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8760240 No.8760240 [Reply] [Original]

When did you realize that going to school for free, getting a 3.5 - 4.0, and reading textbooks on the side at a rate of 10+ pages per day as a supplemental self-study to know more than your peers is the most intelligent thing anyone can do between the ages of 15-25?

>but why not just buy even more used textbooks and read 40 pages per day and not go to school at all, allowing you to read a dozen textbooks per year and be an autodidact person that everyone thinks is a genius?

1. most paths legally require a degree just to participate in, for good reason

2. because nobody has that amount of discipline, you will have literally no life, no food or shelter unless you live with your parents like a creep, and nobody will trust your self-declared, unaccredited knowledge without any sort of degree, no matter how many books on your bookshelf. inb4 b-but software engineering because you don't need to go to school for that anyway so your argument doesn't even make sense

Just as a reminder, if you don't do this, you will fall behind the pack of geniuses of our generation who are all doing this exact thing RIGHT now.

>> No.8760290
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>>8760240
>-but software engineering because you don't need to go to school for that anyway so your argument doesn't even make sense

This meme is the undergraduate degree equivalent of buyers remorse in it's early stages, sadly due to accesibility of like minded delesionals those infected by this diseae never reach the upper rungs of buyers remorse and are doomed to eternally post about how they *tots* landed a job at google/facebook/microsoft after 2 weeks of intensive skimming of every worthwhile CS book that exists.

>> No.8760490

>>8760290
what the fuck are you even saying?

>> No.8760926

You have a point
I'll do this

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>>8760240
It is common for intelligent people to be constantly solving a few puzzles in their head.

The puzzles i solve are all through debating and critical thinking, and the rest of the time i like to use my brain to think creatively.

This is my evolutionary strategy, 50% creativity, 50% puzzle solving. And i feel that it is not too much to say that my debate puzzle solving is easily as good as some of the best people on /sci/ as most geniuses seem to be consumed by maths, which i see as being very close to a dead field.

So to wrap this up, if you arnt constantly self learning by puzzle solving, i question what it is you think your doing. Because while reading text books is admirable, most geniuses should already be busy with something else, and that should already take up most of their time.

>> No.8761112
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>>8760240
What about having a gf?

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>>8761112
mfw I have managed to secure a PhD position at a top-10 University having published in 3 journals while still being an undergraduate, but I am still a virgin

>> No.8761155

>>8761112
she's ugleeh, unless you're dating zara larsson you're shit tier and not a proper scientist sorry

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>>8760240
yes but why would I do this when I can pay the price of a small car every year, skip the majority of my classes and skate by with a 2.5-3.0 without ever opening a textbook and spend the majority of the day in bed in the dark?