Every Major's Terrible XKCD Sing-a-Long
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- A video I made to help people learn the song. Slowed the song down and made the timing a little easier to keep up without passing out from oxygen deprivation, lol.
To hear the song at "full speed", choose 1.25X speed!
"...Math's just physics..." and "...physics major redirects to engineer." As a graduated applied math major, when looking for "good" jobs for which a math major qualifies you, it's hard not to land at engineer. There's a few others, kinda, but this song speaks truth.
Edit: Thanks for all the likes. It's nice to see I'm not alone in this feeling. Here's hoping we find something fulfilling that also pays a living wage... Ideas?
I landed in insurance as an analyst out of the blue - had never considered it before. They pay me to sit in a corner and play with numbers, it's great.
*_Laughs in just going for Engineering from the get go_*
*_Cries in trying to double-major_*
funnily enough here the courses for engineering, physics and math are basically the same with only a little bit more hours in each
Cs
Or get 1st in a math competition and do quant
Communist revolution. We repurpose the economy to make sure everyone's needs are met and abandon the idea of pay entirely. We will always accomplish more by cooperating instead of competing, and only believe differently because of lies spoon-fed to us since childhood.
Now that I'm actually IN college, I can relate to both this guy and the Modern Major-General a lot more.
I never actually went to college LOL. saw all my friends wrack up a bunch of debt is all......
I watched this as a teen, studied Accounting, tax law, Economics, and general business. It's not too bad I think the best of that is I didn't rack up debt and I graduated with some general knowledge rather than a useless degree I think is useful. My sisters are in debt, my brother is in debt they all studied worthless subjects like teaching, liberal arts, pre med, biology, sociology, history. 🤦🏻♂️ It's crazy cause my older brother loves XKCD. Even that specific comic. 🤷🏻♂️ I just don't know what happened.
@@LovingPrinceTamayuki Teaching, pre med, biology, sociology, and history are worthless? Underpaid, yes, but do you really want to live in a world without teachers, biologists, or doctors?
@@pendlera2959 You mistook what I meant, none of those classes/degrees translate to jobs in those industries. (that goes for the one's I studied like Accounting, Tax law, Economics, general business.) The difference there is I end up with practical skills about how the world works. What I learned in my business classes gave me a better idea of hiring policies companies. (Spoiler: it has nothing to do with your degree, it's about who they know when they need someone. And they'll do without before taking too many chances on outsiders. [Translation: a hospital would rather move someone up to doctor from one of their desk jobs than they would hire a med student to be a doctor. They will run the office clerk through med school if they have to. They only hire people they know, with little exceptions.])
@@LovingPrinceTamayuki if nothing else, you've been equipped with the skills to comprehend the debt you are in and make the tax deductions
ok but that feeling when you find the missing paren is unparalleled
unparenllaled
"That feelling when you find the missing paren is unparraleled,
Because it happened in the CODE REVIEW, yeah every major's terrible."
This applies to almost anything in cs, whenever you finish debugging and everything works perfectly it’s just a beautiful moment
“Paren”?
@@alex.g7317parentheses, though in this case curly braces are also often missing
can confirm. I just finished my physics degree and finally get to apply all that I've learned.......engineering airconditioners....fuck
Did things change for the better in the last year? Good luck
What grace said
@@blackbloodcell5147 nope, still at the same company, but now I actually enjoy it and am going back to school for systems engineering.
@@beethovens666 Priceless
My maths degree thoroughly prepared me to check the formulas in excel spreadsheets by hand for compliance with regulatory quality assurance procedures
I feel pretty good about choosing linguisti-*every job opening is working on AI*
ME RIGHT NOW. switched into ling cause it didnt make me want to die and now im graduating and im like well shit
sorry, you'll have to slave away on cat, i farted now
This is why I’m getting my masters in comp ling
Honestly linguistics is good for AI because you'll know prompt engineering
Take a look into SIL International. They do language vitality work, and they have real jobs.
Feynman, who is mentioned in the sing-a-long famously said:
"Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do."
What does that mean?
@@celtoucan4956 Focus on finding out what you are passionate about and do that. Don't start with a specific curriculum or job as your target; if you do what you have a passion for you will succeed and that will lead you to the correct education and career choices.
@@celtoucan4956Worry less about what you're majoring in and more about what job you want, and then decide the major based on that, is my guess.
