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When I chose to major in CS, I got a nice letter from the university suggesting that maybe this wasn't the best choice, that too many people were picking this,
by davidgay 7y ago
When I chose to major in CS, I got a nice letter from the university suggesting that maybe this wasn't the best choice, that too many people were picking this, that it would be worth considering other majors.
This worked - I can't quite remember the numbers, but probably the entering class was 2/3rds the size it would've been otherwise.
And clearly, it was going to be a terrible idea to graduate in Computer Science in 1992, so who can blame them? The field had clearly hit its peak by 1987... (this was in Switzerland, on a 4.5 year degree program)
- PlanetRenox 7y agoWhile I really enjoy how you framed that, I want to add that I still do strongly believe that things are going to look much different in 2025. Reports predicting it as the year more than 50% of normal workplace jobs being taken by AI, I believe the goalposts are going to morph into something we do not have the capacity to imagine yet. I'm a student too similar to op with 1.5 years left to graduate, yesterday I got shivers waiting for my appointment with my advisor. Phone call within seconds of phone call, the receptionist was getting calls about students wanting to change majors into cs.
- kmbriedis 7y agoWas it a university like ETH Zürich, where anyone can get in but there is a limited number of spots from the second year onwards? Then it really made sense to suggest that