Need to get my post count up...*smiles*

[ImpishSeraph]

did it work?

goodnight... my bedtime

Yes it did Are you the alt to the person who pours me drinks??? Or just randomly trying out a smiley...

 

[ImpishSeraph]

Now that has me thinking. LOL.

What? Moving to a small town? I love it. I'm not from too large of city (tampa) but I never miss the unfriendly people or the bumper to bumper traffic. Much more relaxed...I could feel my nerves calm as I left there to come here, lol

 

[tandoor]

What? Moving to a small town? I love it. I'm not from too large of city (tampa) but I never miss the unfriendly people or the bumper to bumper traffic. Much more relaxed...I could feel my nerves calm as I left there to come here, lol

In my neck of the woods, the small towns are just as, in some cases even more, insanely priced.

Oh well, that's neither here nor there. It is what it is. So do they make you get a masters degree if you stay a teacher?

 

[ImpishSeraph]

In my neck of the woods, the small towns are just as, in some cases even more, insanely priced.

Oh well, that's neither here nor there. It is what it is. So do they make you get a masters degree if you stay a teacher?

Not yet...I had to get alternative certification to teach though since my degree wasn't in it. I was lucky too...When i started college, my major was math so I was taking the regular Calculus I with analytical geometry by the time I made it to Calc II I had changed to engineering and switched to engineering calc. That one class of Calc I saved me. I couldn't teach with just the eng. calc.
I had 4 years betw calc I and II because of my dyslexia and trying to get my writing english levels up to gordon rule. I lost my genius at math during those 4 years...this is why I switched my major from math to engineering...figured it would be easier since I had that massive gap.

Oh the memories...I was insanely gifted at math during those years...I am so mad they made me stop taking math to catch up in english...


Didn't mean to bore you with my novel here..lol

 

[tandoor]

Not yet...I had to get alternative certification to teach though since my degree wasn't in it. I was lucky too...When i started college, my major was math so I was taking the regular Calculus I with analytical geometry by the time I made it to Calc II I had changed to engineering and switched to engineering calc. That one class of Calc I saved me. I couldn't teach with just the eng. calc.
I had 4 years betw calc I and II because of my dyslexia and trying to get my writing english levels up to gordon rule. I lost my genius at math during those 4 years...this is why I switched my major from math to engineering...figured it would be easier since I had that massive gap.

Oh the memories...I was insanely gifted at math during those years...I am so mad they made me stop taking math to catch up in english...

Didn't mean to bore you with my novel here..lol

No, that's not boring at all. Just has me wondering my CS discrete math courses will count, probably not.

Eh, I could always become an accountant.

So what are the downsides to you not getting a grad degree?

 

[ImpishSeraph]

No, that's not boring at all. Just has me wondering my CS discrete math courses will count, probably not.

Eh, I could always become an accountant.

So what are the downsides to you not getting a grad degree?

My sister is an accountant...Not my area of math...too boring for me. I feel a bit flakey for asking this, but what area is discrete math? what types of math classes did you take for this?


Grad degree for teaching?? It is money and certain classes I can't teach w/o a grad degree. Any classes that are duel enrollment have to be taught with a Masters..

 

[tandoor]

My sister is an accountant...Not my area of math...too boring for me. I feel a bit flakey for asking this, but what area is discrete math? what types of math classes did you take for this?

Two classes, called Discrete Math I and Discrete Math II.

Here's a wikipedia entry that summarizes it well. Very applicable to computer science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_mathematics

 

[ImpishSeraph]

Two classes, called Discrete Math I and Discrete Math II.

Here's a wikipedia entry that summarizes it well. Very applicable to computer science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_mathematics

If you could go back and do it all over would you choose the same degree?

 

[tandoor]

If you could go back and do it all over would you choose the same degree?

Actually, yes. CS is fun.

 

[ImpishSeraph]

Actually, yes. CS is fun.

Damn i must have come in here the same time you did, lol

I would do ME again...deffinately! The degree was so much fun to get. I loved all the projects and labs, and I met so many FUN people during that time.

 

[tandoor]

Damn i must have come in here the same time you did, lol

I would do ME again...deffinately! The degree was so much fun to get. I loved all the projects and labs, and I met so many FUN people during that time.

Yup. CS was very hands on as well. It was stimulating and fun. Hard, though.

That said, the engineers had it much harder. But they seemed to enjoy themselves too

 

[ImpishSeraph]

Yup. CS was very hands on as well. It was stimulating and fun. Hard, though.

That said, the engineers had it much harder. But they seemed to enjoy themselves too

I did have a few hard ones (sorry couldn't help it)

I don't think we had it harder...ME is the way my brain works. I am an analytical thinker, and any other degree would have probably been much harder for me to get especially with my type of dyslexia. All in all I actually took the easy way out by getting the ME vs anything else, lol.

 

[tandoor]

I did have a few hard ones (sorry couldn't help it)

All the cybering going on in the other threads was bound to rub off here eventually

I don't think we had it harder...ME is the way my brain works. I am an analytical thinker, and any other degree would have probably been much harder for me to get especially with my type of dyslexia. All in all I actually took the easy way out by getting the ME vs anything else, lol.

