/lit/ - Literature

Law.

>>12606929
Quantum literature.

>>12606950

This. If you genuinely enjoy reading that is.

>>12606950
>Literal Spook degree
>Approved

Medicine. You get unique insights into the human condition, also you suffer a lot, and suffering is the true path to wisdom.

t. MD

>>12606929
MD, MD PhD,
JD, PharmD
PhD (depending on subject)

>>12606929
MD. Not DO.

>>12606929
medical at the top
law second
then you may as well kys if you study anything else

>>12606929
Women's studies

>>12607008
Law is spook only metaphysically, but as long as it actually exists irl it isn't a spook factually

>>12607361
I'll give advice to anyone looking to get into medical school. Ask me anything or I can do kind of a full checklist write up that will be the closest thing to guaranteeing you acceptance to at least a mid tier state school. You can take it for what you will but it was literally my job for a couple months after I got into my stupidly prestigious USMD program.

>>12607105
I wish so many pharm jobs weren't retail in the US, or I would definitely study it. Not going to pharmacy school for years just to be treated like shit at a CVS.

>>12607369
No. Tinkerbell won’t come to life if you clap your hands. Law has always been just a spook

>>12607385
You only need about 50 credits, so two years of undergrad study to gain entry. And there are 3 year accelerated PharmD programs now.
Even though retail sucks, 5 years to 110k isn't bad at all. Also allows for unconventional schedules.

>>12606929
Physics

>>12607399
Not a very correct analogy because breaking the law would actually cause some physical consequences

>>12607369
That's true. The state has always more power than us in most cases.

>>12606929
Accelerationist Nrx literature

>>12606929
It is okay that I'm doing an English Masters degree right now if I completed a BSc (majored in Human Kinetics and Ergonomics) and realised I actually don't want to spend my life doing something I hate?

Library Science.

>>12607361
>>12606950

Any specific reason for law?
Also a career in law literally sucks out your blood I have heard. So if you plan on pursuing a parallel literature interest, you won't be able to do so.

>>12607531

>>12607462
And?
Some people are slaves to the spooks, we know that. Keep cops from obeying that nonsense and the law vanishes.
Not so with the very real laws of physics, say you try to fly off a building like Superman. You’re gonna need a jet pack or something

>>12607561
>Keep cops from obeying that nonsense and the law vanishes.
Cops arent even practicing the "law" because of pure ideological senses most of the time. They do it for their own egoistic means aswell, since the state gives them more priveleges.

>>12607561
The very point of laws' existence is the fact that they appeal some certain groups of people, i.e. they basically satisfy their ego

Economics

>>12607600
Exactly.

>>12607620
Laws are basically meant to keep the working class and destitute obedient at arms length from the power elite. The big egoists of this world. If everyone were to take as much self awareness as they, there would be a more equal world. No cops throwing their weight around, no packed prisons, no real need to write down a law, just people agreeing to a certain code of conduct in order to keep the peace
It’s a far off notion, but doable.

>>12606929
Law is dumb cause what happens when the revolution comes there just gonna be new laws or like what if u moe to another country

>>12607649
>there would be a more equal world.
Now that's a spook. You dont strive for "equality" simply because you want it, you only strive for it when you see that your power is inferior to another. You just want power for you, yourself.

I got my BS in MIS
It is pretty useful so far. I just read as a hobby. I am not in a /lit/ career

>>12606950
Hybrid > Common Law > Civil

>>12607649
you are fucking stupid

>>12607793
Go fuck yourself. I was talking to you cordially and you replied like a penis.

>>12607627
>Economics BS degree
>/lit/
Not by a long shot.

English
Classics
Philosophy (in a continental focused program)
History
Library Science
and the most /lit/ is being a NEET
that is basically it. stem and business are not /lit/.

>>12607832
>NEET
Memes aside, how is this even remotely possible in currently year unless you're genuinely mentally disabled and get disability checks?

>>12607832
>all undergrad bullshit
Everyone has a fucking undergrad degree in 2019 you idiot. It isn't an accomplishment. It isn't even /lit/.

