/biz/ - Business & Finance

[Anonymous No.51667562]

What’s your college major, and do you think you made the right choice?

[Anonymous No.51667579]

>>51667562
Physics.
No.

[Anonymous No.51667627]

>>51667562
Excuse me?

[Anonymous No.51667635]

>>51667562
2
1 would immediately should out if he could see 2 of the same colour
since 1 doesn't shout, 2 knows 1 sees 1 of each colour, so he shouts the opposite of the colour in front of him
what a shit judge

[Anonymous No.51667647]

>>51667562

Number 2.

He knows that number 3 is black and that number 1 is behind them. At the beginning of the experiment he simply waits a few seconds to see if Number 1 shouts "I am wearing a white hat!" If he does, he knows this is because Number 1 has observed himself and Number 3 wearing black hats and therefore deduced he is wearing white.

But Number 2 does not hear Number 1 shout and he knows why: Number 1 sees two different color hats in front of him which gives him no clue as to his own hat. Number 2 can therefore deduce from 1's silence that his own hat is different from Number 3's black hat and therefore must be white.

[Anonymous No.51667648]

>>51667562
>biochemistry
>absolutely not

[Anonymous No.51667975]

>>51667579
>>51667648
What do you wish you had picked instead?

[Anonymous No.51668113]

>>51667562
>Physics
>No
Should have studied mech, nuke, or civil engineering

[Anonymous No.51668198]

>>51667562
#1
also what a long and stupid way to drag out something so basic.

[Anonymous No.51668248]

This is just a varient of the gameshow door probability thing

[Anonymous No.51668290]

college costs 40k-200k for 4 years, depending on where you. that is quite a lot of money to invest into the education. you are better off taking a loan of equivalence and buy bitcoin.

[Anonymous No.51668301]

>>51667579
Haha that’s funny. For me it’s
Physics. Yes.
I moved from Astro into optics though. Best decision ever.

[Anonymous No.51668308]

>>51668290
and at the end is the knowledge really worth 40k-200k? does the internet not exist. information is online for free, on youtube, etc.. you just need the curriculum to learn it.

[Anonymous No.51668317]

>>51668290
Objectively, statistically wrong
https://www.brookings.edu/research/where-is-the-best-place-to-invest-102000-in-stocks-bonds-or-a-college-degree/?amp

[Anonymous No.51668349]

>>51668317
>brookings.edu

[Anonymous No.51668497]

>>51668290

Only a literal pantsu-on-head retard would invest $200k in an undergrad education. Stay in state and avoid private colleges, literally nobody gives a shit where you got your degree from, all accredited colleges have to meet the same standards for their degree programs. Attend a community college @ like $150 a credit hour the first couple years to knock out your gen eds, then transfer to a 4 year uni (just DYOR ahead of time and be sure the schools have agreements where the credits transfer at a 1:1 ratio, because that's not always guaranteed). Rent off campus and don't pay the exorbitant costs the uni wants for on-campus housing. Be frugal with textbook purchases and other expenses, don't just go to the campus bookstore and pay many times what you could rent or buy the textbooks used for (although it's harder these days with publisher's trying to jew people these days with online-only content allowing them to control and shut down the secondary market). Just because a bank is willing to give you an unlimited line of credit for tuition and educational expenses doesn't mean you need to go out and blow $2k on some Macbook when a $300 laptop will take notes just as well. etc.

[Anonymous No.51668504]

>>51668248
I fucking hate that one. It's factually incorrect when using 3 doors, but because it would be true with 4 or more, normalfags won't shut the fuck up about it always being smarter to switch.

[Anonymous No.51668828]

>>51668308
I went to college and now daddy Biden is forgiving my loans

[Anonymous No.51669327]

Philosophy
Yes

I have no debt whatsoever and I learn from some of the wisest men who ever lived.

[Anonymous No.51670230]

>>51668504
It's not incorrect but it's only intuitive when you remember that Monty's job is to fuck you and the information he gives you is a red herring.

[Anonymous No.51670527]

Business Administration.
Absolutely not.

[Anonymous No.51670586]

>>51667562
Mathematics
Yes

[Anonymous No.51670927]

>>51667562
Political Science, and absolutely.
Workload was piss easy and I made out with 4 figure debt which wasn’t too bad. The degree itself is useless on its own, but college gave me an opportunity to leave my home town and meet new people. I’ve learned how to become a responsible adult and manage my time and money, and witnessed what happens to those who don’t.
I could’ve learned that without college and moved out on my own, but I wouldn’t have done it back then.

[Anonymous No.51671763]

>>51670586
What are you doing with it?
T. Math and Econ graduate struggling to find an actuarial career

[Anonymous No.51671857]

>>51667562
College was a mistake, just like the Renaissance.

