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- From: jhobbs@cs.uoregon.edu (Jeffrey Hobbs)
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- Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Vacant Job Positions
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 11:04:46 -0800
- Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.
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- References: <AMCHAVAN.96Jan25112007@ac2.hq.eso.org> <311A83D1.57A3@feith.com> <4fe3ov$pc0@qualcomm.com> <4fecgc$ar9@engr.orst.edu>
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- In article <4fecgc$ar9@engr.orst.edu>,
- The Water Walker <wilsonch@newt.CS.ORST.EDU> wrote:
- >In article <4fe3ov$pc0@qualcomm.com>, <nabbasi@qualcomm.com> wrote:
- >>And why would you not want to have a college degree is the question
- >>I would ask. If you real an able person, then you would be able to get
- >>a college degree in the field you enjoy working in.
-
- : not necessarily. I had been pursuing a BS in CS untill last term. Our CS
- : department here at OSU requires 3 terms of physics with calc. and even
- : though (not to toot my own horn) am a very able programmer, I was forced to
- : change my major (droping out and/or transfering are out of the question)
- : since I was unable to do these physics classes. So you see, just because you
- : are good at something, and enjoy it, doesn't mean that you can get a degree
- : in it.
-
- I hate to get in on an argument (sorry, debate) like this, but...
-
- Isn't that what an american college degree is all about? You can't be good
- at just one thing. Universities are out to broaden your horizons while they
- educate you. That's why they have all those extra requirements. The
- university itself makes everyone take a base amount of arts and sciences
- coursework, and then your particular department, like CS, will make you load
- up on related courses.
-
- I took the physics, no problem (I'd even go as far to say I enjoyed it). I
- also managed to pick up a chemistry minor along the way, TA'ing it for a
- couple of terms (I'll never forget the smell of an organic lab). And then
- there's all the upper-division math. In the end I got my CS degree - all in
- 3 years.
-
- Programming is not all there is to CS. CS is not all there is to a
- university CS degree. Degrees _are_ earned, after all. 'Nuff said.
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