Listen here asshole. I asked a question that's been weighing on me for a while. Instead of answering it, you brought up concerns regarding my expectations for the future. I replied, and told you I understood your concerns and reassured you I had taken them into consideration. What you then proceeded to do what berate me for no reason. Basically, because I didn't say, "oh, you're right, I guess I'll drop out and give up on my dream!", you've decided now, with no prior information, that I have some sort of "narrative", and that I'm not interested in what anyone else has to say. Doesn't make much sense does it, considering I posted a question directly asking people for what they have to say.

Another way to attempt to delegitimize me is by attacking my age, as if me being 20 has anything to do with my ability to understand the basic concept of day to day research conditions. And I'll tell you right now, to settle this, science is for me. Not because I get warm fuzzies when I read cool facts about space, but because I have a genuine vested interest in the collective human knowledge. I have a deep respect for those who came before me, and a innate curiosity somewhere inside of me. I'm willing to work as hard as I possibly can to satisfy that curiosity. THAT'S why science is for me. No one will ever tell me different. Not you, not anyone else, not even myself. You don't know me. You don't know what I'm capable of.