higher learning

I'm 12 years out of graduate school now, and it's true, the dreams of coming unprepared for that linear algebra or organic chem class never do completely go away. For that fact, neither do dreams of waking up in the dorms and being late for class... It must be too similar to working.

I think it just depends on how traumatic your university years are. I never have bad dreams about the years I was a biochemistry undergrad (at a certain point in my life, computer stuff was going to be a "side" thing to medicine). I was actually pretty good at organic chem. Seemed like a fun game with legos to me. The plastic molecule models really sold it. I think I got something silly like a 127 on my final after the curve.

Comp sci, on the other hand, requires several nights of nightmares just to get an old nightmare to recycle. It wasn't really *hard*, just incredibly tedious and time-consuming. A good approximation is trying to build a simple house of cards in a light breeze. You can bend the cards and block the wind to do it, but it's not the right way. I don't think I remember smiling from about 2000 to 2002.

Ye gads Organic Chemistry!! I HATED that class!!

I suffered one semester of it. I'm still trying to convince myself to take the remaining semester. -_- The models did nothing for me but give me hand cramps. I wish you were my lab partner back then, I would've probably liked o chem somewhat. :P

Yeah, I lived through the Organic chemistry years and the Biochemistry years and the Anatomy years... Of course that is all so useful now that I teach Science to third graders. I don't miss going to bed at three in the morning only to wake up at six to start studying for that Organic exam. And yeah, those manipulative kits for Organic were the coolest part. I borrowed a couple of friend's sets and built a skyscraper one time.

I would have graduated a while ago if I would not have decided that EET(Electrical Engineering Technology) was boring after I finished my Associates...

Now that I'm going to finish my CSI(Computer Science) degree soon, I hope the dreams of code will end. I found it really disturbing the first time I went to bed at 3 AM and woke up 4 hours later after dreaming of Java code. Normal people dream of computer algorithms, right? Please say yes, because I'm kind of worried...