17 Sep
2021
17 Sep
'21
8:04 a.m.
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 06:40:47PM -0700, Jon Steinhart wrote:
Larry McVoy writes:
You do you, I had undiagnosed ADD so partys in college were just an
awkward cringe fest for me. Looking backwards, now that I've figured
that out, yeah, I can see it, sort of, if I knew then what I know now.
I was pretty committed to learning in college. I'm not trying to judge
or anything, it was just such a fun focussed time for me, I'd happily
give up a party (where I was gonna get nothing) for a few hours on slovax
where the BSD source was.
Details aside, I think we both self identify as engineers and love it.
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 06:10:11PM -0700, Jon
Steinhart wrote:
I'm the opposite. Would have double-majored in EE and CS but my school
wouldn't allow double majoring unless you stayed for 9 semesters. I
finished my EE in 7 semesters and was 2 classes shy of the CS degree
and couldn't justify another year just for 2 classes. In hindsight
I'm not sure that that was the correct choice because I would have
partied my ass off. Was discussing this with someone the other day.
I'm glad that I have an
engineering degree instead of a computer science degree.
I have and BS and MS in computer science, with most of a minor in
systems arch from the EE department (but not all, I did it for fun,
I should have finished it).
That said, when people ask me what I am, I say I'm an engineer. And
proud of it, I love being an engineer, to me it just means you are
someone who figures stuff out.