How Math Can Level Up Your Career

by Justin Skycak on

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A lot of people realize later who go into software engineering maybe at first they don’t really care about math in school but eventually they build up their foundations of coding, and then they realize that if they just had taken it seriously and learned all their math, they could be doing so much more!

Just imagine a kid graduating high school. Not only do they know precalculus with coding applications but also calculus, linear algebra, multi-variable calc, differential equations, basically all your core engineering math, right?

And they come to college and they’re just blowing the socks off of anybody who gives them an opportunity to do some research, an internship.

They already got the basics of everything, and they’re actually ready to make a serious impact. Do you know how rare that is?

How rare that is to see in an undergraduate researcher or an intern? Usually you can’t count on them, so you just throw them a toy problem for them to play around with.

But if you can actually make a serious impact at a young age because you have the skills to do so, you can just compound that into a massive compression of time.

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