I failed to see the point of linear algebra when I studied in during my CPGE but it only took a couple of sessions of a Numerical Analysis class a year after to

I failed to see the point of linear algebra when I studied in during my CPGE but it only took a couple of sessions of a Numerical Analysis class a year after to make me look past the tedious abstractions and realize its true beauty. (Compression (SVD), LU decomposition etc)