/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.5612626]

What happened to Jacob? Did he disprove relativity?

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.5612638]

>>5612626
nah, he ended up building a time machine and then going back to kill a load of kids.

i guess one of those kids would have ended up destroying the world, so jacob came back in time to try to save us all

Because he's the hero the world deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.

[Anonymous No.5612643]

Maybe he figured out that wearing a baseball cap makes you look like a complete faggot.

But when he took off the hat, all his knowledge was gone.

But seriously; I'd forgotten about this kid. All the time it's the same sensationalist "child prodigy" shit with these kids though, you'll never hear from them again after the brief coverage.

Also
>Indiana University
Maybe when one of them manages to get into Cambridge or MIT, I'll change my view, but at the moment I believe that 70% of what these kids have is made up or hyperbole from the media.

[Anonymous No.5612646]

>>5612638

Thank you based jacob, truly a hero of time.

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.5612659]

>>5612643
>but at the moment I believe that 70% of what these kids have is made up or hyperbole from the media.
yeh, the media does exaggerate it, but he is actually intelligent (from what i've seen in vids etc about him)

but he'l do what all smartassed early bloomers do, which is fizzle out and coast, because they're used to being the best, so they think they can.
and end up falling back into mediocrity with the rest of the plebs

shine on you crazy bastard, shine on.

[Anonymous No.5612674]

>>5612659

Yeah, I don't believe for a second the kid isn't smart; that's a given. But I feel the exact same way, little bit of burnout goes a long way and then you're stuck on /sci/ wondering why you didn't go to sleep 5 hours ago and why you still haven't fucking eaten anything today.

Eh, I was a high achiever... once.

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.5612689]

>>5612674
hah, did i just describe your life story, hun?
did you coast, fizzle out, think you didnt need to study, and end up falling behind?

[Anonymous No.5612695]

>>5612689
Sounds more like your own life story.

[Anonymous No.5612702]

>>5612698
... and then you failed and now you're a degenerated basement dweller shitting up /sci/.

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.5612698]

>>5612695
nah, i was an overachiever throughout (for the most part)

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.5612709]

>>5612702
i never fail

[Anonymous No.5612717]

Just googled his name. Pretty much no hits within the last year; I suppose he's fallen off the radar. His Twitter (whose tag, by the way, is '@PwningEinstein') hasn't been updated for 2 years.

[Anonymous No.5612719]

>>5612689

No, it was more like I tried real hard for something and thought I'd never get it.

So then I gave up, I decided it didn't matter anymore. But it was the only thing that really mattered too me EK, so life fell apart.

Then I got the thing I wanted, but now I'm in a place where I can't fulfill it. I'm stuck in a rut and feel like I just can't motivate anymore, fuck, I can't even concentrate anymore.

I need to pull something out of my ass real soon or I might end up losing everything. Fuck, then what would I do? I'd probably just become a tripfag...

...shit ;_;

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.5612747]

>>5612719
>my curiosity level
>pic related

so what did you want, why did you give up, and why can't you 'fulfil it' after you got it?

[Anonymous No.5612793]

>>5612747

Oh EK, how can I say no to you.

I'm 18, my whole life I've wanted to become a great scientist. I sought out the best path available to me at a young age and pursued it no matter what. One of my greatest goals was to go to Cambridge University. I put my all into this but I felt like I'd fallen at the final hurdle.

You obviously wait a couple of months between interviewing for the position and being sent the status of your offer, during this time I decided I was never going to make it. I gave up, my interest in the subject I've loved for more than ten years almost vanished, and I ended up becoming interested in a completely unrelated, shit-tier subject. I just didn't have that goal to motivate me anymore. I fucked up and my work ethic died. My grades have shot through the floor completely.

Better yet I recieved that offer. Now I need to meet it and I can't fucking pull the motivation out of my ass no matter what I try. Not only that, all my basic needs are fucked, I don't sleep properly, I don't end, I can't concentrate.

Psychiatric Evaluation due in two months. Awful lot of time to wait.

And that, EK, is the story of how /sci/ became my personal diary.

[Anonymous No.5612796]

>>5612747

[Anonymous No.5612797]

>>5612793

I don't end?

...I don't eat*

[EK !EKFnQG0UBo No.5612835]

>>5612793
>during this time I decided I was never going to make it. I gave up,
wtf based on what!??
you didnt know what was gonna happen, why be so pessimistic?
you could have kept it up, and kept the motivation, then you;d be totally excited and ready for the offer when it came.

>Now I need to meet it and I can't fucking pull the motivation out of my ass no matter what I try
damn, that's gotta suck, brah

[None !3BananaXFw No.5612843]

>>5612793
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fnQavGcwCo

[None !3BananaXFw No.5612853]

>>5612793
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX39J_YyKbs

[Anonymous No.5612869]

>>5612835

Yeah, I don't know why I hit pessimism, part of it was certainly burnout; I completely destroyed myself in the months leading up to the interviews with the promise to myself that I could finally put the pen down and sleep once it was over. The interview I perceived to have gone badly, too. This lead to a complete lack of drive to pick myself back up again.

And I realize I sound like a whiny bitch, makes it worse really. Everything is completely fine outside my head, in fact most people would say it's going great.
Yet in here, fuck, just can't seem to sort anything out. The worst thing is concentration, I can't even read some of my favorite books for more than five minutes without having to go for a walk or something, I lose track of everything I'm doing unless I'm constantly switching it up.

Ive considered jumping on SR or a BI site and trying to get hold of some Dexedrine or Adderall or Speed or something, just so I can get my head back in the game. I have three months to sort it out, it's do or die time.