School Life’s Finished

So, I’ve managed a measly 94 % overall in the Intermediate Public Examinations and life’s good.

Well, I guess that in my life there was math, code and more math. I have realized that I get this excellent feeling when beautifully written Python code ( ever saw Python code in Komodo ? With the indentation, it looks beautiful ) performs primality tests, crunches out the Kaprekar / Collatz depths. By now, I think I think ( and a few people certainly think ) that I might be the best candidate to replace an academic and why not ? Most of the people I idolize are in academia and I want to be there as well.

I was browsing through the archives of Scott Aaronson’s Blog and I happened to read an entry where he ranted on CollegeBoard’s decision to remove the CS AP exam. He mentioned that he ate up everything there was to eat in that computer science course. That is true love for the subject. I had a similar experience with the book, “Post’s Machine” by V. A. Uspensky ( the third time I have mentioned it on my blog ). I just kept reading again and again. Talk about great books and that should be mentioned. I knew from then on that whatever the author was, I wanted to be too. Well, Scott’s got a lot going for him. He went to Cornell for Undergrad, went to Berkeley for Grad and is now teaching quantum computing at MIT.

On the other hand, I am going to a less “glorious” place, will probably never end up as a decent computer scientist as well. Well, I can dream on, can’t I?

I have met a lot of interesting people online. Well, I am shit at doing anything in real life, I can at least act as a tiger online, can’t I? :D

I’ve got an interesting reading list and I plan to read quite a lot in this week. First, I’ve got to read “Programming Pearls” completely. So far, I’ve been reading pieces of it. Then comes a book called “A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Programming”. It is an excellent book. I would recommend that as well ( but since I have assigned the n00b status to myself, it might not be that good a read for everyone else ). I’ve got a few other *legally free* ebooks and I’m going to finish reading them tomorrow.

Well, I am out of school ( officially ) now and not a lot has changed. People on the IRC server I first wandered to still call me “charlie” owing to the fact that I have managed to make a complete fool of myself a lot of times when I spoke on topics like “British History”, “Politics” and so on.

I am going to solve a few puzzles I have collected ( Math Puzzles in case you were wondering ). Will blog about them soon. Till next time, goodbye