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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 10:56:50 JST Evan Prodromou

   Tomorrow I start my first graduate school class in almost a year. I am in a masters of computer science program at Georgia Tech. Last year, when I started the activitypub book, I did a semester of special project work focussed on the book. But for the two last semesters, I've been withdrawn from classes. With the book soon to be published, I'll be taking a new course.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 10:58:46 JST Evan Prodromou

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     I was really worried about not finishing this program. I have so much going on in my life. It would be really easy to justify, taking another semester off, and then another, and so on. but getting a masters degree is one of my big life goals. & I have to say my last two classes at Georgia Tech were exceptionally good and changed how I practice computer science and software development.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 11:00:42 JST Evan Prodromou

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     I put a lot of work into making a graduate program fit into my personal schedule. Instead of listening to podcasts, I started listening to textbooks and academic papers. Read out to me on my phone. instead of watching television, I watched video lectures from my classes. I fit my coursework around my regular day, and I made it work. Even though I had a full-time job and a family and household to take care of.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 11:03:25 JST Evan Prodromou

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     I hope I can remember all my tricks to keep my time and focus in check. Currently, I have my full-time job of course, my family, of course, my work on the social Web community group at W3C maintaining the activity, pub spec & on top of it all my work on end to end encryption activity pub, DM, part of the summer of protocols program. It feels like there's not enough time in the day, but I guess it's important to prioritize the things that matter to me.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 11:04:16 JST Evan Prodromou

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     I'm worried that at my age, if I put off my masters degree classes, any further, I'll never pick them back up. it took so much work to find and get into this program and get the credits that I've done so far, I would hate to lose that momentumAnd the chance to have that achievement

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     R Scott Jones (rscottjones@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 12:22:31 JST R Scott Jones

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     @evan Why do you value a masters degree? What does it provide you?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 12:22:31 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • R Scott Jones

     @rscottjones I get this question a lot from people who want to discourage me from pursuing my goal.

     If you're actually interested, I have a blog post here on the topic.

     https://evanp.me/2022/05/04/masters-degree-in-computer-science/

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     Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 01:07:52 JST Jamie Booth

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     @evan

     What class did you pick?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 01:13:31 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Jamie Booth

     @jamie 6400

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 03:01:31 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Jamie Booth

     @jamie awesome. I hope I get a chance to design a DB for an ActivityPub social network.

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     Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 03:01:32 JST Jamie Booth

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     @evan

     I took the undergrad version of that course and it was pretty good.

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     Bruce Elrick (virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 03:13:57 JST Bruce Elrick

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     @evan I hope today is going well for you!