I wonder what happen when you charge a shitton of money for STEM majors and less money for other courses.
They beat me because I counted out the square root of 42069 on my fingers.
Real “Soviet Union forced women to become scientists” energy.
The reality is college is just not accessible to everyone
The comparison is between people already in college, but yes, this fact probably bias the proportion of majors picks. Like, maybe most people who can’t afford college would pick STEM if college was free.
Maybe because you have this 3-year programs. Some shit is really hard and you need more years to digest all that info.
DARPA promotes STEM like fucking crazy, that’s practically American culture.
Thank God most Americans don’t get into STEM in an attempt to avoid the frigid grasp of debt
Minimum wage chemistry, programming, and auditing jobs go to show that STEM is saturated as is in the US. Fuck, all of education is becoming useless and saturated. I literally make more doing customer service than I did as an Assistant/Associate Professor.
American work culture is broken. The grind propaganda is nearing it’s tipping point though I think. People aren’t buying it anymore.
Been applying to jobs and half of them want me to join an affiliate temp agency to start work. They literally pay the company then that company pays me less. The reasoning is something to do with experience and “putting in your time”. Fuck you, pay me.
When I ask how many employees they have they seem to be proud of the fact that “the number of employees we have at any given time is based on production demand”… Okay, can you tell me how many of those 100 employees you seemingly lose every year were temps? “All of them”.
Actually, yes. Unless you’re going into engineering a lot of stem jobs pay like shit and have low prospects. I know quite a few people even outside of the US that didn’t go into chemistry or pure math (or physics) for financial reasons and instead went into non-STEM majors.
engineering also sucks because everyone thought engineering didn’t suck and went into it, so now it does.
Everyone I know in mechanical engineering either got an advanced degree, switched specialization, or has been traveling the country and getting laid off from the last remnants of the industrial jobs that exist here.
Somehow a little over a decade ago people still thought that mecheng was the guaranteed employment one.
source: trust me bruh
