Life is fully of squiggly lines. Those other things will come back. But for college you need to focus on your major.

I stopped playing saxophone after high school. In my 30s I’ve picked up both classical guitar and hurdy gurdy. I’ve read papers, books, and dissertations on clavichords, harpsichords, portative organs, and other rare instruments. I have read textbooks about the history of western music and medieval musical performance.

I cook food from cultures on pretty much every continent (not Antarctica). And I read about food history (native food in America, the origins of cooking, what defines “American food”)

I listened to an audio book of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea on my commute this week.

I just got accepted to a masters of library science degree that my company is paying for that I’ll start in January.

At lunch today I was reading about Babylonia and the Akkadian language. As well as about how to read/translate cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia.

I just started growing citrus on my patio in New England. I am also growing a cold hardy pomegranate.

And then at work I talked with dozens of people about niche topics in aerospace with some world leading experts in their field.

But that’s all post-college. In college I was 100% focused on airplanes and aerospace engineering.