Thesis: the tendency in academia to regard “pure” sciences as more prestigious than applied sciences is just the sciencey version of the idea that a true gentleman has no practical skills.
The engineering faculty is throwing a christmas party and invited, among others, the deans of most other faculties, resulting almost immediately in hostility on all fronts.
Sociology starts by taking the piss at Business: “You know that what you’re doing is basically just the application of our theories, right?“
“Well, sociology, too, is just building on the application of our theories“, says Psychology.
“Which wouldn’t be possible without us laying the groundwork“, Neurology states, to which Biology responds: “Dude, that’s just what we were doing already, you just took off!“
“Okay, but it’s both basically applied chemistry, anyway”, Chemistry chimes in
“Yeah, but you too just apply our findings“, Physics rebuts
“Well, I think-“, Philosophy wants to add to the conversation, but is hit by a brick wrapped in graph paper flying through the window.
The note on it is by Mathematics and reads: “Holy shit someone come down here and pick me up! I can’t find the door of this hellcube“
My first lecture of this semester heavily involved the lecturer explaining that he has to have this argument with himself across different modules
Bonus points if you can get a slapfight going about whether philosophy is just applied mathematics, or vice versa!
hey fellas last night i took a medication which is more or less the anxiety equivalent of a horse tranquilizer & essentially enterred the fifth dimension of sleepwalking in which i awoke but enterred a dissociative fit so strong i was really confused why my loving girlfriend was not my good friend and fellow viking bjorn, who i had to bring some furs to. also i might’ve cried about this. don’t remember
was informed i left out the best part of this 3am experience which was the bit where i, in tears, gestured to our dog and shouted, “i don’t know what this is!”
All I’m saying is that the chemists would definitely give the mathematicians a swirly
Um, excuse me: geology is literally the most jock science possible.
Sorry but geologists are basically the stamp collecting weirdos of science
But I climbed up that mountain to get that stamp I mean rock
Geology attracts so many outdoory bros/outdoorsy nerds with existential crises/people who always dress like they’re ready to spend a week in the field
We’re the nerds who refuse to believe they’re nerds. Trufax.
I submit that there is no one geological orientation and present this for discussion and further refinement amongst my colleagues here on tumblr dot com
paleo…magic? Is that super secret branch that all the Jurassic Park scientists belong to because idk any other way to explain that massive logic fail except that someone waved a magic wand and made everyone think it was a legit branch of science
ahahah no it’s paleomagnetism, aka paleomag or paleomagic, because people who study it are paleomagneticians aka paleomagicians. Also called ‘magnets aren’t real, physics is made up, fire is scary and Thomas Edison was a witch’
we also call paleomagicians ‘giant wasps’ because you know they’ve been somewhere because there’s all these 2-inch diameter holes in the rocks.
Star Wars, high waisted jeans, over sized sweaters, flannels, horrible republican government, conflict with Russia, the ever impending threat of Nuclear Anihilation, scrunchies,
just moving along like everyone else 