>27>Has a PHD in theoretical physics
I have a theoretical PHD in theoretical physics
Maybe he skipped classes and that's why it took so long
>>736431060Ah nice another demoralization thread in a video game board
>>736431060If you come from money getting a PhD is piss easy. Just lock in and study for 5-6 years. So long as you have your rent and food taken care off studying is even fun.
>>736431060>he fucks up so hard on the job he dooms the planetI see no issue here
I had a master's at 25.What the fuck, are you guys seriously not living your lives AND playing video games?If games aren't a reward for a job well done, what's even the point?
>>736431135>copies joke>get the joke wrong
>>736431425>job well done>fell for the scam of the century and paid hundreds of thousands for a piece of paper that is now worthless
I have a PhD yet I still post here.
>>736431464I have a theoretical PHD in the theoretical stealing of jokes
>>736431320You don't study in a PhD, you work.
>>736431320This"Freeman"? Really? He's definitely a nepobaby.
>>736431060I had my physics masters at 23, it's possible
>>736431481sir they're english degrees they were already worthless but now I have job experience so it's moot
>>736431060highly trained professional, he was scouted for black mesa too
>>736431326Bullshit, those black mesa scumbags were already doing incursions into Xen long before the resonance cascade. They already had specimens and were experimenting on them, long enough that they'd developed weaponry based on their findings.That was the whole point of Questionable Ethics. Did you play beyond the first level?
>>736431597That's a name that former slaves took, ie a poor black person name. It's a nod to Morgan Freeman.
>>736431060Why did they have him doing manual labour? Couldn't they have just grabbed one of the security guards to push the cart?
Back when I was doing my law degree there were glowies at our university scouting for secret services candidates.
>>736431060I finished my masters at 22, then worked for 3 years and did a mba at 25. Gordon is on par for the course.
>approaching 32 and still stuck in an inescapable, actively worsening 4 year depression spiral as a 6th year phd studentI should have killed myself at 30 like I promised to
i dropped out in 7th grade
>>7364310603 years for bachelors 2 for masters3 for PhdIf you are a diligent student that is exactly how long it takes
>>736431937You escaped the Matrix, what is it like being immune to government brainwashing?
>>736431060>getting my masters at 29It's over....
>>736431786sir that chamber casually ended the world. it requires a highly trained professional
>>736431993Lonely, unironically.
>>736431326How did he fuck up? He didn't personally select that crystal. His bosses did and they were themselves deceived by G-Man.
>>736431060Why not? He's a free man after all.
>>736431578>You don't study in a PhD, you work.Unpaid work isn't work. If you have to pay for it yourself or through loans it's part of your education.
You know this is sci fi because it's about physics PhDs having cool jobs
>>736431060It's called having focus
>>736431060that's the mean age of PhD recipients, yeah.>>736431320>>736434058physics grads get paid to work, over $30k a year.>>736431786very typical for a post-doc. Do you think experimentalists have wage slaves to put shit together for them?Well they do, they're called grad students and post docs.
>>736431060>>736431892>>736434482Autistic people mature slower than normal people so these threads are just autistic anons venting about being out of step.
I want to get a masters degree, and then a doctorate, but I can't afford it
>>736434482>physics grads get paid to work, over $30k a year.You have to apply for grants, and good fucking luck with that these days.
>>736434169it always gets me when a stemfag ends up broke like everyone else
>>736431464He theoretically got it right.
>>736434058KWAB let me guess American, in every other country you get paid during your Phd, maybe not enough compared to the workload but still enough to get by easily
>>736431786And you think any of the security guards would've been willing? They've seen what sort of shit that place gets up to, and how god awful their safety record is.The entire reason Gordon gets put in the barrel is because he's still green enough to be fooled into doing so. If he had any idea what the fuck he's actually doing, he'd have quit by the time he finished the hazard course.Not to say Gordon was their only option. We end up seeing on Xen that there's a whole bunch of entirely expendable guys in HEV suits working for Black Mesa, with the final boss room alone having four of the poor bastards.
>>736434678Your advisor mostly does that. At any school with a functional grad program you're essentially guaranteed 6 years if you do the work. They budget grad students when they decide how many to accept. So grant applications for students are usually supplemental.Besides, usually enough wise people drop out of their own volition. Physics also gives out Masters degrees as consolation prizes to those people.
