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Nov. 17th, 2007 09:46 amSchedule for next semester:
Intro Cog Sci (TR 9:35-10:50)
AI (MW 11-12:15)
Intro Linguistics (MW 1:15-2:30)
Algs (MW 2:45-4)
Int Standard (MW 4-5)
Ballet (TR 1-2:30)
Int Latin (the ballroom kind) (TR 2:45-4)
Practicum (T 4:15-5:30)
This is 14.5 credits.
Rationale:
I don't like the culture in the CS major. It seems like most of the guys in it are the kind of people who do strange experiments with their computers for fun, and I just don't care enough to be doing that. The fact that I don't leaves me a little behind, I think, and while not being as good as everyone else is not a good rationale for quitting something, the fact that this will always be true because I don't care enough for it to be otherwise might be. Also, what would I do with this ever-so-shiny CS degree after college? Industry would likely put me in a position where I'm programming, and that's something I'm not very good at, mostly from lack of practice. Also I don't want to spend the rest of my life feeling like I'm playing catch-up. I could go to grad school, and my ideal future puts me at some college/university, teaching, so grad school would be the way to go. Except the idea of doing six years of CS research is icky, because again, not so much with the caring.
None of the other majors here at Mudd are things that I could do, I don't think. Let that be an assumption; I don't want to have to justify it out. :) So, if I want to stay at Mudd, it would be off-campus time.
I think I would be interested in Cognitive Science. Cog Sci approaches some of the same problems that CS looks at, except from a different perspective. Example: there's a guy in the UCSD Cog Sci department who does UI stuff, which is pretty much exactly the sort of thing I'm interested in. I've done the credits out, and I could in theory finish a Cog Sci degree in four semesters (with a CS minor), even keeping my course load to 13 credits or less every semester.
If I don't like the intro classes I'm taking next semester, I'm leaving (taking my toys & going home, &c). Junior year is too late to be experimenting with different subject fields at a private institution with a price tag like Mudd's, so I wouldn't have a major, really. I could head back to North Carolina and get an apartment in either Raleigh or Chapel Hill, and take a few classes at the local university which I get my shit together and figure out what comes next.
I am now done talking about this.
Intro Cog Sci (TR 9:35-10:50)
AI (MW 11-12:15)
Intro Linguistics (MW 1:15-2:30)
Algs (MW 2:45-4)
Int Standard (MW 4-5)
Ballet (TR 1-2:30)
Int Latin (the ballroom kind) (TR 2:45-4)
Practicum (T 4:15-5:30)
This is 14.5 credits.
Rationale:
I don't like the culture in the CS major. It seems like most of the guys in it are the kind of people who do strange experiments with their computers for fun, and I just don't care enough to be doing that. The fact that I don't leaves me a little behind, I think, and while not being as good as everyone else is not a good rationale for quitting something, the fact that this will always be true because I don't care enough for it to be otherwise might be. Also, what would I do with this ever-so-shiny CS degree after college? Industry would likely put me in a position where I'm programming, and that's something I'm not very good at, mostly from lack of practice. Also I don't want to spend the rest of my life feeling like I'm playing catch-up. I could go to grad school, and my ideal future puts me at some college/university, teaching, so grad school would be the way to go. Except the idea of doing six years of CS research is icky, because again, not so much with the caring.
None of the other majors here at Mudd are things that I could do, I don't think. Let that be an assumption; I don't want to have to justify it out. :) So, if I want to stay at Mudd, it would be off-campus time.
I think I would be interested in Cognitive Science. Cog Sci approaches some of the same problems that CS looks at, except from a different perspective. Example: there's a guy in the UCSD Cog Sci department who does UI stuff, which is pretty much exactly the sort of thing I'm interested in. I've done the credits out, and I could in theory finish a Cog Sci degree in four semesters (with a CS minor), even keeping my course load to 13 credits or less every semester.
If I don't like the intro classes I'm taking next semester, I'm leaving (taking my toys & going home, &c). Junior year is too late to be experimenting with different subject fields at a private institution with a price tag like Mudd's, so I wouldn't have a major, really. I could head back to North Carolina and get an apartment in either Raleigh or Chapel Hill, and take a few classes at the local university which I get my shit together and figure out what comes next.
I am now done talking about this.
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