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I seem to recall you saying you were a CS student once or twice, or am I confusing you with somebody else?

TyBother me03:07, 16 January 2012

You probably are. I'm only a highschool student (despite what you said on the rww page - you also misspelled "Septmeber"), and have never done any (formal) CS. More an enthusiastic amateur.

PeterQuasniki 2012!03:12, 16 January 2012

Ok, now I feel very old. I actually learned more in high school than in the first 3 semesters of college. What language do they have you useing?

TyBother me03:15, 16 January 2012

'anceint' you are. I don't even do the stuff at school - they do Visual Basic 6 for goodness sake... I originally learned QBASICWikipedia from a book in primary school, but I've since moved on to C/C++/C#, dabbling elsewhere as well.

PeterQuasniki 2012!03:22, 16 January 2012

Thinking about going for a degree? (oslo, my speling tinds ta be awlful)

TyBother me03:27, 16 January 2012

Possibly, though the parents would rather something else. Maths, maybe?

PeterQuasniki 2012!03:46, 16 January 2012

Do what you like doing. I know far too many people whose parents forced them into majors they didn't like(usually chemical engineering).

TyBother me03:54, 16 January 2012

So that's why there are more than two chemists in the world. I was beginning to wonder...

There's always minors, and double majors.

PeterQuasniki 2012!03:58, 16 January 2012

Minors are fun, I tried a dual major but wound up a nervous wreck after a year due to LSU's 30 hour rule. As I have only 2 courses left I get to fill my scheduale up with random stuff this year, like Biology of Marine Vertabretes, which I oddly have tutored for despite having never taken.

TyBother me04:02, 16 January 2012
 

I'd have to agree with Ty here. Do what you like doing. My parents practically guilted me into going to Chemistry. Eventually I switched to Biology 'cause mom was like: "Well, if you don't want to be a Pharmacist like I told you to, be a doctor." Of course, when she found out what kind of doctor I wanted to be, she freaked out--But that's a different story.

Just do what you feel comfortable with. There's really nothing worse than feeling like an out-of-place puzzle trying to be put into the wrong spot.

Dumpling (talk)05:21, 16 January 2012

What kind of doctor merits a freak out? Dr. Mengele? Anyway, thirded on "do what you like doing." But still, you should do cog sci. I need fodder for my future profzi scheme.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)05:26, 16 January 2012

Forensic Pathologist. Mother does not like the idea of me being 33 and cutting away into a dead body. "You'll forever be alone. No one would want to talk to you. You'd smell like dead bodies. I WANT GRANDCHILDREN!"

And Cog. Sci does sound interesting. When given the chance, I shall have to find a good class. :3

Dumpling (talk)05:36, 16 January 2012

^^I hope you like quote mines, Dumpling :-)

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.08:05, 16 January 2012

Hahahaha! Sure. My parental figures are full of interesting quotes. Oh hey. I got an award. I should check RWW more often. And...I have a penis size?

Dumpling (talk)08:30, 16 January 2012

You're a woman, which is why it's blank :-)

I kid, I kid. That was Nx's doing.

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.08:35, 16 January 2012

Ooooh... Then I have a very small e-penis. .............. Typing that felt weird.

Dumpling (talk)08:37, 16 January 2012
Blue (pester)08:59, 16 January 2012

(ಠ㉨ರೃ)...Why...yes. It is quite magnificent!

Dumpling (talk)09:04, 16 January 2012

What can I say. I'm through accepting limits 'cause someone says they're so!

Blue (pester)09:05, 16 January 2012

-clapclapclap- Spoken like a pro.

Dumpling (talk)09:08, 16 January 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Wasn't it a doctor of marine biology or something? Sorry for interrupting... back to my hole.

Blue (pester)05:56, 16 January 2012

Haha. I don't mind. ^u^ And no. As much as I'd love to be a Marine Biologist, I'd end up eating them (The fishies). o___o...I had sushi tonight. Oh god, it was delicious. Ha. Random. But yeah, I've actually always wanted to be a Forensic Pathologist. (But then again, I've wanted to be a lot of things, singer/actor/assassin included.)

Dumpling (talk)05:59, 16 January 2012

Yes, do come out of your hole...

I hope you didn't decide to be a Forensic Pathologist just so you wouldn't eat the expiraments.

PeterQuasniki 2012!06:25, 16 January 2012

I like the Blue. :3

And...-cough- Nooooooooooo. Hahahaha. There will be no eating of the dead bodies. XD I may look like a zombie, but I am not.

Dumpling (talk)06:30, 16 January 2012

How do you even learn it? Do you persuade daddy frog to kill mommy frog for the inheritance, and then as the exam have to work out which poison it was?