Music major here. Mine’s so bad Randall didn’t even bother. See yall at McDonald’s.
Music major, ey?
Then you can hum a fugue of which you've heard the music's din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
😂
@@Appolyon music 101: here’s all the rules
music 102: here’s why all the rules are bullshit
As someone who’s going into cs, I can’t wait to find the missing parentheses
(And also work a job where 99% of the work goes into fixing things that you yourself broke)
CS Major here. 99% of the work doesn't go into fixing stuff you broke- sometimes you work on stuff your colleages broke too.
The parantheses are only easily missed in bad languages and IDEs.
You will spend no time on this once on the job.
Btw the entire JetBrains suite is free for Students.
…its not the parentheses you’ll be worrying about. I might of webscraped Etsy so much the last few weeks (making code to compare prices across the internet) they implemented bot detection on their website…
Yes, you will fix way, way worse bullshit.
So glad modern code editors will tell you about your missing parentheses. I heavily recommend you practice handwriting solutions to problems because you’ll absolutely get dinged in exams on missing syntax that a code editor would warn you about. Try to get into the learning model “AI” courses and any backend or front end design courses, cause those are things very hard to learn on your own once out of college.
Academic Advisor: slides him a Theatre Major class list.
I actually did musical theatre all through high school, soooo yeah......
@@isingthr4iam Same hat!!! :^D
I majored in history and now I’m a middle school history teacher. So yeah, that’s pretty accurate. Luckily, I love history and I love teaching and even love my students (most of the time) so I have no regrets. Our salaries aren’t even all that bad anymore (though I won’t be buying a Lamborghini anytime soon).
Youre able to be an attorney!
Current history major and yeah I'm in history because I want to teach high school
But like… that’s the literal point of history. We study and analyze these things so we can try not to make the same mistakes again.
The humanities is about maintaining the corpus of human achievement for those who come after us, and devaluing that is a terrible thing.
where do you live that a middle school history teacher salary isnt terrible?
@@jasonforbes159a lot of places where public schools are unionized pay well. I’m from Chicago, teachers get paid quite well here. Teacher salaries for public schools are also public record, you can look up any city’s public school district and see exactly how much all the teachers and administrators get paid. I myself have looked at the list for Chicago, some of my high school teachers were making 6 figures.
And nursing's just rehearsing for years of tears wiping other people's butts. The way your treated is repeated, and eventually it just drives you nuts.
nah that's what the doctors are for. nurses do way more than doctors lol
Ha! Entomology is untouched, I'm safe! ...or, wait, no, it's untouched, because 99% of people don't even want to go near us... 😔
But bugs are cool!
@@Aphidae You could say that to the IT guy
@@therobbuas an IT guy, I can confirm, bugs are cool. Without bugs my work would be so much boring!
(although, fixing the mistakes in code is also not that boring)
Thank you so much for creating this! Finding a version of this song that was both well-sung and clearly understood seemed nothing short of a miracle. Definitely the best version on the web.
This is a LOT more comprehensible than the SFU Choir video
Thank you so much! I'm "cheating" though, because I slowed it down a bit lol
@@isingthr4iam As someone who's done a lot of Gilbert and Sullivan shows over the years, I can assure you that you are not cheating. The purpose of patter songs isn't to show off how fast you can sing them (except maybe in an encore or something), and people SHOULD be able to understand you. You sang it at a perfectly fine tempo!
Every other major: man this fucking sucks!
Astronomy: fuck, i dont need brenda telling me about leo.
nah i.t. is also fine unless your pc decides to be a bitch. lmao
The missing close parentheses hits too close to home
(()
Especially after you’ve saved and it auto-formatted everything wrong 🙂
Especially if you're writing LISP.
well the wiki page for physics redirects to engineer, so there you go...engineering.... not so terrible
Until the idiotic bosses come in.
every engineer i've ever met is sad and terrible
From an engineering engineer, most of us are very sad and also a little bit insane
hahaaa enjoy having no life for four years only to make half what the business major frat bros take home
@@TheNodrokovyou kidding me? I loved studying ME when I was in college. Maybe I am insane but I loved studying thermo and heat transfer late into the night
This made me reconsider a job in the IT field.
Having fun fighting PC's yet?
How bout now
I think the PCs got ‘em
You shouldls till do it! BUT, maybe do a year or two in customer service, it'll help you understand "end-users" lol
@@isingthr4iam Ah, dealing with end users in IT reminded me of an incident back in college. I was majoring in CompSci and, as a student worker, was one of the people managing the CS department's network.
