Professors are only living longer. Those old boomer fucks aren’t gonna drop off like flies, and they’d need to for a cuck like you to actually have a shot at a tenure track job. So you cope by pretending that you’re just so great and amazing and a spiritual elect of the world spirit chosen to study science. In short— it’s 6 years of trauma and narcissistic personality disorder counseling, courtesy of every undergraduate student unfortunate enough to cross your path.