Why “follow Your Passion” Is Bad Advice

When I sat down to take my AP Computer Science exam at the end of high school, I knew it would be bad. As a class, we had no idea what we were doing for the entire year. Our teacher was in his last year of teaching and had already given up on us. We entered the gym hopeless, a ragtag bunch made up of students who really just wanted to avoid taking statistics.

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