We had one graduate student (who had received his BS in another country) who had been given a question as part of a class assignment that asked basically, "Which of the following programs would crash a computer?" So, he decided to research the answer for this experimentally. On the shell server that CS students were given access to do test their programs. He found the correct answer. It was "while (true) fork();" After that incident, he got his own special line in the ssh config file that made it much more difficult for him to log in. :)
This is the best version of this song
Thank you so so much!!!!
every other's terrible
Gilbert & Sullivan are laughing while turning over in their graves
That's the highest compliment, thank you!!!!!
You have done XKCD a good service
The best thing about youTube is the option for 2x speed...
+jacob robertson LOL, true! If you speed it up to 1.5x, it's actually closer to the correct/actual speed...
+Dane Peterson I'd say 1.25x is on the spot.
@@19858717 Good point, you're 100% right on that point.
As someone who maybe wants to be a chemist one day, I can confirm I am high on methyl acetate.
Play it at x2 speed and you get what I hear from my teacher every day in math
Found the channel in 2023. Found this masterwork in 2024. It's all so good, I'm not all that disappointed about being late.
If i had a nickel for every stem related version of modern major-general i am aware of, i'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that that happened twice.
Scientist Salarian?
@@elijahdage5523
I was talking about Tom Lehrer's "The Elements", which uses the same melody.
I'd add on Freeman's Mind's addition as well for four whole nickels
@@Chrischi3TutorialLPs I memorized that one too... Having a touch of the 'tism seems to endear one to patter songs lol
That hurt, I changed from physics to engineering at my junior year.
I went the other way, physics to pure maths.
as someone who's going to be going to college in about two years, i will definitely have this stuck in my head until then. thank you for this
The fact that this doesn't have at least a million views is a crime
How did it take me ten years to find this? RUclips's algorithms are terrible too!!!!
Laughed out loud at "forty years of teaching it".
I've often wondered if I could've been a history teacher.
The lectures and the students would've probably been okay, but I think all the grading of tests and papers would've been really boring.
Also by the time I finally graduated I'd had enough for life of doing any of what any school or college told me to do anyway. 😉😜😘
The problem with college is that (like any other school experience) it does *not* really prepare you for life outside school or life after school, it just pretends to, so unless you are really really good at predicting your life then you are at risk of several different kinds of "just got done with school and now where are you" kinds of scenarios.
Generally speaking, most of the time the only thing school *really* prepares you for is more school, and sometimes not even that.
That said, though, it can sometimes be very interesting and educational in its own way.
Just don't expect it to prepare you for anything except itself. 😉
A good college education should prepare you for your intended careers, but it won't cover everything. It'll give you training and background knowledge that is important, but you'll definitely have more to learn. A great way to be more well-balanced, prepared, and attractive to employers in your field is to mix in practical, applied experience when you can alongside the schooling. Sponsored projects, summer internships, etc.
In computer science I see quite a disconnect in certain courses between people's expectations of being taught loads of software engineering skills so they can get a good job in industry or whatever, and the reality that the course is very theoretical and essentially training to prepare students to go into the field for academia
I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing given I'm in computer science academia, but it's interesting how from the outside it's seen as basically necessary to take this degree to get a good coding job (by employers too) when a more vocational course would probably impart much better and more transferable skills in industry
@@TheAmazingMooCow2I HAVE a CS degree (granted a transfer pathway degree, it’s not a complete education) and I have no clue on how to do anything practical. Memorize these algorithms, but you don’t get to know when to use them fuck you.
@@SynchronizorVideosabsolutely, and there are programs that are better at this than others, an example for me is technical theatre, as it’s what I’m doing now, those programs will very much get you on-the-job skills and experience but even then it’s good to do outside work so you understand the “how do I turn this into a ‘sustainable’ job” aspect
@@TheAmazingMooCow2I always wonder how it feels to be one of the people who takes pride in avoiding theory and only learning practical job-specific skills when their field changes overnight and they have to start from scratch.
I can just imagine someone spending 4 years specializing in a specific piece of software that's outdated the moment they graduate
0:38 What do you do~ with a BA in communications? What is my life going to be?
Communications is required for most jobs in broadcasting.
You know you messed up when one of your majors didn’t even make it into this.
