What would /sci/ tell their 15 year old selves?

i would tell myself to not give up on my dreams of space, and time. to take the time to learn advanced math while i was still in school.

>>7689188

Judging by the quality of threads on /sci/, I'm sure most /sci/ users would have nothing to tell their future selves

"Smart but lazy" is a dumb meme and you're only putting yourself behind. Coasting through classes isn't cool and is only gonna come back and bite you in the ass once you actually have to put in work because you're not as smart as you think you are.

>>7689188
don't drink, take hallucinogens instead. exercise more. don't procastinate, just masterbate.

>>7689198
What's a "meme"?

>>7689188
Not to get married.

>>7689188
Ur a gay, and you're 15, fuck more men.

Learn how to program, take AP courses, put in the effort to learn more advanced maths.

>What would /sci/ tell their 15 year old selves?

Most CS degrees are four-year tech school diplomas, and double-majoring divides your attention in a way you can't afford.

Ignore people trying to recruit you to political causes.

Don't date a chick who's crazy. She'll let you do more with/to her than a normal one, but it seriously isn't worth it.

Stop giving Mother second chances; she did things to your brothers that should've landed her in prison. No one intended to tell you for several more years.

It isn't just major depressive disorder. It's also schizophrenia. That's why everything is difficult. You're smart enough to compensate and mask your symptoms for the next ten years. Don't. You're just staving off the inevitable.

You will like math later.

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>>7689188
"You're a faggot, me”

>>7689216
What kind of fucked up childhood would you need to have to be a faggot at that age?

>>7689197
Underrated

>>7689188
FUCKING LEARN TO PROGRAM IDIOT IT WILL UNFUCK YOUR BRAIN AND TEACH YOU HOW TO THINK PROPERLY START WITH STANFORD'S CS106A CLASS

Nothing outside of this is really necessary for me, everything else would just follow naturally

>>7689188
Kill yourself.
You're not going to become the next Einstein, no one save a few researchers in your field will ever even have heard of your name.
Nothing will turn out fine, you'll keep on being depressed and end up on the verge of being an alcoholic.
Yes, use the fucking .357 next to the two Winchesters, it'll do the job quickly.

>>7689188
to invest in apple

>>7689256
The apple train is already gone, dogecoin is the smartest choice.

>>7689188
Don't be lazy, get into the school you want, and go straight into studying math.

>>7689188
1. Start taking school/educational studies seriously.
2. Start taking school/educational studies seriously.
3. Stop caring about your social status. You really won't give a shit about any of these people in 15 years.
4. Don't date anyone online. Date people in real life. Date more (and higher quality) people. If at any point you realize you aren't enjoying yourself, it's time to end the relationship.
5. Don't have sex with anyone until you know they are sane. Crazy girls are really a dime a dozen.
6. Your depression won't last forever.

>>7689257
>dogecoin
>value

Forget math. Be a doctor.

>>7689188
"ur a faget"

hey kid, it's okay to make mistakes sometimes and it's not the end of the world if you do.

don't let the negativity in your life get to you, those people are just disappointed with the way their lives turned out.

>>7689287
Are you an engineer? Because that was gay.

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>>7689288

"Here's next week's lottery numbers"

Seriously guys? No one thought of this?

In addition I'd tell myself to stop being a lazy beta shit and get out and do stuff

Buy bitcoin with all your money.

Sell it when it hits 1000$.

With around 80k to spend at the time I'd be set for life.

Then do whatever the fuck but desu it won't matter so also hang yourself if you get motivated.

>>7689247
Well my dad was pretty sexy and my mum was a cold hearted bitch.

>>7689300
The problem with this is that in most places 15 year olds can't buy lotto tickets.

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>>7689188
The winning numbers for the 11/28/2014 Mega Millions drawing will be 08 - 26 - 29 - 36 - 47 and Mega Ball 10. Sit on it for a few years.

Invest 99% of the winnings in Netflix. Pull out at 123.39.

>>7689349
>>Invest 99% of the winnings in Netflix. Pull out at 123.39.
>mfw, you fuck up and lose all your money because winning the lottery causes Netflix to fail as a company

Considering your lot in life, you're kind of boned.

Actually damn, I really have nothing else to say. Just rough it out. Where I'm at right now isn't as bad, so don't lose all hope.

