The education paid off
When I was in school, our roommate was a dedicated math student while I was taking humanities classes.
The two of us got along in our situation particularly well despite our differing academic interests, largely because all of us both listened to a lot of the same 90s alternative rock bands. Since I wisely brought our stereo with me to school our first year, all of us often blasted songs together whenever all of us were both back at our room after classes had finished for the long day. The two of us also liked a lot of the same books, movies, & cable shows. On top of all of that, all of us ended up in the same buddy group of students that lived in the local residence hall on campus. One of the things that all of us all did together from the very beginning of our particularly first year was smoke cannabis on the “off-limits” upstairs balcony of our dormitory hall. We’d all contribute a little bit of weed & whoever was going to be the best roller would make a big joint or blunt. Back then cannabis was still highly illegal in our state & all of us were years away from getting cannabis dispensaries. Despite this fact, I later found out that our roommate was switching to a botany degree from the original physics because he wanted to become a cannabis grower. By the time all of us finally finished undergraduate school, our state finally had legal medical marijuana. Whenever 1 of the first marijuana companies was hiring growers, our old roommate got a new place to work. Right now he’s the head of cultivation for 1 of our state’s biggest and best known marijuana producers. He tells me that several of the other top growers in the pot industry followed a similar route as he did by getting botany degrees in local undergraduate school.