Title: My background:<p>CS rising junior, indecisive about choosing a sub field.<p>I want to pursue CS research before I graduate for its own sake and partly to compensate for my lackluster GPA for grad school.   But each field seems to have a pet peeve:<p>1) AI&#x2F;machine learning: too saturated, fear of an AI winter<p>2) Networks&#x2F;security: boring, reading a research paper seems torturous<p>3) Bioinformatic&#x2F;quantum computing: may never find their place in real world and die out<p>Etc.<p>It continues to amaze me how some people know exactly what they want to do in their freshman year or even earlier.  My question is: what motivated you to pursue what you&#x27;re doing right now and at what stage in your academic career?
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