You're never going to get laid, stop trying to be cool and just focus on getting rich.

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>>7689404
>tfw

Psst... hey, you! I mean, me! You know all those girls in your theatre group? The ones that you don't think are quite good looking enough? Have sex with them. All of them.

And when you hit university, and that girl really likes you but has a boyfriend, and then she start rubbing your leg and kissing you? Make sure you fuck her, too. Do her a few times before she goes to the Hallowe'en party and hooks up with that guy who lives across the hall.

I could go on, but you get the idea.

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You are gay, yes, you can't change it, dating a girl won't convert you to a het person, so get over it. Do not hurt a girl's feeling just because you think being gay is sinful.
Stop being stuck in your existential crisis.
Learn higher level math earlier. Do not play doto 2.
Stop procrastinate.

>>7689188
"Do we have flying cars yet?"

>>7689347
Get my parents to do it? Random dude on the street for 20 bucks? Trust me if millions of dollars are on the line I'm sure I would've figured it out.

>>7689527
And then there's this guy that doesn't understand the thread

>>7689534
He's pretending to be younger than 15 you retard

>>7689500
oh fuck im procrastinating by playing doto 2 right this very second
how can i stop when i have five thousands match making rating points

I would tell myself to fuck bitches since I haven't (and likely won't) in college and I don't want to die a virgin. I'd also tell myself to learn how to study because it becomes necessary in college.
>>7689197
el oh el

>>7689198
I think you answered correctly for most of us.

read books, actual literature. classic novels and philosophy. read as much as possible.

kill yourself

>>7689559
>how can i stop when i have five thousands match making rating points
I don't know man. I'm still playing it though not much lately. At least I am not spending 15 hours a day playing it like before.

>>7689559
>tfw 4k
i-its my noob team

>>7689188
do more sports you lazy fuck
and think about your career more

Commit sudoku

fuck lauren and courtney and doucha, just concentrate on ur studies

>>7689197
noice

>>7689198
"smart but lazy" defines most college students other than the the ones who are "dumb but lazy" or "mediocre but lazy" so don't feel bad if you have a lazy disorder just go see a shrink anon

"Quit smoking weed you fucking idiot. Stop wasting your time watching porn. Do your fucking homework."

Another question: do you think your 15 year old self would actually listen to the advice you give him?

avoid 4chan at all costs

>>7689188
How to discover CRISPR along with all the nobel prize winning discoveries and become insanely rich/famous etc

>>7689404

mmm... on the one hand, thats a good plan... on the other hand, always be refining your game

Youre fucked

"you'll love math"

Don't stay in your room all day.

>>7689188
Don't use your bitcoin
Stop being a fag and do your work, your lazy habits are fucking me over now in college
Don't stop music, you're not that bad
Don't take sports anymore, just workout, it's draining your stamina for science
Take the hard classes now you faglord

>>7689188
Listen to your dad and just inherit that seat on the board of directors. A career as an academic is bullshit and unfulfilling except some rare moments. In the end you will feel miserable while everyone around you is living like kings while you barely survive.

Keep it up, you're doing good.
Also, did you know that there is such a thing as math clubs ? Try that will you ? You might not make the olympiad team but you sure will learn a lot more from people who actually know what they are doing than from trying to teach yourself with wikipedia and books

Stop being a pussy.
Start working out now. Don't wait until you're in college.
Take harder classes. You can handle it.
Learn to program.

>>7689198
Yep, "smart but lazy" is a fucking meme.

>>7689188
Invest in google

Don't date that fucking bitch, she'll ruin your life

>>7689563
this

You're a cool guy, don't go to school tommorow

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>>7689267
>bitcoin
>value

>>7689188
Don't do drugs.

>>7689188
This has always been the hardest kind of question. Would I change anything? Could I change anything? It's almost like a form of suicide. Purposely destroying yourself to create another, hopefully better, you.

I don't know if I should tell him to kill himself, try to push em' over the edge. Tell him the future. Life lessons. I just don't know. Even telling him how to avoid the worst things, or solving his problems much earlier, deprives the resulting person of the knowledge of HOW that solution came about, and what really underpins it. Even if it works. Even if it's "perfect".

