• Don Piano@feddit.org
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    12 hours ago

    Skill issue. Learning to love an academic discipline beyond the flashy YouTube video level and into the depths of actually doing it every day involves, among other things, a lot of work, such as when you reconceptualize what it’s all about and where the beauty lies.

    “I fucking love science” and loving science are different games.

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      3 hours ago

      I went to grad school for speech language pathology, so I’ve read plenty of academic articles. I always thought they were incredibly depressing. So ever since grad school, I have imagined scientists as people who are constantly overworked, underpaid, and depressed

    • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      I mean, I’m an expert in three fields. I only love the music one. The other two (subfields of economics and tax) can suck my dick and ovaries