21. If you had infinite funding, what would your research be about?No clue. I’ve never had 100% free-reign, nor do I have the skills to run a lab and manage all that yet. I know what I would buy for my current research, though.23. Is a scientific mind attractive to you?I don’t know. I think people who say they have a ‘scientific mind’ sound kind of pompous and once I hear that kind of thing I start to tune out. Sounds like some sapiosexual male nerd club nonsense, tbh. I very much enjoy dating outside of my field. It’s refreshing, I guess? Like, during the summer, if I’ve done polymer chemistry and read literature all day, I don’t really want to come home to that. I’ve never dated inside my major. I have dated a marine, a mathematician/computer scientist, and am currently with an electrical engineer. I guess that’s mostly pretty STEMy but casual dating I’ve been then add a man who is now a doctor, another computer scienctists, an English major/aspiring teacher, a writer, a physicist. I’ve even been with a guy in my lab but we didn’t want to come back and talk about our work either -- I think it’s good to go out and have an exchange of non-sciencey interests with your partner(s). I guess I run into a lot of STEMy people but I absolutely get annoyed when my peers consider it a pre-requisite or start saying crap like, “I need to date somebody as intelligent as I am.” Everybody knows different stuff. I have literally never sat down and been like, “Man, that person seems scientific, that’s hot.”I will say that I think it’s really hot when girls like math and I don’t know why that is but it’s not even being good about math it’s like an enthusiasm for it that gets me? (I also consider abstract math and physics outside of my field.) I also really love it when people can explain stuff to me that I wouldn’t learn otherwise and examples of that have included some number theory and economic elasticity and how to cook a stew. I think a lot of STEM kids focus too much on wanting to be attracted to somebody’s “mind” that they get pompous about it. It reminds me when a construction worker on campus asked me if I thought students on campus looked down on them because they do manual labor --- I know a lot of students are exactly that way and failing to be able to relate and hang out with all kinds of people, is well, unattractive. It’s one of my least favorite parts of nerd culture.Sorry this got ranty.
