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100% agreed. 18 y/o me was an idiot; i'd have done thing significantly differently.


Frankly, had I known I would be where I am today by my own whims, I would've majored in something like philosophy, not taken more compsci courses.


I wonder how things would have gone if I had gotten into Lisp right in 1982, instead of 2000.


Here I am, a (floabt) poliSci+=econ major, wishing I had been in CS. I don't truly regret it though, I think it gives me a unique perspective.




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