I'm sorry, I should have led that off with, "if you decide to go to college" which you really should for software engineering, you won't find many jobs that don't require at least an associates degree.
... I've received 6 months so far of work experience as an intern at IBM in their Rational department, and I have another 6 months coming up this April with a company I'm not sure of yet.
My particular university has a co-op program that will net you both college credit (if you want) and a paid internship. You receive 2 6-month paid internships over a two year period, and in return you write a few papers, give a few presentations, and go to a few classes. Of course you have to do reasonably well in your classes to participate in the program, but my particular university (Oregon State) accepts about 60 or 70 computer science students into the program every year.
If this interests you, I strongly suggest looking into the university's computer science/software engineering program and see if a co-op program like this exists. A simple phone call to the department could probably answer it for you.
This reminds me of Daniel Tammet the autistic man whom recited over 22,000 numbers in Pi. He also learned Icelandic in a week as part of a documentary he was the subject of. I wonder if he'll try to do more than 100,000 now that he has more motivation.
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So, which desert area will we use for safety?
Our enemies' "desert"
Now I can blame the dog OR the arctic ocean!
Why is there no "Scary despite being funny" mod?
It's true, I worked at IBM for a while, and even they hated using Notes.
I'm really glad I wasn't the first to read this and think, "Man, elephants in space... THAT'D BE AWESOME!"; then proceed to post about it.
The hell? I thought we were using Libraries of Congresses now, not the height of a stack of CDs. Damn buzzword measurements.
I'm sorry, I should have led that off with, "if you decide to go to college" which you really should for software engineering, you won't find many jobs that don't require at least an associates degree.
... I've received 6 months so far of work experience as an intern at IBM in their Rational department, and I have another 6 months coming up this April with a company I'm not sure of yet.
My particular university has a co-op program that will net you both college credit (if you want) and a paid internship. You receive 2 6-month paid internships over a two year period, and in return you write a few papers, give a few presentations, and go to a few classes. Of course you have to do reasonably well in your classes to participate in the program, but my particular university (Oregon State) accepts about 60 or 70 computer science students into the program every year.
If this interests you, I strongly suggest looking into the university's computer science/software engineering program and see if a co-op program like this exists. A simple phone call to the department could probably answer it for you.
This reminds me of Daniel Tammet the autistic man whom recited over 22,000 numbers in Pi. He also learned Icelandic in a week as part of a documentary he was the subject of. I wonder if he'll try to do more than 100,000 now that he has more motivation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tammet