Dazed&Confused & A Beautiful Mind Connection

A Beautiful Mind is a somewhat sequel to Dazed and confused. Anthony Rapp and Adam Goldberg played basically the older versions of themselves 20 years later in a beautiful mind. Mike Newhouse(Adam) in Dazed&Confused says he has a confession to make in the car. That being he doesn't want to be a lawyer anymore. So his new career path is mathematics and Tony(Anthony) ends up following him to MIT and into the same profession.

Only problem is Beautiful Mind is 50s-90s and Dazed&Confused is in the mid 70s. But who really cares about timelines in movies when time travel is possible...