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Give it time, man. Your priorities will change. Ten years ago you were complaining that you'd never use any of that silly Math they were forcing you to learn.

It took me 5 years before I appreciated the German I learned in high school. I was in Bangkok airport and met a German woman that didn't speak a word of English. She asked me something, and I understood it. I opened my mouth and a complete sentence came out in a language that I'd never truly believed that people actually spoke in real life. That was the moment I got it.

So yeah, wait and see. Ten years from no I won't be surprised to find you backpacking across Guatemala, burned out on writing code, and thanking that stupid university for forcing you to learn a foreign language.




> Ten years ago you were complaining that you'd never use any of that silly Math they were forcing you to learn.

No, I wasn't. I minored in math.

> Ten years from no I won't be surprised to find you backpacking across Guatemala

And no, I won't. One of the ways to make the pain go by faster was to go to a language school in Mexico. Worse two weeks of my life in recent memory.




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