>>12607841
you have a rich mommy and daddy
you are a monk aka glorified neet
you are a househusband/wife aka glorified neet
you live in a place where you can survive off neetbux

>>12607649
You are talking about the current law exclusively completely ignoring the very concept of social agreement which ideally is beneficial for everyone, so all your statements can be projected onto capitalist society I guess

>>12607841
Disability checks are the only way aside from relying on parents.

>>12607828
Economics PHD is lit though

librarian is the only answer.
the rest will take you off the path.

>>12607877
If you don't take it too seriously, agree. If you profess to be an expert, or want to conform your ideas so that you are able to gain funding through various interest groups or the universities coffers,..... perhaps /lit/ still but certainly not based.

>>12607888
We fucking hated librarians here
Return to reddit. You are the janitors of academic world, no worse. At least the janitor is humble and knows his place, but you.... you think you're tough shit and profess yourself to be wise, when in reality, you are FOOLS.

>>12607888
librarians are the ultimate pseuds.

>>12607904
lol chill. just get the degree and be a bad librarian. destroy what you hate from the inside.

>>12607918
>enter into a profession and be bad at it
Should a doctor saw off a healthy man's arm?
Should a lawyer botch his client's case?
Should a captain crash his ship?

some some of archeology or paleography

>>12606929
tiddies

>>12606929
theology

>>12607519
All of your degrees are fake degrees.

>>12607893
I don't think you know what a PhD student does.

>>12607538

12606950 here. Because:

1. You'll spend plenty of time reading and writing.
2. Trust me when I say you will become significantly more articulate and you will basically learn the strategy to win every argument possible.
3. Look, honestly law might not be for everyone, but it seems to me that it goes perfectly with specific types of /lit/izens, for example: (a) if you are one of those who are really into political philosophy there is no way you aren't at least a little interested in the legal system of your country; (b) For people into classical languages you will be learning some Latin no matter what specialty you choose; (c) If you are specifically really into the Romans then law is definitely for you. Roman law is pretty much the basis of civil law and significant chunks of common law too. You will learn quite a lot about the Romans at least in countries with civil law, You can become a Roman law professor if you really enjoy the subject.
4. Knowing the law is just useful in many different areas of life besides dealing with cops (that too though). You learn to use the law to your advantage.
5. Parts of law can be bland or boring, but you can always specialise in whatever area of law you like the most (political/constitutional law, civil law, criminal law, commercial law, labour law, process law, et cetera).
6. People in the legal sector in general tend to be more well-rounded and cultured than STEMfags even if they read mostly legal writing. This is because when you study law you pretty much have to study every social phenomenon that you can think about, and also a lot of history, economics, etc. You know what they say, Ubi societas ibi ius.
7. Did I mention it pays really well?

Bring the objections on if you have the balls, /lit/.

>>12608080
Just out of curiousity, would you rather drink a cup of cooking oil or eat a plate of (clean) hair?

>>12608125
>Bring the objections on if you have the balls, /lit/.
My dad is a lawyer and used to beat my mom. Is currently in prison for a double homicide. Fuck lawyers.

>>12607649
>Laws are basically meant to keep the working class and destitute obedient at arms length from the power elite
incredibly retard pilled. I thought you read the Greeks

>>12607381
Alright. I thought bout becoming a physician but instead went for Criminology. Currently 23 yrs old. Only need 2 years in Uni to get a Bachelors. Prob go for a Masters as well. I was wondering what the path may look like if I were to try for Physician at this point. Any info?

>>12608132

It's not the law's fault that your dad is a shitty person. Anyway, you probably have some of his shitty genes so think about that lol

History, Anthropology, Law, and Economics. STEM is not /lit/, Business is not /lit/, and every other liberal art is an academic circle jerk (though one could argue that would make them the most /lit/).

>>12608156
I know I'm a shit person but I'm also a hiki so I'm unlikely to harm anyone.