>>736431060I have a PhD A PRETTY HUGE DICK HAHAHA
I don't get what's so odd about thisYou go to college 17-184 years bachelors2 years masters4 years PhDYou finish 27-28I'm pretty sure that's standard lengths And speaking from experience you can do a masters in 1 year (highly do not recommend)
>have "small doctorate" (gimmick in my europoor country from the past, basically no more years of studying but a single extra exam (tough tho))>pretty much useless today EXCEPT for flexing on people who can't tell the difference and watching real PhDs seethe in anger and bending over backwards to say we're not the sameI hate academics so much lmao, getting it was worth it to ragebait these stuck up faggots alone
I want to get a PhD to get the doctor title but I really hate school and college and academia
>>736431060>finish BSc at 21, finish MSc at 22, finish PhD at 26I don't see the issue
>>736438203I got my nursery degree on a public university and the insufferable bitch who taught us patient ethics and psychology who barely even exercised as a nurse and always butted heads with me (despite the fact I was already working at a hospital doing X-Rays) now studies nursing at the private University I teach part-time at, L M A O
>>736438492>>736438186Why dont you have a PhD if its so easy then?
>>736431786>Why did they have him doing manual labour?Freeman was essentially a step above an intern. Odds are the newer guys draw the short straws on that and you stick with it since Black Mesa was like a holy grail of positions which Gordon only basically got because one of the top scientists there was his professor at MIT.
>>736431425Ok? A Master's is not a PhD A PhD takes another 4 years minimum on top of MastersAre you able to add 25 and 4 together?
>>736431060Its very doable if you are one of those super smart people
do credentials (MA, PhD, MBA etc) even matter if you're an autist like myself who doesn't network or really do anything besides the bare minimum of going to class and handing in assignments? even if I had a PhD I'd still just be cold applying to jobs on linkedin and indeed
>>736438870If you're doing a PhD and managed to not build any connections in your field you're most likely not getting the degree to begin with.
>>736431060Should have went to a trade school.
>>736438870Other than being able to flex on chad on occasion, no, there is no pointNetworking and "college life" itself is like 90% of higher educationThe other 10% you can find online.
I didn't go to college because I couldn't figure out credit systems and still have no idea what to do for work, since nothing seems appealing to me at all beyond vidya, anime and jerking off. I'm 37.
>>736438870>if you're an autist like myself who doesn't network or really do anything besides the bare minimum of going to class and handing in assignmentsSee your mistake is thinking that a PhD has this at all, it's quiet literally four years of doing networking and brownnosing
>>736438870i can tell you right now that the answer is noemployers value evidence and sources of you actually doing stuff more than anything and a piece of paper doesn't do that
>>736438186I'm doing my first year of master's at 24, I wish online classes didn't hold my lazy ass backAt least I have a small scholarship due to working on a side thing with some teachers, but I'm barely doing a damn thingI just wanted to make videogames man I don't want to know what a dockerfile is or how to benchmark a database
>>736438870I'll let you know fucking BA's barely matter if you don't know people or have that rare ability to bullshit interviews the right way. Ironically Associates are the only ones that open doors these days because it basically proves you are slightly better than a high school grad.
>>736438870Depends how much in demand your field is. You can be a fucking social trainwreck but if you're studying a PhD in like how to perform x surgery with y equipment you'll have people bending backwards to give you the job.
>>736431060In my headcanon gordon is 37 and not 27 it makes far more sense.
>>736439182And the real bane of autists is that most interviews aren't there to see how qualified you are, they already know if you got to the table, it's about how you will be as a co-worker.
Can we discuss the game? I liek surface tension.
>>736431060>getting a phd in numerical physics at 36I'm a failureAlso I hate physics
>>736431786Because all the other qualified people were either dead in Xen or occupied elsewhere.
>>736438870>do credentials (MA, PhD, MBA etc) even matterDepends where you want to goAs others said connections are a large part and never hurtBut there are lots of places where you'll need one>e.g. if the field has "bio" in it in my country you'd better have a phd unless you want to be an errand boyAnd places where you might not need it>corporations, high demand and/or relatively young scenes (old people have lived longer to gather more credentials so often hold theirs over everyone they can) may well let you slide as long as you show you know your shit and have it together
>>736439593I like On A Rail. You're all wrong
Reminder that statistically the average age of a graduate student in america is 33. Don't feel like a loser for getting your master's at 30, /v/ros
>>736439879It's high because shit's expensive yo. If you have money you should have a PhD by then.
>>736439593Same here. Best chapter in the game. I also have a soft spot for office complex and we got hostiles. Also, black mesa xen is so tedious and boring that it made appreciate the OG xen.
>>736439861There's...there's nothing to like
I mean I got my Masters are 22~ and two to four years for a PhD lines up right
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>>736439879That number is HIGHLY inflated by rich foreign students. If you were born in America, you basically have no excuse to not have finished by 30.
