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Liz:
Moving out for college was great. I had never moved anywhere as a kid unless you count moving from bedroom A to bedroom B in my parents house when I was probably about two years old. It's exciting! It costs a lot of money because you have to pay for everything that your parents used to buy but I very much enjoyed becoming an adult. And, a few years later, becoming an actual adult (bills, bills, bills, work, work, work).

Tom:
Enrollments opened like an hour ago and everyone swooped down like magpies and stole all the really shiny class times. I've had to shift a few classes and send out a polite email but hopefully, I'll still get my day off.

snalin:
Got my first out of three exams this Friday - discrete maths. It's probably gonna be supah easy (compared to maths from last year where I got a D :c, gotta take that one again before I finish my BA), but I'm still a bit nervous. It's pretty fun to work with, and I've set aside the entire day for tomorrow and Thursday to crank out some exams, so it'll probably be great.

I'm considering changing my BA, though, from Informatics to, well, Informatics, dropping some low level programming (a course about assembly and shell scripts and OSs) in favor of more maths. Probably gonna have 80% of the same courses when I'm finished, but is this a good idea? What do I need most as a prospective programmer, low level operating system knowledge, or more relevant Maths?

pwhodges:
Go with what you enjoy most (and thus presumably expect to do better at).  I would say that maths is universal, whereas coding and low-level OS is more likely to be ad hoc  stuff you can get from manuals as required - but of course there's lots of underlying theory for OS operation which it is also good to have.  I'm sufficiently out of touch with IT education (let alone the details of yours) to judge how theoretical, and hence useful (in my book!), the low-level OS stuff in your course actually is, though.  But even so, make the most of what you do best, and you can cram the rest as required by real lifeTM

Avec:
I've avoided having a Facebook all through high school and now I'm forced to do it so I can choose a roommate. What's worse is that it demands that I actually make an effort to make a page since I'll probably be judged from there.

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