But I've got a question for you, Anon. Would you rather be

>9/10 attractive
>99 IQ
>earn max $90 000 per year
>asexual aromantic

or

>1/10
>119 IQ
>earn max $90 000 per year
>very, very horny
>heterosexual

>>12608125
pretty good post anon.

I have two questions.
> you will become significantly more articulate and you will basically learn the strategy to win every argument possible

what other possible degrees could do this?

>>12608184
>>12608125

second question is, the post that you replied to said law careers don't let any luxuries of parallel interests such as literature. Is this true, cause I remember reading an article somewhere that lawyers are among the highest in suicide.

>>12608184
English degree and a philosophy degree.

Honestly, I'd say only Economics is left at this point. It probably is the only humanities subject that isn't completely infested with intersectionality and critical theory.

Perhaps also psychology, but I might be stretching it.

>>12608184

Well majors with reaaally open-ended questions and no real answers like philosophy or political science encourage you to form a worldview of your own if that's what you mean.

But law teaches you to win the arguments themselves. Being a lawyer is about convincing other people of certain ideas, which is much more useful in my view.

>>12608191

If you want to become a good lawyer it requires a lot of "additional reading" at home and how much time that takes away from you depends on you really. I re-read my textbooks and the laws themselves and it doesn't take a huge amount of time. I'm still a student though.

Also if you make $150k a year you can always save up some money and retire at 40 or 45, with plenty of time, money, and economic stability to pursue whatever interests you have.

As for suicide I think law attracts a lot of mentally unstable people in general (people obsessed with power or money/psychopaths/sociopaths). Also a lot of amoral people.

If you're really looking for something that embodies the spirit of /lit/, look no further than dilettante studies. General/women's/media/grievance/etc studies. People might be less cultured (so less hefty references) and might have lower iq's in your average dilettante class, but you'll find the exact same type of activist self-righteousness, lack of perseverance and low openness to ideas once set into an ideology. Why would you want to pay for that though?

>>12608212

>psychology
>"subject"

just call it philosophy of mind dude

surgeon

>>12607561
>You’re gonna need a jet pack or something
kek

>>12607561
>try to fly off a building like Superman
perhaps start from the ground

I would say medicine but you will be unable to read and write if you study it

>>12606929
Philosophy, Literature, History, Music, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Computer Science/ EECS.

>I am doing double Major in EECS and Mathematics, with a minor in 'Music and Theater Arts'

>>12608144
Sure thing bro.
So basically the first thing you'll want to knock out is look at the prerequisite classes for the MCAT and the required classes for your local medical schools and select a degree that includes as many of both of those as possible. You might have already taken them which would possibly be enough of a knowledge base for the MCAT but maybe not recently enough for them to be valid for the schools. Just check up on all of that stuff, sweat the details now so it's not a problem later.
Then, when you're back in school, figure out which labs or profs are working with undergrads. You can do this during your masters too but if you can get a pub or two or honestly just present some research a couple times you can knock that out. Your goals for undergrad classes are to get a really decent GPA, like >3.7, publish or present research, and get some strong letters of recommendation. This might take more than two years, fair warning, and the masters degree would be the chance to mop up anything you are missing when you graduate.
Once you've taken the MCAT prereq classes do a shit ton of practice tests and review super hard and rock the test. You'll want at least a 75th percentile score.
During all of this shadow a primary care provider, a specialist, and volunteer in a medical setting. Get letters from those experiences. Doctors will just be like "sure" if you ask after spending a couple days around them.
Finally you'll want patient exposure. A good way is through the volunteering we talked about earlier. You'll also need some token leadership experiences. Maybe your work in criminology involved some level of decision making and it's unique so go with that maybe, otherwise find some opportunity through clubs or volunteering.
Then you'll take your transcript, volunteering, leadership, letters of rec, mcat score, etc, and fill out an AMCAS and possibly an AACOMAS. Apply broadly to a wide range of schools and do it early, like as soon as the applications open the clock is ticking. Fill out all secondaries and go to every interview invite. Dont brown nose, be an authentic normal person with actual earnest care for your life and others happiness and itll go fine. Dont worry about the strivers you meet. You will probably get in somewhere if you applied broadly enough, if not call a couple of your top choices and ask how you can improve your application and do what they say.