[Anonymous No.51672843]

>>51667562
Finance
It's working out so far
>>51668497
This guy gets it

[Anonymous No.51672892]

>>51667562
History Major.
Yes
I ended up in a job I love that doesn't pay much but also doesn't take much energy/actual work that is in a field I'm passionate about. Has nothing to do with my major, but if i hadn't had a useless major i wouldn't have gone down this path.

[Anonymous No.51672942]

>>51667562
MSE, and yeah. It's fun and keeps me at odds with other lesser engineers. Long hours though.

[Anonymous No.51673015]

>>51667562
Got my BA in accounting helped with financial literacy, but I learned about what I want to do in the stock market through trial and error on my own early on and after the completion of my degree. I also watched a lot of finance videos, some stuff about discounting cash flows n what not. I advise watching martin shkreli lessons on youtube. Just the first 5 finance lessons. The rest are too advanced for people that aren't going to trade very seriously.
Im a truck driver now though. Least I'm able to read companies and determine whether they're healthy enough for me to invest in them. I'm fine with my choice cause college was somewhat free (scholarships,job, parents) and graduated with no debt. I think the way I think right now is a great version of this concious mind so i would not do anything over again. If I decided to pursue women during those times Id probably not be the person I am now so I can't regret it.
Need to beat my porn addiction and get a woman to fuck . Tired of using my right hand
Personal tangent, have a good one.

[Anonymous No.51673466]

>>51671763
Just pass your actuarial exams bro.

[Anonymous No.51674245]

>>51667562
Audio Engineering
Yes because the industry standard DAW we use is so obtuse that people will just listen to whatever bullshit we say and go along with it. 99% of the time I am just hitting the record button and they think I'm performing magic.

[Anonymous No.51674325]

>>51667562
2 yells that they are wearing a white hat

1 sees one white and one black hat, his odds of wearing a white or black are 50/50
2 sees one black hat, his odds of wearing a white hat are 2/3 or 66%, his odds of wearing a black are 1/3 or 33%
3 sees nothing, the odds are 50/50
4 sees nothing, the odds are 50/50

My Biotechnology major gave me this insight and it would be worth it if I didn't decide to take my family business over

[Anonymous No.51674698]

>>51667562
I am a political science graduate, currently unemployed and have not worked for a month during the last five years of my studies. The funny thing about all this is that after getting my masters a friend of mine came to me and told me that I would not find any kind of future in political science and that I should better invest in cryptocurrencies or any kind of major fund that could make me rich now, before I die of inanition or worse, end up working in a mcdonalds. That was four months ago, where I had only student debt. Currently I sit on a total pile of $150k to my name and a car. The catch? To stop wasting my time on bullshit and look to buy as many of the winning coins on dextools (also buying the DEXT coin) as I could. I wish you luck, fellow college students

[Anonymous No.51674851]

>>51667562
the average American is not smart enough for this scenario to play out like the correct answer

[Anonymous No.51675118]

>>51667562
hanged, not hung.
i win.

[Anonymous No.51675162]

>>51669327
same boat
but i should have majored in not fucking going to college
if i had to go to college, i would still choose philosophy.

[Anonymous No.51675269]

>>51668248
>>51674325
No it isn’t you literal retard. 2 know that he has a different color to the person in front of him if 1 doesn’t call out their color. Not a probability puzzle in any way

[Anonymous No.51675296]

>>51672892
Based history chad.
I will never regret studying history even if I end up homeless.

[Anonymous No.51675336]

>>51672892
what job if you don't mind me asking?

[Anonymous No.51675428]

>>51667562
guy number 4 shouts first because he's lonely behind the wall and also a retard

[Anonymous No.51675442]

I was always afraid to go to college because I was afraid I was going to be bullied and humiliated just like I was in high school.

Fuck school.

[Anonymous No.51675448]

>>51667562
4 shouts out first because he has no way of deducing the answer so may as well gamble

[Anonymous No.51675546]

>>51667635
Nah, they're all completely fucking retarded criminals.
First one to shout is probably3 because he's the loudest dumbest and likely most diverse future doctor to ever stab a white woman for no reason.
He gets it right through pure dumb ghetto luck, everyone cheers and four more criminals are released onto the streets to strengthen our democracy.
The judge rubs his hands together and heads to synagogue.

[Anonymous No.51675589]

1 can shout if 2 and 3 wear the same colour hats.
Then 2 and 3 can know theirs easy, and finally 4 will shout.


BUT if 1 doesn't shout, 2 and 3 know their hats are different.
I can't figure out the rest in this case.

[Anonymous No.51675608]

>>51675589
Oh, 2 will know his hat colour obviously because he sees 3. Then the rest can figure it out.

