Bullshit (often bowdlerized to BS), also Bullcrap, is a common English expletive. It can also be shortened to just "Bull".
Most commonly, it describes incorrect, misleading, false language and statements. Literally, it describes the feces of a bull. As with many expletives, it can be used as an interjection (or in many other parts of speech) and can carry a wide variety of meanings.
Bullshitting is usually when one makes statements that are false, or made-up. Usually people describe other people's action of making a lot of statements as bullshitting in arguments, when one is making up rules or making examples that are not anything to do with what they are discussing or when one is making statements by using examples that need different rules to be applied, so this person is bullshitting
As it contains the word "shit", the term is sometimes considered foul language, hence the use of the euphemistic abbreviations "bull" and "BS". Nonetheless, the term is prevalent in American English and, as with many words, the term is used in a variety of countries, some dating back to approximately the same era World War I. In British English, bollocks is a comparable expletive, although bullshit is now a commonly used expletive in British English also.
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Anonymous2007-10-07 18:10
Bullshit (often bowdlerized to BS), also Bullcrap, is a common English expletive. It can also be shortened to just "Bull".
Most commonly, it describes incorrect, misleading, false language and statements. Literally, it describes the feces of a bull. As with many expletives, it can be used as an interjection (or in many other parts of speech) and can carry a wide variety of meanings.
Bullshitting is usually when one makes statements that are false, or made-up. Usually people describe other people's action of making a lot of statements as bullshitting in arguments, when one is making up rules or making examples that are not anything to do with what they are discussing or when one is making statements by using examples that need different rules to be applied, so this person is bullshitting
As it contains the word "shit", the term is sometimes considered foul language, hence the use of the euphemistic abbreviations "bull" and "BS". Nonetheless, the term is prevalent in American English and, as with many words, the term is used in a variety of countries, some dating back to approximately the same era World War I. In British English, bollocks is a comparable expletive, although bullshit is now a commonly used expletive in British English also.
>>6
a Ph.D. in math is actually one with maybe the most perspective on a good career
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Anonymous2007-10-09 20:21
>>12
Orly? Don't the pure maths guys mostly end up in crappy teaching jobs?
Maths with specialization in in a practical field though, now there's a highly valued engineer.
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Anonymous2007-10-10 7:15
PhDs in math work for the military-industrial complex, as "quants" on Wall Street and hedge funds (six figures to start plus bonuses), at software companies, etc. But none of that changes the fact that they're dirty goddamn mathematicians.
>>14
They must be the Mr. Wizards who arrived at our wonderful subprime mortgage crisis. We paid these morons 6 figures?
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Anonymous2007-10-10 11:19
The dipshits that took out the mortgages--and then whatever dipshits bought up packaged mortgages--paid 'em. You didn't pay 'em unless you're one of those dipshits.
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Anonymous2007-10-10 12:18
who cares about degrees. if you don't know shit i won't hire you.
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Anonymous2007-10-10 12:20
mathniks = nerds
they're just WAITING for NASA to commission a ship to Mars...
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Anonymous2007-10-10 18:36
NO GET MARS NOT NAO NOT 2020
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Jewsauce2007-10-14 1:18
Seriously. Give me a number of people a year who get these things - like, 30? Somebody has got to know.
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Anonymous2007-10-14 9:44
In my school, we are like 40 going for a PhD in math. About two third of us want to teach after that.
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Anonymous2007-10-15 1:54
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About two third of us want to teach after that.
ahhh, now i can contribute to this... conversation, a word that i use ever so loosely.
as a student at UT @austin, i just transfered out of Mech Eng. to Pure mathematics, and i did a considerable amount of research on the subject.
a PhD in anything inherently involves at least a little research as well as a deep understanding of the subject, so a PhD in most everything will lead to a job @ a university (a professor), since you are overqualified for most everything else
i dont know how many PhD's are awarded each year, but you literally have to advance the field of mathematics and attain a significant amount of international reknown to get a PhD in mathematics in UT
it is important to understand the difference between teaching and being a professor. to teach, you must know how to teach. to be a professor, you must know a lot. the only professors one ever gets to know as an undergrad are the professors that like to/ are good at teaching, but there are many other people in that school who would call themselves a professor but teach only one highly specialized course
well, perhaps that goes for pure mathematics (topology, number theory, etc.) but... well... an applied mathematicians research is much more likely to be commissioned by someone with alot of cash, so... given that i dont know what field of mathematics you are interested in, i would say that you are very likely running into a job in which you would have to conduct research in order to keep food on the table
i could say what little i know about the different fields of mathematics, but it sounds like that isnt what youre interested in here...
you should really see an advisor in the College of Natural Sciences for your university... or contact advisors from different universties if you dont have access to one at yours