Some days I cannot for the life of me figure out what the point of academia is. All the reading, writing, analyzing of data that 99% of people don't understand. Some days I have an oddly strong desire to go to grad school and do really cool research and write articles and get them published. Frequently, I feel both things on the same day which doesn't make much sense, and is just overall confusing for me.

Higher education is a strange institution.