So, for the past half a decade or so, I've been taking classes every semester trying to get a degree in Computer Science. This was supposed to be my last semester, I would graduate Fall, 2006.
Well, tomorrow is the final day of final exams, and barring some sort of miracle, I'm going to fail a class. This means that after tomorrow, I'll be one class shy of a degree.
I found a job and an apartment in San Francisco, and I'm moving regardless of whether or not I pass this class. The people that hired me really don't care if I know physics or not. It's irrelevant to web development, which is what I'll be doing.
The class I failed is a lower division Physics class in electricity and magnetism. It's required that I pass it to graduate with a CS degree, but it's really pretty irrelevant to computer science. I'll probably never have to know the velocity of a particle with charge q as it passes through a magnetic field of some strength, at some distance from a theoretical infinitely long straight wire.
I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not graduating, but mostly because I told my parents that I would, not because it's going to negatively impact my life in any significant way. I'll sign up for the physics class at a junior college in san francisco for next spring, then transfer the credits over to my current school, and I'll get a degree next May.
Ugh, life's little annoyances. I guess this should be a big deal to me, but it's so much less significant than so many other things people deal with every day. I think I can handle one night class next semester, I wont die. Other people get in car accidents, get arrested for doing something stupid, accidentally get someone they barely know pregnant. This seems minor in comparison.
Oh well.
Well, tomorrow is the final day of final exams, and barring some sort of miracle, I'm going to fail a class. This means that after tomorrow, I'll be one class shy of a degree.
I found a job and an apartment in San Francisco, and I'm moving regardless of whether or not I pass this class. The people that hired me really don't care if I know physics or not. It's irrelevant to web development, which is what I'll be doing.
The class I failed is a lower division Physics class in electricity and magnetism. It's required that I pass it to graduate with a CS degree, but it's really pretty irrelevant to computer science. I'll probably never have to know the velocity of a particle with charge q as it passes through a magnetic field of some strength, at some distance from a theoretical infinitely long straight wire.
I'm kind of annoyed that I'm not graduating, but mostly because I told my parents that I would, not because it's going to negatively impact my life in any significant way. I'll sign up for the physics class at a junior college in san francisco for next spring, then transfer the credits over to my current school, and I'll get a degree next May.
Ugh, life's little annoyances. I guess this should be a big deal to me, but it's so much less significant than so many other things people deal with every day. I think I can handle one night class next semester, I wont die. Other people get in car accidents, get arrested for doing something stupid, accidentally get someone they barely know pregnant. This seems minor in comparison.
Oh well.
