It takes all sorts
A look into the diversity and insanity which makes up university life and 
the use of heuristic in identify students degree types.

Many people noticed on their first day at university that it was a strange 
and alien environment and there was a strong sense of feudal faction and 
hierarchies which make up the university. They may have notice the little 
weird things that make university a unique place. Common one's are.
. Art Students doing graffiti on the cubicle walls, with excellent detail of 
human anatomy and perfect shadow affects.
. Philosophy students suddenly disappearing as the proved they didn't exist
. Engineering students disassembling Television, toaster and other 
electronic goods and constructing makeshift two-way radio's
. Drama students doing insane and overwhelmingly powerful performance when 
the vending machine took their money
. Medical students pretending their living gods.
. Law student fighting by threatening to sue each other
. Science students closely studying their cafeteria food to identify whether 
it was animal, vegetable, mineral or something in between.
. Psychology student being lead away in straight jackets
. Environmental students trying to get you to eat fake meat.
. Business student counting their money and laugh like insane madmen

Well if you didn't already know that university is a smelting pot for life 
insanities and if you thought the students are weird the lecturer are worse. 
With these classic stereotypes
. Economic lecture breaking in to fist fight over the lecturer topic
. Law lecturers telling horrific stories of mistrals of justice such as when 
the judge fell asleep in a murder trial.
. Sociology lecturers going on about how the white male are oppressing the 
minority and should be purged from the earth
. Theologians getting depressed when they find out nine tenth of their class 
are atheists and then proceeding with conversions
. Accounting lecturers with no personality
. Environmental scientist who are driving expensive high polluting cars and 
making huge piles of money saying 'human destroys destroy the environment, 
we should all go back to nature'
. IT lectures admiring someone's phone when they get a call in class.
. Mathematician getting depressed due to the lack of conversation in class
. And many more

Now you must learn to classify people using heuristic to avoid making 
incorrect statements.

Identifying student's types.
The art of identify student using heuristic or stereotyping is usually 
frowned on as it should be. You should only use this as a rough guide to a 
person and not to identify their personality as fairly often you get 
mistake. This is mainly for fun and to test your deductive skills but is 
handy.
All student can be divide into Three board categories they are
. Science and Technology
. Business and Law
. Arts and Culture

Using this you can break them down into small types and narrow down who goes 
where.

Science and technology (Tech's)
In this category many cast exist. These are predominately people in hard 
scientist that require great discipline they are. These can include all 
forms of science, medicine, engineer & design, mathematics and IT.
Now to identification of people within this field you must search for keen 
attributes which more follow some field that other. These shall be noted.

. Unkempt or Overkept Hair. Most people in this field either under style 
their hair because they can't be concerned with their looks or are over 
concern with their looks and do their hair methodically. Engineers typically 
have typically the worse hair with many overcoming into a bowl shape look 
while IT on the other spectrum overdo their hair and often have very spiky 
hair or long strands of thick hair.
. Smell: do to the nature of the study many of the people in this group 
carry a particular smell. It varies from Caste to Caste but can be picked 
up. IT people and some engineers smell heavily of sweat due to the fact many 
abstain from physical labour and spend much time in overheated computer 
labs. Both Computer scientist mathematicians tend to smell of stale dust, 
paper and stagnant air. Scientist smell of their particular field so chemist 
= chemical, biologist = Organic material and physicist smell similar to 
math.
. Build: The Build of tech's is usually one of short chubbiness or tall 
frailty however some do break this model completely and these usually 
include biologist, medic's and sport scientist
. Tech talk: Clear sign is their language such as mention the actual 
component in a machine, the lack of the use of the word thingy (and it other 
forms), and how they mumble and speak quickly.
. Glasses: Common due to high time of intense focus but no necessarily 
common.
. Clothes: Commonly play and simplistic and functional, Car shirt are common 
for engineers as are various cartoon characters and Japanese things for IT. 
IT usually have some elaborate clothes while mathematicians are highly plain
. Gender: 80% of people in this category are male, so females are hard to 
identify

Business and Law (Cap's)
Business and law students are a very diverse group and can be easily be 
mistake for other groups however they are distinct in their own ways (Cap's 
is short for capitalists). They commonly study practical theories such as 
economics, management and psychology and technical skills from other cast as 
required. Most people in this field focus on glory and money and vary in 
method to gain it. They include Management, Marketers, Accountants, Some 
mathematicians and IT people, Lawyers and economists.

. Hair: most have normal hair in many respect, however, lawyers and 
entrepreneurs often have terrible hair that just make you feel sick to your 
stomach. While engineer hair is bad this takes it to a new level. It has no 
distinct style but just a lack of style
. Smell: Cap's often smell fresh as much use expensive scents however they 
commonly smell like sweaty coins and paper money.
. Build: no specific build but usually softer due to distaste for manual 
labour
. Cap's Talk: Money is one of their primary concerns so when you hear heavy 
business terms and buzz words you usually near cap's. Lawyers speak very 
well are delicately with management and marketer coming second while 
mathematicians fall in the latter group.
. Philosophy: is highly prize in business students and they often discuss 
such matter (economist more than likely) while not so zealously as the arts
. Clothes: they are very concern about fashion and price so they find unique 
balance with accountant going cheaper but presentable and marketer going 
toward price and fantastic.
. Personality (accountants only). The process of studying accountant for 
unknown reasons drains one's personality so these individual are plain. 
Marketer inversely are very personality driven
. Gender: nearly 50-50
. Activities: most activities of business students is money based such as 
work and paid recreation, many run independent schemes and strive to conquer 
other. Highly aggressive in business but very laid back outside the business 
ring.

Arts and culture (Art's)
The final caste is the one of art's which include communication & media, 
humanities of all sorts, arts & music, teaching and psychology. They are 
very free and idealistic often the main protestors and they can be 
identified as follows.
. Hair: long and different, facial hair is common, many werid and wonderful 
designs and they will do anything they can to be different.
. Smell: Paint, grass, cardboard but usually clean and pure
. Build: No fixed
. Art's Talk: logic is often considered a dirty word in art talk and they 
often use fancy political words contrast with common slang for a unique 
flavour. Words like thingy are common as are examples such as 'that just 
like a pig with some feminists'
. Philosophy: highly common and idealistic, sometimes verging on Marxist or 
vow of poverty
. Personality: different. Not conventional. Many have different beliefs 
including metaphysical, political and social
. Gender: more often female but not always true. Nearly even
. Clothes: different, fancy to drab, idealistic and non-comfortmist. Can 
include various furniture's items and art work been incorporated.
. Activities: anything that they don't consider 'evil'. Very free though in 
beliefs.

This in turn gives you a basic guide to identify certain uni student for 
various reasons.
However I must stress not everyone fits this mould and many don't and if you 
use this incorrectly it can have negative effects. Heuristic should only be 
used to get some background information before you investigate the person 
further. I frown upon any stereotyping done by this is just a quirky 
observation.

From you eccentric philosophiser

Robert wells

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