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I've got a few stories to tell about how I've transformed my life over the past 2 years or so (not that I started off in a bad situation), but I really enjoyed reading the first page and I'd like to chime in on what I saw there. The message I got from my parents was "You're going to college. [Whether you get a high paying job out of it is your decision.]" I went to college surrounded by premed biology majors. Biology was 50% of incoming freshmen. So that's what I think of when I hear my generation doesn't want to be doctors. I applied under structural engineering but changed my major to cognitive science before the year started. I am lucky that my interests took me into machine learning and I snuck in a computer science curriculum without the hard reqs that CS majors have to take. I don't know what draws people to English literature as a major, but I see it as a kind of basic core that allows someone to receive plasmids for multiple soft skills, so it's probably a decent, if not perfect choice if you want to vaguely enter the corporate world but are really vague about it, or academia I guess. I added a math major after I got out of my "I'm bad at advanced math" spiral and enjoyed the luxury to take a 5th year to complete it. I got an internship doing machine learning at a web security company. It took 4 months at my parents' house after graduating for me to find a job. I'll pick up there in my next post.
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