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this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2024
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Today I Learned (TIL)
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You learn something new every day; what did you learn today?
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Try to remember that next time you're afraid to try something new because you think you'll be bad at it and screw it up.
The other lesson here is that having a broad base of knowledge is useful so that you can recognize when something might be applicable to a different problem domain. Universities require all those liberal arts classes to get a degree -- even a STEM degree -- for good reason.
Liberal arts for STEM degrees? Where?
Dartmouth College, the ivy League one, requires engineering degrees to be done in 5 years and as a liberal arts college there's a good chunk of the prereqs being humanities