I also want to say that the courses that I think taught me the most were the ones that had nothing to do with Engineering. I took some strange classes, I took Jazz Band every semester (I played the saxophone), and I took English classes. I think that is what makes liberal arts so cool.
Every college has the same Intro to CS class,for the most part, the difference between Liberal Arts and other colleges is I have a wider swath of knowledge, and those at other schools have a much more focused band of knowledge. I think Liberal Arts works for people who know what interests them, and they want the best way to apply it. Once again, I am not discrediting technical degrees. I think if you know what you want to study and you know your life plan, go that way.
The ones that prepared me most to be an engineer I actually took in Scotland when I studied abroad. There I took a course about the Internet which was like 2 courses put together, it was half front-end and half back-end.
But to be honest, I don't think any one class prepared me to be an engineer. I think having experiences with internships helped more. I don't think any college course has a class where if you screw up, you can make a company lose millions of dollars.
Any fun nuggets from those two courses about "the Internet" ? Was it a technical course or more historical?
I recently read The Victorian Internet which is about the advent of the telegraph. And Ben has recommended Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet as a similar book on the origins of the internet.
Just curious if you encountered anything in those courses that might be fun/surprising to the rest of us.
It was technical. I did take a super interesting course in college about the theory of computing. An ex buddhist monk taught it. There was a lot of questions about life that came up.
What courses did you self-assign for your major?! Which ones prepared you to be an engineer?
I also made my own major...but it's not nearly as cool sounding as Human Computer Interaction.
I also want to say that the courses that I think taught me the most were the ones that had nothing to do with Engineering. I took some strange classes, I took Jazz Band every semester (I played the saxophone), and I took English classes. I think that is what makes liberal arts so cool.
Every college has the same Intro to CS class,for the most part, the difference between Liberal Arts and other colleges is I have a wider swath of knowledge, and those at other schools have a much more focused band of knowledge. I think Liberal Arts works for people who know what interests them, and they want the best way to apply it. Once again, I am not discrediting technical degrees. I think if you know what you want to study and you know your life plan, go that way.
I had to choose all of my classes actually!
The ones that prepared me most to be an engineer I actually took in Scotland when I studied abroad. There I took a course about the Internet which was like 2 courses put together, it was half front-end and half back-end.
But to be honest, I don't think any one class prepared me to be an engineer. I think having experiences with internships helped more. I don't think any college course has a class where if you screw up, you can make a company lose millions of dollars.
Any fun nuggets from those two courses about "the Internet" ? Was it a technical course or more historical?
I recently read The Victorian Internet which is about the advent of the telegraph. And Ben has recommended Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet as a similar book on the origins of the internet.
Just curious if you encountered anything in those courses that might be fun/surprising to the rest of us.
It was technical. I did take a super interesting course in college about the theory of computing. An ex buddhist monk taught it. There was a lot of questions about life that came up.
what kind of internships did you have?
Two software engineering internships. I was one of two "non-mainstream" college students accepted.