Brown Transfer

rulesI
Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:53:58 +0000

First of all, I’m not sure about my major anymore. Programming is a nice hobby but I don’t want to make it my job, I figured that out. I’m much happier doing something like pscyhology, philosophy or cognitive science. Now it is easy to relate those to CS but still, it’s not me.

Btw, CS and Computer Programming are hardly the same thing. I am not blaming anyone, i did not know the difference very well myself. CS is more along the lines of Math, as far as I can tell.

CMU is academics. No matter how hard they try to make it sound otherwise, you have to be damn sure about your major and must be extremely passionate, as in you should be content with just studying for the exams and stuff. The rest of the activities on campus are just filler events. At least to me, they don’t mean much.

There are all sorts of people here, true. Art school is pretty intense, so is Drama and Business. But the geekiness linger all around the campus and I am pretty much sick of it. Don’t get me wrong, I am a geek myself and I know more about computers and stuff than most of the CS majors here (you have to trust me on that) but I have another life. The geeky world is fun but there are some other things in life.

As said, if you are happy with taking intense classes, love what you plan to do, then you will be at home. But if you have other interests, like reading, intellectual conversations, having some quality fun, then you may want to look someplace else.

PM me if you want to learn more.



Thanks for the replies guys. I fully hear you. I especially thank Reddune and Jmbarr for taking the time to think about the issue.