I spent my entire university degree convinced that I was going to go into the video game industry. It took only a few months to realize that it's not what I wanted for a career, and I've spent the next 20 years loving my industry but doing anything but gaming.
I was an arrogant teenager that thought I knew what I was doing. I disrespected the arts, music, history, and focused exclusively on stuff like Math and Calculus.
Now I don't feel like a well-rounded adult, and I wish I spent more time when I was younger on music and humanities.
I think the kids are also misled to a great degree. They basically told us if we'd want to go to uni and go for a STEM degree we should absolutely, totally do the focused math courses etc.
When I arrived for my CompSci they basically said: "We'll leave what you already learned in math behind around christmas (so after half of the first semester), no matter what kind of math you learned before".
I can't 100% grade both judgments, but I did not take the advanced math thing, but if they hadn't said these (apparently) completely wrong thing, I 100% would've taken French at school. (Which is another problem I'll not go further into, some fixed tracks of what path you need to choose in which grade)
> Now I don't feel like a well-rounded adult, and I wish I spent more time when I was younger on music and humanities.
Easy remedy. Learn an instrument. Find someone local to take weekly lessons, and practice several hours a week. If you never did this before I think you will be overjoyed by how well you play with consistent practice.
I spent my entire university degree convinced that I was going to go into the video game industry. It took only a few months to realize that it's not what I wanted for a career, and I've spent the next 20 years loving my industry but doing anything but gaming.
I was an arrogant teenager that thought I knew what I was doing. I disrespected the arts, music, history, and focused exclusively on stuff like Math and Calculus.
Now I don't feel like a well-rounded adult, and I wish I spent more time when I was younger on music and humanities.