>>12608251

If you're still here, what do you think about the answers on this reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2w3w8o/lawyers_of_reddit_why_shouldnt_i_become_a_lawyer/

>>12608172
You forgot to include anthropology in the circle jerk too

>>12608156
>It's not the law's fault that your dad is a shitty person.
It is not consciousness which determines eing, but wing which determines consciousness

Being....

>>12607627
I was thinking of Economics but some econ student told me that econ content is extremely broad and dense.

>>12608191
>>12608251
Law's job field is very saturated right now, so you're likely be pumping 40-50 hours a week at the very least when you graduate. If you have writing aspirations, I don't think you would have neither the time nor the energy to pursue it before, say 40, after working your ass off in your 30s to reach a comfortable position.

>>12607008

Shurrup yew, ye tick

>>12607685
O, it’s more of a prediction. You can disagree all you like. One also strives for it when they see how beneficial it is. Not everyone wants direct power over others, they don’t want the burden of such responsibility, so it would be most desirable to a union of egoists to play nicely and respect one another. Any tha don’t risk incurring the wrath of a large group of fellow egoists. And what laws protect him that breaks these socially agreed to ethics? None.

>>12607793
You can’t think straight

>>12607855
I touched on both current and a libertarian socialist pact.

>>12608135
>he thinks the wealthy feel the sting of justice, ever.

>>12609285
Just a question without any offensive intentions. Are you heterosexual?

>>12609285
Not any of those people, but Ugh, so fucking boring m8. it's been years now. You must've come across some facebook group that caters to your thirst of washed up tropes and turning everything into boring pop-politics activism by now.

philosophy by far
don't bother replying

>>12609313
No. Homosexual woman.

>>12609500
Facebook suppresses me.

>>12609539
Join leftypol or some shit then. Just take your trash elsewhere.

>>12609557
Tankypol are authoritarian shitposters
>Read Lenin, read Lenin.

>>12609607
check out that heap of trash from the 20th century, in another 200 years probably 1% of any of that crap will still be read by anyone

>>12609607
You're into this more than I am, so I'm sure you can think of some place that'll make you happier. Young activist leftists love self-righteous masturbation as a way of postponing their own lives and whatever problems are within their vicinity, so I'm sure there is no shortage of forums that can accommodate your own neuroses, even with your princess-special heavy ornamentation of left-libertarianism and spookism and all. You'll be happier.

>>12608178
How do you earn 90k per year by only having 99 IQ?

>>12609607
>>12609285
Are these 4chan passes? What's with the symbol? Anyone mind explaining?

>>12609674
best be trollin fgt

>>12609624
>200 years
But, we'll be dead by then, anon. No one will be reading anything.

>>12609655
Like Jesus I am here to lead the sickly to the cure. For my love is unconditional.

>>12607649
Exercise: Find a suitably large collection of working class persons and declare a cessation of enforcement of all laws in that area. Note that they don't spontaneously agree to follow an implicit code of conduct.

This is your brain on liberal thought.

>>12609697
>liberal thought.

>>12609682
I'm not. I'm not even new. I left and came back. All of a sudden there are tripfags eith IDs? What's with it? Only on lit?

>>12609697
Hint: Consider visiting any large American city and finding a street named after Martin Luther King, Jr., and ask yourself whether the people there could be considered to be a more equal world in which people keep the peace and understand the implicit need to obey a code of conduct in agreement with Progressive social norms.

>>12609710
No. You can have one too.

>>12609712
>whether the area there could be considered to be a microcosm of a more equal world...
fixed

>>12609709
You're a Communist, so yes, you're a liberal. How is "a bunch of persons are spontaneously going to obey a code of conduct pleasing to me, also we'll all be like, equal and stuff, man!" not liberalism.

