Back on the Wagon
I have gotten back on the Educational Wagon. I’ve enrolled for classes at Washington University at St. Louis and begin classes on Monday. Tonight was the new student orientation. The program I’m in is part of the Continuing Education department, which handles evening classes and whatnot. The program is very good, and you can get entire degrees (the same degree as dayschool, not a ‘dumbed down’ degree) taking only evening courses. It was a bit strange, because the program usually caters to older people who are getting back into school after a long hiatus. I had a few year hiatus, but I’m still a lot younger than most of these people.
Its refreshing to be almost in school again. A degree isn’t particularly important to me, what I am after is the intellectual discourse, and the continued learning. If you aren’t learning, you are stagnating. Learning doesn’t have to be done in a formal setting, like a university, but even just reading books, talking with people, getting out there and doing things you haven’t done before, is terribly important.
This semester I will be taking Applied Statistics and Programming in C as my first two courses. So in a few weeks I’ll be helping write the next version of Linux, right? No? Oh… Well maybe I’ll write one of those “Hello world!” programs that everyone writes as their first program. That will be neat.
Monday 26 Aug 2002 | Sam | Uncategorized