Scientist

  • Me: My friend wants to be a world-renowned scientist! I think this is great. We need another highly visible scientist of some kind to get out there in case Stephen Hawking dies. It's important to be able to put a face to the field, you know what I mean? Anyhow, she's not good at studying, and doesn't have the right undergrad degree for going into any scientific fields, and she's broke. It sounds like a good underdog story to me - she might have a sudden epiphany and realize she's been a scientist all along, just in ways she didn't know were useful.
  • JR: ERZZZZZZZZZ, it almost sounds like you're setting up a "person who's great at something was really bad at it in their youth" situation, or a "person who has genius-level theories was previously just a non-scientist with untapped potential"-type story, both of which are modern fiction tropes based on myths about Albert Einstein. As a child he was at the top of his class, and not bad at math, as the myth goes. Also, though he was a patent clerk while he did some of his earliest groundbreaking work, he had already studied mathematics and physics in Zurich. So it's not like he was just sitting around one day filing papers and suddenly a flash of lightning filled his head with all these great ideas. Ok? Do you understand that? Your friend isn't going to suddenly become a scientist without YEARS AND YEARS of hard work and discipline. IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. IT WILL NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT FA-FA-FA-FA GALUNKADUNKA CHIN CHIN DURRRRRRRRRR BUH BUH BUH BUH DURR!!!
  • This was Anna Rubanova's dream. Sorry, Anna.
  • Oh no : (

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