Wow, sounds like the typical heres-the-teaching-plan-dont-ask-me-why, NCBLA, spoon-fed idiocracy. Back in highschool, thankfully we had one honest guy that jus

Wow, sounds like the typical heres-the-teaching-plan-dont-ask-me-why, NCBLA, spoon-fed idiocracy. Back in highschool, thankfully we had one honest guy that just let us do whatever the fuck we wanted (which was pretty awesome). All of the borderline-useless hazing you might have missed at a "top 50" school (one of the UC's): - Java to MIPS asm compiler in both Java and C++ - Reimplement the major parts of OpenGL pipeline in C++ - Hack on MINIX 2.x kernel, reimplement some *NIX tools - Gates up superscalar, pipelined, branch-predicting, microcoded integer CPU in VHDL and its own microcode language - Caching HTTP/1.0 proxy server - Interface various hardware to PICs, FPGAs and PALs - Problem sets upon problem sets, ad infinitum - Coed dorms where the doors are always open, but you won't have time for more than just hooking up - Sleepless all-nighters (2-5 per week) and all the junk food your meal plan can afford (because you won't have time to cook)