That’s a helpful data point, thank you! I wonder if part of your outcome is driven by working in software/CS/crypto. This seems like an unusually tractable space for a young individual with good ideas.
My field is biomedical engineering, where access to equipment, reagents, collaborators, training, and sheer biochemical knowledge and lab skills are major bottlenecks.
I could also just be wrong, though. My journey through college has been unusual.
Edit: maybe the way to reconcile this is that college demands tangible outputs: assignments, projects, things you can put on your resume. But making a real difference is about applying your efforts to good ideas, and there’s a lot of intangible exploration that has to happen up front in order to discover the right idea. So satisficing college’s demand for legible, tangible production frees up space both to improve your wellbeing and to search for the ideas that matter.
That’s a helpful data point, thank you! I wonder if part of your outcome is driven by working in software/CS/crypto. This seems like an unusually tractable space for a young individual with good ideas.
My field is biomedical engineering, where access to equipment, reagents, collaborators, training, and sheer biochemical knowledge and lab skills are major bottlenecks.
I could also just be wrong, though. My journey through college has been unusual.
Edit: maybe the way to reconcile this is that college demands tangible outputs: assignments, projects, things you can put on your resume. But making a real difference is about applying your efforts to good ideas, and there’s a lot of intangible exploration that has to happen up front in order to discover the right idea. So satisficing college’s demand for legible, tangible production frees up space both to improve your wellbeing and to search for the ideas that matter.