My biggest advice— fall in love with reading philosophical texts. It can change your life if you let it. brainful spiraled out of an extended essay comparing "The Myth of Sisyphus" and "Fight Club" in high school. That intellectual journey sent me from the College of Arts to the Sciences. Literally. Not because I suddenly became fond of creating software, but because it gave me the medium I needed to fundamentally change the way work could be done.