Realistically, if you don't have the motivation and drive to study science all by yourself, you don't have the motivation and drive to be a scientist. A scient

Realistically, if you don't have the motivation and drive to study science all by yourself, you don't have the motivation and drive to be a scientist. A scientist doesn't learn everything they need in classes and then stop. They need to continually improve their knowledge; when I had an academic career I spent perhaps 4 hours/day going through papers and keeping up with the literature. Nowadays that's probably dropped to 2 hours/day, since I'm in a space where old school techniques (operations research FTW!) are generally pretty effective.