I'm about to graduate undergrad and I've loved my upper-level classes (math stats, bayesian, glm). The theory, rigor, applications were just so interesting and I loved how every class introduced things I had never even heard of before and didn't know I didn't know.

I'm going into actuarial stuff so I don't anticipate doing a ton of this type of stuff (maybe if I end up in a modeling department?) and I've been reflecting on how sad that is going to make me. I know that I've only ever seen it in an academic context and not applied it in a job/research setting and that most fields only use a sliver of what's available statistically, but it's still incredible to just know about it and have a somewhat decent understanding of the theory and applications.

Does anyone have any advice or have you dealt with the same thing?