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[–] Zannsolo@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

You answer the why in college talking progressively harder math classes until you say fuck it and accept that's just how it works, or you become either a mathimation or a math teacher where you dumb everything down and let the next generation ask why, and you ask yourself why can't I afford to live, I should have majored in computer science as you spend your summer as an Uber driver.

I stopped at calc 2 and became a software engineer. My math rival(ex gf in hs/best friends now ex wife who I took all my college math with) became a HS math teacher.