I did learn COBOL and FORTRAN, but they were taught by the night school and the engineering school, respectively. The CS department wouldn't touch those languages.
I didn't really learn how to learn until I did some freelance work for a doctoral dissertation student who was trying to establish key trends in a Methods of Inquiry class (which taught students how to learn effectively). That's a class I wish I would have taken, but it wasn't available when I started.
And then of course is the old adage from Henry Kissinger, "University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." :-)
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Date: 2009-06-20 12:07 pm (UTC)I didn't really learn how to learn until I did some freelance work for a doctoral dissertation student who was trying to establish key trends in a Methods of Inquiry class (which taught students how to learn effectively). That's a class I wish I would have taken, but it wasn't available when I started.
And then of course is the old adage from Henry Kissinger, "University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." :-)