thomblake comments on On the Fence? Major in CS - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 07 May 2009 01:30:00PM 0 points [-]

As soon as I graduated with a CS degree I realized I should have been in philosophy the whole time.

This matches my experience. I was a CS major for a bit but ended up graduating with a degree in philosophy. It was much more relevant, even to working in computing.

Comment author: jscn 13 May 2009 10:03:39PM 1 point [-]

Thirded. I completed half of my degree in CS before switching to Philosophy. I'm finding it significantly more stimulating. I don't think I learned anything in my CS classes that I couldn't easily have taught myself (and had more fun doing so).