Only three paths are truly rational:
1) Pick an easy subject, finish quickly, and go on to make good money as an "academic person".
2) Pick a fun subject and treat it like a hobby.
3) Pick something challenging, in a topic you excell at, so that you actually learn something useful each semester and don't feel like you've wasted your time, even if you never finish.
yep, I agree.
I choose 3. with mathematics, and I can say that clown world hasn't impacted the subject, probably because:
1. it has a super old tradition
2. mathematicians are weird and don't care about status
3. and there isn't much money to be managed
This doesn't mean it was worth it, on the contrary the last 2yrs I studied from books and YouTube and never gone to lessons because I was also working.
But to be fair, going back I would choose the same thing because after highschool it would have been difficult to study on my own without any kind of fundamentals.
Same, I practically went, "What is the most difficult thing to study outside of a University Program"
Started with Maths and ended up doing Physics w/ concentrations in ME & EE
This is my second time at college and it was informatics both times. Even though I'm arguably more interested in other topics, I have a lot of ideas that need software solutions, so I'm always motivated to expand my toolchest, so that I don't get frustrated being stuck with other people's solutions.
Same way that I prefer to cook and bake because then it tastes the way I want it to taste and I can create the food independently.
Also, the harder subjects have more students who interest me in the classes, so that makes it more attractive to attend lectures and work on projects.
There's so much intellectual dead weight in some of the departments, I'd probably never go to classes.
- I did Physics and Engineering for points 2 & 3
- looking to get masters in History for point 1
- and wanting to get a "checking a box" MBA for local work in management
