In this connotation, I am talking about seniors in their 2nd year of my program, not just your garden variety seniors.
If a 1st year student manages to crank through all of the hard work my program requires, then, voila!, they can decide what they want to study. You heard me right: anything having to do with actual technology is up for grabs.
Why am I doing this? Well, I figure that by the time students have gone through the brain-drain of my 1st year class, they have a pretty idea of what works for them, and what does not. I would say that somewhere between 30% - 40% of my students want to go into a college to study computer science (CS). Remember that, in college terms, CS generally denotes hard-core programming using a bunch of different languages.
But the other 60% - 70% want to work in engineering, or information technology (IT), or maybe even crafting computer games or developing mobile apps. There is plenty of room for these students in the world of engineering or IT.
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