I read through a decent chunk of Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture for class in college in ~2006 and while I was indeed young and impressionable,

I read through a decent chunk of Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture for class in college in ~2006 and while I was indeed young and impressionable, it left a very bad taste in my mouth for heavily OO’d systems to the extent that it had the opposite effect - I largely avoided them likely longer than I should have.