As a 4rd year CS student. I can honestly say I would have done pretty well out of high school. But going to college has gave me some great opportunities. I've worked at places like an NSA funded supercomputer center and Sandia National Laboratories. I would have never gotten these opportunities if it wasn't for college. I have also gotten the chance to meet many smart people from all over the world.
College is what you make out of it. If your just going to be some corporate scapegoat so be it. But if you really want to take advantage of all the opportunities and knowledge that a university offers its worth it. Also you'll never be around so many availabe women in your life!
I'll be 22 when I graduate, so it's far from the end of world and I've picked up a lot of good information to take with me. (Unless I get hit by a bus) But I sure wish I would have majored in Physics and minored in CS, instead I majored in CS and minored in Sociology (tons of good looking available women in there). Because in my experience alot of the CS stuff has come easy, physics would have been much harder and taught me much more about actual problem solving. (At my school we have 2 Algorithm classes) apparently more than alot of school teach..
The worst thing about this whole ordeal whether it be security/w intel and MS. Or whether it be porn or mp3 is that everyone sees potential in the internet to either "own" it, or even regulate it for that matter. I find it really sick when these damn huge companies just because they have alot of money to throw around decide "lets just to play mp3 players" well what about wav files? If everyone had T1 connects and 50+gb of hd space we'd all use wavs. OH NO WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE. I swear some of these stupid industry people who aren't even related to computers need to find something better to throw there billions of corporate dollars into like feeding people in kosovo other than fighting the dying cause because like Durkeim or some guy said "The "criminal" is the most inovative of all" I use criminal very losely in that sentence for this case. god do corporate suits piss me off.
I believe the article in some respects, hell I used to do that same stuff when I was 14-17. But I guess eventually I started growing out of it. My first passion and career choice is computers. But I believe that there is balance in everything. Right now I go to college and work at a place of technological satanic rituals but I get great stock options:). You as well as I partially fit these kids discriptions. I guess you just have to determine which degree you fit into. But the worst thing is when you do get a girlfriend, they always bitch about you being on the computer and you have to say "HEY WOMAN!!! SHUT UP, I'M DOING SOMETHING POINTFUL HERE, UNLIKE YOU WATCHING TV ALL THE TIME!!!!!" heh
Enough of my two cents I think I forgot what I was going to write about in the first place.
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As a 4rd year CS student. I can honestly say I would have done pretty well out of high school. But going to college has gave me some great opportunities. I've worked at places like an NSA funded supercomputer center and Sandia National Laboratories. I would have never gotten these opportunities if it wasn't for college. I have also gotten the chance to meet many smart people from all over the world.
College is what you make out of it. If your just going to be some corporate scapegoat so be it. But if you really want to take advantage of all the opportunities and knowledge that a university offers its worth it. Also you'll never be around so many availabe women in your life!
I'll be 22 when I graduate, so it's far from the end of world and I've picked up a lot of good information to take with me. (Unless I get hit by a bus) But I sure wish I would have majored in Physics and minored in CS, instead I majored in CS and minored in Sociology (tons of good looking available women in there). Because in my experience alot of the CS stuff has come easy, physics would have been much harder and taught me much more about actual problem solving. (At my school we have 2 Algorithm classes) apparently more than alot of school teach..
Cheers,
David
The worst thing about this whole ordeal whether it be security /w intel and MS. Or whether it be porn or mp3 is that everyone sees potential in the internet to either "own" it, or even regulate it for that matter. I find it really sick when these damn huge companies just because they have alot of money to throw around decide "lets just to play mp3 players" well what about wav files? If everyone had T1 connects and 50+gb of hd space we'd all use wavs. OH NO WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE. I swear some of these stupid industry people who aren't even related to computers need to find something better to throw there billions of corporate dollars into like feeding people in kosovo other than fighting the dying cause because like Durkeim or some guy said "The "criminal" is the most inovative of all" I use criminal very losely in that sentence for this case.
god do corporate suits piss me off.
I believe the article in some respects, hell I used to do that same stuff when I was 14-17. But I guess eventually I started growing out of it. My first passion and career choice is computers. But I believe that there is balance in everything. Right now I go to college and work at a place of technological satanic rituals but I get great stock options :). You as well as I partially fit these kids discriptions. I guess you just have to determine which degree you fit into.
But the worst thing is when you do get a girlfriend, they always bitch about you being on the computer and you have to say "HEY WOMAN!!! SHUT UP, I'M DOING SOMETHING POINTFUL HERE, UNLIKE YOU WATCHING TV ALL THE TIME!!!!!"
heh
Enough of my two cents I think I forgot what I was going to write about in the first place.