As some of you might be guessing by now based on my excessive number of posts this evening, the social results of my karma haven't quite kicked in yet. Oh, well.
Anyway, I have a question that I think that some of you might now about and/or be interested in. I'm a Computer Science guy through and through, but I really don't know how I want to specialize. Tons of things fascinate me, but I know that eventually I'll have to pick something. So right now I'm looking at what kinds of classes to take to get a feel for what I really want. I've already decided that I don't want to do anything related to applications or GUIs. Besides their inherent ugliness, the main thing I hate about Graphical User Interfaces is that word in the middle. I really hate users. All of them. So I sort of feel that I would like to do something with lowlevel stuff (hardware and kernels are cool) or networking, or mathematics-related stuff (cryptography is cool). I'd like to see a discussion about what you guys (no offense gals, but there aren't as many of you on the list) think about deciding on a specialization. Also, I'm considering taking ECEn 212 to learn some hardware fundamentals, but I've also heard that it's a really difficult class (it's the only 5 hour class I know of). From the standpoint of someone who is taking classes to learn rather than to get a degree, is ECEn worth the trouble? Thanks in advance for all of your thoughts.
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