Re: College (fwd)

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

I'm only well-rounded after having a big meal.

 > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 > Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 06:56:14 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > are you CS people considered engineers? Here's article about being more 
 > well-rounded(like taking English classes):
 > 
 > http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26747638/magid-engineers-need-more-well-rounded-mind-meet
 > 
 > Noelle
 > 
 > On Sun, 19 Oct 2014, robert wrote:
 >  > Lamda calculus -> LISP
 >  > 
 >  >  > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 >  >  > Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 17:25:29 -0700 (PDT)
 >  >  >
 >  >  >  > Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 18:42:22 -0400
 >  >  >  > From: Alexander  <http://www.umass.edu/~a>
 >  >  >  > 
 >  >  >  > I am currently finished with my homework, and thus able to send email.
 >  >  >  > 
 >  >  >  > I am taking the following classes:
 >  >  >  > 
 >  >  >  >    - Calculus II
 >  >  >  >    - Introduction to Ethics
 >  >  >  >    - English Writing
 >  >  >  >    - Computer Science (with data structures)
 >  >  >  > 
 >  >  >  > How my college experience is going so far:
 >  >  >  > 
 >  >  >  > I had midterms ~2 weeks ago. I got ~A's on them.
 >  >  >  > English is my hardest class. It takes me about 10 hours to write an 
 >  >  >  > essay
 >  >  >  > for that class. It takes me less than a hour to write an essay for 
 >  >  >  > Ethics.
 >  >  >  > Computer Science is really easy. I finished the 2 week assignment 2 
 >  >  >  > hours
 >  >  >  > after it was assigned. However, they did take a lot of points off my 
 >  >  >  > first
 >  >  >  > project (make a hangman game) because I didn't include the text file 
 >  >  >  > of
 >  >  >  > words.
 >  >  >  > Calculus is difficult, but I have several friends who I study with, so 
 >  >  >  > it
 >  >  >  > isn't really a problem.
 >  >  >  > 
 >  >  >  > Besides doing going to class/sleeping, I study/talk with friends or I
 >  >  >  > program in my room. I've been trying to get into image segmentation, 
 >  >  >  > so
 >  >  >  > I've been writing some flood fill programs.
 >  >  >  > 
 >  >  >  > Even though the floor is composed exclusively of CS majors, I am one 
 >  >  >  > of
 >  >  >  > only 3 people who program for fun (out of the 30 people on our floor). 
 >  >  >  > One
 >  >  >  > guy is into networks, and the other one is actually a software 
 >  >  >  > engineer