>>9
BROTIP: Stop typing like an ignorant, immature half-wit and people might show you some respect.
Smart people who do a thing called "meaningful work" teach themselves.
Yeah, in addition to their degrees and post graduate programs.
Enjoy your lifelong debt
It's called a scholarship. Most intelligent people have at least one good one or several small ones. My entire education was paid by them, except for books and supplies which my parents paid for. (They refused my efforts to pay them back, with the implied debt of taking care of them when they're old and senile.) Student loans are a last resort and up until very very recently, they were complete scams, with universities even getting kick backs for shady recommendations.
>>11
This.
A private citizen isn't going to be able to get their hands on ANYTHING easily, not even the perfectly harmless stuff. There are all sorts of regulations that must be strictly followed and private citizens simply aren't able to comply with most of them without absolutely MASSIVE funding.
Not to mention the fact that without some expensive equipment, you're not even going to be able to keep your cultures alive, let alone work with them. It isn't nearly as easy to keep a virus or bacteria going as you might think. (Shitty analogy: fish are everywhere and are easy to catch, but keeping them alive and healthy in captivity requires investment in equipment and a certain level of basic knowledge. Microbes are the same, except taken to an extreme in every respect.)
If you aren't working with a large-ish university or something, you're not going anywhere on that little fantasy, kid.