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Aug. 27th, 2002 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaxjediSo I downloaded the PalmOS programming tools from Handspring. I found out that it had a copy of GCC (GNU C Compiler) with it. So I wrote a "Hello World" program - it just says "Hello World!"
I started actually shaking. It was like getting a fix of drugs I hadn't had in years. I knew that I had missed coding - but I hadn't realized how much.
I mean, I have this degree in Computer Science that has pretty much gone to waste. Almost all of my friends from Grinnell got nice computer jobs - and they got their degrees in physics, history, biology and such.
I know I was never a good student - my professors reminded me of that pretty much constantly. As did a few of my friends.
Unfortunately, after the breakdown at the beginning of my second year, college ceased to be primarily about learning - it was about survival. My continued emotional survival required I stay in college any way I could. So I guess what my friend in college is true - I was a waste of financial aid.
I started actually shaking. It was like getting a fix of drugs I hadn't had in years. I knew that I had missed coding - but I hadn't realized how much.
I mean, I have this degree in Computer Science that has pretty much gone to waste. Almost all of my friends from Grinnell got nice computer jobs - and they got their degrees in physics, history, biology and such.
I know I was never a good student - my professors reminded me of that pretty much constantly. As did a few of my friends.
Unfortunately, after the breakdown at the beginning of my second year, college ceased to be primarily about learning - it was about survival. My continued emotional survival required I stay in college any way I could. So I guess what my friend in college is true - I was a waste of financial aid.
