/sci/ - Science & Math

>tfw you finally understand amazing concepts in math/physics
>tfw you realize you could have understood these things much, much sooner- and thus could have understood even more amazing things- if you didn't waste hours a day doing pointless things

Time will never be recovered. I'm going to die without knowing the deepest secrets of the universe.

>>5057583
I know that feel, anon.

>Deans list at high rated research university
>Looking for research: What do you mean no one does blankety blank blank? Blank blank blank.

>>5057669
What were/are you trying to research?

>>5057583
>tfw
>tfw all your learning means nothing to most people
>tfw whenever you tell people you study physics they just say "That is way to hard for me" and the conversation ends
>tfw you are interested in the subject they study, and ask questions about it but they don't seem to be interested in what they study

>>5057708
>tfw whenever you tell people you study physics they just say "That is way to hard for me" and the conversation ends

that's way better than the:

>What do you study?
>Physics
>Lol I love physics I watch the science channel all the time
>-_-

>study neuroscience
>monkey neuroscience
>get all the girls telling them how cute macaques are
>"omg do you hurt them!?"
>i drive electrodes into subcortical structures
>i've personally killed at least 10 neurons this week
>we deprive them of water and make them immobile for hours on end
>mfw "nope, the brain has no pain receptors!"

>>5057719
Can I do this as an amateur?

>>5057719
>i've personally killed at least 10 neurons this week
huh

>>5057715
>tfw half way though degree
>tfw worried about loans, but already owe to much to drop out with no degree
>tfw worried I need a graduate degree to get a good job
>tfw thinking I should have used the loans money to start a business instead of proving abstract math theorems

I fucked up bad this week as well, OP.
The only thing we can do is everything we can to make sure next week doesn't suck as hard.

Can anyone tell me if drinking helps?

>>5057746
as long as you don't drink too much, ie feel like dick tomorrow morning and can't get anything done. Although in my case I don't get shit done even when I'm sober so that's a moot point.

>>5057723
Monkey labs usually don't take undergrads, but who knows, if your university has one try your best to get involved.

>>5057725
Neurons are brain cells. While I'm driving the electrode into the awake/behaving monkeys brain, sometimes they die. When they die, they fire action potentials at an extremely high rate. Sometimes I look into the monkeys eyes on the screen when I kill a neuron.

>>5057763
yeah that's some pretty weird shit yo

>>5057763
You mean the neurons die? Or the monkeys? Dont thousands of neurons die a year or some shit?

>>5057774
Whenever I take a step back and think about how I'm making my career, I have the same thought.

>>5057782
The neurons die, not the monkeys. Yeah, plenty of neurons die, but I still feel pretty bad about killing them personally. Neurons don't regenerate in most regions of the brain.

>>5057763
>biology
>a hardcore science

I, too, have fucked up pretty badly OP. Much worse than what happened to you. MUCH fucking worse.

>>5057719
> seems legit
nice one.

>miss a day of studying for whatever reason
>tfw now seriously behind

>>5057827
what happened man?