People always think Underwater Basket Weaving is bad. But let me ask you...... How do you soften the reeds.......lol
With the water?
I can attest to econ! A good economist is both a scientist and a philosopher, a rich economist is neither. Everybody wants to hire an economist... to do the work of a statistician or a lobbyist.
This will surely go down as the greatest parody song of a parody song in history. Should be studied by history and art history majors for generations to come.
I tried to be undeclared but my college's computer system forced me to pretend to declare a major without my knowledge. @___@
And I bet somebody could probably make up a pretty decent parody from *that*.
Especially since "college" and "knowledge" do happen to rhyme. ^___^
What actually happened was, the computer system chose for me based on the only class I was taking in my first semester (I was not considered officially a resident yet since I had not lived here long enough then and the prices are high for non-residents) and that happened to be Anthropology of Mexico which happens to be related to history so the computer system chose history.
Later I changed it to theater.
In between, I tried to change it back to undeclared, but wasn't allowed to since apparently they don't do it that way.
Even when you *didn't* make any decision or declaration about it yourself?
Apparently yes.
Sigh.
Way to go, Carl. You'll never read this, but your nephew is proud of you
The moment the pen hits the paper... and all the initial dues are paid... there is no going back. chooose wisely... for you only may find one thats simply the lesser evil.
Proud to be your 100th subscriber
God, these lyrics are genius! Nice one
Slightly disappointed there was no mention of film, but I guess that just means my major doesn't suck (impossible)
It's very good sped up, but part of what makes patter songs (think "modern major general", "getting married today") is their incredible speed
Great job! I always this use this video with my career class and the slowed version is much easier to follow.
CS major here. 90% of my job is documentation, Excel spreadsheets and trying to figure out why VS Code is broken today.
ewww. Excel and VS Code. Sorry to hear.
@@SauvenilWell, I am in management now, so it's somewhat expected.
@@hughmungusbungusfungus4618Worked your way up from the good languages into the bad ones, double ugh. At least the pay is worth it?
Just like my internship at aerospace maintenance. 50% of my work was looking at papers, 30% - checking the papers, 10% - delivering papers and remaining 10% was actually doing something in a plane.
@@Sauvenil It was but the engineers in my department make almost as much as I do. Of course, I'm the one who sets the pay scale.
I seriously believe I got this reccomended after not hearing it for years, because I just watched a skit of a Sophie's Choice Alternate Ending.
FYI this great video is in the RUclips algorithm again
I didn’t catch computer science in there…
it's at 1:22
Thanks, @@typecasto!
It’s case-sensitive, you should be looking for "Computer Science"
@@redpepper74This is a brilliant response.
The conclusion I'm leaving this with is that dual majors are important. All roads lead to engineering, so if you're going down there, you should probably go with something that will either get you a leg up in the field or give you a niche. I hear a lot of Political Science majors wish they'd majored in English so they'd be more equipped to write about how fucked up politics are. Similar deal with History majors who wish they'd learned Philosophy. Bio and Chem obviously go hand in hand. I'm sure there's other examples, but eh.
Just study computer science and engineering. Enough CS, Maths and Physics plus finance or biology if you want so you do not have to decide at all.
I thought that in the very end he'd include art and just die laughing for a solid two minutes straight.
You're doing God's work.
LOVE. IT.
Laughing so hard I can't type any more 😂😂
Well I’m glad I finally watched this, even if it has been 10 years
The same Gilbert and Sullivan melody was used to great effect by Tom Lehrer in his "elements song" which is over a lot faster . . .
I might suggest setting the speed to 1.25 then. I made the video intentionally slow, for those who wanted a "sing-a-long" style that they could learn the words to, like I did lol.
I majored in CS. That bit about missing parentheses isn’t an exaggeration.
Somehow, this neuro/classics major got away unscathed!
I think he should have inversed the Physics Major part. Being an Electrical Engineer just means you get a Math and Physics degree for the price of one mental breakdown.
I love that this was just recommended to me now.
Still pretty accurate lolzl
I'm still trying to figure out what I should study at as a returning adult student. Everything looks equally bad or equally acceptable or equally good. Hmm.....
I was waiting for the art major slander, but it never came. I guess the fact none of them were included is the slander, lol.
same, can't decide whether to be glad they didn't think to insult us, or insulted that they didn't even even bother. (jokes on them tho, im abt to graduate debt-free with a 3.8 gpa biiiiiitches!)
