• nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 days ago

    Went to a stem focused college and they used to call geology classes ‘Rocks for Jocks’ because many of the athelets would end up in those classes.

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      17 days ago

      Yes, this was me, hello (in an adjacent dept but we share the same grad student room). I used to climb, like 200 outdoor single and multi-pitch sends/year a lot. My mountaineering group was filled with geoscientists. I got injured though during some apt renovations and can’t do little ledges anymore (maybe in the future, I still got hope). Now I meme about rocks. Rocks truly do rock.

    • weariedfae@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      Crazy, I’m a geologist and that has not been my experience at all. Nerds as far as the eye can see in both undergrad and grad school.

  • Thorry84@feddit.nl
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    17 days ago

    Please go watch this if you want to really know what geology is all about: https://youtu.be/akQ2JpglmEo

    And go watch all of this channel, she is great at explaining complicated stuff in a really easy to understand but still correct way.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    17 days ago

    I suppose you are a physicist and not a grammarian.

    I don’t mean to be that person, but we tried so hard and even added an extra character to still get it wrong.

    • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
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      17 days ago

      But if you talk to them informally, they will excitedly show you pictures of cool rocks, which is neat.

  • littletranspunk@lemmus.org
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    17 days ago

    Since the comments say that geologists are like this unofficially, they seem like cool people. I’m no geologist, but rocks are cool.