25 years old and deep in debt

[Malthus]

It certainly shows your lack of a sense of humor, that's for sure.

There are triggers that turn it off, yes.  You're very well-versed with a couple of them.

It's okay to be average, DG. Not everyone can be a genius. I mean, being good at math is still pretty good.

Is DG an idiot savant?

Well, maybe half-way. 

[Caliga]

edit--I'm not saying Vinraith is a shitty physicist, btw. I don't know anything about him.

I thought he was an astronomer, not a physicist.

Also, whatever happened to him?  Unless he's moved we live in the same town now.

[Ideologue]

It's irrelevant. They do science, ergo, they be smart.

Hamilcar's expanded the frontiers of human knowledge on galactic evolution, ergo, he be smart.

[merithyn]

It's irrelevant. They do science, ergo, they be smart.

Hamilcar's expanded the frontiers of human knowledge on galactic evolution, ergo, he be smart.

*sighs* Not you, too. I'm joking.

There's no question that JR, Hamilcar, and a number of other people here on Languish are brilliant. But they're brilliant beyond the one-trick pony of math or science. Otherwise, they'd just be idiot savants, as Malthus said. And I know plenty of people who don't do math or science who are equally as brilliant. (And no, I'm not trying to say that I am. I'm happy to count myself in the above average category and leave it at that.)

My brother, as I said, does what DG does - or did. Now he's in management and makes a hell of a lot more, but that's not the point. He was a one-trick pony, though. He knew math and math alone. But just knowing math didn't make him brilliant except in math. Hell, my IQ registered higher on exams than his did (though you all know that I think those tests are bunk).  No question that when it comes to numbers, he's the guy to go to, but that's pretty much it. I still think he's smart as hell, but that doesn't equate to brilliance in the way that I think we're talking about here.

[The Larch]

I wish Hamilcar was still here

He recently resurfaced at P'dox, he was asked to come back here, so it's up to him.

[The Brain]

DG, Hami, Vinny, JR... I can't believe you guys aren't putting me above that band of morans.

[Ideologue]

DG, Hami, Vinny, JR... I can't believe you guys aren't putting me above that band of morans.

Nuclear engineering is math, right?

[DGuller]

DG, Hami, Vinny, JR... I can't believe you guys aren't putting me above that band of morans.

I always called you the smartest guy on Languish when you said nice things about me. 

[The Brain]

DG, Hami, Vinny, JR... I can't believe you guys aren't putting me above that band of morans.

I always called you the smartest guy on Languish when you said nice things about me. 

With great intelligence must come great arrogance.

[The Brain]

DG, Hami, Vinny, JR... I can't believe you guys aren't putting me above that band of morans.

Nuclear engineering is math, right?

I try to avoid math. Never been interested.

[CountDeMoney]

I'm not anti-academia, I'm anti-college-industrial complex, and, to a lesser degree, anti-liberal arts (at least as something taxpayers generously fund and millions of people take out loans to study).  Science departments do have their own issues, but I do not question their existence the same way I do with small college history programs or law schools.

That's only because you did not get all the finest meats and cheeses in all the land handed to you once you graduated as a Juris Doctor.
It would be different if you had gone to a law school with a bigger rep, then you'd be all LULZ LAWLS SKOOLS RULEZ with the Languish heavy hitters of PLJ and JR. Malthus just did it as an extended electives program.

[Jacob]

I was just kidding about everybody else being a 1/1/1.  Don't take it personally.  Everybody here is good enough, smart enough, and doggone it, people like them.  Except Martinus.

... and he's not here either 

[Admiral Yi]

And my only point in bringing that up was that not everyone who gets into Stanford, Harvard, or Yale did so strictly on merit. Some got in because their parents went there, because they had money (think of the number of actors and actresses who end up at Harvard), or yes, an endowment of some sort. I have no idea how many of either kind end up in an Ivy League school, but it's one of many reasons that I wouldn't go strictly on where they went to school in the hiring process.

Read an article in the Atlantic a while back which claimed that after you subtract the legacies, the athletic scholarships, and the minority quotas, everyone else is competing for something like 15% of the total spaces.

[Ideologue]

I'm not anti-academia, I'm anti-college-industrial complex, and, to a lesser degree, anti-liberal arts (at least as something taxpayers generously fund and millions of people take out loans to study).  Science departments do have their own issues, but I do not question their existence the same way I do with small college history programs or law schools.

That's only because you did not get all the finest meats and cheeses in all the land handed to you once you graduated as a Juris Doctor.
It would be different if you had gone to a law school with a bigger rep, then you'd be all LULZ LAWLS SKOOLS RULEZ with the Languish heavy hitters of PLJ and JR. Malthus just did it as an extended electives program.

Nah, if I'd somehow leveraged a JD into riches, I'd still be miserable, because big boy BigLaw (versus doc review) is fucking horrible.  And I'd still be aware that other people got poor or negative ROIs out of their JDs, and that's because I didn't suddenly become a revolutionary citizen after I lost my job.  Unlike some people.

I mean, of course, fahdiz.

[Malthus]

I get to hear the griping by people in science departments, because most of my family is in academia on the science side.

Ide, you would be equally miserable trapped in post-doc hell.