One more anecdote: I took Discrete Math in high school because I was already taking Calculus, had space in my schedule, and didn’t want to take another elective

One more anecdote: I took Discrete Math in high school because I was already taking Calculus, had space in my schedule, and didn’t want to take another elective like French or video production. Discrete Math was the “bottom-tier” class for people who weren’t interested in higher-level math and just needed to fulfill math requirements. Which is ironic because the stuff I learned there I’m using today much more than calculus or statistics.