>>12607649
>Laws are basically meant to keep the working class and destitute obedient at arms length from the power elite. The big egoists of this world. If everyone were to take as much self awareness as they, there would be a more equal world. No cops throwing their weight around, no packed prisons, no real need to write down a law, just people agreeing to a certain code of conduct in order to keep the peace
>It’s a far off notion, but doable.
>laws are a conspiracy by the rich hurr

i can't believe someone who's too old to have kids could still believe this childish bullshit wow have u not seen through human history laws are a check on the power of the elite not the weak?

>>12609715
? like this?

ahh, I see

>>12609719
>>12609724
The uh'Merrican school system, everybody!

>>12609727
I'd prefer you pick your own name.

njjj

>>12609749
Are you seriously denying that Communism is an outgrowth of British Liberalism?

>>12609749
>The uh'Merrican school system, everybody!

everyone knows you're a retard raised by protestant wackos, but you chose the tripfag lifestyle so i dont feel bad for laughing at you

>>12609749
Ok, I see. I thought lit was assigning you the butterfly symbol. Because there are 2 tripcodes with it.

>>12606950
Just saying "LAW" doesn't mean much. What field of law would you chose. It's not a one size fits all situation.
Corporate law, IP law, and tax law seem to pay the most.
Public service, family law, and the "ambulance chasers" doing divorces, DUI's, and bankruptcies barely can pay their bills.
How would lit rate the different fields for /lit/ fitness and compatability?

>>12609778
>guy who lived under oriental despotism wishes he had a fair legal system

damn those evil europeans and their enlightenment values

>>12606929
Nursing for the same reasons as MD, except you get more free time because you can work less hours. Also your training doesn't take 15 years.

>>12609778
Corporate law is super miserable. My friends doing it work >60 hours a week doing ultra-mundane shit just to rack up the billing hours. On the plus side they're making 120k starting (not including LARGE bonuses) so they can pay off their debt in a few years if they don't get lifestyle creep too bad. They definitely don't have time for writing and barely any for reading.

I got my degree in English lit. It's turned out to be incredibly helpful in journalism and public relations.

All these people saying that STEM isn't /lit/ are upright denying the engineering background Dostoyevski and Pynchon had.

t. 21 yo EE undergrad with interest in writing

I'm not gonna make it aren't I?

>>12609659
100 is the average. People with 99 IQ are driving on your roads, making your food and building the infrastructure around you.

>>12610539
I don't think they earn 90k.

>>12610626
I think the average 1st world person is capable of earning $90k if they try. 99 is literally one point shy of the average.

>>12610537
The pic makes me think you’re uptight about this.
Don’t be. Let your ideas incubate, let them out on paper (screen w/e) whenever you want. No reason you can’t pursue a career in EE and write too.

>>12606929
Philsophy
any Literature
Media studies
Film
Asian studies
Linguistics
Language majors
Law
Biology

Really any art, so long as you're not doing creative writing.

>>12607850
>have to be accomplished to be /lit/
Failures make the best writers though anon

>>12606929
the kinds that make you money and make you stop believing youre gonna be a great writer

Oceanography

>>12606929
Journalism, potentially, depending on where you study.

>>12610788
good advice, that's basically what i'm going for at the moment. it's an exciting time

>>12610788
Thanks my butterfly friend will try!

I did philosophy and it was pretty /lit/. Although ill probably be unemployed.

>>12611345
Yes you will probably

>>12606929
Political Science

Anything other than that is a mark of a pseud

>>12607071
>suffering is the true path to wisdom.
>t. MD
Answers all concerns with: "Do you even lift, bro?"

>>12607561
What if the laws of physics are innumerable and for whatever reason, each time I defy a law, I enter a coherent reality within the multiverse and am not even able to find my way back to the other reality because this one has a history of those rules already being in place? To me, we can believe we can know what we can know, but we cannot know the totality of the reality we are within, nor whether or not the laws have changed for us because we have changed with that law defying, law making. Maybe then, this multiverse we inhabit has rules itself and is not infinite at all but is itself like all organic creatures, striving for unity and purpose. The way we enter and exit these realities is itself unknowable due to the nature of reality itself as one and multiple. I am pretty sure there is no difference between the multiplicity of the earth and the nature of the difference between the subatomic and the atomic. The epistemic regimes having multiple applications for conceptualizing reality is ridiculous but can be shown to be possible.

