After my high school, I spent two years on a startup idea and ultimately, left my partner behind and went to college in the United States. Contrary to common belief, I learned a lot in my college. I am already a veteran in C/Javascript/PHP/C# before my college day, but the valuable thing about college is not learning "programming". So, here is what I've learned:
1). I learned how to work with supercomputer, no, it is not Hadoop with thousands nodes (though I've worked on that too!). It is Ranger, one of the computer on TOP500. And I can spend thousands of computing hours freely to just explore MPI and how to efficiently program on this puppy (one lesson I learned, async communication does not always save you time);
2). I learned what Buddhism is and how it transformed during years, how to do anthropology study and what the war is like in chimpanzees world and human tribes, how that interact, and what it implies;
3). I learned what evolutionary theory really is, how it developed, and the influence to American pragmatism;
4). I learned computer graphics! It is an amazing experience to write your own ray tracer with all the knowledge you actually knew (not just glue some random code together);
5). I even learned how MRI works in one of my biomedical class!
I am appreciated so much to the college experience and despite what people say about it, I learned a lot.
After my high school, I spent two years on a startup idea and ultimately, left my partner behind and went to college in the United States. Contrary to common belief, I learned a lot in my college. I am already a veteran in C/Javascript/PHP/C# before my college day, but the valuable thing about college is not learning "programming". So, here is what I've learned:
1). I learned how to work with supercomputer, no, it is not Hadoop with thousands nodes (though I've worked on that too!). It is Ranger, one of the computer on TOP500. And I can spend thousands of computing hours freely to just explore MPI and how to efficiently program on this puppy (one lesson I learned, async communication does not always save you time);
2). I learned what Buddhism is and how it transformed during years, how to do anthropology study and what the war is like in chimpanzees world and human tribes, how that interact, and what it implies;
3). I learned what evolutionary theory really is, how it developed, and the influence to American pragmatism;
4). I learned computer graphics! It is an amazing experience to write your own ray tracer with all the knowledge you actually knew (not just glue some random code together);
5). I even learned how MRI works in one of my biomedical class!
I am appreciated so much to the college experience and despite what people say about it, I learned a lot.