/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.10428082]

How do I force myself into finding STEM interesting?

[Anonymous No.10428112]

>>10428082
Dude, what? You can literally save peoples lives, live longer, literally defy/dominate matter with chemistry, engineer vehicles to explore the universe, structures to immortalize your legacy, be a fucking useful member of society... The status is supreme compared to other majors and career paths.

[Anonymous No.10428115]

>>10428112
> literally
oops lol

[Anonymous No.10428120]

Trying to do the same here. I have other interests but none of them are secure or have any job opportunities outside of academia. So now I'm trying to get into STEM.

[Anonymous No.10428144]

>>10428120
I'm glad my other interests that aren't secure are also inside of STEM, and I can work in /med/ three days a week while pursuing these.

Honestly bro, don't get too deep if it's not for you. I was making 35k a year, entry level working at a casino only 24 hours a week. There are many entry level opportunities you can find that will be sustainable while you pursue a passion. Just remember this, my friend... Anything worth doing is going to be difficult. Prepare for sacrifice.

[Anonymous No.10428152]

>>10428082
>>10428120

Don't force yourself into doing something you don't like for a living. You'll be miserable. Make a list of the things you like to do and try to make a career out of one of them. You can choose the one you love the most, or you can choose the one that's more likely to get you a job.

If you get into something that doesn't interest you (1) your performance will be shit because you lack passion, (2) you'll have a hard time getting someone to hire you without passion and with shit performance metrics, and (3) you'll spend your life doing something you find boring.

[Anonymous No.10428153]

>>10428082
try to use it to give you superhuman powers with MGO technology. be a fukin wizard.

[Anonymous No.10428156]

>>10428082
>>10428153
oops i meant GMO

[Anonymous No.10428330]

>>10428082
Tell it yourself enough and eventually it’ll work. You just have to brain wash yourself. Remember you’re just a pathetic human who can fall for anything.

[Anonymous No.10428417]

>>10428152
Unfortunately, playing video games, jacking off and browsing 4chan aren't applicable to any career path. I'm a husk of a man with no genuine interests or passions.

[Anonymous No.10428430]

>>10428082
Don't try. Just do what it is you actually enjoy, often because you're talented at it. I tried to delude myself into believing that I actually liked chemistry so I got a degree. But while I was studying I already asked myself why I bothered. Now I getting a law degree because that's what I've always enjoyed, was good at and wanted to be since I was like 6. If you're European you can try things, but if you're American you shouldn't try to force it. Your education is too expensive. In Europe you can just trial-error for free.

[Anonymous No.10428450]

>>10428082
I would like the answer to this. I tried to to find the 'beauty' in it but failed to do so. I read up on great mathematicians but ended up getting demotivated because they were just plain geniuses. I look around my STEM classes and see students discussing physics/math with great enthusiasm and delight. They pay full attention to the lectures while I'm bored out of my mind. I envy their passion because I have none myself. I don't like anything. I'm not special, but I want to be. I struggle to even find 1 positive thing to say about myself. I'm not good at anything except being ignored. Why was I born?

[Anonymous No.10428452]

>>10428417
Aye, it's okay Anon. I'm basically the same but with a passion, it's not much better. Sure I have a small sense of purpose, self worth, and that gets me some money/pussy - it only stops the existential dread for a short period.

[Anonymous No.10428471]

>>10428417
>playing video games
Become a twitch streamer

[Anonymous No.10428475]

>>10428082
Find something you enjoy about STEM.

[Anonymous No.10428487]

>>10428082
Watch science documentaries

[Anonymous No.10428528]

>>10428450
Is this that magic 108-112 IQ range where you are smart enough to want to be smarter but don't have the capacity to achieve it I wonder...

[Anonymous No.10428535]

>>10428082
don’t
>>10428112
kys reddit

[Anonymous No.10428540]

>>10428535
I've literally been to Reddit twice, and didn't bother to learn the interface.

> I dismissed what you said and attributed it to a quasi affiliation with an enemy organization, get rrekt

Are you trying to be retarded?

