Look my friend,
The question you are asking yourself should not only be "what do employers think" but "how much will I learn and accomplish with the opportunities given to me." I know 100% that you will have more technical opportunities at a school with a thriving CS department. Student projects. Assisting in research. **These are what employers look for** Furthermore, your coursework will be of higher quality, your professors (mostly) will be more in tune with industry, etc.
Finally, recruiters DO care about whether they've heard of your CS department... I mean, my CS department is so linked with companies that I got interviews with all the great tech companies you hear about without even having to think much about it. They came to ME. Consider that.
Finally- I suggest a compromise. There are MANY good schools with a vibrant Liberal Arts college AND a fantastic CS department. University of Illinois and University of Michigan come to mind. If you want the Liberal Arts curriculum so much, why not choose one of those? They aren't Stanford or MIT, but trust me, employers in the midwest respect their curriculums.
If you click on the link, the article is basically a series of long quotes from Paul Kwiat, whose Quantum Physics class I *just* recently completed. He is pretty much the coolest teacher ever.
He started the course off with a movie about quantum physics he put together himself, set to the theme song of Star Trek: TNG. Every day he wears suspenders and a huge bow tie.
This is so cool. Who says good researchers have to be crappy professors?
Ok. The extended article compares this theoretical invisiblility to water flowing around a rock. Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm no physicist), but I thought that light doesn't bend like that. It moves in a straight direction at an incredibly fast speed. So, any device that diverts light would cause it to reflect... meaning that if you looked straight on at an invisible person, you would see images from all around the room. It would be very disorienting and you would know that someone was there.
Am I wrong?
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Look my friend, The question you are asking yourself should not only be "what do employers think" but "how much will I learn and accomplish with the opportunities given to me." I know 100% that you will have more technical opportunities at a school with a thriving CS department. Student projects. Assisting in research. **These are what employers look for** Furthermore, your coursework will be of higher quality, your professors (mostly) will be more in tune with industry, etc. Finally, recruiters DO care about whether they've heard of your CS department... I mean, my CS department is so linked with companies that I got interviews with all the great tech companies you hear about without even having to think much about it. They came to ME. Consider that. Finally- I suggest a compromise. There are MANY good schools with a vibrant Liberal Arts college AND a fantastic CS department. University of Illinois and University of Michigan come to mind. If you want the Liberal Arts curriculum so much, why not choose one of those? They aren't Stanford or MIT, but trust me, employers in the midwest respect their curriculums.
If you click on the link, the article is basically a series of long quotes from Paul Kwiat, whose Quantum Physics class I *just* recently completed. He is pretty much the coolest teacher ever. He started the course off with a movie about quantum physics he put together himself, set to the theme song of Star Trek: TNG. Every day he wears suspenders and a huge bow tie. This is so cool. Who says good researchers have to be crappy professors?
You're going to read the IM chats your kids send? ...wow! Are you going to go with them to Highschool, too?
We all know that any super-smart computer can be tricked by Captain Kirk to shut itself down, have massive failures, even burst into flame...
Ok. The extended article compares this theoretical invisiblility to water flowing around a rock. Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm no physicist), but I thought that light doesn't bend like that. It moves in a straight direction at an incredibly fast speed. So, any device that diverts light would cause it to reflect... meaning that if you looked straight on at an invisible person, you would see images from all around the room. It would be very disorienting and you would know that someone was there. Am I wrong?