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Old 12-21-2005, 11:40 AM  
Varius
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Ok one more before I head out to lunch.

19. Why did you fail out of computer science at college?

The first semester, I breezed through learning QBasic and Logic, etc...and that was fine. By the time my second semester came around, they started teaching languages like COBOL and VB, which I had absolutely ZERO interest in learning.

I pretty much never bothered showing up to those classes anymore, and onyl went to the ones like Gym and Psychology. I completely skipped my final exams.

Thus, not surpringly, they kicked me out. I wrote the Dean of the dept. a letter saying I was working too much (not true) and had issues that's why I couldn't make classes, so they let me back in for a third semester.

Again, I only attended the "fun" classes or classes filled with girls. It was a good school for picking up women

I do remember one key sentence a teacher said though, that made me instantly decide to drop out. When they were teacing languages 50 years old, I asked him what he wanted us to become with this knowledge. He said "you can work for big banks or people using old systems". I knew then and ther it wasn't for me - and looks like my choice paid off pretty well
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