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thelostsunprincess:

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everyonesahero:

does anybody else just like

research things for fun

like you’re curious about something so you go read the whole wikipedia article on it and then read all the stuff the wikipedia article references and go to the library and read some books on it until you have all this new knowledge about a subject that actually has no real bearing on your life you were just kind of interested in something 

um, yeah

isn’t that what being a grad student is all about?

I’m not a grad student. I think doing grad research might not count as “just for fun”…

Both my thesis in undergrad and grad school came out of research I was doing for fun. I haven’t met a grad student who hasn’t do research just for fun. Every grad student I have met ends up just doing research for fun. So while my thesis is not “just for fun,” a lot of what I know about history comes from me picking up a book for fun or researching a topic for fun.