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<p>I have to completely agree with this. I write it over and over again, because I find it ridiculous how people constantly emphasize discovering the passions so early on. While I think it really helps you get somewhere to discover passions (and I mean in general, whether before or after college), I think if someone asked me to say a long, long time ago whether I preferred science or math, I would have had no answer. Mathematics wasn’t even on my radar much until I saw how wonderful it could be much later. </p>
<p>I think the problem is not with the word “passion” but with the fact that people link that word to discovering your life purpose or something. I’d say developing a “passion” for feeding intellectual curiosity is a good goal itself. I find all too often that people claim they like something because it’s what they’ve succeeded at recently, but without a deep outlook on what it’s going to be like in the long term.</p>