Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: 22 Dec 2024 20:35:00 GMT Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <3a439b82-71cc-6aff-65dd-630c0707ff3f@example.net> <0d5d463f-af08-46aa-97e3-ef251ba64cc4@example.net> <451210c3-9b3d-91f1-be43-d06211f3b30f@example.net> <812b41ff-53e1-48d3-8088-d186fa65d90a@example.net> <0569900a-ccc1-bc30-56ef-af726a877c16@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net GH3snkiOWVeXTp75vfuRcA4F68kcR1Onrg3RLscM7rCWqpokIM Cancel-Lock: sha1:JLilBVNktCv/H8dxgoWrcXmwJqs= sha256:KIlWAwFK6R4cCBh39DLjPk8itMiQ31bq/f1Pt9j0e78= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62913 On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 11:50:00 +0100, D wrote: > I shudder at the memory of differential equations and my > electromagnetism course. I quickly came to the conclusion that I found > math and physics boring. I was able to push through some of those > courses by sheer will power, but I realized, why should I spend 4 years > on something that I find is boring? Each discipline had courses that sorted the sheep from the goats. diff-e and e-mag theory were two for the ee's. o-chem did in the potential chemists. iirc thermodynamics weeded out the civil engineers. When I took diff-e a friend had a bet with the TA for the course on whether I would pass. My attendance in class was spotty to say the least and the TA said 'No way'. He lost. > So after jumping through legal hoops, and proving to the university that > my idea was correct and theirs wrong, they let me pick my own courses as > long as the course difficulty level (A, B, C, D level) met some > pre-specified levels. So in the end the emphasis was on IT and > philosophy, > with a healthy dose of psychology, business, finance etc. That was the nice thing about the psychology department. There were a few required courses but it was mostly a la carte.