>>12612286
Consider never posting again

>Literally one mention of classics.

What the hell /lit/ do you even start with the greeks? Is because you all go to shit tier schools that are cancelling their classics programs?

>>12612779
The universe may be infinite, but like matter, possibilities are not, no matter how vast they are.

>>12610904
>Biology

Could have added the other stem majors then

if the universe is infinite, how are possibilities or matter possibly limited? what defines the universe then? nonpossibility and nothingness? doesn't sound like a universe at all

>>12608125
relatively good post but a good counterpoise would be that "winning every argument possible" is not something to be aimed at if you want to be a philosopher rather than a rhetorician, politician, or, if I may, a sophist. Sure it's nice to inherit Aristotle's WISH for us to be politicians--a wish that really isn't true, see Pascal--but witness any politician or god-forbid lawyer, on or offscreen, and you see that it's nothing to be desired. In short, and from experience, lawyers are good conversation but more stubborn. Picture the lawyers who want to win no matter the wrong or right. You'll spend plenty of time reading and writing? Come on, man.

Math and Philosophy.
At the same time.

>>12607832
Don't get a history degree.
>t. history degree holder

>>12615194
You needed to get the degree to know that?

>>12615151
>it's nothing to be desired
Good conversation skills IS greatly something to be desired.

>>12607369
lol okay fag try represent yourself enjoy getting raped in jail by niggers

>>12615188
Dual majors are the biggest pseuds.

>>12615265
Conversation skill =! rhetorical autism. Conversationalism is more about faking (or better yet cultivating) interests in your interlocutors, reading the mood, knowing when to chang subjects or transition from a subject to another, knowing how to make a boring story entertaining and and entertaining story instructive, and so on.

>>12615351
Why?

>>12615227
lel no.
I had the foresight to take nursing pre-reqs and minor in Spanish too.
Now I can wipe asses in two languages while still being a pseud.

>>12615374
Inconsequential to graduate admissions or most employers and serves only to jeopardize GPA. If you truly wanted to learn additional material, you could have done so without any risk by signing up to audit the course. Dual majors hate that because they wouldn't get the pseud credit.

>>12615352
You make it sound like it's so simple, yet most people aren't good at it.
Whatever 'autism' you deem, it doesn't change what it is. if you are able to leave your conversations leaving people amused, it IS a desirable skill.

>>12615394
Nothing wrong with dual majors if one is complementary to the other. E.g. Maths and Finance.

>>12615448
I'm the original responding anon and it seems someone else is on my side, and I agree with him. Take someone like Mme. Verdurin or the laughably walking parody Cottard in Swann's Way. These might be examples of rhetoricians or rhetoricians to be but they only leave the most shallow people AMUSED. I know certain law students, and they know how to hold a conversation. I also know certain lawyers who talk too much. I know you're not saying it's a catch-all STUDY LAW AND YOU'LL BE GOOD, but my main point is what the other anon said: conversation is different than rhetoric. It's one thing to talk and it's another to listen. Fuck, even typing this out right now is making me realize the beauty of conversation over one-on-one (and now one-on-two apparently) anonymous conversation, and that I would have a beer with you, law-loving friend, only on the natural condition that we are honest and open and that I call you out when you're talking too much.

>>12615448
>yet most people aren't good at it.
>if you are able to leave your conversations leaving people amused, it IS a desirable skill.

Exactly half of my point, the other being that the guy who said

>"winning every argument possible" is not something to be aimed at

was essentially right. Those eristic (rgument-winning) skills don't necessarily make for good conversations, nor do they help much in the search of truth, they are mostly useful in public one-upmanship.

>>12607841
outside america you can be neet very easily

>>12609659
I think you're forgetting about dangerous and shitty jobs, like mine work. Being of average intelligence isn't gonna keep you locked out of those possibilities.

>>12612286
this but inversed

>>12608178
I prefer my self
>137 IQ
>8/10
>Masters CS

>>12615591
What do you specialise in?

