I’m an engineering student researcher with a CS minor and ADHD; this kind of research is what I do with my freetime lol.
To be fair this is kind of a shared hobby project/topic between me and my friend (who is a biophysics major now in med school).
Anyway, point is that you don’t need to have a real “purpose” in order to be curious. I work in a robotics/medical lab at my university and my friends is trying to be a surgeon, yet we’re constantly in debates about astro and quantum physics to the point we’ve gotten career physicists to weigh in on our arguments.
No relevance to our majors or our work, but super fucking interesting and full of gaps where there are more theories than facts. Plenty of room for new perspectives.
Normalize doing research for fun!
Edit: changed “engineer” to “engineering student researcher” because a certain person thought I was purposefully misrepresenting the fact I was a student (despite referencing the fact I’m in school in my other comments).
Jsyk in America only “Professional Engineer” is a protected title requiring a certification. You can work as an engineer and have the title of engineer without getting a degree.
I knew several civil engineers in my hometown who were called engineers without having a degree. I think one of them did eventually get his PE certification too after working under a certified PE long enough and taking the tests. (Infrastructure needs a PE sign off before getting built in my state)
In other fields like software engineering you’ll find a lot more people with the title of “engineer” and no certification or degree.
Anyway, point is that I’m sorry if I mislead anyone. I thought it was obvious I’m in school; in the future I’ll try to avoid calling myself an engineer without a qualifier mentioning I’m a student. I think this is the only comment I’ve needed to update for that, hopefully it will stay that way.
Edit: Listen, it’s pretty clear you’re talking out of your ass. You’re an undergrad who has never performed graduate-level research. You’re not an engineer. You don’t understand ocular biology. You just write a lot of bullshit and expect the people you’re talking with to be dazzled by the academic tone.
Graduate, get a job, put in work, then claim to be an engineer. Your behavior is embarrassing.
I’m an engineering student researcher with a CS minor and ADHD; this kind of research is what I do with my freetime lol.
To be fair this is kind of a shared hobby project/topic between me and my friend (who is a biophysics major now in med school).
Anyway, point is that you don’t need to have a real “purpose” in order to be curious. I work in a robotics/medical lab at my university and my friends is trying to be a surgeon, yet we’re constantly in debates about astro and quantum physics to the point we’ve gotten career physicists to weigh in on our arguments.
No relevance to our majors or our work, but super fucking interesting and full of gaps where there are more theories than facts. Plenty of room for new perspectives.
Normalize doing research for fun!
Edit: changed “engineer” to “engineering student researcher” because a certain person thought I was purposefully misrepresenting the fact I was a student (despite referencing the fact I’m in school in my other comments).
Jsyk in America only “Professional Engineer” is a protected title requiring a certification. You can work as an engineer and have the title of engineer without getting a degree.
I knew several civil engineers in my hometown who were called engineers without having a degree. I think one of them did eventually get his PE certification too after working under a certified PE long enough and taking the tests. (Infrastructure needs a PE sign off before getting built in my state)
In other fields like software engineering you’ll find a lot more people with the title of “engineer” and no certification or degree.
Anyway, point is that I’m sorry if I mislead anyone. I thought it was obvious I’m in school; in the future I’ll try to avoid calling myself an engineer without a qualifier mentioning I’m a student. I think this is the only comment I’ve needed to update for that, hopefully it will stay that way.
Are you doing a postdoc? Masters?
Edit: Listen, it’s pretty clear you’re talking out of your ass. You’re an undergrad who has never performed graduate-level research. You’re not an engineer. You don’t understand ocular biology. You just write a lot of bullshit and expect the people you’re talking with to be dazzled by the academic tone.
Graduate, get a job, put in work, then claim to be an engineer. Your behavior is embarrassing.