2003 Major: Mathematics and Physics, with Minor in Philosophy
"Help(ed) get me first job, which led to getting an engineering Masters, which simplified getting a Physics PhD, which made me eligible to work in academia and better-than-average on modeling/simulation skills than most infectious disease folks. But that's all very just-so, pragmatic storytelling. I think the work at Duke also first started to open my eyes to Math as a way to think about the not-world - the abstractions as independent of us."
"Probably that, contrary to the mainstream aphorism, I regret all the time not spent working. Not to say that I should have worked more on, say, Math homework (though I should have), but rather that there was a lot of time I spent on trivial crap I thought was fun at the time. Do not recall any of it now, and doubt that it serves me in any way."
