I completely agree. I graduated from Edinburgh Uni in the UK with a BEng in Software Engineering 2002. I then went on to do an MSc in Cognitive Science and Natural Language (seemed like a good idea at the time...). It really piqued my interest in research, some of the stuff I was doing was particularly cool. I didn't do it to develop my career, just to keep my mind active while I sorted out what I wanted to do. Now I know i want to go into research....just have to pay off those annoying student debts (£20,000 and decreasing!).
The guy above says if you want to go into industry, go now and then maybe into academia. I suppose I'm the opposite, went into research, then industry to pay off the debts, then (hopefully) back into academia....
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I completely agree. I graduated from Edinburgh Uni in the UK with a BEng in Software Engineering 2002. I then went on to do an MSc in Cognitive Science and Natural Language (seemed like a good idea at the time...). It really piqued my interest in research, some of the stuff I was doing was particularly cool. I didn't do it to develop my career, just to keep my mind active while I sorted out what I wanted to do. Now I know i want to go into research....just have to pay off those annoying student debts (£20,000 and decreasing!). The guy above says if you want to go into industry, go now and then maybe into academia. I suppose I'm the opposite, went into research, then industry to pay off the debts, then (hopefully) back into academia....