Aditya Nagrath

And that was mainly contract software engineering.

So at the time, what it was, was I had met with a professor of mine who had told me four out of five students are...

starting kindergarten unprepared for the kindergarten curriculum, and that was hard to believe.

So I asked him, you know, how is that even possible?

What does that even mean?

And that's when he started to explain this language gap to me.

So he said most students coming into kindergarten have a challenge counting to 10, and kindergarten kind of starts at two-digit numbers.

And so that language gap kind of exasperates over time.

And what we see is that if you came into kindergarten able to understand the teacher, then the education system really actually works very well for you.

But if you didn't, you kind of struggle all the way along.

And then that's the real challenge is that 69% of STEM majors end up switching to a major with less mathematics.

Wow.

And so that's a really tough statistic given that everyone going in thinking I'm going to come out with one of them high paying STEM jobs and then they switch.

And then you kind of end up in some of these majors where the mathematics don't work out anymore.

Sure.

When it comes down to the loan versus how much you're paying for the education and what the starting salary is.

Right on.

Yeah, I mean, that's an interesting question.

So first, it's hard for me to determine how other people are perceiving the world versus myself.

But I don't think I'm walking around thinking that, like, oh, that's mathematically impossible, mainly because most people are not trying to hand me things that are mathematically impossible.