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Not biology, but I had a great astronomy professor in high school and fell in love with the topic. The vastness of the universe, the physics behind it. How people measured the distance to a star or the curvature of the earth.

Then I got to college and was effectively told, if I studied astronomy, I'd end up in academia perpetually and I wasn't ready to make that commitment. So I fell back to CS. And sometimes I wonder....




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