Re: Hey all, please help me on this one!!!

[Wing Wong <buyer1342@saladlove.com>]

Hiya Dustin,

Depending on where you eventually go, you will come to realise a few
things:

- Colleges will require you to take classes which have little or nothing
  to do with your major. This is an attempt to "round out" the students'
  knowledge base. :) At the campus I had attended, CS degree's required 
  quite a bit of humanities and social studies related courses.

- Classes related to your major will often not cover as much or as in
  depth as you would like. This can be because the professors are jaded,
  don't arrive, teach via proxy via an assitant or a television screen or
  web site. In such cases, striking out on your own and doing self-study
  or forming a club/group to do specific study on the topic you and your
  group wants to learn about would be more helpful and much quicker going.

- Make sure the campus you go to will have a good department and program
  for the degree you're after. A bad department or degree program at an
  expensive school will be no better or worse than a well planned program
  and well structured department at a low-cost school.

- Try not to overload your schedule with classes and work. 

( Heh heh.. mainly stuff a counselor would tell you anyways, but thought
  it worthwhile to mention. ^_^;)

But you will find that the point of schools in general is to give you a
"formal" or an agreed upon foundation of learning for a particular
degree. This foundation may not be 100% correct for what you need to do or
might be completely wrong. Whatever the case, learning takes place on your
own personal time. This is especially so if the professor teaches out of
the book verbatim.

You + Determination/Enthusiasm + Internet + Caffeine = Higher Learning. :)
(Well, sorta.)

Good luck,

Wing. (Speaking of which... need to finish up my degree. ^_^;; Bad
       job! Distracting me from getting my schoolwork done!)


On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Dustin McCulloch wrote:

> As i reach that age in my life, i realize the next 2
> months of my life are going to be responsible for my
> future for possibly at least the next 10 years.
> 
> The reason for this is because i am in my last
> highschool year!  Now i come to all of you veterans,
> or people who have been through various colleges, and
> university's and i just need to know, what ones are
> good, what classes are good, what i need to get in,
> what the costs are like, and what classes are good to
> have!!!
> 
> For example, my math marks suck, but still, i am
> taking algebra, calculus, english 1, biology, family
> studies, all oac, as well as gr 12 comp science (top
> of our schools level, and was only offered once every
> 2 years), so with this i will have 6 oac's which will
> include health which i got last year!  My self
> projected average is going to be approx. 72-82
> percent!
> 
> I also wanted a robotics course working with lego
> mindstorms, as a way to work on ai, but i couldnt get
> it.  Nonetheless, I believe these classes are all ill
> need for 95 % of computer science courses!
> 
> But for those recently through the system, what do i
> need to look into, im really into ai, and game design,
> to be quite honest i suck so far at base programming,
> the best work I will have done in 3 years will probly
> be a card game in vb.  So anything like that is probly
> out, as well, im not into administrator stuff, or
> sisqo, or doing networks, i want to program games, and
> i need to know where to go to get the training for it,
> so my basic plea is, if you have any info for me,
> pleas e volunteer it to me privately, or you could
> send it to the list for all to view, and if you know
> about "Nintendo college" or any specifics, that will
> be great...
> 
> Thanks alot for any help you can offer, nothing is
> useless info at this stage in my life!!!
> 
> Dustin
> 
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