I also toured Harvard, but of course MIT is much more impressive.
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Dearest Americans, I feel bad for us mocking your elections. While the rest of the world is watching your election like some reality show with clowns running around, we are merely there for entertainment value. While you are the ones stuck in the boat for better or worse and suffer the consequences of whatever when it eventuates. Again, sincere apologies. <3 always, Telxxxxx
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Also technology 2016 - easier to hack than to make
The new timeline is pretty snazzy. But there's one thing I've noticed that's a bit jarring; the timestamp for vote summaries is always 0:00:00 on a particular day, and the summary covers the rest of that day. So you end up with a summary that always shows up earlier than the events that presumabl...
@bjb568 I was going to ask if you had happened to go to the CMU admissions presentation today in Cincinnati, but I suspect that the answer was no since you were just in Boston.
@bjb568 Oh, probably the same presenter then. His title was "assistant director of admissions" but I'm now finding out they have 16 people with that title.
@bjb568 Not much content of interest although he did make a comment along the lines of "Programming your own games/apps/websites is great, but we are really looking for people have delved into 'how it all works underneath' and the math behind it". He compared the SCS to "programming for the future" and the somewhat similar "Information Systems" major (not in SCS) to "programming for the present" which I thought was interesting to hear.
Go for Computer Science major if you are addicted to coding. It tends to cure the addiction. Go for Information Science major if you are addicted to PowerPoint. You might become a PM of some kind (most likely, a prime minister).
