Comments on: You Know You Go to a Tech School When…

By: nelle

nelle — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:33:39 +0000

The odds are good…but the goods are odd

By: nelle

nelle — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:55:15 +0000

Nice list.

At Fl Tech, we didn’t just cluster around the power outlets – we had to bring a power strip.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:46:51 +0000

I would re-title the article… When I think of a “tech” school I think of places like ITT Tech and the crappy trade schools…

By: Ehab

Ehab — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:12:55 +0000

Hah ! :D

All throughout the time I was thinking to myself “Thats where I belong”..

Gotta finish my A-Levels first -( stupid britt edu sys :(

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:28:23 +0000

I know I am beating a dead horse here but…

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By: How I Learned to Code - PaulStamatiou.com

How I Learned to Code - PaulStamatiou.com — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:06:29 +0000

[...] out with smart CS people (easy to find at nerdy schools). Ask [...]

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A Realistic Back to School Guide for College Students - PaulStamatiou.com — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:11:05 +0000

[...] cost around $100, give or take some, they will last you all 4 years (or even 5, 6, 7 if you go to a tech school and change majors a few [...]

By: chrisroberts7577

chrisroberts7577 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:42:55 +0000

Glad to see the CS people fear our ECE classes like us ECE people feared the CS classes.

Couple things you forgot:
The engineering majors making fun of those who jump on the M-Train.

The fact that feel dumber by just being on the management side of campus.

Professors will wear the same thing everyday for a entire semester.

Zipping your fly is optional for professors

You attend graduate school somewhere and think it is easier than your 2000 level classes

By: FireBath

FireBath — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:44:28 +0000

When you hear a dude on the hallway talking about how his whole family died you ask him if he saved before (a Sims one). You can talk to a dude about 3 hours about how the damage of behemoths is calculated. You make all the people in the dorm angry when you trip the main power breaker (we fixed that one in 5 minutes in complete darkness, the next power outage affected the whole city block because of the unbreakable power breaker we created :))

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By: Kings

Kings — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:24:16 +0000

ROFL your list is great. I’m pretty damn geeky but still couldn’t relate to 25% of that. Now I’m wishing I had set my sights on GT.

By: David Pelaez

David Pelaez — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:00:37 +0000

“I wish I was surrounded by that much geekery” I’m a colombian first semester computer’s ingeneering, we don’t have thinks like that here. QUite a shame, maybe i’ll take a semester over there in my second year last part. Great post.

By: penny

penny — Tue, 08 May 2007 00:44:03 +0000

11) You have never heard of overclocking, or thumbdrives or 2600 but the NSA and Google are desperate to hire you.

Penny

By: penny

penny — Mon, 07 May 2007 08:56:36 +0000

You know you a math research major ( or grad math student) when:

1) your friends make jokes about how stupid tech students are, and how they can’t handle or create math proofs. Proofs are more fun than sex. You often think about proofs during sex.
2) when you have no clue about computer games and wouldn’t be caught dead playing one ( too moronic). You have never played one anyway.
3) People play chess and go at parties, or 23 dimensional nine men’s morris.
4) Your friends barely understand unix but they understand
infinite dimensional group representation theory–in their sleep. They dream in commutative diagrams with latex subtitles.
5) The fav tv show is Stargate because Samantha knows math–if you are female. Your fav tv show is Stargate because Samantha knows math–if you are male.
6) Your friends went with you to see ” The Last Mimsy”–on a weekend night. You all laughed hysterically at the mention of “tesseract”.
7) You are learning Mandarin to follow side comments at lectures. Or Mandarin is your natural language and you are learning your eighth new language. Or your natural language is tensor analysis on vector bundles. You were born speaking it.
8) Nobody you know cares about Wardriving or anything about it–but everyone knows who Grisha Perleman is, and many have read his work carefully. Everyone spells archive
..arxiv.
9) You and your friends have never watched Youtube–but you play Bach on the piano for amusement.Sometimes, for fun, you improve Bach using group theory. You consider this–like learning brain surgury–an amusing triviality.
10) When you feel burned out, you relax with something easy: like theoretical physics.

Feel Free to add more.

By: Tech School | Sumeet Singh

Tech School | Sumeet Singh — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:18:13 +0000

[...] that I have attended one of better tech schools in Australia, I agree to most of the things listed by Paul of GTech. Been there. Done [...]

By: Sumeet Singh

Sumeet Singh — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:51:11 +0000

Not to forget the respect you earn while emerging out of vi Vs emac or apple vs ubuntu war on the school IRC/webnews.

By: natalie hall

natalie hall — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 04:07:40 +0000

haahaha i love this. It is all so true. Everyone says being a girl at tech must be great because of the ratio, but let me tell you.. it’s not. Most of the guys fit the descriptions above. :) But I still love it!

By: Ying

Ying — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:38:25 +0000

Acutally getting out is referring to graduating. Good luck on getting out of GT. I was a CS 03. Be honest with you, work is a breeze in comparison. I’m going for my MBA soon

By: Powskeee

Powskeee — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:37:47 +0000

I attend Virginia Tech, and you hit it right on!

By: Siraj

Siraj — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 19:27:15 +0000

I am currently a sophomore in high school in IL. I plan on applying to Georgia Tech. Any advise you can offer? I plan on majoring in computer science thanks.

By: Mary-Ann

Mary-Ann — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 19:43:48 +0000

You know you went to a Motorsport school when you start wondering if a vapor phase change cooling system would be any good on a 20000RPM racing engine…

By: Dhruv

Dhruv — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 04:45:08 +0000

Sure thing, will give a link to this post in that case…

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:09:27 +0000

Dhruv - You can write a description and link to this page but not post a duplicate or anything similar, as per my Creative Common's license.

By: Dhruv Chopra

Dhruv Chopra — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:50:42 +0000

Haha! A very good read! Ill be joining GTech as a freshman in Fall ‘06. Im from New Delhi, India.

I wanted to take your permission to publish this post on my blog…You’ll be given credit, ofcourse :-)

By: Dewayne

Dewayne — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:54:12 +0000

Very nice list Paul. :)

I especially like the condoms and 42 one.

Have towel, will travel.