If I have to pick one single most important thing I have learned in college, it will be an easy choice. It is not an answer to any question. It is a question that I learnt to ask: "Who cares?" or "So what?" I am grateful for being instilled that no-nonsense ideal.
This has since defined my attitudes toward research. As Ed Leamer nicely put, we need to think if that research has any value beyond "mere mathematical amusement".
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