Science women's alternative life/lives

see the title I just changed for you guys? ha, sacrified my personal space...

first, we should congratulate Yuenan of getting Yale's offer and rejoining this science women club! which was nothing out-of-expecation though. in chatting with me, she proposed the cliche question of "what do I want in this life of science?" which has been puzzling me all the time. do we enjoy the pure happiness of digging into science itself, or motivated by the expectation of a brilliant future? I know for fuling, 80% of the answer comes definitely to the former... for me, the night before, when I thought about the possibility of finding my precious lost sample, that was the point at which I might be converted to a devoted pure-science-lover.... but magic never happened:(

what I told Yuenan was, at least for this 5 years you could stay with Weiwei and have a fun graduate life. what a shame! remember what kind of ambition we had before, hotplay? haha, now I think the best thing is to stay with your dearest one... so I told Yuenan to forget about MIT, staying with hotplay is nothing comparable with staying with Weiwei...劝君莫惜金缕衣，劝君需惜少年时。。。

so could anyone tell me the difference between a purposeful and purposeless life? hmmm, we started to discuss the question from Dining House 9 's dirty table and till now haven't found a certain answer...

when talking to Fuling, I can always get the pure and simplified power.... we are of much difference you will see. she does things out of faith, not more of rationale:P me? I kinda keep an cynic eye on everything, at least part of me ... life is full of absurdity though it's also certainly full of fun.