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Calculus was a game changer. Combined with physics it completely changed my view of the world.
In what way?
It's hard to explain. Calculus was integral (hah!) to understanding a lot of physics and allowed me to understand better how we know about our world.
For example - just being able to better understand the equations of motion was eye-opening. There were velocity and acceleration equations we'd learned previously but now I understood how we knew them. I could also now derive a function for change in acceleration (aka jerk)!
Trig had a similar impact though that is taught at a high school level not college. The two combined are quite useful for programming things with motion.