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Re: Academic advice...

From: Marcus Wolschon <>
Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 18:49:42 +0200

Juts a question: in wich country are you?

Freeman Pascal wrote:

>Folks,
>
>I know this is a bit off topic, but I'm not sure
>where to go to get such information.  Please feel
>free to delete this message, though I would appreciate
>any feed back I receive.
>
>After 15 years of working in the computer industry
>as a Unix systems admin, systems integrator, and
>developer I am thinking of returning to school full
>time to complete my higher education.
>
>I only completed two years of school and left primarily
>because I was getting married, money issues, and because
>I was much too young and immature at the time to take
>advantage of school. (Scary, I was old enough to get
>married, but not to complete school - what does that
>say?)
>
>Everything I know professionally has been self taught.
>I consider myself successful at everything I have tried.
>Now at 36, it is time to go back and complete my schooling
>and to seriously apply myself to my fields of interest:
>pervasive computing, wear-able computing, and 
>human-machine interfaces in a pervasive computing 
>environment. (No, pervasive and wearable don't conflict;
>Wearables just aren't small enough to be invisible yet.)
>
>I would like to ask those of you who are in the academic
>environment how I should go about doing this?  Should
>I start back at where I left off, or should I try to
>lean on my professional experience and try to get into
>grad school as some have suggested to me?  I do know
>that I would have to go back and relearn my math 
>requirements - my math skills have atrophied over the
>years.
>
>Any comments and advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
>-Freeman
>
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