Weird similarities. My daughter graduated in 2020, started at Epic, and met her boyfriend there.
They want an adventure, and they don't like Epic much, so they are leaving shortly. She has definitely ruled out grad school, after doing research summers in college, and observing how miserable the grad students were. And how glacially slow progress is. (She spent all summer analyzing data from a telescope only to find out, oopsie, the telescope was pointed the wrong way, never mind.)