Last Monday (12/18/2006) was spent driving down the opposite direction of the 101. I went down to Camarillo to meet with Dr. Bill Wolfe, head of computer science at CSU Channel Islands. He asked me some questions to get a feel of my background and my direction. I indicated I am planning on taking Calculus and preferred classes that were more mathematically involved. From this he suggested that I instead looked into Computer Science. I never really considered myself Computer Science material until I started doing my own independent study and found I actually liked programming and delving deeper into programming concepts. My major, Information Technology, is more of a mix between Comp. Sci. and business: It’s not too math oriented, and it’s not too business oriented. I like to call it “Computer Science for Dummies” (sorry Steven!). Anyways, long story short: I decided to move from IT to Computer Science because it’s more challenging and will be better for me in the long run (No Masters program for IT). Computer Science is a more widely known Major than IT is, so I’m wondering if I’m going to the right school for that? I heard Cal Poly has a good program, or what about someplace in the bay area? At this point however, I don’t care. I just wanted to earn my Bachelor’s degree and hopefully go on to obtain a masters. Afterwards, he showed me the labs and indicated that I could easily get a job within the department doing some sort of tech support position. I left with a better sense of direction of what I’ll be doing in the near future. In short: this semester taking physics + calc at cuesta and 3 classes online at CSUCI.
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