Renge to Naruto! - Ch. 42 - Extra Spicy!

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Professor shelling out the harsh truths
Yes and no. you might love dinosaurs and want to research all you can about any and all of them in any way you can. Focusing it down to just one narrow part of the field is stupidly limiting for such a desire. There's a reason most actual science got done by hobbyist scientists not as a job but as a passion project. The commedification of scientific pursuit has resulted in a lot of junk and fake science, sadly.
 
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Yes and no. you might love dinosaurs and want to research all you can about any and all of them in any way you can. Focusing it down to just one narrow part of the field is stupidly limiting for such a desire. There's a reason most actual science got done by hobbyist scientists not as a job but as a passion project. The commedification of scientific pursuit has resulted in a lot of junk and fake science, sadly.
A lot of scientists chasing research grants I’ve noticed. And a lot of research papers not worth the words on text, if they aren’t just completely fabricated AI generated stuff. Universities like to demand researchers publish a set amount of papers so they can use it as a metric when asking for grants or alumni donations.
 
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I know he thought he was saying the right thing, but he could've been a little less shitty about it.
 
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Yes and no. you might love dinosaurs and want to research all you can about any and all of them in any way you can. Focusing it down to just one narrow part of the field is stupidly limiting for such a desire. There's a reason most actual science got done by hobbyist scientists not as a job but as a passion project. The commodification of scientific pursuit has resulted in a lot of junk and fake science, sadly.
I don't think the professor needed him to have a hyper-specific niche specialization in mind, but just literally anything beyond "i like dinosaws :)"

-I want to study how dinosaurs evolved
-I want to learn why the dinosaurs died
-I want to discover new species of dinosaurs
-I want to become an expert on Triceratops
-I want to manage the dinosaur exhibit at a museum
-I want to create accurate dinosaur models
etc.

Passion is crucial, but if you can't even clearly communicate what it is about the subject that fascinates you, then your passion is shallow. Which is a bad sign for people who want to commit time & money to grad school. The professor was right to try and sound him out on this one, fortunately Naruto took the right lesson from it.
 
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I don't think the professor needed him to have a hyper-specific niche specialization in mind, but just literally anything beyond "i like dinosaws :)"

-I want to study how dinosaurs evolved
-I want to learn why the dinosaurs died
-I want to discover new species of dinosaurs
-I want to become an expert on Triceratops
-I want to manage the dinosaur exhibit at a museum
-I want to create accurate dinosaur models
etc.

Passion is crucial, but if you can't even clearly communicate what it is about the subject that fascinates you, then your passion is shallow. Which is a bad sign for people who want to commit time & money to grad school. The professor was right to try and sound him out on this one, fortunately Naruto took the right lesson from it.

Since you apparently didn't read:
Yes and no. you might love dinosaurs and want to research all you can about any and all of them in any way you can. Focusing it down to just one narrow part of the field is stupidly limiting for such a desire. There's a reason most actual science got done by hobbyist scientists not as a job but as a passion project. The commedification of scientific pursuit has resulted in a lot of junk and fake science, sadly.

You literally replied to me saying "focusing it down to just one narrow part of the field is stupidly limiting" and then pointed to how to focus it down to just one narrow part of the field, which again, is stupidly limiting.
 
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feather rex is outdated, author needs to do better research. modern day consensus is that it was scaly.
 
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Shinji can use this chance to bounce back to studying a different field
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