>>12608178
Neither.

I'd rather be myself.
>10/10 attractive (face)
>161 IQ
>struggle severely financially for most of life
>heterosexual
>strive for chastity and continence

>>12606929
none

>>12606950
no chance
t. JD

>>12615394
Ehh, realistically a STEM lord who takes a second major in the humanities improves their GPA.
>source: me.

>>12615188
He didn't study math, he graduated with a degree in English and philosophy. Some of his philosophical studies touched on modal logic and mathematics, but he later admitted that he avoided math courses because he was concerned they would affect his GPA. I have probably studied more math than DFW, as has anybody who's completed so much as the first half of a STEM degree

His only published text directly concerning math was widely panned by mathematicians for basic errors. The bit in Infinite Jest in which Pemulis explains the fundamental theorem of calculus is also mathematically incorrect, as is much of book

>>12609659
oil rig

>>12615151
being able to win arguments for me has come with being able to have more productive conversations. i can better understand arguments and better fill in weak premises, and get my interlocutors to speak in greater detail about the relevant material, rather than being bound up in how to phrase my objections or convince them to perfectly demonstrate a premise i could just grant. but if it hangs on a premise that seems weak and is actually pivotal i can object clearly and refocus them. i have very good discussions with my friends who largely cant debate for shit due to my abilities, while they end up squabbling sometimes if left to their own devices

>>12615916
>161 IQ
>literally >4 Standard deviations away from normal
>struggle financially

Youre not 161 retard, youre probably like 105 and fell for a bogus test

>>12607361
>>12607347
>>12607105
>>12607071
>>12606950
are you all the same id?

>>12616338
Being born poor, having no money to allocate elsewhere other than immediate survival lest starvation occurs, having no individuals in my life to subsidize me, have all been tremendous roadblocks to securing any financial security. It is possible to be intelligent yet lack financial resources; Tesla and Langan are both examples of this. You're the brainlet to be so superficial that you deny the possibility of intelligence because of destitution.

>>12608132
>fuck my father

>>12616938
You aren't as smart as you think you are, faggot. If you think you have a 161 IQ then why don't you write something clever with your genius intellect.

>>12617017
I have nothing to prove to you.

>>12617045
That's understandable, you are an intelligent, tortured and extremely handsome saint after all.

>>12607832
>English
No. Its all been taken over by Leftist mind control.

>>12607361
Law is memorization. Engineering is actual problem solving. I can't imagine being this out of touch.

>>12617209
engineering isn't lit, faggot. That's art. Medical, law, and philosophy (obv) are the only lit degrees worth a damn

>>12616131
Is this the value of studying law that you're advertising? Or advantages of being able to win arguments in general?

>>12606956
I literally read the rats in the walls yesterday.
This is amazing.

>>12615829
I was a Finance/English dual major undergrad. I'm doing my Master's in English and working for the county. Getting money on the side, reading, and writing. Not to get too Dunning-Kruger while at the same time sacrificing any modesty, I'm very well-read and pretty good at writing. I'm How far are you in law, assuming you're the anon?

self-designed course of study

languages and literatures

religious studies

history of philosophy

classics

mathematics


these are just examples of subjects that you might choose to have taught to you.
if you have any sort of curiosity you will outstrip your scholastic let alone disciplinary) boundaries and realize that knowledge is best pursued outside of the classroom.

find an area that interests you and pursue it now.
the accidents of your course of study are those that you memorize, the essence is their methods.
and by that i mean, git gud. at everything.

Spook doesn't just mean social construct you gigantic fucking retards.

>>12618405
I'm the one who asked you the question. I thought you were >>12608125 so I assumed you were in law yourself.

>>12607385
You earn six figures though. so i wouldn't mind putting up with shit a little

>>12609754
>Communism is an outgrowth of British Liberalism?
yikes

>>12610537
didnt Dosto hate engineering though?

