Would leading an academic life be boring? I can imagine spending

No, everyone knows academic life is long, drawn out, coke and blowjob party that never stops.

>>9292678
>only a handful of people read
Maybe if you're the Elvis Presley of academia

>>9292691
Helen Vendler

It depends, I went into my bohemian phase as a teen, I didn't give a fuck and did lots of drugs and fucked around a lot, doing risky dumb stuff. That is the kind of stuff most people find fun in their 20's, for me is almost completly vapid now, I say almost because I still do that kind of stuff from time to time, but it gets boring really fast and is just isnt the same. I'm not an academic and I don't know if I ever will, but I guess it takes reading and staying home or at the library a lot, which sounds good to me, almost fun, at least more fun than "DUDE WEED LMAO"

>>9292678
Exactly, you'd write some esoteric papers here and there, maybe publish a novel, but in the end you wouldn't amount to more than a footnote for a small handful of other professors to use.

>>9292718
You are so superior anon, you tell em, fuck chad

>>9292678
Get paid to read shit

Also PHD

>>9292727
I never said I was superior, it just doesnt do the trick for me anymore. And not all Chads are bad, I think they are called Brads.

>>9292678
I'm studying math right now but I'd like to do graduate work in either math or philosophy and become a prof, seems fun.
>>9292718
all you need is to crack open a cold one with the boys sometimes, drugs and clubbing is excessive

It would likely be more interesting than your typical office job. Yet, office workers don't necessarily lead boring lives as they can still pursue more interesting things in their leisure time. You will have that same freedom as an academic no matter how boring your time at work may be.