Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 23:04:59 UTC No. 16470079

>>>/adv/

Also just kys. Stick a gun up your ass and pull trigger.

Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 23:05:48 UTC No. 16470081

>>16470072
If you haven't done well in school by now, you probably won't in the future, but that doesn't mean you're doomed to the grocery store forever and you can learn/teach yourself any subject out of curiosity.

"""Modern Academia"""" and """"Research"""" are a trap anyway. All the smart people are becoming independent contractors and finding alternate sources of income from the Leftist pig trough that is the University System.

Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 23:10:03 UTC No. 16470082

>>16470079
KK. In the meantime give me resources for learning conformal prediction. Even if I’m too stupid to do well in school I find it really interesting and wanna learn

Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 23:11:32 UTC No. 16470085

>>16470081
I wanna do research for firms and get paid to do so but the positions I want all require a PhD. I’ve been trying to go through undergraduate/grad texts on some stuff and have made some progress but without the degree itself I’m stuck

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 02:37:17 UTC No. 16470319

>>16470072
>>16470085
I have yet to met a person who didn't regret getting a phd. Be blessed by your fortune and seek a normal career. Being a paper pusher requires a certain kind of personality, and if you are not a soulless cretin who didn't master it already, you can't catch up at this point.

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 04:44:03 UTC No. 16470430

>>16470085
I know some guys who were shit in HS or early college and went back to college later in life and did PHD's. Idk how it works if you fucked up for all 4 years but I guess you could retake all of college if its that bad.

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:45:07 UTC No. 16471345

>>16470072
I was good at school, if you go by academic standards, not exceptionally good at it or anything.
>I want to do research
That's what I thought too when I first started university. Then, it became obvious to me how university is all about students getting the best results on standardized testing while often learning little in the process. The end result? People who do well by all "objective" accounts, yet often fail miserably when it comes to actual advances.
This has a lot to do with our school system, yes, the entire world's school system for that matter, being primarily focused about rewarding pupils for fulfilling quota while punishing those who can't fulfill them. That doesn't really leave much room open for creative, independent thinking or writing which is what many people think research is about. But research isn't about creativity, it's about following procedures, abiding by often idiotic bureaucratic rules, proving hypotheses under the condition that the hypothesis already has a high chance of being right (and even if it doesn't, fudging data has harmed no one). Either way, those who went for a PhD, were promoted etc. all worked at least 50, usually 60 hours a week for low pay, struggled with finding meaningful employment after having finished their PhD and those who could make a living were often forced to jump from one university to another every two to three years. That's obviously me talking about PhDs in a interdisciplinary field that deals with both humanities and computer science.

Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:56:44 UTC No. 16471358

>>16470430
>Idk how it works if you fucked up for all 4 years but I guess you could retake all of college if its that bad.
There is really no point for OP to restart college. If he's American or British, it will likely force him to take on more debt. Even if he somehow manages to dodge debts, he would still have to study for several years that he could otherwise spend working. The whole point of attaining higher education is, for most people, to get better jobs with a higher salary. For many, that's simply not the case anymore even with a standard regular educational plan, so even regular college/university financially results in a net negative. So, if he wants to spend another 6 to 9 years simply for the sake of attaining a good PhD, which an escalating amount of people to, he will end up with a diploma that, depending on the field, has either a value equal to someone with a Master's having worked a couple years on the free market or is altogether meaningless.

Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:50:06 UTC No. 16471456

It would be weird if you weren't smart enough to get a bachelor's at a low or mid tier school. I would make an effort to take a community college class first and then personality and IQ tests. Talk to counselors and Google jobs that you could get with some math training and feel it out.

Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 03:02:48 UTC No. 16472821

>>16470072
phds are for stupid people.

people who aren't dumb are capable of leaving school and graduating to adult life and becoming productive members of society before they're in their late 20s

Anonymous at Thu, 14 Nov 2024 11:40:09 UTC No. 16474624

>>16470072
I'm Nate Higgers and I Hate Niggers