>>12611181
>Journalism
>in 2019
only shit that pays today is clickbait that incites hatred

Post2016 /lit/ hates academia

>>12618880
Academia seemed based af back in the day, but we all know it's a cucked cess-pool. Where do the academics of yesteryear go today in this post-techno wasteland? Do we start our own companies and think tanks to get the intellectual independence we year for in our professional lives?

>>12618879
You gotta visit websites outside buzz feed

>>12607841
I get 1200€ from the gubment for absolutely nothing. I pay 500€ for rent which leaves me 700€ a month for food, hobbies etc. I don't have any disability, this is the bare minimum you get in Finland for breathing. I don't have to apply for anything, it takes me 30 seconds a month to submit the "I'm still unemployed" papers online each month. They're processed automatically by the computer so I know I'll get them each month rather than having to convince some social services worker.

I have a master's degree but I don't have any personal drive to create a career and whatnot, so I choose to enjoy my free time. The only thing I miss is traveling, but I then again I have time to read a book or two each week, exercise daily and eat home cooked meals every day without any stress and with a healthy sleeping schedule so it's not a bad trade off.

>>12615194
I loved studying history, why not? I was a STEM student for 2 years before switching majors and it was constant suffering. History was like getting paid to study things that actually interest me. No wait, it literally was that.

MD but with an undergrad doubling in humanities as well as your basic hard science. But end game needs to be a MD; nothing else will force you through the full spectrum of life. We are the stagehands in the great theatre of life ushering it’s participants both on and off the stage with tact and humble knowledge of our own ignorance. Holding he hands as life is extinguished as well as when it’s born and everything in between. The charade of ennui evaporates in our presence as we have the unique privilege of being with people is their literally most vulnerable moments grappling with the greatest and most terrifying questions. But steep learning in philosophy and literature will enable to recognize and appreciate this privilege better

>>12618902
The answer is yes.

I have a computer science degree. It is not acceptable. It's full of people who think they know how to think, but can only perform functions. It's The Big Bang Theory with more transgender freaks. Study the classics or philosophy.

>>12620094
Excuse typos from big thumbs on small phone

But I’ll let Robert Louis Stevenson articulate it better:

“There are men and classes of men that stand above the common herd: the soldier, the sailor, and the shepherd not infrequently; the artist rarely; rarelier still, the clergyman; the physician almost as a rule. He is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization; and when that stage of man is done with, and only to be marvelled at in history, he will be thought to have shared as little, as any in the defects of the period, and most notably exhibited the virtues of the race. Generosity he has, such as is possible to those who practise an art, never to those who drive a trade; discretion, tested by a hundred secrets; tact, tried in a thousand embarrassments; and what are more important, Heraclean cheerfulness and courage. So that he brings air and cheer into the sick room, and often enough, though not so often as he wishes, brings healing.”

Agree medicine is kino af. Read a short essay by one of the greats, Sir William Osler called Doctors and Nurses to succinctly describe how goddamn OP medicine is as a career and way of life. I’m a software engineer, but if I could do it again, I’d suck it up and slog through med school.

>>12620106
If you study MD, you wouldn't be able to do anything else in life. It's like a lifetime subscription to studies.

>>12620132

I used to live on a street named after Osler.

>>12621623
thats what Im doing. Hows that any different from any career. At least as an MD your experiance all of life fully. Pain, Death, All kinds of people, Suffering, Great Pay.

All senior MDs I met were really cool and impressive

is finance at a top 5 b school ok?

>>12620109
Sandor Marai's The Sister is a very nice tale of pain and medecine if you're interested.

>>12622487
>Finance
Maths grads are better at finance than finance grads.

>>12622501
i know :(
but im too dumb for maths and i hate finance my papa forced me to do it
i hate being brainlet

>>12606929
any degree is /lit/ approved in the right hands

How the fuck is a medical career /lit/?

>>12622891
It's not. Most of these posts are just one anon who can't quite autofellate. That being said, if you want to know people who are reasonably bright, the Medical Profession has a good number of them. Just go in expecting average and you'll be fine.

>>12608627
Based

>>12622891
Any and every rigorous intellectual pursuit is /lit/ approved.

>>12622487
No.