Gotta just do nothin'. It happened, and I'm stuck with it/ Any change could have drastic repercussions that are worse than I could ever know.

there is this shit called BITCOIN that basically just came out. google that shit and BUY as much as you possibly can(at least 10,000+) and keep that shit safe. You will become an anonymous multi-millionaire by the end of 2013 at 18 years old when it explodes to over $1000/1 BTC and be able to easily do whatever you'd like.

read more in your spare time instead of going on the computer, too.

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>>7689197

>>7689188
lottery numbers for 2015 05 30 are 18,55,56,83,90
don't fuck it up.

>study harder and go study financial math at the uni
>don't play vidya and don't watch porn
>work out with your father
>make sure to get that qt petite girl, she'll love you
>you're becoming more and more lonely because all your friends drink alcohol and you don't want to, try to get some new friends

First of all, stop being such a little bitch. Grow a pair and work on your self esteem, you little fag.
Second of all, stop spending time on your computer doing nothing. Start doing your homework in time, start studying math and physics. I know you don't like math now, but that's your teacher's fault. They made you believe that math is boring, but IT ISN'T and you'll realize it later. Stay away from those people, they'll make you look like a bad kid that other kid's moms wouldn't want their kids to hang out with. Take those ideas you had and put it on paper, they'll be useful later. Don't trust your parents, but don't be a faggot about it (not talking to anyone just because you don't like them. At least pretend).

>>7689931
topkek

Get off your knees right now, one day you will be able to prevent this from ever happening to anybody else.

Please, lift and start to learn.
After getting your highschool degree, get into a trade and work in a 9-5 job, so you can prepare for higher academic progressions.
Never listen to your mother, never let anyone tell you how to live and most importantly take care of your body.

I wish I could tell you what it is like. To feel like you're truly working towards something good. To think that you will make a difference, not only in your eyes but in the eyes of the world.

But the world isn't watching. It never is. Instead we're locked in damp basements working grueling hours on something which in all likelihood will be insignificant and ignored by our peers. Because that is the harsh reality that comes with doing science. For years you will feel like what you do makes no difference. The stress and the pressure slowly building up to a point where you feel like you just can't take it anymore, only to be taken away temporarily by some minor achievement like getting another degree, or a publication in that slightly higher up journal you've been hoping for.

But it always returns. That lingering sense of insignificance. The realization that everything you do, however brilliant it may seem to your close or even distant colleagues, is incomparable to things which have been done before you. Even if you make it you will feel like it was all just luck. That you happened to be in the right place at the right time. That that tenured position wasn't really right for you, but you got it anyway, for no apparent reason.

Years beyond, when you are widely regarded as an expert in your respective field you will still have that feeling. That you do not really know what you are doing. That it was all luck which brought you there. That you are an impostor, living the life of someone else.

But this isn't true. You will not be an impostor. What you have been working on, however minor the problem may seem, has relevance. Everyone before you likely felt the same way. You cannot become great by trying to be great, but by wanting to do something with such a conviction that you become great in the process. Remember this in your years to come.

Play video games 40% less than you do and you would sitll get like 80% of the enjoyment. study more fgt

Reduce video gamrs by half and take all the AP classes in school. Take Calculus AB serious and dont go for engineering. Give yourself a year in college.

I think the more important question would be what my future self would tell me to do now.

I don't fucking know, fuck.

>>7690142
You probably already know what you need to do lol

>>7689188
Move to the West Coast before you study computer science.

study more

You have an anxiety disorder, and once you go to college and schoolwork starts being challenging, it's going to fuck your shit up. Get some therapy so you have proper coping skills.

Everyone doesn't have it figured out, there is no big secret and everyone else is as retarded as you are. Stop feeling like you're looking in through the glass and realize that the way you felt when you were younger was correct.

>>7689869
Best answer itt

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>>7689188

FOR FUCKS SAKE TAKE HIGH SCHOOL SERIOUSLY AND DO THE BEST YOU CAN.

