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Computer and Science Related SIGs?

Posted by Cliff on from the special-interest-groups-outside-of-school dept.

sentientbrendan asks: "I'm a University student home for summer vacation, living in the Greater Seattle area. While at school I have access to a lot of different clubs such as the ACM, Math Club, Anime Club, etc. Now that I am out of school, even though I have more free time to participate in them, I no longer have access to said clubs. I enjoy hanging out with intelligent technical people and discussing programming, math, science, physics, and so fort. I'm a serious student of a number of subjects and I like to hang out with people who either know their stuff, or are willing to learn about it. I'm especially interested in anything that has a Seattle chapter. It also definitely needs to be a group that still meets during the summer. I do attend 2600 meets, although I'm not that interested in security in particular. The informal atmosphere is nice and people tend to wander around Seattle at night after the meets, which is always fun. So Slashdot, what are your favorite tech/math/science clubs?"

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  1. Some possibilities... by jebiester · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If your into Star Trek - star trek clubs and conventions are a good place to meet like minded people, and a good environment

    Some of my friends have a pretty big circle of people they know online on MMORPGs also - although you don't meet people face to face (Avatar to Avator I guess), and it's pretty addictive.

  2. go outside by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Go outside, try to talk to normal people your age, etc.

    Seriously, you don't want to waste your life only hanging aroudn with strange geeky guys.

    Try to find some women.

  3. What do you want to do? by peragrin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just pick one, if you don't fit in try another. I enjoy Sailing.Since I am poor I can't have my own boat, but the local racing scene always need help. Since then I get to sail once a week from May to October. I also have met a number of great people where you can be invited to hang out and go around being sociable.

    for anybody.

    1) get your ass off of Slashdot
    2) turn your computer off(or just the monitor)
    3) pick one
    4) go for it,
    5) if 4 sucks goto 3 else goto 6
    6) have fun.
    7) unlearn basic programming from 2 decades ago. Yes it's been that long.

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    i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.