> It might actually be a better way to learn, because you're learning is always in service of other learning. Me in freshman calculus: Why are we learning thes

> It might actually be a better way to learn, because you're learning is always in service of other learning. Me in freshman calculus: Why are we learning these Taylor series? It's so boring, and I'll never need to use it Me three years later in upper-division meteorology: It turns out 90% of what we do is numerical methods because fluid dynamics is hard with limited data. It's definitely easier for me to learn things when I have an application for it.