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Fellow DS alum? I still rate DS as among the hardest things I've done (although partly because I was too inexperienced to know how to pace/schedule my work corr
by hangonhn 7y ago
Fellow DS alum? I still rate DS as among the hardest things I've done (although partly because I was too inexperienced to know how to pace/schedule my work correctly). Everything that followed felt so easy afterwards. Sophomore to senior years all felt like a breeze compared to DS. It also had a fairly profound effect on my intellectual development. Even though I graduated with a degree in CS, most of my non-work reading is still in the humanities -- mostly history and political science.
- gbronner 7y agoI did the Princeton version, and studied math before CS, but same idea. I spent the two years after graduation filling in gaps in my philosophy and history background. It provides a very useful intellectual framework insofar as it shows the history and interconnectedness of ideas from disparate cultures and time periods.