...Used to loathe anything practical - experiments, programming, applied math etc cuz you know they weren't "pure" and engaging enough. I would also have a hard

...Used to loathe anything practical - experiments, programming, applied math etc cuz you know they weren't "pure" and engaging enough. I would also have a hardtime processing/registering something if I'm not able to derive it analytically from first principles. It felt like cheating if I have to use a formula without fully understanding how it was derived... Hello, 'undergraduate me'. "haha" indeed. The universe is still experiencing California-splitting [1], planet-slapping [2] spasms of laughter at my ... stupidity [3] (speaking only for myself, here, of course). [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48921915 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48921915 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event [3] https://archive.org/details/novicetomasteron0000mori_w1f1 https://archive.org/details/novicetomasteron0000mori_w1f1