I was solving sums from something I found on the webpage of the Berkeley Programming Contest (the sum does not belong to the PSets of the Berkeley Contests). I am pretty bored now and I intend to do something different (the only things I can do are code or sleep). My dad thinks cool posts on the government will land me in jail or something, so thats out of contention. Praising MS is well… stupid on my part. I have not evolved to consider Vista as an alternative to Linux and let us be frank, I never will. Vista is just….. let’s say it irritates me. I am just forced to use it for now as taking Vista off will be like pulling the rug from under my family. Anyway, I haven’t spoken about college plans for a long time owing to the fact that I had this inferiority complex since MIT rejected me. I spoke to my MIT EC (I have been speaking to her quite regularly so I no longer look to her as an EC but as a mentor of sorts). Right, I am going to the home of Debian, the house of the largest cluster in the Big 10 campuses, Purdue University – West Lafayette. Right, those who want to laugh or otherwise can.
Anyway, my cousin who just finished his 4th grade has decided to spend a fortnight at our place and seems to be enjoying it ( he loves DBZ and some other BS ). So, I got a few vids for him and left my Debian Laptop for him to play games at gamegecko.com and some other site.
I engaged in the following conversation with him the other day:
Me: Can you code? Do they teach you stuff at your school?
He: I do small things with the logo turtle. Our teacher in school doesn’t teach anything. But I do stuff with logo at home.
I couldn’t help wondering, we need geeks and this is what our schools do? Believe me guys, this kid is from one of Hyderabad’s most posh establishments at the elementary school level. I am left speechless when I discover the trash that school level computer programs in Indian schools are infused with.
I have no idea where to find purdue badges to put on my site…. so site stays sans promotion. Purdue CS hm… sounds cool. Even Philip Greenspun seems to like it.
I have begun reading PhD comics and I seriously hope grad school isn’t like that.
I will continue with posts on code soon. But right now, I need some alternative to that – writing seems to be one and I hope to come up with some cool posts / essays etc.
Well, stay tuned for more code filled posts soon and yeah, I’m a future Boilermaker.
I started reading PhD comics last year, and there are definitely some strips that I could relate to even as an undergrad. Some of them are exaggerated beyond measure and made to be funny, but at large I would say grad school is like that to some degree (there is much that isn’t really illustrated, I think).
Sorry about not responding to your request yet, I’ve written part of it, but I’ve been sitting on it for a few days. I’ll finish it some day.
No problems, I read your previous blog post and I saw that the next post was going to address my request. Classes begin on the 22nd of August, so no hurry there.
As an alumni I would like to say welcome to Purdue. You will receive an excellent education and have many opportunities available to you.