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academics double down on their defense
One would think that following more than a year of very public debate about college education, student loans, and how an entire generation is being left behind in social and economic terms despite...
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college advice, pretentious posturing included
Illustration by Sebastien Vereille Quite a few science and academic blogs are abuzz with links and quotes from an article by a former English professor and current essayist William Deresiewicz...
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changing comp sci for all the wrong reasons
Normally, I try to keep this blog from straying into minutia or the fine points of computer science because how to write and debug code isn’t exactly a rousing topic that will be eagerly read by...
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how to dodge responsibility, comp sci edition
Allow me to return for just a moment to the exciting world of computer science academia and CMU’s decision to teach only functional programming languages, offering only one optional course in the...
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so how many humanities scholars do we need?
On this blog, yours truly harps a lot about the benefit of a STEM major and relentlessly pounced on those who seem to believe that humanities makes one a better person than the sciences, especially...
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the absurd post-college guessing game
Illustration by Gerhards Haderer Ever since my foray into grad school, college education has been a recurring topic here as I struggled how to balance the advice given to me about what to study and...
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