first semester back at georgia tech...

**john turner** · #1 12-24-2010, 07:37 AM

and i got a 4.0

. in fact, in all my classes i had a 97 or above average.

not only that but i was hired to be a teaching assistant for one of my computer science classes next semester. the class is focused on discrete math, propositional calculus and proofs. i've been a programmer since 1984, when i got my first apple ][e in 10th grade, but this stuff was all new and very interesting to me.

so yay me. thought i'd share

. not bad for not having set foot in a classroom in 18 years.

Jim Nazium · #2 12-24-2010, 07:47 AM

Clearly you are sandbagging. You need to take some harder classes than "beginning bass guitar" and "introduction to internet forum moderating".

Thunderscreech · #3 12-24-2010, 08:42 AM

All your professors only gave you A's because they didn't want to be banned from talkbass should they ever sign up.

But I digress. Congratulations.

Skitch it! · #4 12-24-2010, 08:46 AM

There's life in the old dog yet

It's a win, happy Xmas, enjoy ; )

iamlowsound · #5 12-24-2010, 09:19 AM

That is impressive. Any perfects in there?

lowsound

**Bryan R. Tyler** · #6 12-24-2010, 09:21 AM

The state gave me an Apple IIE back in 1985 for being mostly blind, but all I ever learned to do on it was type and play Space Invaders until I got a kill screen.

champbassist · #7 12-24-2010, 09:28 AM

Congrats on the result! Around here, we're graded out of 10 points, so, initially, I was like

when I saw your result

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Originally Posted by john turner

not only that but i was hired to be a teaching assistant for one of my computer science classes next semester. the class is focused on discrete math

I have discrete math next semester. Looking forward to it

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Originally Posted by Thunderscreech

All your professors only gave you A's because they didn't want to be banned from talkbass should they ever sign up.

+1

dave64o · #8 12-24-2010, 09:29 AM

Nicely done, John!

My nephew graduated from GT with a Computer Science degree two years ago and is doing quite well now as a software engineer. That degree should open any doors you want opened.

sobie18 · #9 12-24-2010, 09:34 AM

Good job, John!

IconBasser · #10 12-24-2010, 10:44 AM

derp, I only got a 3.72 this semester.

username n/a · #11 12-24-2010, 11:14 AM

I got a 3.08. I'm not really sure how that happened.

IconBasser · #12 12-24-2010, 11:22 AM

username, you're in high school. You should be able to get a 3.08 with your eyes closed.

iamlowsound · #13 12-24-2010, 11:26 AM

I had a 3.8 this semester. That is what happens when you take 7 courses :/

lowsound

**jmattbassplaya** · #14 12-24-2010, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by iamlowsound

I had a 3.8 this semester. That is what happens when you take 7 courses :/

lowsound

The more classes I have a semester, the better I seem to do. I get too carefree and relaxed when I'm not staying busy constantly.

L-A · #15 12-24-2010, 12:27 PM

I don't know much of your rating system. For what it's worth, I walked out of University with a global A.

**john turner** · #16 12-24-2010, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim Nazium

Clearly you are sandbagging. You need to take some harder classes than "beginning bass guitar" and "introduction to internet forum moderating".

heh. yeah, a lot of the stuff was something of a review. i had 3 cs classes (1 was p/f), psych 1 and calc 1. i had calc before when i was pursuing the first degree but that was about 24 years ago, so it was almost like it was all new. i remember the day before class started the calc prof emailed everyone review problems and i couldn't make heads or tails of them heh. amazing what some studying can accomplish. the psych class was fun, actually - needed it for the AI course plan i am pursuing - and wasn't too hard, although it was a lot of material. by semester's end we had been tested on an entire ~1000 page textbook.

and the class that i am ta'ing was almost entirely new stuff - combinatorics (i.e. if you go to dunkin donuts and they have 13 types of donuts, how many different arrangements of 2 dozen could you have if you needed to pick at least 2 jelly donuts and no more than 4 chocolate frosted donuts - that type of stuff) and probability was a big part of the material we covered, along with inductive proofs, logical reasoning, finding primes etc. great all around cs theory-type class, really neat stuff.

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Originally Posted by Thunderscreech

All your professors only gave you A's because they didn't want to be banned from talkbass should they ever sign up.

But I digress. Congratulations.

believe it or not, i know of at least one professor from georgia tech who has been a long time member here.

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Originally Posted by iamlowsound

That is impressive. Any perfects in there?

lowsound

out of the 14 tests and 3 finals i had this semester, i only had 1 score below a 95 (an 86), and 7 tests and 1 final of 100 or higher.

final average in calc was 100.7% (he gave some extra credit on one of the tests

).

i had 297 out of 300 in psych - my psych prof told me that was the first time anyone ever had a score that high in her class.

my python and intro to robotics class i ended up with a 99.5%, and the class that i am ta'ing, the intro to discrete math and proofs class my final average was a 97. ironic that that was the lowest one, but in a sense that's why i pursued this one to be a ta for. i'll learn it even better having to help teach it.

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Originally Posted by dave64o

Nicely done, John!

My nephew graduated from GT with a Computer Science degree two years ago and is doing quite well now as a software engineer. That degree should open any doors you want opened.

cool. yeah, my first GT degree helped me a lot even though i never got an engineering job (my first degree was electrical engineering). the ultimate result for this time around is actually a master's degree, but i need to get this undergrad stuff out of the way - i'll end up getting sufficient credits to get a 2nd undergrad cs degree on the way.

fdeck · #17 12-24-2010, 12:29 PM

That propositional calculus will come in handy when you proposition people.

**john turner** · #18 12-24-2010, 12:31 PM

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That propositional calculus will come in handy when you proposition people.

heh. that's what i always think when i see that too. must be an engieer thing. heh.

**jmattbassplaya** · #19 12-24-2010, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by john turner

heh. that's what i always think when i see that too. must be an engieer thing. heh.

Nerds

But honestly, congrats on doing well! Do you think you found classes and school easier this time around?

**john turner** · #20 12-24-2010, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by jmattbassplaya

Nerds

But honestly, congrats on doing well! Do you think you found classes and school easier this time around?

i'm approaching things a lot more seriously. i could have done this well the first time, but i was a little too cavalier about things.

for example, i begin seriously studying for a test about a week before. i put in, on average, 20 or so hours of study for each test, spaced over a week or so. this kind of discipline was hard for me when i was 18, but not now.

interestingly enough, i also got a lot of leisure reading in. i found that after studying for a couple hours, a couple hours of reading before bed would help the material "stick". read the entire gaunts ghosts series by dan abnett (~3000 pages) along with eisenhorn and ravenor omnibuses (~800 pages each) during the semester, as i was studying.