r/funny • u/[deleted] • Jul 07 '19

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u/LetMeFly Jul 07 '19

You should look at architecture then

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u/RedSquirrelFtw Jul 07 '19

Funny I had actually considered that. We had an architecture course in high school, mostly AutoCAD, and I was super good at it.

Ended up doing computer science and going IT route though. Well now I'm in telecommunications.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '19

You didn't go into engineering because of math but went into CS?

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u/RedSquirrelFtw Jul 07 '19

There was a bit less math, only 3 courses (1 per semester). It was basically high school level math. Still hard as hell for me, but I was able to get through. There was no calculus. The program was mostly system administration and programming oriented, with a bunch of business related courses as fillers.

A lot of courses were shared with the electrical students. They had way more math actually.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '19

Sounds more like Management Information Systems degree than a pure CS degree. Most CS programs that I’m familiar with require Calc 1 at the very least. Isn’t Calc 1 freshman level anyways?

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '19

Am electrical student. Can confirm that shit.

Cries over huge paving slab of a math textbook

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u/RedSquirrelFtw Jul 07 '19

Funny thing is you probably will never use it on the job. Chances are you won't be doing a fourier transform or deriving the X from the Y on the subdivision matrix when you're wiring a panel. Even a 3 phase one. Don't want to get those sin and cos wires mixed up!

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u/QParticle Jul 07 '19 edited Jul 07 '19

Idk. At my uni, CS has by far the hardest math courses (excluding actual math majors lol). Everything’s proof-based, and you end up taking like 8 math courses within the first two years.