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Originally posted by Matt Krass
I don't really think you're being fair to him. He had several good points, I'm a programmer myself, of both robots and computers, and that's anything but trivial. You try to weed through a bunch of files of source code and track everything, and if it's designed badly it will crash. Software engineering is every bit as much engineering as mechanical.
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He was teasing Mike. They are on the same team and no harm was ment.
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Here's my take on the issue.
After being involved in FIRST for 3 years I "knew" what I wanted to do. I applied to a few different schools and was accepted into the Engineering programs at places like the Milwaukee School Of Engineering (MSOE), and the University of Evansville. Around mid April of this year, I found out that I wouldn't be able to attend MSOE due to the financial situation and a few other reasons. I ended up going to my last ditched choice, the Purdue School of Technology, but take classes here in my hometown of Kokomo and major in Computer Technology (Computer Engineering Technology), then eventually transfer into the Engineering School at Purdue later. Well I'm glad that I didn't end up at MSOE, otherwise I'd probably hate it. Over time, I've realized that Computer Technology was what was right for me and I'm sitting in a position that I will be able to move to West Lafayette and finish my degree at the main campus of Purdue.
My biggest mistake was that I assumed w/o researching or trying. Fortunately due to the fact that I couldn't afford going to a 32,000+ a year college, I could find out what was right for me w/o wasting money and ruining my GPA. I was lucky that I caught myself before making a mistake in how I am going to spend the rest of my life.
All I can say is exactly what everyone else said before with this exception:
Don't assume what you think is right for you, make sure you know what it right for you.