MIT Engineers

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:10 pm

yea that definitely sucked. I ran the last 4 lines today waiting on the cameras. figured I would rather do it while the weather is decent

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 7:43 am

cool read

George Hotz must be the most brilliant computer scientist in the world - and also the guy thats going to create AI that builds terminators

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015- ... iving-car/

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 11:43 am

Yeah, I read that last night and forwarded it to my team. Great story. I don't even think it'll be terminators that he creates...just what his vision of the future of work is enough to scare some people.

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 12:19 pm

We should enslave the AI's and have them do all our work for us.

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 12:20 pm

Totally just kidding, future AI overlord reading a cached version of this board

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 2:48 pm

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:15 pm

my son with a 26 on the ACT and an admittedly bad 2.8 high school GPA was denied acceptance to UC's Lindler School of Business.

Denied to a damn business school. It may be a blessing in disguise as the alternative college is noticeably cheaper and allows him to transfer credits to UC.

I was a little suprised at how selective UC is - I mean I can see maybe Engineering but Business? c'mon.

hedge · Post by **hedge** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:21 pm

Is that something completely separate from UC or is it just a school within UC? If the latter, I've never heard of somebody applying to the school within a school...

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:25 pm

no, its just the business school within the college

but I figured they consider the degree you were earning - surely they don't hold the Business Marketing kids to the same standards as the Electrical Engineers or in this case, maybe they do

Matter of fact I know they don't because they talked about the different average ACT scores of the students in the different schools when we took a tour.

The school of business was a 24.

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:33 pm

UC has gotten a lot tougher on acceptance applications over the past few years. At least your spawn is trying. Mine just leaves me a grocery list and sleeps till 3 thinking she's gonna become some famous person on YouTube.

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:39 pm

at first I was kinda pissed, but he's also a rudderless ship. He understands the importance of education but he doesn't really have much motivation to be anything.

I probably shouldn't have rolled my eyes the day he told me he wanted to be a video game programmer. The real world after college is supposed to crush his dreams, not dad.

At any rate, it is what it is - and I can pay cash for his tuition the next 2 years before he has to make the jump to a real college. Mom gets to keep her kid at home for 2 more years as well. We decide what our next steps are then.

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 2:53 pm

Seems like video game programmer would be encouraged since at least its a path to a shitty but stable Initech type software job

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 3:00 pm

aTm wrote:Seems like video game programmer would be encouraged since at least its a path to a shitty but stable Initech type software job

I didn't discourage him from computers - but I didn't want him to believe that video game programmer for a kid that has never written a piece of code was the path to start out on. Its why I pushed him toward school of business IT degree versus Comp Sci.

Saint · Post by **Saint** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 3:24 pm

Damn, my 8 year old is learning code now via Youth Digital's online programs.

Tell your boy there's hope for him yet. I only had a 2.8 GPA in high school but made the dean's list 4 out of my first 6 semesters in college. Now look at me!

eCat · Post by **eCat** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 4:15 pm

yea, when you decide at 15 you want to be video game programmer but you have no interest in actually learning how to code - I'd say its time for dad to give you a gentle nudge in another direction.

Bklyn · Post by **Bklyn** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 5:50 pm

Saint wrote: Tell your boy there's hope for him yet. I only had a 2.8 GPA in high school but made the dean's list 4 out of my first 6 semesters in college.

There is a UNC joke buried in there...well, not exactly buried.

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 7:29 pm

Well done.

AlabamAlum · Post by **AlabamAlum** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 9:13 pm

hedge wrote:Is that something completely separate from UC or is it just a school within UC? If the latter, I've never heard of somebody applying to the school within a school...

Many schools within a school have a separate admission process.

sardis · Post by **sardis** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 9:55 pm

My nephew is a gaming design major at a New England private college....I'm sure his parents are getting their money's worth.

crashcourse · Post by **crashcourse** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 10:14 am

I like sports. I could do something in sports

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