Re: College (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Lamda calculus -> LISP

 > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 > Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 17:25:29 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 >  > Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 18:42:22 -0400
 >  > From: Alexander  <http://www.umass.edu/~a>
 >  > 
 >  > I am currently finished with my homework, and thus able to send email.
 >  > 
 >  > I am taking the following classes:
 >  > 
 >  >    - Calculus II
 >  >    - Introduction to Ethics
 >  >    - English Writing
 >  >    - Computer Science (with data structures)
 >  > 
 >  > How my college experience is going so far:
 >  > 
 >  > I had midterms ~2 weeks ago. I got ~A's on them.
 >  > English is my hardest class. It takes me about 10 hours to write an essay
 >  > for that class. It takes me less than a hour to write an essay for Ethics.
 >  > Computer Science is really easy. I finished the 2 week assignment 2 hours
 >  > after it was assigned. However, they did take a lot of points off my first
 >  > project (make a hangman game) because I didn't include the text file of
 >  > words.
 >  > Calculus is difficult, but I have several friends who I study with, so it
 >  > isn't really a problem.
 >  > 
 >  > Besides doing going to class/sleeping, I study/talk with friends or I
 >  > program in my room. I've been trying to get into image segmentation, so
 >  > I've been writing some flood fill programs.
 >  > 
 >  > Even though the floor is composed exclusively of CS majors, I am one of
 >  > only 3 people who program for fun (out of the 30 people on our floor). One
 >  > guy is into networks, and the other one is actually a software engineer
 >  > who's into lambda calculus and functional programming.