A Handy Guide to Picking STEM Majors
A satirical flowchart steering students to STEM majors based on their feelings about safety, math, money and evil.
Transcript
[Flowchart] START → "Are you good with things? Like, physical objects?" YES → "What are your feelings on safety?" For: Engineering / Against: Chemistry / Ambivalent: Chemical Engineering. NO → "Do you like math and/or money?" No math, yes money: Economics ("yes, there's math, but don't worry; the kids who like it will go to grad school, leaving the lucrative jobs for you") · Yes math, no money → "What exactly do you enjoy about math?" Getting to be a fussy pedant: Mathematics / Trolling the fussy pedants: Physics · No, neither → "So, why do you want to major in a STEM field?" To save the planet: Environmental Science / Curiosity, or "Wait, I thought STEM had to do with plants": Biology · Yes, both → "Do you prefer to perform overt, immediate evil, or slow, indirect evil?" Overt: Finance / Indirect: Computer Science
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