well, here goes,.. my $0.02. "Character is a trophy you take away from trouble". yes, I believe that 100% but financial trouble is just one of many types of 'trouble'. I really don't see how being paid through college and "not even having a job" qualifies someone as being deficient. you don't get to pick your family. Character is something forged when you're put under pressure, usually moral pressure. "oh look that guy next to me knows the answer. hmm I can almost see his exam sheet." "well I *deserve* that money. should I just take it?" see my point? someone who doesn't have financial advantage proves their character (either good or bad) the same way.
My office mate (I'm in graduate school at Duke University) put himself through college 100%, co-oping at IBM, and I must say, you can tell. There is a certain confidence built through hard work.
a word to the wise - get out as much as you can. being a geek means being technically efficient and knowledgable, and DOESN'T mean being a hermit! I am proud to be one, all-night coding, kernel compiling, hacking, you name it, I'm there. but what fun is it if you don't have people that you can bounce ideas off, talk shop with, and just plain converse with? Just because you know the intimate details of the Linux TCP/IP stack or some such soup of detail, does not mean you have to be socially inept.
------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------- practice makes perfect; and not just at debugging, that goes for social skills too.
Um.. doesn't this only measure the number of workstations with *preinstalled* Windows NT? Our department got a whole cluster of workstation machines that were prebuilt with NT, but they have now been removed from the Collective! Since almost *all* workstations by major manufacturers come with NT,... does this article mention how many of these NT pc's have their Microcruft implants removed?... my guess is a big-time NO.
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well, here goes, .. my $0.02. "Character is a trophy you take away from trouble". yes, I believe that 100% but financial trouble is just one of many types of 'trouble'. I really don't see how being paid through college and "not even having a job" qualifies someone as being deficient. you don't get to pick your family. Character is something forged when you're put under pressure, usually moral pressure. "oh look that guy next to me knows the answer. hmm I can almost see his exam sheet." "well I *deserve* that money. should I just take it?" see my point? someone who doesn't have financial advantage proves their character (either good or bad) the same way.
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My office mate (I'm in graduate school at Duke University) put himself through college 100%, co-oping at IBM, and I must say, you can tell. There is a certain confidence built through hard work.
a word to the wise - get out as much as you can. being a geek means being technically efficient and knowledgable, and DOESN'T mean being a hermit! I am proud to be one, all-night coding, kernel compiling, hacking, you name it, I'm there. but what fun is it if you don't have people that you can bounce ideas off, talk shop with, and just plain converse with? Just because you know the intimate details of the Linux TCP/IP stack or some such soup of detail, does not mean you have to be socially inept.
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practice makes perfect; and not just at debugging, that goes for social skills too.
Um.. doesn't this only measure the number of workstations with *preinstalled* Windows NT? Our department got a whole cluster of workstation machines that were prebuilt with NT, but they have now been removed from the Collective! Since almost *all* workstations by major manufacturers come with NT, ... does this article mention how many of these NT pc's have their Microcruft implants removed? ... my guess is a big-time NO.