That’s because you haven’t worked in academia and haven’t seen undergrads fantasize like this with regularity.
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zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agoI didn’t get the impression reading that that they’re presenting themselves as an intellectual or a researcher, just that they’re a nerd going down rabbit holes.
chloroken@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
You sure you’re not just oversensitized to it? This feels like a false positive.
chloroken@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
When an undergrad says “I’m an engineer” there is no debate, it’s a case of lying. Nobody can begin their studies and skip to titles. Nobody starts law school and calls themselves a lawyer. Nobody starts an undergrad and calls themselves a scientist.
The only people who do this are children who wickedly mispurport themselves to facilitate authority and look smart. It’s the definition of being a charlatan.
Are you sure you’re not under sensitive to people straight up lying and denigrating an entire, important industry full of folks who actually waited to graduate and work in the field before dubbing themselves a professional?
zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It’s normal where I live for students to say that. You can argue with that, but then I’d say it’s not worth singling out one person.
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Ah yes my wildest fantasy: to find out that the ideas I think are new and original have been studied well beyond my level of understanding by other people lol
I hope you’ve never worked in academia. You sound like you really like discouraging people from enjoying science unless they meet your arbitrary education standards.
Anyone can do science. Sure, sometimes people who don’t know a lot learn a little and think they know a lot, but you shouldn’t just shut them down. If someone has a passion for exploration you should encourage them to keep going, catch their mistakes sure, help them question their thought process, but remind them that making mistakes or thinking an idea is novel when it isn’t is something everyone does and they shouldn’t be ashamed for it.
chloroken@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I’m shaming you for being a liar who misrepresents himself.
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I haven’t intentionally misrepresented myself in this comment section or the previous one or any others as far as I can think of.
I also have not lied.
So, what is the real reason for the aggression mate?
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah I am an undergrad in engineering not math or physics or bio or anything like that. I just get curious and end up going down rabbit holes of niche science.