After a 2.5 year break, I am headed back to class this fall at the University of Minnesota. My initial attempt to go back to school for my graduate school studies, which by the way was foobared (This is a term to mean that it did not go well), came about early last year. I was planning to enroll in the MS. Software Engineering that is designed to accommodate working professionals (I don't claim to call myself a professional, I just do what I do). The reason behind the denial was that "..you do not have enough working experience.." save for the fact that I had mastered 15 languages among them Assembly Programming for the PC architecture as well as the MIPS architecture. With that excuse I asked the then Program director what it is that I needed to do before I could enroll (Yeah there is this lawyer guy who asks Jesus what he ought to do to inherit the Kingdom of heaven... Know that story), well my now friend Dr. Program Director told me that I need to learn more programming languages and yeah add another year to my work dossier. Seriously I did not know what language to add ... by then I had Ruby in my docket.. what I did instead is become better at what I already knew and learn to resolve the language conflict in me. In a new post I will post the languages that I know.
To cut to the chase, I did reapply to the same program and starting this Fall I will be in class taking three classes, Software Engineering, Data Modeling and some seminar course.
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