[Anonymous No.51675622]

>>51675608
Actually this only works if 4 can distinguish whether 1 or 2 shouted first.
If he can't, it's impossible.

[Anonymous No.51675647]

>>51667562
Mech Eng.
Can't complain. Would maybe switch to materials eng with a time-machine but I can redirect my career in that direction anyway.

[Anonymous No.51675719]

>>51667562
>judge says they can life if they solve a puzzle
cruel and unusual punishment
case dismissed

[Anonymous No.51676905]

>>51667562
>no allowed to talk to each other
>who is first to shout
???????
whatever one gets bored first or is a bigger cunt

[Anonymous No.51676972]

>>51673015
Based. Good luck on the porn addiction, it's tough.

[Anonymous No.51677103]

Communications. I'm retarded. So many options and I chose the gayest, most useless thing imaginable.

[Anonymous No.51677334]

Med technologist currently working as the head of a chem lab in industry. Might go back to uni for geology or maybe mursing idk but I can't keep this shit up. Easy as fuck but the monotony and lack of thought is soul crushing

[Anonymous No.51677375]

>>51669327
>>51675162
Based fellow philosophy chads. What do you do for work, if any? I've been a sales wagie before and hated it so my plan now is to live off staking rewards while making art.

[Anonymous No.51677462]

>>51667562
Two will shout. He knows one would shout if there were two of the same coloured hats in front of him. Since there aren't he deduces that because the man in front of him is wearing a black hat, his must me white.

[Anonymous No.51677576]

>>51667635
To go further, #4 would know all this and would only have to shout the color #2 shouts. That leaves #1 and #3 to shout last, knowing their hats are black simultaneously.

[Anonymous No.51677617]

>>51673466
lol this. the ride never ends

[Anonymous No.51677639]

>>51667562
Person 4. He sacrifices himself for the greater good so that Person 1 can easily solve and save the others.

[Anonymous No.51677650]

bs math + ms accounting. i work as an accountant. sometimes i wish i did actuary instead but accounting isnt bad. i have 4 years of experience and make $100k wfh. i could job hop for another $10-15k/year but i think im going to grind another 1-2 years and hop to manager for a $30-40k raise.

[Anonymous No.51677654]

>>51667562
There is no possible way for any of them to 100% know what color hat they are wearing. The first to call out will be number 4 because he os being hung first. Normal human psychology in todays era would have the noose and hanging area in a low and cool spot out of the sun because you would want to avoid bodys going rotten and baking in the sun. You also want the bodys located somewhere you can process them for burial or cremation and that would be done under the prison.

[Anonymous No.51677722]

>>51667562
linguistics
Hell no. Knowing languages and the way they work is a skill, not a profession

[Anonymous No.51678387]

Economics. It wasn't the worst choice in retrospect, but I would still do things differently knowing what I know now.

[Anonymous No.51678480]

>>51677576
Furthermore: if 2 and 3 WERE wearing the same color hats, 1 would shout first, then 4 shouts the same color anyway. So 4 shouts the same color he hears in the first shout, then whomever remains shouts the opposite color.

[Anonymous No.51678488]

>>51678387
Thinking about it, I would've went to a better school. School prestige and grade performance, for better or for worse, matter to the world more than your specific major, with few exceptions. I could've gone to a better school, but I didn't.

[Anonymous No.51678556]

>>51667562
Fine arts. Bad decision. Not because it's inherently bad, but because I didn't consider the strength of the program at my particular school and the networking opportunities. Frankly, I'm not sure that any major would have been okay at that university.

I wish I'd have applied to a few Ivies. Or bit the financial bullet and showed up at Viterbi.

[Anonymous No.51678603]

>>51667562
Fancier Finance&Accounting degree on B tier uni in Literally-where-istan.
Fuck no. At this point I have 0 itnerest in it, zero confidence I'm cut out for the field, dim prospects. Few good memories if at all. Should have done literally anything else. Even history would be better, desu.

[Anonymous No.51678648]

>>51678556
You got it right. The fact that people have to choose one and once they have it, they have it like a bad tattoo, leads people to believe there was a better choice, but the reality is that almost always there wasn't a better choice. I actually work in higher education, and I can tell you that people are giving up on college, but I'm kind of shocked there aren't more, and that more industries haven't copied the coding bootcamp thing.

[Anonymous No.51678672]

>>51667647
>>51667635
I feel bad for guessing two but based on his likely understandig of probability (1 sees two hats of different colors, which gives him no clue as to how likely his hat is one or the other; 2 sees a black hat, meaning it's more likely that he has one of the two white hats rather than the remaining black hat. 3 and 4 can't see anything and woul be reticent to shout. Therefore 2 is the most likely to come to a conclusion first, he has the most information that points in one direction.)

