Personal 18 Mar 2005 05:06 pm
What I miss about computer science is…
…the ability to create, and how what I am learning does not enable me to create. Pharmacy is great, don't get me wrong, but what we learn is just stuff. There's nothing wrong with this, but it doesn't satisfy me in the same way that computer science did so many years ago.
What I was learning at UMass enabled me to work creative problems and programs of my own. Not that they were great programs, but they were my creations. Pharmacy… well with pharmacy there's not much you can create. Perhaps cocaine, but that's only if you're able to get your hands on the necessary ingredients and tools to make it. With programming, all you need is a text editor, a compiler, and an idea.
Pharmacy just doesn't satisfy the creative side with me. Perhaps that's why I'm so restless much of the time.
I miss it. 