I hear you. I actually tried to be a chem major first but I couldn't handle it. CS worked better because there were rules and the rules were hard and fast. I like structure, I like things determinate.

 

[ImpishSeraph]

All the cybering going on in the other threads was bound to rub off here eventually

Tell me about it...this has been my longest non-dirty chat yet...what do you say...wanna go cyber??

I hear you. I actually tried to be a chem major first but I couldn't handle it. CS worked better because there were rules and the rules were hard and fast. I like structure, I like things determinate.

I liked the ME better than that all the others bc it was more hands on/can see it. What i mean here is the electrical was so small and tedious while civil was to large of projects. The chemical part was fun I liked experimenting with it but couldn't take all the memorization. I'm not good with names.

 

[tandoor]

Tell me about it...this has been my longest non-dirty chat yet...what do you say...wanna go cyber??

I'm shy

I liked the ME better than that all the others bc it was more hands on/can see it. What i mean here is the electrical was so small and tedious while civil was to large of projects. The chemical part was fun I liked experimenting with it but couldn't take all the memorization. I'm not good with names.

Good point about the names. That's why I did badly in bio too. CS took a bit of mental acrobatics for me at first, but once I had my head wrapped around it, it was a piece of cake.

 

[ImpishSeraph]

I'm shy

we all are at first btw...I was j/k

Good point about the names. That's why I did badly in bio too. CS took a bit of mental acrobatics for me at first, but once I had my head wrapped around it, it was a piece of cake.

How different is CS from Comp engineering...ever dabbled in that one?? Is one more geared towards software while the other is the guts?

 

[tandoor]

we all are at first btw...I was j/k




How different is CS from Comp engineering...ever dabbled in that one?? Is one more geared towards software while the other is the guts?

CE is more the guts. CS is how to build stuff on top of that. CE is about building the chipset, CS is about building the OS that runs on the chipset. For example.
I know you were - so was I, you've "seen" enough to know I'm not shy havent you

 

[ImpishSeraph]

CE is more the guts. CS is how to build stuff on top of that. CE is about building the chipset, CS is about building the OS that runs on the chipset. For example.

More power to you! See now that would be a hard degree for me.

Are you stuck in an office and meetings all day? I don't know if I could do that. I like a lot of interaction with an atmosphere that is constantly changing. I get bored too easily, and I'm not talking about changing as in constantly having to learn something new. I like teaching bc it changes every year...I get 100 new faces and personalities every year which comes with many new challenges. I love it!!

I love my job!

to answer your question...no, actually I haven't seen enough. I only see your posts when they deal with me, lol.

 

[tandoor]

More power to you! See now that would be a hard degree for me.

Are you stuck in an office and meetings all day? I don't know if I could do that. I like a lot of interaction with an atmosphere that is constantly changing. I get bored too easily, and I'm not talking about changing as in constantly having to learn something new. I like teaching bc it changes every year...I get 100 new faces and personalities every year which comes with many new challenges. I love it!!

I love my job!

to answer your question...no, actually I haven't seen enough. I only see your posts when they deal with me, lol.

Yeah office and meetings all day. Lots of spreadsheets, lots of conference calls, lots of time spent with vendor sales people. It was good for a while but it's changing. Due to the post-Enron laws Congress passed and offshoring to India (2 separate things), the profession is changing in ways that makes me like it a lot less.

 

[ImpishSeraph]

Yeah office and meetings all day. Lots of spreadsheets, lots of conference calls, lots of time spent with vendor sales people. It was good for a while but it's changing. Due to the post-Enron laws Congress passed and offshoring to India (2 separate things), the profession is changing in ways that makes me like it a lot less.

Sorry to hear that...How long have you been doing it; when did you graduate?

and where is my hidden message????

 

[tandoor]

Sorry to hear that...How long have you been doing it; when did you graduate?

and where is my hidden message????

I've been at it 8 years, right after I graduated.

 

[ImpishSeraph]

I've been at it 8 years, right after I graduated.

You graduated at 22?? wow! you have me beat here. I won't mention how long it took me

 

[bbwsadieml]

Just sneaking in to help you with your post count.

Bye bye now .....

 

[tandoor]

You graduated at 22?? wow! you have me beat here. I won't mention how long it took me

You know, that reminds me of college when graduating "on time" was a big deal to some people. It all seems so silly now, there are people who graduated after me who have done a lot better than I have and vice versa. It's all so irrelevant, in hindsight, and yet some made such an issue of it back then.

 

[ImpishSeraph]

You know, that reminds me of college when graduating "on time" was a big deal to some people. It all seems so silly now, there are people who graduated after me who have done a lot better than I have and vice versa. It's all so irrelevant, in hindsight, and yet some made such an issue of it back then.

I just liked to have too much fun in college not to mention the fact that I did it only full time not extra hours like they had it planned out. ME was actually a 6 year course if you did it 12 hours (considered full time) a semester.