[ZephyrBlu]

> get a 4 year degree and do it right: don't go there to check a box or go to a diploma mill, meet the professors and network, find something you are truly interested in

The academic environment of university is extremely bland and uninteresting to me.

Especially the way you're tested. It doesn't promote understanding, it promotes memorization.

[readme]

Going through the boring stuff was worth it to me to get into research. The stars can align and you might meet a professor with interests that are exactly the same as yours. I'm really fortunate to have that, and I never expected it to happen. I thought I was going to have to suck it up and learn to love something.

What you're describing with being tested and memorization sounds mostly like the first 2 years of college to me. What lies at the end of the road is literally the total sum of human knowledge and the advancement of it. I think 2 years of drudgery is a small price to pay for that.

[ZephyrBlu]

Funnily enough, I lasted 2 years before deciding it was a waste of my time.

What do the final 2 years contain that makes up for the first 2?