I would like to echo this. I found HN during my first internship, I was pre-med, but got a job imaging laptops. They had a fully manual setup, so I built a PXE

I would like to echo this. I found HN during my first internship, I was pre-med, but got a job imaging laptops. They had a fully manual setup, so I built a PXE server and automated it. Using the extra time, I browsed HN and taught myself Python (off of someone here's recommendation). I went back to schoool in the fall and ace intro to programming, fail Organic Chemistry, and the rest was history. I'm 25 now, starting my own company coming off of a few years in the industry and I have no idea how I would've done it without this community. You all were the anonymous angels and devils on my metaphorical shoulders.