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I got an email from Virginia Tech that said I was a potential candidate for them.
10 minutes later I got an email saying that it was a mistake 😂😂
I often wonder what it's be like if I went to a uni known for it's tech degrees. But mine just started offering IT a few years ago, so small classes are freaking awesome. -
@Stuxnet Offering shit and then calling it a mistake is rude by international standards 🤔
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@filthyranter Well it was never a formal invitation, more like an advertisement.
While I did really want to go there, pragmatic me also realized I wouldn't get accepted because all my test scores were significantly lower than the average applicant.
It's honestly really funny to me at this point. -
Well I did not get some form of discipline on my higher learning environment. But I did get my bachelor
of science.
I kinda "breezed/slept/partyed/started a company/been chronic ill/never came" through my study after I finished my undergraduate fase in 3 months.
Then I focussed on other things doing a minor here and their. An in the end in year 10 of my study when my ECs where about to expire. I did a massive sprint and finished 2.5 year of work in 3 months.
But now with a burnout and a depression I realize I never build any discipline.
I believe it is really useful because all of the elements of discipline and perseverance that are required to be effective in the workforce will be tested in one way or another by a higher learning institution. Getting my degree made me little more tolerant of other people and the idea of working with others, it also exposed me to a lot of topics that I was otherwise uninterested and ended up loving. For example, prior to going into uni I was a firm believer that I could and was going to learn all regarding web dev by maaaaaself without the need of a school. I wasn't wrong. And most of you wouldn't be wrong. Buuuuuut what I didn't know is how interesting compiler design was, how systems level development was etc etc. School exposed me to many topics that would have taken me time to get to them otherwise and not just on CS, but on many other fields.
I honestly believe that deciding to NOT go to school and perpetuating the idea that school is not needed in the field of software development ultimately harms our field by making it look like a trade.
Pffft you don't need to pay Johnny his $50dllrs an hour rate! They don't need school to learn that shit! Anyone can do it give him 9.50 and call it a day!<------- that is shit i have heard before.
I also believe that it is funny that people tend to believe that the idea of self learning will put you above and beyond a graduate as if the notion of self learning was sort of a mutually exclusive deal. I mean, congrats on learning about if statements man! I had to spend time out of class self learning discrete math and relearning everything regarding calculus and literally every math topic under the sun(my CS degree was very math oriented) while simultaneously applying those concepts in mathematica, r, python ,Java and cpp as well as making sure our shit lil OS emulation(in C why thank you) worked! Oh and what's that? We have that for next week?
Mind you, I did this while I was already being employed as a web and mobile developer.
Which btw, make sure you don't go to a shit school. ;) it does help in regards to learning the goood shit.
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