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Re: Academic advice...

I just remembered something.  And this will depend on
where you are at Freeman.  But I'd recommend ANY class
you think your experience or knowledge surpasses the
class, try to test out of it.  This may or may not be
successful, but it could potentially move you from
freshman to junior in a semester.

Rick

--- Vito Miliano <> wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 5:33:22 PM, Freeman
> wrote:
> 
> FP> Now at 36, it is time to go back and complete my
> schooling and to
> FP> seriously apply myself to my fields of interest:
> pervasive
> FP> computing, wear-able computing, and 
> human-machine interfaces in a
> FP> pervasive computing  environment. (No, pervasive
> and wearable
> FP> don't conflict; Wearables just aren't small
> enough to be invisible
> FP> yet.)
> 
> I asked this same question on this list a while back
> (looking to get
> into the same things, incidentally), and the biggest
> thing I took away
> from the response I got (both on the list and
> privately), was that in
> the majority of schools, undergraduates aren't
> allowed to touch
> anything.
> 
> All the university-level research projects, be it
> MIT, Georgia Tech,
> wherever, all seem to be grad-student-level
> projects.  I didn't hear
> anything from anyone that indicated that an
> undergrad (freshman, in my
> case), even with real-world experience, would be
> allowed to
> participate in the projects in any meaningful way.
> 
> Even the schools where I'd been asked to attend by
> the professors
> (whom I knew through private sector work) who wanted
> me to work on
> their research with them, when told I would be a
> freshman, the
> indication was that it might be a problem.
> 
> FP> I would like to ask those of you who are in the
> academic
> FP> environment how I should go about doing this? 
> Should I start back
> FP> at where I left off, or should I try to lean on
> my professional
> FP> experience and try to get into grad school as
> some have suggested
> FP> to me?  I do know that I would have to go back
> and relearn my math
> FP> requirements - my math skills have atrophied
> over the years.
> 
> I'll likely be starting this fall as a freshman at
> the University of
> Texas at Austin, with no clear major in mind, and
> the expectation that
> I'll be continuing my wearable research on my own
> time, hopefully
> being able to grill whatever professors and such are
> there who might
> be helpful, and maybe getting around to completing
> and submitting
> these half-finished papers to ISWC and the like. 
> Perhaps in four or
> five years, I'll be "eligible" to participate
> "officially" in this
> sort of thing.  :)
> 
> Thanks,
> --Vito
> 
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