I need to decide what to study when I apply for college.
I'm interested in all three, equally, as hard it is to believe.
What should I do? Should I take a year off to work and think about which of the three I really want to learn and work after graduating?
Or go for the one which will be highest in demand in 4 years (major)? Which will be?
Please help me, counsellor /pro.
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Anonymous2006-05-07 9:42
i'd say choose SE, but only because I hate you and want to ruin your life.
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Anonymous2006-05-07 9:43
Take a year off; do not pick something worthless like maths or physics.
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Anonymous2006-05-07 13:03
It is called engineering do it.
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Anonymous2006-05-07 15:13
>>3
Don't pick something worthless like software engineering either.
>>1
That's counsellor /prog to you!
What's your interest for doing the courses? If you want to do software eng. just to learn to program, don't waste your time, strike it off straight away.
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Chingon2006-05-07 17:14
Wouldn't it be better to just learn a bunch of algebra, calculus, and physics in school but learn how to program on your own time?
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Anonymous2006-05-07 19:05
CIVIL ENGINEERING or whatever the fuck its called.
I saw some niggas building a giant bridge in Greece on National Geographic. Here I am sitting in my room, lonely, with a B.S. in computer science hanging in my bedroom (WHICH HAS YET TO CONTAIN A NAKED FEMALE) and I'm thinking SHIT NIGGA THAT LOOKS LIKE FUN THEY'RE BUILDING A GIANT BRIDGE.
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Anonymous2006-05-07 19:38
Given the choice between the three, I'd say physics.
All the best developers I knew were former physicists, and like most idiot savant "CS" graduates, these guys actually understood mathematics.
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Anonymous2006-05-07 19:39
s/like/unlike/
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Anonymous2006-05-08 21:25
You will take freshman courses in all of these subjects and immediately realize that your "interest" in these areas is really just a masked form of self-satisfaction in feeling smart. Then you'll pick a major based on lucrativity and in time switch over to business because "that's where the money is at."
The thing to take away from all this is that you probably do not need to, nor are able to, determine your major right now, and in addition it probably won't have much to do with the way your life turns out.
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Anonymous2006-05-09 0:21
>>10 is either a total genius, or the ultimate cynic.
Maybe both. :(
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Anonymous2006-05-09 8:33
>>10
You don't normally see such clear cynical insight on /prog/ but he's right. If I had my way I'd kick all the faggots who didn't love CS out of the CS program.
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Anonymous2006-05-09 9:12
>>10
True for most, but I wouldn't move to the business shit even if I got paid twice as much right now. All these conferences, all these buzzwords, all this moving your hands as you speak like you were trying to kill flies, all this stupid management shit, I'm not doing it. I'm a happy geek. If I wanted to get the most money, then I'd be a stinking lawyer trying to rip old ladies and children off; if I went for geek it's for a reason.
P.S.: I've wanted this job since I was 12. Began learning stuff for myself, years before I went through university. Every time I had to choose what to study next (high school, bachelor's degree, uni, etc.) I took 30 seconds... the time it takes me to find where's what I want and to be sure I don't check anything else by accident.
IAWTC, I do it because I want to. Sure, I could make more money doing something more retarded, but I don't feel like it. Especially since that would involve wearing a suit, or talking to other people.
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Anonymous2006-05-10 10:26
Try stuff out. Find the class you actually enjoy, and make that your major. Thats how I ended up in CS, and I love it.