As someone in highschool who has no aspirations or any idea what to do as a living, all i can say is
The fuck do I do now?
I'd like to think his academic advisor asked what his major is in a meeting and he just broke out into song
LOL that would be true, but I didn't go to college! LOL! I would have been a useless musical theatre major though....
This is why you don’t go to college unless you have a major in already mind. Collage should NOT be high school+.
0:35 is too real as a BA in telecommunications.
red dot on top left tho
Fuck made me notice it and now it bothers me so much
I KNOW!!!! I only had access to the free stuff when I made it, sorry!!!
@@isingthr4iam No problem!! It's a very well made video.
Ironically, I got a degree in archaeology (a field often n at the receiving end of jokes about useless majors) and there's a massive demand for workers currently. Sure you get paid like half of what geotechnical folks make for digging holes in the same field at the same time, but I get paid to dig holes in the dirt with nerds every day. It could be worse! 😁
I was a business major. (I graduated after two and a half years just so I could get out of school as quick as possible)
It is very good, I wish it had the chorus though.
Just swapped from computer engineering to political science (bs), it’s not too late boys, you can get out.
“And poly sci’s just Econ that’s day dreaming of philosophy”
Love this comic :)
If I had a nickel for every parody of “Modern Major General” by Gilbert and Sullivan that in one way or another mentions chemistry, I would have two nickels, which isn’t a lot. But, it’s weird that it happened twice
Iconic
EXCELLENT! 👌
It's XKCD/1052 for anyone curious.
CS solution
(((()((((()())))())())())
5 characters - (((( - 4 characters - ))) - 9 characters
The missing ) should be after character 16.
Philosophy majors 🤝 Gender Studies majors
Either going to law school, teaching the subject, or being unemployed
I am starting to see the real reason why this song is true
Further education is a scam for most people and has ultimately just made it way too hard to get an entry level job
THEATER WENT UNMENTIONED LETS GOOOOO (i say this having read the original several years before i even started thinking about college)
anyone have a link to the comic/know what the alt text was?
I shamelessly stole it from the genius that is Randall Munroe, from xkcd.com/1052/
Ayo. Engineers get a pass I guess
We already insult ourselves enough
It opens up a nice path to some deeper philosophical questions - like for example, if people like me become engineers and design planes, then how certain I can be that my doctor knows what he's doing?
@patrykpodbia3115 the sad answer to that is they might not.
@44theshadow49 at least now I know what they feel going on board of a plane - the exact same feeling I'd have when going to operation room.
If your major only shows up when you're told another major is worse than it, does that count as a good thing?
He forgot anthropology! I’m safe!
You get the crushing realisation that humans have been doing the same dumb shit since the first rock was cast
Uh, I think that falls into the "social science" category, lol
**Signature look of engineer superiority**
this is soooo good at 1.2x speed
I wonder what that teacher told him in response to this...
unfortunately the wiki page for physics major no longer redirects to engineer :(
ROFL, this is brilliant.
I watched at 2X speed, it was good stuff
Music is an octophonic cacophony
FROM THE COMMENTS:
Take this with a grain of salt. I am probably incorrect.
A nursing major's only gonna get me used to panicked screams,
And music is more useless than a business major, as it seems
Now each and every job I find is working on their fantasy...
...of laying people off in droves for artificial idiocy!
Where is law?
Wasn't in the script, also I think Shakespeare addressed what we should do to lawyers, lol.
Ah yes, law, for when you want to spend another 3 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars getting a license to practice in a dying profession where even the highest paid corporate lawyers barely earn more than some guy in Nevada who's been coding in C++ for the past 10 years
If you relate to this song, have you considered trade school?
Sadly Physics major does not redirect to engineer on wikipedia, would have been really funny if it was.
Haha this song has West Wing in its recommended videos (because of the Gilbert and Sullivan references in one of Ainsley's first episodes).
Also probably because RUclips know that my favorite show OF ALL TIME is the West Wing, and that Ainsley-fucking-Hayes is my favorite character... "Are you going to eat that muffin?"
@@isingthr4iam Donna: "Do we look the same? Alabaster skin, farmgirl look"
Ainsley: "No we don't"
Everyone: "Yes you do"
1:28
*sadness*
Seismology it is, then!
definitely failed to roast math. the lack of reality is the fun part! :D now you could say something about how we don't get any jobs....
YES
When will someone make a sequel?