On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 02:22:08PM -0400, Russell McOrmond wrote: > > Welcome to education in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. > > This problem is also a major contributing factor to why I'm a University > dropout. I wasn't interested in my work going towards private interests, > or in curriculum choices promoted primarily by private interests.
The secret to enjoying undergraduate study: avoid cs, or at the very least avoid cs sourses that actually involve touching a computer too often. That and avoid first year math courses that aren't aimed at math students. This should keep you away from the worst pockets of People Who Should Really Be In A Community College(tm). People that I know who have done this (myself included) have pretty consistently found their undergraduate study to be quite rewarding. I think this is partly because in all these other courses you're surrounded by people who are actually interesting in studying what's being taught (and these people make better study companions and lab partners), partly because no one expects you to have much influence on the purchasing decisions of large companies when you leave, and partly because the faculty and teaching support can recognise the people who actually give a damn and treat them better. Regardless of the reasons that it works, it seems to work reasonably well. If you were to study right now, you seem like you'd really be much happier in a liberal arts program. -- Kristofer Coward http://unripe.melon.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 2BF3 957D 310A FEEC 4733 830E 21A4 05C7 1FEB 12B3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
