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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Do you ever feel like your research is pointless?

Hi everybody. I'm in the middle of writing my Masters dissertation (in International Relations) and I'm feeling pretty hopeless. Do you ever feel like your research is pointless? Or not worth the time you've given it? Are your expected outcomes obvious, or just not that important anymore? Feeling down. Need a pick me up. At the very least, it'd be nice to know I'm not alone.
gpt
It is -almost- pointless.  But the fact that its value has some non-zero value is the point of academia.  Millions of papers piling up like a snowbank and then someday a single flake causes an avalanche.  You dont get to control if you are the avalanche maker or just another flake in the snowbank, all you get to control is if you wanna be a part of it or not.