This is a response to Jeun’s blog post. I thought this is too personal of a statement to leave in someone else’s blog.
We can only rely on our professors so much.
The rest, we have to run the extra 2 miles ourselves.So, given that your average computer science student (if we have the same criterion for average) would not really be suitable for such work right off the bat.
The thing with most undergraduates is that they choose *not* to focus on what their careers would be like until they are on their senior levels. A lot of people choose to avoid the difficult questions in life that will really make a difference thinking that they’ll have the time to think about it later on.
The truth is, you won’t have the time unless you make the time.
I may step on some toes unintentionally, but I think this is too important a message to avoid everyone’s toes.
What I want to achieve in the department before I graduate is to encourage the other students to see how big the IT industry really is and that there is just so much to learn that you can’t afford to just sit around and wait to be spoon fed. I want UP CS Students to be a different kind of UP graduate. One that does not wait for opportunities but make opportunities themselves.
Computer Science is not just about algorithms, web applications, programming or whatnot.
It’s about solving problems.
It’s about making lives easier.
It’s about helping people.And I think a lot of us look at CS too closely that we lose sight of the big picture. And this is what I want to leave among my peers.
And I’ll do it one person at a time.
