Feel like MS program puts me in a box, is the real job more creative?

I have been somewhat feeling “boxed in” terms of creativity lately in my masters program. I just feel like coursework is solving the most trivial useless things by hand and then not actually doing anything hands on. I’m in a masters stats position program and even though I’m doing well in the coursework, I rarely get to actually “DO” any of the things I’m learning.

Like for example in my statistical inference theory class we spend like a week covering …

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