[ale] Sort of OT: College Majors

[hbbs at comcast.net (Jeff Hubbs)]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 07:21, Geoffrey wrote:
> Parker McGee wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > A good story: One of the high schoolers at the program talked all day
> > about how he was going to do computer science and nothing else; how he
> > loved computers and such.  Then, I was sitting behind him in the Study
> > Abroad seminar when the speaker said "Oxford College's dorms were
> > built in the 1300s but they even have Cat5 wiring now!"  He turned to
> > the person sitting next to him and asked "What's Cat5?"
> 
> Why would that matter?  Just because he doesn't know what cat5 is, 
> doesn't mean he's not going to be good at CS.

True, but how should I bet? :)

Jeff