/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9761702
>>9761735
You literally just do not give a fuck. I was the same as OP for my first 3 semesters in university. I was very good student in high school because I wanted to go to very good university to get out of the shithole I was from.

I entered college as a physics major and found myself virtually guaranteed a good life even doing the bare minimum at my university. I was getting Bs and Cs in all my math and science classes and really only cared about trying to rub elbows with kids from extremely successful families and banging hot chicks. Professors would speak to me one on one and tell me that I'm extremely bright and asked me to stop throwing away my potential. I just did not care. I no longer saw science as a way to improve my life and protect my family like I did before university. If anything, I saw it only hindered me because many elite people do not really respect STEM people. They just see them as tools to help them reach their ends. I did not want to be a tool. I wanted to have control over my life so I did not have to be at the mercy of others like I was as a kid. STEM did not provide that - STEM has you live grant to grant.

But I realized that this path I was descending down was soul-crushing more than anything liberating, and I searched deep down for over a year and realized what I really wanted to aspire to.

Once I had this, I knew why I wanted to study and it gave me a vision to hold on to when you don't want to study anymore but got to keep pushing yourself. I self-studied hard to make up for my lost time in my studies and now, I'm taking all graduate courses for my math and sciences and am considered one of the top two students in my department.

>>9722950
Why do we need people to explore stupidity?

We know that these altered states of consciousness breed more vice than anything of value, often leading people astray from being a productive citizens and thus having a strong, virtuous nation

Live in a drug-infested city and understand the total damning nature of drugs before you begin to comment how we need to legalize drugs because you smoked some weed and dropped some weed in your suburban home you fucking basement dwelling faggot

>>9707517
Who are those 3 scientists? source?

I know Richard Feynman had 135 IQ, but I didn't know there were nobel laureates with IQs lower

>>9094740
My family is pretty blue collar, but my pediatrician and the teachers I had early on all said I was a very bright boy.

Because of their urging, my Mom had me take an IQ test to get into the gifted program. I scored very high (my mom will never tell me because she doesn't want me to be arrogant). I placed into the gifted program and did exceedingly well.

The school wanted me to skip a grade because of my IQ score and how well I was doing in school, but my parents did not want that. The school insisted and eventually my parents relented.

I continued to do very well in school, but then middle school came and it was a pretty bad school where I was the only white kid. I got in fights frequently and only never really ended up getting expelled because I usually scored perfect on the state end-of-the-year exams.

Luckily, I won a scholarship to a great private preparatory high school. My life kind of fell a part after my sophomore year of high school.

I had some cousins who passed away, leading to my mom and dad separating and my dad relapsing into an alcoholic. I had to quit sports and begin working to provide for the family. I often only got 4 hours. I had good friends in high school but never got to hang out with them because how constantly busy I was.

I remember coming back from school one day my junior year when I found my mom preparing to hang herself from a noose. I managed to stop her and then she broke down how she felt like she failed as a mother and how it makes her so sad to see me lost the spark I had as a kid for life and my studies.

I told her that I love her and that everything will get better. I ended up going to a top 5 uni which she was very proud of.

I came back this Summer after a year away and she told me how proud of me she was and how I have that spark in my eyes that I used to have as a child. I don't know if I'm there yet, but I think I'm getting closer there everyday. We're all going to make it anons.