Yeah, I find the best learning happens when you put that knowledge immediately to work in a real world problem, and preferably one that's meaningful to you, as

Yeah, I find the best learning happens when you put that knowledge immediately to work in a real world problem, and preferably one that's meaningful to you, as opposed to most term projects. And that's where learning for yourself makes so much more sense; if you're learning for yourself then you probably already have a real world application for it which got you into the goal of learning it in the first place.