Who is doing Bachelor of Science (single or double)?

[HERculina]

I was wondering, where does a scientist work? and is it fun stuff
and does it take long to actually become a proper scientist

[TrueLight]

u can work at uni doing lecturing/pracs/lab research work
or you can go into a research institute
or u can work in industry
work in government

probably a few others i missed...

proper scientist? well if u want to become head of lab or something ull need phd...so that would take all up 7.5-8 years

[humph]

ok so basically u did something similar to /0 in undergrad

so u did three years of Phb science major in pure maths and then u finished ur honours in pure maths?

Lol yeah, I was the first of all the VNers to go to ANU. Same degree as /0 - four years including honours (the honours year is a guaranteed part of the degree). You don't actually have to major in anything (in fact my transcript doesn't have a major written on it), you just have to do enough courses of one discipline so that you can do honours in it. But yeah, it's all been pure maths - I did some physics courses and stuff in first year, but every subject after that was maths.

[TrueLight]

oh ok got ya

how was honours? hard?

[humph]

Not that I should say it, but I actually found honours not too bad. Mind you, I found my thesis topic really interesting, which meant I did heaps of research on it at the beginning of the year and had heaps written up after a couple of months, whereas a lot of people don't knuckle down til the last month or two and get uberstressed.
That being said, some of the coursework was a bitch, but that was because they were mostly crazy special topics that even the academic staff were new to. It's very disturbing when the "student" taking notes in front of you in class is your lecturer in another class.

[TrueLight]

It's very disturbing when the "student" taking notes in front of you in class is your lecturer in another class.

lol uberhard

ah ok ur probably one of the few lol then again ur really smart and motivated and u paced urself well

was ur supervisor awesome, helped alot?

[humph]

Hmmm yeah, my honours year was pretty much the opposite of yr12 in that this time round, I actually worked reasonably hard and ahead of time. Again, it was basically just because I actually found my topic pretty stimulating - I did get bogged down at times when I had to write up the uninteresting bits.
And hah, my supervisor was pretty good, but not because he helped a lot. In fact he didn't want to take me on at first because he only knows bits and pieces about my topic (no one in Australia really does analytic number theory, unfortunately), so he gave me a question to work on that he thought I should be able to solve, but warned me at the beginning that he didn't know that much about it. Turns out it isn't really possible to solve the problem the way he expected, but I still managed to write up lots of stuff about why it wasn't possible, so it was all good. And after working on that thesis for a year, I can definitely say I know a lot more about that topic than my supervisor does...

[TrueLight]

ah awesome congratz on finishing what u doing next?

[QuantumJG]

Math Major @ uom. 3rd year in 2011.

What area Maths is it in? Pure? Applied?

[QuantumJG]

I was wondering, where does a scientist work? and is it fun stuff
and does it take long to actually become a proper scientist

It depends on the field. In chemistry you can work as a chemistry academic in a laboratory as a technician, a research scientist or a analytical chemist. Physicists I think have fewer "professional" jobs in lab work but most physicists have the analytical skills to go into banking or other professional fields of that kind.

To become a professional scientist takes atleast 7 years!!! :S depending on how I go down the track, I may do some work after masters depending on whether I can do another 3-4 years of study. Although with a PhD your getting close to working as an academic which is my dream career.

Not that I should say it, but I actually found honours not too bad. Mind you, I found my thesis topic really interesting, which meant I did heaps of research on it at the beginning of the year and had heaps written up after a couple of months, whereas a lot of people don't knuckle down til the last month or two and get uberstressed.
That being said, some of the coursework was a bitch, but that was because they were mostly crazy special topics that even the academic staff were new to. It's very disturbing when the "student" taking notes in front of you in class is your lecturer in another class.

Lol!

I'm looking forward to masters.

[humph]

ah awesome congratz on finishing what u doing next?

Currently doing a summer research scholarship at ANU (as are Ahmad and mark_alec), then onto PhD next year.

[kamil9876]

Math Major @ uom. 3rd year in 2011.

What area Maths is it in? Pure? Applied?

Pure, I was also considering Discrete Math and OP. After one semester of OP i realised I don't like that but I have always been a big fan of discrete math. I guess I just like the intersection between pure math and discrete math. So I will be doing mostly pure math with some discrete math.

[herzy]

science/law
major in genetics and molecular bio, minors in ecology and conservation bio; and zoology

[TrueLight]

yep^

also can you post the year 1st, 2nd or 3rd
but i just put u in 2nd^

[jasrulz63]

2nd year (in 2011) Bachelor of Science at the University of Melbourne, majoring in Human Structure and Function