SpunkySkunk347
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Since I was 14 I wanted to get into the medical industry. Having started using drugs at around age 14 and doing a lot of research about them, and then realizing that the doctors I went to didn't know half as much about the medications they were prescribing, I felt like I could probably do a lot of good if I became a doctor myself.
But are there even any safe havens left for learning? The internet just doesn't cut it after a point when you want to learn something in-depth, but colleges these days seem like they've all turned into money-grabbing diploma mills..
Even worse, when you go to a school and let the staff know you are genuinely interested in learning as opposed to just getting into a career to make money, they look at you like you're a fucking joke.. I was reading Nietzsche, Kant, and Jung at 17, what were they doing then? Trying to perfect the art of crafting an ego entirely out of bullshit?
Egos aside, where does a person turn when they actually love learning and have loved learning their entire life? Is there any place left that isn't just teaching cookbook recipes? Or are those people just on their own?
One of the only places left I know about with legitimate quality information is university libraries that still have all their older books - which sucks because the closest university to here flooded last summer, and the section of their library with all their older books was in the basement, and all those books were completely destroyed.
But are there even any safe havens left for learning? The internet just doesn't cut it after a point when you want to learn something in-depth, but colleges these days seem like they've all turned into money-grabbing diploma mills..
Even worse, when you go to a school and let the staff know you are genuinely interested in learning as opposed to just getting into a career to make money, they look at you like you're a fucking joke.. I was reading Nietzsche, Kant, and Jung at 17, what were they doing then? Trying to perfect the art of crafting an ego entirely out of bullshit?
Egos aside, where does a person turn when they actually love learning and have loved learning their entire life? Is there any place left that isn't just teaching cookbook recipes? Or are those people just on their own?
One of the only places left I know about with legitimate quality information is university libraries that still have all their older books - which sucks because the closest university to here flooded last summer, and the section of their library with all their older books was in the basement, and all those books were completely destroyed.