2010–2011 (Year 0) I had just switched my major at Cal Poly State University from computer science to math. I wanted to double major but California was in a budget crisis and a few weeks before I tried submitting my double-major request the Provost for the CSU system put a blanket ban on double majors. I sat in a long meeting with a vice-dean-something-or-other paper pusher for the College of Engineering who patronizingly tried to convince me that my life would be better if, instead of getting a...