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[jackofallgeeks]

One of the major problems I have with the way schools are run these days is that the rule used to measure success rewards things like discouraging students from taking challenging courses. And that's shit.

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I had a lot of the same experiences, but... Well, first and foremost I didn't get into it for the money, or even with any thoughts on career at all -- I'm a firm believer that one ought to study what one is interested in, and just got 'lucky' that my chosen skills are fairly marketable.

truth be told, I ended up there accidentally -- when I couldn't find what I now know as a Linguistics Major in the English department, I thought, "hey, computers are cool," and very luckily took to coding like a fish to water. I was a little upset about not getting to dabble a bit more than I did, but that's mostly because I chose to get a minor in Philosophy and that took up a lot of my free slots.

The inept professors and culling mentality? Yeah, I hate it. It practically killed my program, too; the year I graduated, we had 3 juniors, no sophomores, and one freshman. My entering class had only had a couple dosen CS majors (I want to say), but only 6 of us graduated as such.