/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11168086

My uni pays my way so I haven't been pressured to switch majors (physics pure math double). I too started out with the naive 1950s tier picture of the road to academia, but boomers and industry kikes ruined that and I didn't get the memo until I was halfway done with the degree. Now I'm gonna try to slave away in grad school for as long as I can until I muster up the balls to kill myself, because going from field theory and cohomology to codemonkeying ten hours a day so some lukewarm IQ jackass can buy a yacht is a fate worse than death.

If I had stayed in my lane and switched to engineering before getting into the good courses I might have been blissfully convinced that it's all drudgery either way, but seeing the stars and realizing you'll never have the IQ or connections to touch them is fucking painful.