That’s because you haven’t worked in academia and haven’t seen undergrads fantasize like this with regularity.
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zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours agoI didn’t get the impression reading that that they’re presenting themselves as an intellectual or a researcher, just that they’re a nerd going down rabbit holes.
chloroken@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Ah yes my wildest fantasy: to find out that the ideas I think are new and original have been studied well beyond my level of understanding by other people lol
I hope you’ve never worked in academia. You sound like you really like discouraging people from enjoying science unless they meet your arbitrary education standards.
Anyone can do science. Sure, sometimes people who don’t know a lot learn a little and think they know a lot, but you shouldn’t just shut them down. If someone has a passion for exploration you should encourage them to keep going, catch their mistakes sure, help them question their thought process, but remind them that making mistakes or thinking an idea is novel when it isn’t is something everyone does and they shouldn’t be ashamed for it.
chloroken@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
I’m shaming you for being a liar who misrepresents himself.
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
I haven’t intentionally misrepresented myself in this comment section or the previous one or any others as far as I can think of.
I also have not lied.
So, what is the real reason for the aggression mate?
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
Yeah I am an undergrad in engineering not math or physics or bio or anything like that. I just get curious and end up going down rabbit holes of niche science.