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RE: Academic advice...

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcus Wolschon [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 9:50 AM
> To: 
> Subject: Re: Academic advice...
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> 
> 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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