Like in all good college classes, the first post on this blog is going to be an introduction.
Lank and I are both freshmen studying Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, which just happens to be one of the best places in the world to do Computer Science, with phenomenal research going on every minute of the day, with some of the best professors in the world, with a super computer on campus, and some of the brightest kids in the US.
How did we get in? We ask ourselves that very question every day.
We're both relatively bright kids, and have gone to some excellent schools in Hyderabad. We can do an incredibly high level of Math and Physics (we're both in sophomore level Math courses right now, and are certain to get A's), but have never done programming before. Why Computer Science then? Cause we love Math, we love making algorithms, we love debugging algorithms, and to a large extent thats basically what Computer Science is. Are we any good at it? Probably not.
After spending 8 hours doing our CS 231 (Computer Architecture 1) homework today, we came back home exhausted, and thought it would be interesting to chronicle the lives of two freshmen at an amazing university, neither of whom know anything about anything. We're surrounded by brilliant people, people who are already doing research as freshmen, people who wake up half an hour before an exam and do better than us, people who have been coding since the age of 7, people who we look up to.
This blog is partly an ode to the people around us who intimidate us, scare us and amaze us. But its mostly about how we flail our arms wildly over the next couple of years, trying desperately not to drown.
Lank and I are both freshmen studying Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, which just happens to be one of the best places in the world to do Computer Science, with phenomenal research going on every minute of the day, with some of the best professors in the world, with a super computer on campus, and some of the brightest kids in the US.
How did we get in? We ask ourselves that very question every day.
We're both relatively bright kids, and have gone to some excellent schools in Hyderabad. We can do an incredibly high level of Math and Physics (we're both in sophomore level Math courses right now, and are certain to get A's), but have never done programming before. Why Computer Science then? Cause we love Math, we love making algorithms, we love debugging algorithms, and to a large extent thats basically what Computer Science is. Are we any good at it? Probably not.
After spending 8 hours doing our CS 231 (Computer Architecture 1) homework today, we came back home exhausted, and thought it would be interesting to chronicle the lives of two freshmen at an amazing university, neither of whom know anything about anything. We're surrounded by brilliant people, people who are already doing research as freshmen, people who wake up half an hour before an exam and do better than us, people who have been coding since the age of 7, people who we look up to.
This blog is partly an ode to the people around us who intimidate us, scare us and amaze us. But its mostly about how we flail our arms wildly over the next couple of years, trying desperately not to drown.
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