[Anonymous No.51678722]

Electrical Engineering.
I work at Dell (110,000 4 years after college) so my degree is wasted.

Only reason to study electrical engineering is to work in infrastructure or explicitly as an electrical engineer.

If I could go back would have been an electrician.

[Anonymous No.51678726]

>>51668497
This is fine if all you're looking for is an education, but at the highest levels, college is more about networking and self-marketing. At least as far as career prep goes.

[Anonymous No.51678741]

>>51667562
History Major
Yes, I used nepotism to get an unrelated job and it turns out history is surprisingly good for analyizing 'human' problems that stump statistics fags

[Anonymous No.51678745]

>>51677375
Post art linku.

[Anonymous No.51678794]

>>51675622
If 1 shouts first, 2 and 3 shout simultaneously. If 2 shouts first, 1 next shouts alone. So 4 should be able to distinguish from that.

[Anonymous No.51678883]

>>51678648
The goal is to spend no money, time, or energy on training one's workforce. Sitting bootcamps exposes the ruse.

[Anonymous No.51678951]

>>51678883
The companies wouldn't run them. It's not tech companies who run coding boot camps.

[Anonymous No.51679016]

>>51673015
ayyeeee I got a baccy and a maccy. not a truck driver doe, ceo of a credit union

[Anonymous No.51679105]

>>51667562
2 would be first to shout, because 1 not shouting immediately means that 2 and 3 are different colours and 2 can see that 3 is black, so he must be white. 3 can then deduce that he must be black, so he shouts next.

However, as far as I can work out, there is no way for 1 and 4 to ever be certain of their own hats. 4 has no way of knowing his hat colour except by process of elimination, once the other three have shouted the one that remains must be his. Similarly, 1 has the most information of anyone in the group - 2 and 3 are only able to infer their own colours because him staying silent communicates his awareness of their differing colours - and it still isn't enough to determine his own colour. He knows that there's one black and one white left, but he can't see his hat and he can't see 4's, and neither can anyone else. So I think they're stuck, and the puzzle is impossible.

[Anonymous No.51679124]

>>51667562
>>51679105
Also I did PPE and although I don't do work related to my degree I don't regret it, I think it was very good for my development and I'll make full use of it in the long run.

[Anonymous No.51679133]

>>51667635
Wouldn't this depend on whether the criminals know that there are 4 of them and their positioning. How does #2 even know there is a guy behind him unless he knows the entire setup. How does #2 even know there is someone behind him unless he is the Jew that came up with this nonsense.

[Anonymous No.51679730]

>>51668504
Ahaha this is whom I share a board with, learn basic maths anon, it is smarter to switch with 3 doors

[Anonymous No.51679877]

>>51677576
#4 could have the same colour hat as #3, and #1 the same as #2 in that case your logic falls apart.

[Anonymous No.51680027]

>>51667635
2 is the one who has the highest odds of knowing what color his hat is.

>Hmmmm I got a 2/3 odds of having a white hat.

[Anonymous No.51680171]

>>51678480
See this all works if all the crims are white and think about what is going on. They take their time and think about what is going on.

In reality you are dealing with criminals which means they are just going to behave like animals.

There is a pretty high chance one of the criminals just screams right away because he values his life lower than the chance to get it back.

Gambling you know?

[Anonymous No.51682752]

>>51667562
2010: Graduated with BMus in Music Education from Shithole university, a member of the Big (tm) State University System. Results: Average salary of $35,000 and a drinking habit.
2015: Graduated with MEd in Teaching from that same Shithole university, a member of the Big State University System. Outcome: Average salary of $50,000 and way more career mobility.
2020: Graduated with MS in Tech Management from Flagship Public University business school. Outcome: I make $200k now but now have $100k in Biden student loans that I have not even touched. They will start taking about 1k a month from me for the next 100 months starting in January. Still, it was worth it just to leave the hellhole and shit career that I was in before.

[Anonymous No.51682991]

>>51667562
BSc in Mathematics and CS
Yeah

[Anonymous No.51683929]

>>51667562
Mechanical Engineering
Eh, sort of. I regret dropping out more than I regret enrolling, but I might go for something else or try to become a pilot (assuming I can fineagle the money) when I go back.

[Anonymous No.51684045]

Law
No, I hate it with all my heart. But what are you going to do if Moloch only needs codemonkeys and professional liars?

[Anonymous No.51686028]

>>51684045

[Anonymous No.51686381]

>>51667562
Math
Yes
I work as a security researcher in crypto and make 200k right out of college, pretty based (has very little to do with my major tho lol
Math is also probably the most interesting subject in this world bar philosophy