Computer Science

I don't know if anyone remembers, but I made a thread in the spring expressing my discontent with being a pharmacy major. This summer I've been working as an intern programmer for a software company near my home. I figured I'd get a feel for Computer Science by experiencing it first hand before I made any permanent switch.

Well, today it's official. I just got back from my school (ONU). I'm now enrolled in the College of Engineering as a Computer Science major. The process was pretty much painless. Everyone seemed very laid back over in Engineering. People in Pharmacy always seemed pretty uptight and hard to approach. I'm excited, as this is something I really want to be doing for once. Hopefully things will go better for me this year.

Anyway, I just figured I'd post an update. I'm glad this is finally resolved. It's been bugging me for awhile now.


Edited by Benjichang - 21 August 2008 at 6:49pm

how far is that going to set you back time-wise?

In before Computer Science III.

I'm taking CS101, a 4 hour GPA booster basically, to fill my GEC requirements. It's similar to the high school classes I did with Word, Access, Excell, etc. What a joke.

Awesome, good luck.

Congrats on doing something you like... I can tell you that is WAY more important that the $$$...

choopie911 wrote: Good luck, Comp Sci is hard as balls from what I've seen.

A lot of people think Computer Science is extremely difficult but I think that just depends on your interest level. I love working with computers so it doesn't take that much effort for me to learn the stuff but I know others who aren't stupid people yet they just can't seem to handle it.

CS is a very interesting subject though it can absolutely be very frustrating at times. Usually, the toughest part is learning the basics of a programming language. A lot of people have trouble adjusting themselves to think in more mathematical terms so even simple tasks become extremely difficult. If you can get past that, it should be pretty easy to get through the rest. I'm guessing you already know some basic programming if you had an internship so you should already be off to a good start. If you need help with anything, shoot me a PM or make a thread here. I'm going into my 4th year as an IT major and there are others on here who are pretty knowledgeable with that stuff as well. Good luck.