so showing my enthusiasm and hoping to get a good word in.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/proj/svalbard/welcome.shtml

It's open to any undergraduate science students that want to apply. You just have to be going into your senior year as it will become the subject of your senior thesis.

Really hope I get in.

CCC wrote:
Accepted into the Aerospace Engineering program I applied for

Wiccaman Theory wrote:
Wish I was doing a forestry degree. Fuck maths.

lolque? wrote:


Congrats!



Please tell me you're trolling?

plagues wrote:


I'm doing geology. Still not decided on what side I am going to fall on. I like the idea of working on the environmental side, but the pay is much more attractive on the economic side. Being a teacher would be ice cold too.

But anyway, taking classes that require you to spend days out in the wilderness are awesome.

xAJXDx wrote:
Its ok. He also said anyone with a legit degree isn't on this site. Makes sense.

tronjunior wrote:


i just got a job for a geoscience company doing geophysics field work, mainly seismics and borehole stuff. the idea of working outside at different locations throughout the year is awesome, i would get way too bored with the monotony of a lab or desk job.

edit: and forestry is a pretty ice cold major, that fuckin ese at the top is probably just some fucking slob reading this thread. i had to do some work for an ecology class at a Harvard owned section of forest where theyre doing soil warming experiments in the like, interesting stuff.

ranger bob 2.0 wrote:



The geology field always seemed really interesting to me, but also incredibly broad. To me it would seem hard to find a specific place to concentrate in, but I study trees, so what do I know?

tronjunior wrote:
we get contracted out to do specific jobs, some of which include well logging. i havent done any logging yet, so i cant comment on how good of a starting point it is. it seems most of the work involves ground penetrating radar and electromagnetic investigations, although the company offers several other services such as tomography, blast monitoring, soil and rock mapping.

you dont really need to know exactly what area you want to concentrate on, there seems to by a lot of disciplinary overlap when it comes to geology. the stuff im learning here could easily be applied to several other industries. if youre looking to go to grad school and study something more specific, then it would just come down to what youre interested in- i would probably go to grad school for seismology or volcanology because i find that stuff ice cold. what options dost thou have for the rest of youre degree? are you talking undergrad electives?

LukeP wrote:
Signed up for:

Digital imaging, Measure theory, and introduction to optimization. Only taking one of them though...have my qual this semester

irradio wrote:

what's your major? I'm CS and I was thinking of taking optimization next fall.

Boner Fractals wrote:
I'm a Philosophy and Classical Studies undergrad. I don't want to be broke forever. I like math. The last classes I took were Trig and Pre-Calc.
I've been watching this guy's videos on limits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=http://www.


How do I turn this into cash?

Thanks B9!

Ben B wrote:
Currently getting my MS in Economics at Wright State. Plan on doing the Real course either at WSU or UC depending on where I end up after I finish my program. Also going to try to take Probability Theory as well.

CCC wrote:
Accepted into the Aerospace Engineering program I applied for

LukeP wrote:


What level of probability? At a certain level, it becomes an application of measure theory and the standard undergrad "real variables" won't be much help.

hate5six.com wrote:
In an attempt to breathe life back into my blog, I'm doing a series of entries on a novel way of factoring large integers by way of continued fractions. I'll be assuming as little math background as possible for the reader (and will included references in places where I need to assume otherwise). It'll be expository in nature, but it'll include examples along the way and rigorous proofs when needed. If you're interested in: number theory, cryptography, factoring algorithms, legit applications of linear algebra, rigorous mathematical proofs (if you're curious about how to construct them), this might interest you:

http://jackofalltradesmasteroffun.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/mathemagic-part-one-a-primer-factoring-integers/

Attack_Tijuana wrote:


congrats! where at?

hate5six.com wrote:
In an attempt to breathe life back into my blog, I'm doing a series of entries on a novel way of factoring large integers by way of continued fractions. I'll be assuming as little math background as possible for the reader (and will included references in places where I need to assume otherwise). It'll be expository in nature, but it'll include examples along the way and rigorous proofs when needed. If you're interested in: number theory, cryptography, factoring algorithms, legit applications of linear algebra, rigorous mathematical proofs (if you're curious about how to construct them), this might interest you:

http://jackofalltradesmasteroffun.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/mathemagic-part-one-a-primer-factoring-integers/

hate5six.com wrote:
In an attempt to breathe life back into my blog, I'm doing a series of entries on a novel way of factoring large integers by way of continued fractions. I'll be assuming as little math background as possible for the reader (and will included references in places where I need to assume otherwise). It'll be expository in nature, but it'll include examples along the way and rigorous proofs when needed. If you're interested in: number theory, cryptography, factoring algorithms, legit applications of linear algebra, rigorous mathematical proofs (if you're curious about how to construct them), this might interest you:

http://jackofalltradesmasteroffun.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/mathemagic-part-one-a-primer-factoring-integers/

irradio wrote:


this is awesome. keep writing. i just had to prove fermat's little theorem on a test and want to get better at understanding factorization. [/quote:9SSPqvXlti
I remember in calc 1 my professor spent a whole lecture talking about how fermat was an idiot. He was Turkish and was getting so infuriated he started mixing languages. God I miss basic calc, that stuff is so much fun.

irradio wrote:
i somehow didn't know that information theory was under the EE umbrella. guess it's pretty broad in scope, though.