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What was your favorite course of study? (yeah, it's biased -- do your best!)
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday January 13 2018, @01:43AM (4 children)
But if I had to pick one it would have been electronic principles at Lackland Air Force Base, because the instructors actually blew shit up. The instructors were total bros and ex-military civilians who would curse and tell dirty jokes (as well as allow the students to do the same), let us watch Pulp Fiction and Wallace and Grommet, and showed us very informative demonstrations about plugging 115 VAC into microprocessors and small capacitors. Specifically the course content was basic ohm's law shit, time constants, clippers/clampers, and clockey digital stuff. Was quite a bitch to get up at 4am and start the day with PT though, because it made staying awake a struggle and the blues we had to wear to school were known for aggravating the morning wood that the lack of sleep caused.
Honorable Mentions:
- Software Engineering was great because we did the whole app/Tomcat/SQL thing and it was encouraging to see that a complete system could be built by 1 person in a relatively short amount of time if necessary. Frankly it's amazing that more people aren't teaching themselves how to roll their own systems, this is all shit people can learn and roll themselves with only a cell phone and dev machine as requirements.
- Multimedia Programming was great because we reinvented the Photoshop effects wheel with code, a true A-ha moment.
Now some classes I hated:
- Internship sucked ass because Diversity University allows only internships that serve the public good, like charities or city government, so I because I couldn't serve an internship with Lockheed Martin I didn't learn dick about actually using my skills. On top of that the internship class was used as an opportunity to shove PC bullshit and White Privilege up our asses, and we had to read finger-wagging anti-White bullshit from Harvard-educated Jews and other bullshit like "Black in Silicon Valley" that was really code for suggesting that Blacks are just an untapped marketing demographic to be exploited. Goddamn is it good to be graduated and be able to express my support for President Donald Trump without fucking over my education. Being on the university mailing list was fucking hilarious during the election, the university president sent out a professional but whiny "Fuck Trump" e-mail to everybody and it was obvious that a good number of students were dissatisfied with the PC bullshit going on at the school.
- Chemistry is a fucking rad science but all of the strict needless little lab rules really killed it for me, having to use sig figs was super-infuriating and being forced to working with others (lab partners) always sucked ass because I always got paired with lazy idiots. The last straw was being required to memorize all of the mono and polyatomic ions and their charges. I had such bad times in chem that the experience caused me to switch majors from bio to computer science. Probably a better career move even if the biz is chock full of H1-B stinkies who lower wages shit in the break room sink.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday January 19 2018, @09:41PM
You overestimate the attention span, and capacity for learning, of your fellow homo sapiens.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 23 2018, @02:41AM
I know of only one electronics training program at Lackland. I spent 52 weeks there. The other school was "dog" school.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday February 02 2018, @10:56AM
You put the president in bold? What?
(Score: 2) by VLM on Friday February 02 2018, @01:34PM
When I was a teen boy I read the then much more recent books like Ignition! about the development of rocket fuels in the 50s or Gergel's insane autobiography of being a small time OSHA-free EPA-free organic chemist in the 40s and 50s and I was entranced, but reality struck that unless I developed a time machine to go back to 1930 or so, AND found a way to be one of the couple of guys who had a lot of fun without dying, I was going to be bored to death with chemistry.
Only a couple guys in history got to play with Florine based rocket fuels or OSHA-free organic chemistry synthesis in 1950, the rest of the time its pretty boring, but as you mention electronics is fun because from their invention until today, people have been goofing off sticking small electrolytic capacitors across the power line to blow them up. Tantalum's are even funner because there's no labeling standard and the always blow up eventually but blow up faster when hooked up in reverse (did I mention the lack of a labeling standard?). And "smoke emitting diodes", I don't know how people can F up simple power supply circuits other than intentionally but those labs were crazy, and those idiots are probably designing pacemakers and nuclear reactor control systems now which is pretty scary.