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UW Seattle has a lot of really amazing computer scientists and mathematicians. Even ignoring all the stuff you learn just from being around a huge number of fol

UW Seattle has a lot of really amazing computer scientists and mathematicians. Even ignoring all the stuff you learn just from being around a huge number of folks in your own age range, and intro/intermediate classes which you can learn on your own if you have a "sufficiently good" textbook or lecture notes, there is still a huge amount of physics, statistics, general mathematics, combinatorics, probability theory, theoretical computer science, algorithms, computer vison, and other cool things. UW Seattle has cool faculty in all those areas, and if you take advantage of your school, you stand to learn from them! (or do cool stuff like learn some mechanical engineering or take some drawing classe) Also, little/well known fact, most tech startups aren't that technically interesting, and rarely does a startup leave its employees with much time to do much else. (Yes, many counterexamples exist, but even at those, how many roles are the interesting ones at even those places?) there are other bits, but those are the broad points

Dove 17y ago
I second this. I did undergrad and grad pure math at UW, and a lot of comp sci electives. The faculty was phenomenal. I learned so much, and not just of the subject material. I learned so much about how to think during some brilliant lectures. You want some mental exercise that will make programming seem easy by comparison? Get a pure math degree at UW. And take all the hard classes. Nor was I bored in even the intro C Sci classes. There were typically other experienced folks taking the classes with me, and some projects open-ended enough to let them challenge themselves. I saw some guys build an animated 3D vector projection from scratch in CSE 143, and in CSE 373, during a speed competition, I remember someone taking apart and rewriting scanf.

Dove 17y ago

I second this. I did undergrad and grad pure math at UW, and a lot of comp sci electives. The faculty was phenomenal. I learned so much, and not just of the subject material. I learned so much about how to think during some brilliant lectures. You want some mental exercise that will make programming seem easy by comparison? Get a pure math degree at UW. And take all the hard classes. Nor was I bored in even the intro C Sci classes. There were typically other experienced folks taking the classes with me, and some projects open-ended enough to let them challenge themselves. I saw some guys build an animated 3D vector projection from scratch in CSE 143, and in CSE 373, during a speed competition, I remember someone taking apart and rewriting scanf.