[Anonymous No.10428674]

Starting to seem like "do what you enjoy" is the working world's equivalent to "just be yourself." Some people just don't understand. There is no escape, is there

[Anonymous No.10428697]

>>10428540
You may not literally browse reddit but your description of STEM is so cringeworthy that if you were figured out their UI you would probably fit right in.

[Anonymous No.10428734]

>always enjoyed space and science but kinda forgot about it during high school due to online games
>had some trouble with STEM because ADHD (never studied anything at all)
>end up doing law uni because I had no idea what to do and many comfy public jobs in my country require a law degree
>2 years later I'm almost dropping out from social anxiety and skipping presentations
>in those harsh times I rediscover stargazing at night and fall in love with space again, start listening to podcasts, reading stuff and browsing /sci/
Deep inside I want to try STEM but at this point I can't help but think I'm a broken human incapable of being functional at any field.

[Anonymous No.10428759]

>>10428528
OP here, I've avoided IQ tests until now. Just took the Mensa Norway test and scored 125. Just wanted to share. /blog

[Anonymous No.10428777]

If you haven't liked math since you were a kid, STEM isn't for you.
Math has ALWAYS been my favorite subject since I was a child. Same with everyone else I know.

[Anonymous No.10428831]

>>10428152
>going into comp sci
>hate programming and computers
i feel like my mind has been against me for the entirety of my life, setting me up for grander blunders

[Anonymous No.10428846]

>>10428152
>going into comp sci
>hate programming and computers
i feel like my mind has been against me for the entirety of my life, setting me up for grander blunders

[Anonymous No.10430243]

>>10428082
it isn't it's for a jerb fucck fucking all these days calculating bullshit the professors can't even fucking run matlab

[Anonymous No.10430257]

99% of people in stem are literally retards who can't think for themselves
the 1% that aren't mindless drones have some reason to want to better/server humanity

[Anonymous No.10430271]

>>10430257
bullshit, i learn stem stuff in my free time to make retarded shit for fun,

[Anonymous No.10430291]

>>10428417
Try and find something then. Surely there's something.

[Anonymous No.10430944]

>>10430271
You're a mindless drone then

[Anonymous No.10431321]

>>10428152
kys, normafaggot.
>>10428417
This

[Anonymous No.10431343]

>>10428734
Where do you live? If in UK, you'll be fine.

[Anonymous No.10431495]

>>10430291
There is fucking NOTHING. Even if there was I'd lose interest within a couple days and go back to wallowing in self-pity

[Anonymous No.10431613]

>>10428471

not a career choice. You can stream as a hobby and gradually increase your viewer count until hopefully one day make a living. But you can't make a choice to become a professional streamer, the same way you can't chose to prove Riemann Hypothesis. You can try, but odds are heavily stacked against you.

[Anonymous No.10431734]

>>10428082
STEM isn't about STEM, it's about taking what you're interested in and doing something meaningful with it. I like the idea of immortality, so now I'm a PhD candidate in Biosciences.

When you have goals in mind and a directed approach to your learning, you'll find yourself encountering a lot of nuanced material that demands that you investigate further. I don't try to memorize a shitload of inane facts to store in my stampbook collection, I try to memorize a shitload of really interesting facts because I can see how they're directly related to my interests. And those interests grow because there's a lot of interconnectivity. Increasingly I want to know more chemistry, physics, mathematics, programming, but also, business and law. Like take math as an example: it's not because "derp I like numbers" that I want to study it. It's that things like the human brain and the immune system are really complicated and my barely-even-knows-Calc-level of math seems woefully unprepared for how these topics -could- be explored further.

[Anonymous No.10432457]

Has anybody felt the same way and found in interest in STEM? How did you do it? Please. I'm desperate.

[Anonymous No.10432458]

>>10432457
Stem is the means to the end. You have to delude yourself into thinking the boring shit is worth it.

[Anonymous No.10432461]

>>10428112
>live longer

[Anonymous No.10432474]

>>10432461
/med/