PeterQuasniki 2012!07:26, 16 January 2012

Hahaha. Nooo silly Peter~ You kill them yourself and blame the French for they had a shortage of frog legs and take all the money. Of course! ... No. I'm kidding. Anyways, In total, it'd be about 10-13 years of school. Besides the Undergraduate years, you had med school, then residency, then an additional year of pathology specializing, and then another additional year for forensic pathology specialization (getting to actually deal with the government and all these murder crime stuff).

Dumpling (talk)07:40, 16 January 2012

And you're up for 13 years of hiding in your hoody?

I honestly can't see why your mum would panic about you being able to ruin people's CSI watching at will.

PeterQuasniki 2012!08:11, 16 January 2012

That's why I'm taking a semester off to work at a hospital and see if I'm really up for it. (Mum also freaked when I did this, but hey---I'm paying for my education. Soooo~ Whatevs.)

Heh. Because. 1. It's dead people. 2. I'm a 'girl', "What are people going to think about this!?" 3. 13 years wasted on my youth. 4. "Pharmacy is better. Only 6 years! And it's a respectable job." 5. "WHAT IF YOU GET CAUGHT UP WITH A MAFIA BODY AND THE MAFIA TRY TO THREATEN YOU TO COVER UP MURDERS FOR THEM OR ELSE AND YOU'RE TRYING TO BE A GOOD PERSON AND TELL THE TRUTH BUT IN THE END I GET A POLICE AT MY DOORSTEP TELLING ME MY DAUGHTER WHEN TO MED SCHOOL TO END UP ON A FORENSICS TABLE INSTEAD!"

....Ah. My life.

Dumpling (talk)08:35, 16 January 2012

Ahah, my mom lucked out. All her sons chose "safe" professions. By the time we're done with college, she'll have an economist, a doctor, and an accountant for sons :-D

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.08:52, 16 January 2012

Aww~ ^u^ That's nice! Just don't tell my mother that. My brother is graduating high school this year and wants to build robots. Mom thinks that's a bit strange too.

"Why? You don't like people?"

Me: "Nope. He's going to make cyborgs."

Mom: "WHAT!? NO!"

Victor: "...I'll build my own wife, and dammit she'll make me a sandwich."

Mom: "........One child wants to live with the dead. The other wants to have a robot wife. Why?"

Ah. We love messing with our mother.

Dumpling (talk)09:01, 16 January 2012

That's one thing I like about my parents. The conversation about my major went something like this: "What is this 'cognitive science'? Well, whatever it is, have fun with it, I guess."

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)16:40, 16 January 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The only two I could think of were abortionist and doctor-without-borders.

Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX05:58, 16 January 2012

"Dumpling, guerrilla abortionist" has a nice ring to it.

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.08:07, 16 January 2012

Haha. Strangely enough. It does. A small Asian girl with a cheerful smile comes up to you and shakes your hand. "Greetings! The name's Dumpling. Guerilla abortionist. Pleasure to be of acquaintance!" And of course I'd say this in the most pleasant way possible.

Dumpling (talk)08:25, 16 January 2012
 
 
 

I'm a little bit jealous of you guys, because if I didn't have to worry about making a living, I'd be a writer. Of fiction, nonfiction, anything; I fucking love writing.

As it is, I settled on accounting. And before you think I'm selling out my dreams, there are actually two reasons I settled on accounting: Firstly, I, bizarrely, enjoy office work. My first and only paying job was at the county elections office during the 2008 Presidential election, and I fell in love with organizing things and filling out paperwork. I could lose myself in the glorious tediousness of it all. (Yes, I am weird.) Unfortunately, secretarial work doesn't pay very much, but accounting is basically office work with a four-year degree. Which brings me to reason number two: I actually enjoy working with numbers. My favorite part of RPGs is playing with the stats, and when I thought of accounting, I realized, "Wait, I can get paid to shuffle numbers around all day?" Thus, my current major.

Star of David.png Radioactive afikomen Please ignore all my awful pre-2014 comments.08:19, 16 January 2012
 
 

When you start college, you should take any advice your professors give you under serious consideration. I was not intending to be a scientist when I started my course of study, but my professors steered me into it.

Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX05:08, 16 January 2012

What were you going to be then, and what did they say? That there's more money in slime-mould taxonomy than in Ancient Egyptian demography?

PeterQuasniki 2012!05:13, 16 January 2012

I had been thinking to try my hand in business and (hopefully) make a pile of money. My professors averred that I would be wasting my brain that way. One even put his money where his mouth was and gave me a job as a lab-rat.

Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX05:26, 16 January 2012

And in hindsight which would have been better - the pile of money, or the lab ratting?

PeterQuasniki 2012!07:27, 16 January 2012

The lab-ratting; there is a certain satisfaction to being a Morlock that money cannot purchase. Besides, I probably would have failed at making the pile of money, blamed the government, and ended my days an angry libertarian.

Mjollnir.svgListenerXTalkerX05:07, 17 January 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Perhaps you should consider joining the cognitive revolution, comrade! Certain areas of cognitive science heavily draw on computer science.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)05:13, 16 January 2012