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Why Do People Become Scientists?
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7 days ago 2.9K views 0 shares
Why Do People Become Scientists?
The road to scientific enlightenment is paved with... paperbacks? This meme nails the scientific career trajectory—you start thinking you'll be pipetting groundbreaking discoveries in a pristine lab, but end up devouring popular science books like they're potato chips. Nobody tells you in grad school that your actual superpower will be explaining why Hawking, Sagan, and Dawkins are technically oversimplifying things at dinner parties. The real qualification for being a scientist isn't lab skills—it's having strong opinions about which Neil deGrasse Tyson book is the most overrated. Let's be honest: most of us went into science because we were the weird kids who got "Cosmos" instead of toys for Christmas. And now we just cite these books in our grant applications and pretend we came up with the ideas ourselves.

Just Spent 30 Mins On First Paragraph...
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9 days ago 3.0K views 0 shares
Just Spent 30 Mins On First Paragraph...
The classic academic bait-and-switch! Nothing triggers existential dread quite like a professor casually dropping "this will be an easy read" before assigning you what appears to be written in ancient Sumerian mixed with quantum equations. The cognitive dissonance between what they promise and what you experience could power a small city. That first sentence might as well be the event horizon of a black hole—once you cross it, time dilates, and suddenly you've spent half an hour trying to decode what should have taken 30 seconds. It's the academic equivalent of "just one more small tweak" in research that somehow consumes your entire weekend.