That's sweet. Techers mess with MIT's admissions weekend, and in return MIT improves the Caltech campus by doing some blight removal. Maybe if some enterprising frosh does another small RF against MIT in response, the east-coasters will demolish the north houses and save Caltech a ton of money and trouble.
"oh, no, whatever you do, don't take that jackhammer to Page House! And don't take that dumpster of debris when you leave!"
The trick now is to discover the underlying problem. Maybe you don't like being a student. Maybe you don't like solving solved problems. Or maybe you really don't like slinging code. (It happens.) Each situation calls for a different remedy, although the first step (finish the degree) is common to all. Bonus points if you take an elective next term just because it sounds cool.
Problem (1) is, I'd guess, the most likely. Writing code can be a lot more satisfying when it's actually going to be put to a purpose. (2) would probably mean you need to go to grad school, although likely not in CS. If you don't know what you'd major in, go work for a few years. *Don't* go to grad school until you're pretty sure what you want to do, at least for the next five years.
(3) isn't a disaster, either. Your degree is certainly no less useful than a BA in art history, and art history majors get jobs (doing something other than art history, of course). Just demonstrating that you can play the game and jump the hoops means something to employers. If you don't know what you want to do yet, that takes all the pressure off: you're looking for a job, not a Career. Go join the Peace Corps, or Teach for America, or some other short-term job with better intangibles than pay. You can figure out later what you want to do when you grow up.
Since the Utah lege decided it was so: 76-9-502. Libel -- Elements -- Classification of offense. (1) A person is guilty of libel if he intentionally and with a malicious intent to injure another publishes or procures to be published any libel. (2) Libel is a class B misdemeanor. Note that there's no requirement that there be an incitement to violence, or anything else unusual. Whether this is a reasonable case to apply this law, or whether the cops should have gone in and confiscated a computer over an alleged misdemeanor, is another matter entirely. - Kevin
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That's sweet. Techers mess with MIT's admissions weekend, and in return MIT improves the Caltech campus by doing some blight removal. Maybe if some enterprising frosh does another small RF against MIT in response, the east-coasters will demolish the north houses and save Caltech a ton of money and trouble.
"oh, no, whatever you do, don't take that jackhammer to Page House! And don't take that dumpster of debris when you leave!"
The trick now is to discover the underlying problem. Maybe you don't like being a student. Maybe you don't like solving solved problems. Or maybe you really don't like slinging code. (It happens.) Each situation calls for a different remedy, although the first step (finish the degree) is common to all. Bonus points if you take an elective next term just because it sounds cool.
Problem (1) is, I'd guess, the most likely. Writing code can be a lot more satisfying when it's actually going to be put to a purpose. (2) would probably mean you need to go to grad school, although likely not in CS. If you don't know what you'd major in, go work for a few years. *Don't* go to grad school until you're pretty sure what you want to do, at least for the next five years.
(3) isn't a disaster, either. Your degree is certainly no less useful than a BA in art history, and art history majors get jobs (doing something other than art history, of course). Just demonstrating that you can play the game and jump the hoops means something to employers. If you don't know what you want to do yet, that takes all the pressure off: you're looking for a job, not a Career. Go join the Peace Corps, or Teach for America, or some other short-term job with better intangibles than pay. You can figure out later what you want to do when you grow up.
- Kevin
Since the Utah lege decided it was so: 76-9-502. Libel -- Elements -- Classification of offense. (1) A person is guilty of libel if he intentionally and with a malicious intent to injure another publishes or procures to be published any libel. (2) Libel is a class B misdemeanor. Note that there's no requirement that there be an incitement to violence, or anything else unusual. Whether this is a reasonable case to apply this law, or whether the cops should have gone in and confiscated a computer over an alleged misdemeanor, is another matter entirely. - Kevin