>>7689188
first
I do the test (I created a password a long time ago to check it is really myself and me_young will not believe me unless I say the passwords).

then:
stop wasting time learning what school wants you to learn, there is better ways to learn [+explain what I do now: ocw...].

don't learn latin and spanish, you will never need it.

don't spend to many time on subjects like History, geography, philosophy because I've forgotten everithing about it.

learn computer science, maths, physics, but don't listen to your teacher.

don't belive your parents: no, you will not become mad if you try to use both hand to write for example.
stop believing evolution is retarded because it's not [+proof/explainations]

everything you do except that is good.
keep beeing like you are.

you'll meet a girl in two years, never let her go or she'll go down the shitter and so will you

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That sneaking suspicion that your family is really messed up is 100% accurate. Your plan to live at home during college to save money is doomed. High school is easy with minimal effort. Put in the effort to get high enough grades to earn scholarships out of state. It will be well worth the investment in time. Your family cannot and will not change their religious fanaticism. No one in your hometown is worth trying to impress. Education with the good grades to prove you've acquired it is your ticket out of here.

>>7689615
Hell no that faggot would blow it off like every piece of advice he got at the time

>>7689188
you are doing fine

>>7689719
What do you do? What field is this?

>>7689198
/thread

>>7689973
What field do you work in?

Don't hang out with those kids, and invest in AAPL or GOOG...

Buy Facebook, Tesla, Google and Starbucks shares.

>>7689198
>>7689217
>>7689300
>>7689404
Pretty much this.

>>7689188
"Drop out of football and band."
"Start working out regularly."
"You should spend lunch in the library reading rather than failing to make friends and doing cringey shit you're inevitably going regret."
"Get a job in highschool."
"Get as many internships as you can as soon as possible."
"You can cruise through your Bachelor's but the whole point of a Master's/further is putting in actual effort."

>>7689188
Start selling weed from day one in university. You aren't pursuing a a technical degree anyway, and you don't like matrices, so just don't even bother going to linear algebra at all. Also, go to econ blazed; it's like two formulas, you just have to remember which arbitrary equivalence to apply to make a solvable equation.
Bail on the rest of your classes after a semester or so, spend all your time learning to speak Mandarin fluently, then take your weed money and go fuck around in China for a year. It'll be fun, and your parents really won't give a damn if you come back and live in their house for years afterwards. You'll appreciate the time you spent with your father when he dies.

I wouldn't take the advice because I was a pussy, but there you are.

Don't fucking quit football you nerd. In college you'll start lifting seriously and actually become athletic -- start lifting now instead. Take it seriously.

>>7689188
"You'll met a wonderful person and you'll learn love and emotions, and that it can gives you enough motivation to actually perform in something (math). Then she will completely destroy you without any intention to do so and you'll slowly disappear as a willful being. Thus she'll leave you and you'll truely learn the concept of loneliness during you Ph. D. You'll find yourself questioning the very purpose of keeping on living as far as your mind in concerned. You'll struggle to find an answer, while preventing anyone to become intimate with you until you find the answer. Enjoy, faggot.

Also, start a fighting sport sooner, you whiny faggot. You'll learn body discipline and to shut your fucking mouth and keep on trying to improve your physical skill instead of whining about your destroyed knee that also destroyed your potential career in sports.

Finally, one day you'll hit the bottom for the first time. You'll feel hopeless, tired, empty. You'll tell yourself "I'll call gandma later, I can barely handle a discussion right now." Don't follow this thought. Call her.

And when you'll hit the bottom the second time, you'll know that the first time was not the real thing. At this moment, don't take that medicine that is supposed to help you sleep. Don't. The urge to sleep does not compensate the atrocious feeling you'll have when you'll realize you were about to throw yourself in front of this train. Sleeping a non-revigorating dreamless sleep of 4 hours will not solve everything on that night. You'll get out of there, eventually, but with your own will and efforts, not with artificial shit."

>>7689188
Become a dancer. Science is boring, it's stupid. Art: Visual Art, Performance Art. You're going to change the world, boy. Oh, I can see it now.

Dance! Dance! Dance!

>>7689188
wew lad

>>7694230
dem feels

Join the football team. It's not as bad as you think and you'll want some muscle for college.

Talk to strangers and don't be a bitch about it. Learn early on and you can get laid in your Spiderman suit at a Halloween party.

Go to home depot and get some wood to make yourself a bow. You're pretty good at making stuff, and archery is pretty fun.

Don't forget to go hiking every once in awhile. There's a creek and a spring near boxcar rocks that is just beautiful

Just b urself