[ale] Sort of OT: College Majors

[Alan Stewart]

Hear, hear! My experience is that success in the real world depends as 
much or more on communication skills, attitude, and self-discipline as 
on technical ability. The really valuable people have creative 
problem-solving skills, which develop from curiousity, breadth of 
knowledge, and the willingness to think independently.

tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:

>On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Alexander Barton wrote:
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>>Parker McGee wrote:
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>>>Also, it seems like I'm going to be bored out of my mind for the AT
>>>LEAST the first two years in the Comp Sci curriculum.
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>>In high school I was easily within the 95th or even 98th percentile as 
>>far as standardized tests went.  I was certainly the most 1337 computer 
>>geek in a school of 1500.  Then I entered the CS (then called ICS) 
>>program at Tech starting in '87.  After my first quarter it dawned on me 
>>that I was no longer the smartest person in my class.  In fact, I 
>>definitely wasn't even in the top _half_.  :-O
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><<snip mature and good advice>> 
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>By all means stick your nose into anything and everything you have the 
>opportunity to during school. One thing you do want to do, and many don't 
>like it, is courses involving writing. The clarity and readability of your 
>written prose makes a difference in how "intelligent" you appear, and your 
>ability to convince superiors/customers of your abilities.
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>IMHO, of course. YMMV
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| D. Alan Stewart                                                      |
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