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[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

At 9:00 PM -0700 5/14/01, Daniel Yoo wrote:
>  > The recruiter said that the VP of Engineering felt I wasn't a match
>>  because my undergraduate field wasn't in one related to computers,
>
>I thought the people at Google were supposed to be more intelligent than
>that.  I know of undergrads from other majors who could kick the butt out
>of many other CS undergrads here.
>
>I'm sorry, it just makes me mad to hear about this.  We'll be rooting for
>you.  Don't despair!

Well, my father (a Ph.D. in Physics; all my family has advanced 
degrees) said that a liberal arts undergraduate degree "broadened his 
perspective on problems to solve" while his graduate work focused him 
on a specific problem. He argued, and I agree, that both were 
necessary.

I've seen academic snobbery before and it's never pretty. The point, 
as you say, is the result.

And the best coder *I* know of has his BA in Philosophy.
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