I am CS student. Hear me hack.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Featuring:
Robert
Robert’s splintered and anthroprmorphosized psyche

Robert: Gasp! This assignment is going to take forever.
Robert’s Fear: Literally correct. You aren’t going to finish this. Everyone else in that class is way smarter then you. Heck, that one guy’s already done. Face it: you can’t do CS.
Robert: That’s not true. I made it through the first semester.
Robert’s Fear: And so did that one Business major. Plus, everyone else said that semester was easy. Even so, what if you do make it through this? You really think that you can do the rest of the projects? You really think that you can pass all the classes? You have the naked arrogance to stake your ability to live on your skills with the computer?

Robert:…Maybe. But you know what? I don’t have to deal with all those other projects, or classes, or even life or death. Right here, right now, I have this project. And you know what else?
Robert’s Fear: What?

[Robert sits down at computer, starts .NET. Cue Fortunae Plango Vulnera]

Robert’s Fear: What? What are you doing?

[Robert types out code. Music rises]

Robert’s Fear: Oh. Clever. A nice workaround, but you still need to fix the main problem. And what else?

Robert: Of course!

[cue strings in FPV]

Robert: All I had to do was initilize the istringstream inside of the function!

[Picture someone filming Stranger in a Strange Land. Visualise the effect where Michael twists someone 90 degrees from everything else. Apply that effect to Robert’s Fear]

[Music ends. Lights dim]

2/3 of my program is done and debugged. It will need to be re-debugged as soon as I finish the other 1/3, and re-re-debugged as soon as I find the obscure error that only shows up on the data sets that I will be tested on, but I’ll debug. I will do it.
It’s odd. Earlier today, I was paranoid about the possibility of failure. Now, after solving this one smalll problem, I am doubt-free. Possibly the next problem I encounter will reinvoke Fear. And if it does, I will not marshall a list of arguments of why I can hack it as a CS major.

Instead, as a CS major, I will hack it.

I am CS student. Hear me hack.
[It’s 1:15 A.M. I’m not going to sleep until someone knows of my triumph.]

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St. Vidicon of Cathode, pray for us!

:smiley:

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If you think 1:15 am is late for a comp sci major, you’ve got another thing coming.

It sounds like you’ve reached the critical threshold in any programming project where you stop banging your head against the monitor and start making actual Progress. Just remember - they may burden you with impossibly difficult and obscure projects, and they may even crush your spirit - but they can never take your freeeeeeeeeeedommm!

Oh wait, yes they can. Well good luck anyways.

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[Fight Club]
I am Robert’s sense of wasted ability.
[/Fight Club]

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Just remember, if cold pizza and copious amounts of caffine were not involved, it probably won’t work.

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[Reader’s Digest]
I Am a CS Student’s Kidney
Coffee, coffee, and more coffee!
Would it kill you to drink a class of water every once in a while? And I don’t mean caffeinated water! What genius thought up that travesty?
Wouldn’t you like a big glass of cranberry cocktail? I know I would.

Make you a deal; cut back on the caffeine and I’ll quit interrupting your programming so much. [/Reader’s Digest]

Congrats on you triumph, robert.