uh, you should go to berkeley. sorry the school is so much better than ucsd and ucla. you're talking about the difference between a top tier school and 2nd/3rd tier schools. what's your reason for not wanting to go to berkeley?

 

Berkeley is a lot more competitive. Great school though.

 

I like the environment in LA. My girlfriend's(She's very important to me) in SD and I don't wanna be in a too competitive environment.
Also, they gave me the spring 08 admission instead of fall 08. So that's like a year away. I'm an international student and I can't sit around a year in the US, my visa wouldn't allow it. I'd have to sell my car if I can't stay here.
Also, I prefer to do things at my own pace. I could always try to go to berkeley for postgrad right?

 

if you continued taking classes @ de anza, would your visa still be an issue?

 

I don't like sitting in front of the same computer for 8 hours a day, working on the same project I've been woking on for almost 2 years now. I have no teammates who can help me, so I need to Google just about everything. Occasionally, I will spend days researching to no avail.

My accomplishments at work, which include retrieving data from a web page and enabling my application to automatically generate web pages, just aren't satisfying enough. I remember the days when I became so excited after writing a program which calculated change when a person gives you a 20 when the total price of an item was 18.99. Now, its like who cares.

 

But the pay is good, right?


Hey, if you you had the choice to go back, would have have chosen Computer Engineering instead of Computer Science? I am at a crossroads right now and I have to pick one or the other.

 

Hahaha. Being a programmer (which is what I am), no. Working for the defense company doing Software Engineering work (whatever that is). Yes.

Neither! But if you do like computers, I'd go with Computer Information Systems. Just more practical. Between those two choices though, Computer Engineering.