My Life Still Sucks.

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Yes, blogs and mothers do not mix.

by  Brent, at 1:17 AM  

Hey man, don't get too hung up on being taught the non-important, ultimately useless stuff for your future. I am taking a class in which we learn to interface hardware to computers that are absolutely obsolete!! We are using Pentium4's nowadays and ultra-sophisticated Mac's, HOW IN THE WORLD WILL LEARNING ABOUT 1970's CHIPS HELP ME IN MY FUTURE??!! It won't, but we gotta go through it, uuuggghhhh. It'll be OK - one day......

SSJXearo

by  Anonymous, at 8:51 AM  

mom - bumper sticker

Hey man, a lot of us geeks in college feel like that. I felt like you are for the first 2 years. I was in a telecommunications major and it sucked so bad. One of my classes was teaching out of a 20 year old telcom book!! I was learning wtf each pin did on some old ass bellsouth serial cable. But thats what they want... the fucking business morons of the "technology" world. So take the classes, get A's, and get the degree... that's all that really matters. You're a comp sci major right? You're probably not going to learn much the entire time... :-/ Also, keep in mind, this is a liberal college... so you're going to have to take a bunch of non-tech stuff, lol.

As for me, I dropped that telcom/networking major and came here to CofC for biochemistry. I figure I can't learn much from these 40+ year old teachers about comptuers. But since most of the major chemistry was figured out way before our time.. the same 40+ year olds can teach me a lot :D

Now I can market myself as a link between the comp geeks and biochem junkies.

Uh.. as to what you can get out of this... just know exactly where you want to go by junior year... that'll make things so much better. Try not to just think a BS in Comp Sci degree is going to be enough... because everyone has one of those nowadays. Maybe consider masters/phD work after CofC at some other more-tech oriented university? Or go strait out into the world and start a local comp repair shop. You can make a killing doing that :D. I wouldn't look into strait programming though... saturation and outsourcing has killed that.

-david

by  Anonymous, at 2:35 PM  

oh, that first part.. "mom - bumpersticker" was a note to myself to post this:

My mom somehow found my random dumping of images webspace and found plenty of pictures mom's shouldn't see, lol. But she has good humor.. ex:

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by  Anonymous, at 2:45 PM  

LOL, yeah. that's not exactly the kinds of picture you would want your mom to find. Isn't funny how even though moms generally tend not to be computer savvy, they still end up finding the stuff you have online that you don't want them to see?

Yeah, I'm trying to make those A's. Physics is so satanic though! But, I'm going to try and major in Music as well (too bad I haven't declared it yet). It really does seem like everyone's doing CS nowadays. There are some people in the class who have obviously been computer dorks their entire lives, and have no social life what-so-ever. How can I compete with that??? Sure, I'm black and they'll unfairly pick me over one of those more qualified folks just to satisfy their black-to-white ratio...but, in a fair world, there wouldn't be much of a chance for me to score an awesome computer-related job without other credentials.

biochemistry is tough stuff. :-O good luck with that useless knowledge, lol. j/k

by  TBoneFever, at 5:48 PM  

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