Re: classes, college, etc.

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Some of your below colleges are listed with a high return-on-investment.
I included links below.

 > From: Alex  <http://www.gmail.com/~alex.>
 > Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 21:44:10 -0500
 >
 > The colleges I have on my list are:
 > -Amherst college

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eede45fjgi/19-amherst-college/

 > -Champlain college
 > -Cornell university

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eede45fjgi/39-cornell-university/

 > -Hampshire college
 > -University of ma amherst

http://www.onlinecollegesdatabase.org/50-public-colleges-with-the-best-lifetime-roi
http://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/affordable-colleges-with-high-returns/

 > -Middlebury college

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eede45fjgi/33-middlebury-college/

 > -Vermont technical college
 > -University of Vermont
 > -Worcester polytechnic institute

http://www.payscale.com/data-packages/college-roi-2013/college-roi-2013-schools-by-major/computer-science

 > I'm taking statistics this semester.

Make sure you get to learn about maximum likelihood estimation.

 > I've had an account on khan academy for a while now. I haven't really
 > dealt with any of the programming lessons - I went to a class in
 > school for that. However, I do look at some of the vector and matrix
 > lessons sometimes.

Awesome.

 > On Dec 27, 2013, at 13:22, http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert) wrote:
 > > Alexander -
 > >
 > > Your mom tells me that you are applying to colleges.  Which ones were you
 > > considering?
 > >
 > > Also, did you take a statistics course?  I personally have found that my
 > > college stats course was useful, but wished I had pursued it further than
 > > I did -- I think it's important class.
 > >
 > > I was listening to a radio program about the Khan Academy.  They said that
 > > they were going to start offering computer science topics.  I just looked
 > > and didn't see anything about turing machines and halting problem, which,
 > > along with discrete mathematics, is core to computer science
 > > understanding.  They do seem to have other regular mathematics courses, if
 > > you're interested.  (Linear algebra is good, especially if it talks about
 > > singular value decomposition -- my class didn't get this far.)