/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4676511
>not being a lazy piece of shit.
But I've always loved learning.

Whenever I wasn't in class, I was always the kid in the library, reading about snakes, wars, geology, relativity, all sorts of crazy shit. Hell, I was talking about that 0.999...=1.0 stuff in 5th grade. Everyone made fun of me.

Why is it that even though I was constantly using my spare time to educate myself, I'm still getting labeled as a lazy piece of shit? Learning has always been my passion. Just because I never studied for my classes, that doesn't mean I was slacking off. It meant I understood the material, and I had moved onto a different topic.

Through out all of elementary, middle, and highschool, the aptitude tests said the same thing:
I was equipped to do whatever I wanted with my life. And it was true. Reading, writing, science, math. I love all of it and absorbed as much on each subject as I could.

I don't understand anything anymore.

Why am I getting told by some guy on /sci/ that it's "my fault" for failing when learning has always been my passion?
Why does everyone take joy in my failure, as though I wasn't already picked on for trying too hard?

Someone explain this to me.
What did I do to deserve this?

>>4652222
>2222
ZOMG, HOW!?

Question for you biofags. A pro-life friend asked this, and I can't think of a good response.

If I had a futuristic machine, loaded with a sperm and an egg of the human variety, that can fertilize the egg, and raise it from conception to adulthood, at what point is this creature considered a human being? Let's say the adult is placed in a VR simulation not unlike the concept popularized in the Matrix, or something.

So any science graduate students here? I am at a loss about what to do for grad school, namely where I can get into. I took the GRE and got 800 math, 96th percentile verbal, and 84th percentile analytical writing. I attend the second best undergraduate program of my field (elite university), but my GPA is only 3.4. I have published (not first author) a paper in a prominent journal, and have presented a poster session at a conference. I also have teaching experience from an extracurricular program I am director of. What level of schools should I apply to?

42 / pi = 13,37