First lecture
Written on January 23, 2008
Today I attended my first lecture in the US. The experience couldn’t have been any more different than from university in Germany. The lecture wasn’t a lecture but more the forming of a project group. The aim is to create a database system using C. The system is supposed to have a good new feature for searching the web. I don’t wanna go into technical details but the whole project is done in cooperation with IBM. This all sounds great and probably really is great. But I am right now going more and more away from close to hardware programming and am sure that I absolutely won’t want to have a job which includes C-programming. So I am not willing to invest the needed time into this project. But I am highly interested in the topic itself and therefore talked already with the Professor to see if he can give me a more research oriented task. He didn’t know yet but will be able to tell me on Monday. This whole story unmotivated me a little esp. since I felt like I gave up. But sitting in the train back home I continued reading a great management book by Fremdund Malik in which he states that you should work on your strengths and not on your weaknesses. So this convinced me that I made the right decision. I also was able to find a substitutionary lecture in case I won’t get a non-C-programming task. The only problem with the other class is that I can’t find a way to get in contact with the teacher…
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