Even as someone with half an electrical engineering degree (three advanced calc courses, linear systems, difeq and linear algebra) and a full CS degree I still

Even as someone with half an electrical engineering degree (three advanced calc courses, linear systems, difeq and linear algebra) and a full CS degree I still find myself sort of overwhelmed or unsure of where to start with ML. Even with a lot of guides. Sometimes I find that guides are too application focused and don't seem to be of much value outside of the specific thing the author built and then structured the tutorial around. Do any other people here with college math / cs experience (granted I wasn't top of my class) find this stuff overwhelming or daunting?