The truth of higher education: for all the boring and anoying shit you have to wade through, there are those moments that inspire you and open a whole new world to explore.
Take me, for example: desperately counting credits in my last year of undergrad, I've signed up for a course called Sound art. I expected... seriously, I don't know. Something weird but hopefully survivable.
Instead, I discovered a new world of programmable music. Did you know you can write code that makes sound? I mean, of course it does, but I've never even thought about it before! And I've never cared about 'experimental' music either, but now that I have to listen to it, I'm intrigued.
Right now, I'm playing with SuperCollider. And it's so freaking difficult to understand for someone who has neither music nor math background. But you suddenly see how math is sound, and you can write some code and you can hear it, and it's all connecting dots I didn't even know were a part of a puzzle! And it's freaking amazing.
And yeah, my inner five-year-old has a field day. I can write a piece of code and things go bloop!!!