"Oh, uni was the easy part!" Drake waved a hand with a grin. "I mean, I almost got booted from Life Drawing a few times because honestly, how is art even a field of study. And I mmmmmay have upset a few professors and Fellows." Read: all of them. "So I tugged at a few loose threads in a few bad theories, how's it my fault that the whole fabric unravelled?" Read: in front of an assembly of undergrads.
In retrospect, if university had been difficult at all for Drake, it was because he'd made it difficult for himself.
"Anyway, no, it's once you're out and expected to publish groundbreaking papers on experimental high-energy particle physics that the stakes get high and Michio Kaku sends snarky emails asking when you're going to revolutionize mankind's understanding of the universe."
Being professionally jabbed at by fellow physicists was clearly a sore spot, if the glower and spiteful tone were anything to go by. She'd be spiteful, too, he thought, if she researched technology that was so advanced, you had to create a whole new form of math just to express it, but someone else got famous for explaining what amounted to basic shapes and colors and then asked you when you'd do something worthwile.
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In retrospect, if university had been difficult at all for Drake, it was because he'd made it difficult for himself.
"Anyway, no, it's once you're out and expected to publish groundbreaking papers on experimental high-energy particle physics that the stakes get high and Michio Kaku sends snarky emails asking when you're going to revolutionize mankind's understanding of the universe."
Being professionally jabbed at by fellow physicists was clearly a sore spot, if the glower and spiteful tone were anything to go by. She'd be spiteful, too, he thought, if she researched technology that was so advanced, you had to create a whole new form of math just to express it, but someone else got famous for explaining what amounted to basic shapes and colors and then asked you when you'd do something worthwile.